Media Matters for America: CNN's Bernstein cited Russert's misleading debate question to Clinton as an explanation for "what led to the problem in the Clinton campaign"
Summary: On The Situation Room, Carl Bernstein accused Hillary Clinton of "dissembling" in her response to a question during an October 30 Democratic presidential candidate debate regarding the release of records from Bill Clinton's presidency, asserting that her response was "the opening" the other "candidates have been looking for." But Bernstein didn't note that the question, by moderator Tim Russert, was based on a falsehood. Bernstein has previously claimed that Hillary Clinton was "disingenuous" in her answer to the question.
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On the December 3 edition of CNN's Situation Room, CNN political commentator Carl Bernstein responded to CNN commentator Jack Cafferty's question -- "(W)hat led to the problem in the Clinton campaign?" -- by citing a question by NBC News Washington bureau chief Tim Russert to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) during the October 30 Democratic presidential candidate debate about "the records in Arkansas." Specifically, Russert asked Clinton during the debate: "(T)here was a letter written by President Clinton specifically asking that any communication between you and the president not be made available to the public until 2012. Would you lift that ban?" In fact, President Clinton's letter did not ask that such communications "not be made available" but, rather, listed them as documents to be "considered for withholding." Bernstein accused Clinton of "dissembling" without noting that Russert's question was based on a falsehood, as Media Matters for America has repeatedly noted...Bernstein asserted that her response to the question was "the opening" the other "candidates have been looking for."
This is not the first time Bernstein has been critical of Clinton's response to Russert's question while failing to note that the question was based a falsehood. As Media Matters of America documented, Bernstein said on the November 2 broadcast of NPR's Morning Edition that Clinton was "disingenuous" in responding that "it's all up to the archives."...
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