The Mainstream Media Barely Mentioned Bernie Sanders’ Recent Debate Comments on Henry Kissinger

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The Mainstream Media Barely Mentioned Bernie Sanders’ Recent Debate Comments on Henry Kissinger
On the major networks’ nightly newscasts, the exchange was only mentioned twice.

BY Jim Naureckas


Last week, presidential challenger Bernie Sanders attacked his rival Hillary Clinton live on US television for taking advice from Nixon-era Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, whom he accused of paving the way for genocide with his bombing of Cambodia.

You know who wasn’t impressed? U.S. television.

According to a search of the Nexis news database, there were exactly two references to Kissinger following the debate on the major broadcast networks. CBS's Gayle King reported on the Early Show that “Sanders questioned why Clinton would praise former secretary of State Henry Kissinger,” and then played an excerpt from the exchange:

SANDERS: Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state. Count me in as somebody who will not be listening to Henry Kissinger.

CLINTON: I know journalists have asked who you do listen to on foreign policy and we have yet to know who that is.

SANDERS: Well, it ain’t Henry Kissinger, that’s for sure.

CLINTON: That’s fine. That’s fine.

On NBC‘s Today show, Andrea Mitchell played an even shorter excerpt (beginning with “journalists have asked you…”) as an illustration of how the candidates “hammered each other … on foreign policy.”

That was it. The three network evening newscasts, with a typical combined nightly viewership of 24 million, didn’t mention Kissinger. Nor did any of the Sunday morning talkshows. Even PBS NewsHour, whose Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff moderated the debate, never discussed the Kissinger exchange. ..................(more)

http://inthesetimes.com/article/18885/major-news-outlets-downplay-kissinger-and-hilarys-relationship

[Fawke Em]

1. Even Danny Glover is wondering about this.

https://twitter.com/mrdannyglover/status/700083004807520257

[Merryland]

2. the mainstream media treats Kissinger as a distinguished statesman

not the reprehensible war criminal he is.

[noretreatnosurrender]

6. Why Not Use Cheney

The corporate media does the same thing with Cheney. Can you imagine in a future election if a Democratic candidate used Cheney as an adviser? That's how I feel about Kissinger. Two peas in the same pod.

[TCJ70]

3. After the last debate I looked up Kissinger...

...I'm a mid-80's born Millennial so I had no idea who he was. After reading and watching a couple lengthy pieces about him, if that's someone who has influenced her positively on foreign policy, she has no business being in charge of the military. Ugh...

[cyberswede]

4. Good thing the MSM isn't the only source for information

to Joe Shlabotnik
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1209964

[noretreatnosurrender]

5. Excellent Piece

There is no way that I would ever vote for a candidate that uses Henry Kissinger as an adviser and what's more it's inconceivable to me that Progressive Democrats of my age would either. As baby boomers we were there. We know about Kissinger's poisonous foreign policy. We know about Cambodia, Indonesia, Chile, etc. We have no excuse for not knowing what Kissinger represents. Where is our integrity?

[NCTraveler]

7. I'm not sure why they didn't report on Sanders blatant deflection.

Really wasn't much there except deflection by Sanders. Really not much else for him to do on this topic.

[riversedge]

8. Sanders camp used poor judgement to bring Kissinger up. It failed.

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9. Not with the public.

[oasis]

11. Colossal fail to assume his debate audience is made up entirely

of ultra lefties.

[beedle]

12. Clinton supporters are using poor judgement

supporting someone who uses Kissinger as an ad advisor.

Makes me wonder, why doesn't this bother you? Is there something about terrorism, mass murder, torture, that you feel represents your aspirations for America?

[oasis]

10. Maybe because the MSM never bought into the Kissinger "villain" thing.

Why would they now?

[Wilms]

13. ^