David Brock: Hillary Clinton hasn’t asked me to stop attacking the New York Times

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I urge you all to listen to the interview at the link. It is good and informative. I had tried to listen to David Brock this morning--He was a guest on the Morning Joe show. But joe kept interrupting him over and over (Brock remained classy-I would have booped him). Enjoy.


David Brock: Hillary Clinton hasn’t asked me to stop attacking the New York Times

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/david-brock-hillary-clinton-hasnt-asked-me-to-129097763381.html


Olivier Knox Chief Washington Correspondent

September 14, 2015

Conservative hit man turned avid Hillary Clinton supporter David Brock told Yahoo News on Monday that the former first lady and her top campaign aides have not asked him to rein in his scorched-earth attacks on the New York Times and senior editor Carolyn Ryan, who leads the paper’s politics coverage.

The Times deserves “a special place in journalism hell” for its coverage of Clinton, Brock said in a new book, “Killing the Messenger: The Right-Wing Plot to Derail Hillary and Hijack Your Government.” He also assailed Ryan’s integrity, professionalism and impartiality.

Asked whether Clinton or her top aides signed off on his onslaught, Brock told Yahoo News: “Not at all. I wrote this book myself without any help or advice from people in the campaign.”

And Brock flatly denied that Clinton or her senior advisers had urged him to scale back the attacks on the Times or Ryan personally. “Nothing like that, no,” he said.

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Brock told Yahoo News he’s not suggesting that the federal agencies looking into the controversy over Hillary’s exclusive use of private email during her time as secretary of state are somehow part of that vast right-wing conspiracy.

“There’s no harm in the professional investigators” doing their jobs, he said. “As far as the process playing out, this is a normal bureaucratic process.”

But he charged that “this issue was successfully scandalized by Republicans” who see Hillary as the biggest threat to their hopes of recapturing the White House in 2016. ............

[Gothmog]

1. I am glad that someone is calling the NYT out on this biased reporting

[Thinkingabout]

2. The NYT has RW helpers such as Joe Filibuster Scarborough. He can't seem to get past Email in

His vocabulary. Then he had the nerve to say he does not know where she stands on the issues along with Mika. They don't listen.