The Media Research Center has spent much of its existence being obsessed with Bill and Hillary Clinton — and despite the fact that Bill left the presidency more than two decades ago and Hillary lost her campaign for president in 2016, that obsession hasn’t stopped. For instance, the MRC devoted at least four posts in 2023 alone to Hillary-related “flashbacks” designed to bash her, and a 2023 podcast by Tim Graham whined that Hillary was “nudged” by an interviewer “about being wronged by Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in 2016.”
As Hillary had things to say about Donald Trump when the 2024 election ramped up, the MRC’s Hillary derangement ramped up as well. Graham huffed in an October 2023 post:
CNN has been spoon-feeding its liberal audience with clips of a Christiane Amanpour with Hillary Clinton. On Thursday night, conservative Twitter was alarmed by Hillary’s wild talk of a “formal deprogramming of the cult members,” the “MAGA extremists.” We know the FBI is probing the MAGA extremists in the lead-up to the 2024 election, in part because the Democrats really want to paint them as a….Red Hat Menace.
It began with Amanpour lamenting the “pragmatic Republicans” aren’t compromising with the Democrats. There’s no questioning about Democrat extremists or pragmatic Democrats. Only one party gets a psychoanalysis.
[…]It must be said that while she was First Lady/co-president in the 1990s, Hillary Clinton decried a “vast right-wing conspiracy” as the liberal media blamed conservative extremists for the Oklahoma City bombing and violence at abortion clinics. George W. Bush was painted as Hitlerian. So don’t buy the notion that the Democrats never played this Extremism card in the “good old days.”
The same day, Clay Waters huffed:
On Tuesday, the tax-funded PBS NewsHour feted Democrat Hillary Clinton, now a professor at Columbia University at the new Institute of Global Politics. She was also the losing Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, and PBS commiserated with her with the “trauma” of losing an election to a Republican, while tarring the Trump-led GOP as extremists and letting the president himself call MAGA ‘semi-fascists” without rebuttal. On ostensibly to talk about Ukraine and Putin.
Host Geoff Bennett passed along a year-old President Biden smear of “MAGA” Republicans (“semi-fascist”), not as an example of Democratic rhetorical overreach, but to see if Clinton agreed.
Graham played Hillary whataboutism to deflect from current Trump scandals in his May 10 podcast:
Hillary Clinton was the big guest Thursday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. MSNBC’s headline on their YouTube video was “Joe Biden is the only choice for women who value freedom. Isn’t that just perfect for that network and that show? Abortion = freedom.
Hillary pleased the MSNBC crowd by saying there’s no choice for voters between Biden and Trump: “One is yes, old and effective, has passed legislation that I think is going to put America on such a strong footing for the future….The other is old and dangerous. I mean, why is that a hard choice for people?” Hillary also thought she should have been way ahead in 2016.
Now we’re reliving 2016 in a Manhattan courtroom, and Stormy Daniels was the star witness this week. The richest vein of hypocrisy was Hillary accusing Trump on hush money. He “went to such great lengths to try to squash, bury, kill stories, pay off people, because he understood the electoral significance of them.” As if the Clintons never tried to squash and kill stories by female accusers!
Then Joe Scarborough descended into his Nazi parallels with Trump again, goading Hillary to unload all the “Trump is Hitler” talk. She said he’s a dictator who will end democracy, and Republicans are “people who care more about a future tax cut than the sanctity of the Constitution.” Together, they’ve spending almost eight years spreading this bizarre notion that eventually everyone will listen to them and agree with them, as long as the media keeps hammering away at the “fascist.” They’re going to keep being disappointed. The press is constantly failing unless and until Trump is ruined. They’re quite a fun bunch to watch.
When Hillary popped up at the Tony Awards because a musical she helped produce was up for awards, Stephanie Hamill sneered in a June 17 post:
Broadway stars and celebrity elites gave failed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton a standing ovation at the 77th Tony Awards that aired live on CBS on Sunday night at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.
Dressed in an intricate muumuu, Clinton appeared as one of the producers of a Shaina Taub musical called “Suffs,” which is about the “1913 women’s movement,” according to the show’s synopsis.
Who would have thunk that the Clinton had an artistic side to her?
Clinton went on to stress ‘how important it is to vote,” this without any verbal recommendations on who to vote for. Oddly enough, she didn’t utter the words, Joe or Biden.
Alex Christy complained in a June 27 post, particularly offended that she once said that “human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights”:
Part of the American tax-paying experience is knowing that eponymous Amanpour and Companyhost Christiane Amanpour will use her PBS show to promote Hillary Clinton and abortion. On Monday, she did both, concluding her show by reciting, “As Hillary Clinton famously once said, ‘human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.’”
[…]Amanpour really does love that line. In December 2022, she welcomed Clinton to the program to look back at when she first made the remarks in 1995. During that interview, Clinton compared Roe’s demise to the Iranian and Taliban regimes as well as Russian soldiers who rape Ukrainian women.
None of those comparisons struck Amanpour as outrageous, instead, she agreed, “But, I mean, how much persuasion can we expect when it comes to our—and I’m speaking as a woman, basic rights. Whether it’s in the United States or around the world. As you said, they are human rights. At what point should these be enshrined even in the American law and Constitution even. I mean, I’m probably exaggerating. But it’s extraordinary in 2022 that this basic right of women, half the world’s population is still at risk.”
P.J. Gladnick spent a July 10 post melting down over the (extremely remote) possibility that Hillary might run in the wake of Joe Biden’s debate performance:
Mockingbird media outlet Politico seems to have a presidential preference for 2024. Hillary Clinton. Yes, the desperation among Democrats is so great with the rapid decline of Joe Biden that they are willing to dig up failed retreads from the past if they have the proper approval. And how do we know that Politico favors that particular failed retread? Because they are hyping a highly dubious poll by partisan hack Fernand Amandi as you can see in this Tuesday story, “Poll finds Biden damaged by debate; with Harris and Clinton best positioned to win.”
After Amandi said he was ” really surprised by Hillary’s strength” and mention the idea of her running on a ticket with Kamala Harris, Gladnick ranted: “Could you be just a little more subtle in promoting You-Know-Who, Fernand, before passing it along to Politico for greater amplification?”
Rich Noyes served up yet another Hillary-bashing flashback in a Sept. 8 post:
On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump will debate Vice President Kamala Harris in their first direct encounter of the 2024 presidential election. Looking back at Trump’s three debates with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016, expect the press to adore Harris’s performance, while deriding Trump as someone out of a “third world” “banana republic.”
The media tone was established early, just minutes before the candidates met in their first (September 26, 2016) debate, as CNN’s Van Jones extolled Hillary’s supreme abilities. “She is the Michael Jordan of policy in multiple, multiple areas,” Jones crowed. “She’s like the valedictorian running against this crazy frat boy.”
It’s almost as if the MRC is obsessed by Hillary and desperate to have her as a convenient object of hate. And it wasn’t done doing that during the campaign. More soon.