VIDEOS: Dan Abrams of MSNBC did a 3 part series exposing anti-Hillary media bias


Hello Everyone:

I was really glad to see Dan Abrams of MSNBC do a three part series last week exposing the very obvious and blatant anti-Hillary media bias that is going on in much the mainstream media right now!

Here are the three MSNBC Dan Abrams video links along with the transcript links of each video containing a summary of it:

1) Jan. 7: Media piling on Clinton?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22546910#22546910 (10:55)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22558144/

'Live with Dan Abrams' for Jan. 7
Read the transcript to the Monday show

Guests: Shira Lazar, Ken Baker, Brian Russell, Monica Lindstrom, Julia Morrow

DAN ABRAMS, HOST: "Are some in the Washington, D.C. media bored with Hillary Clinton and suddenly enamored with Barack Obama so much so they‘re unfairly writing her epitaph already?...

Obama has run a really good campaign and Clinton has had some missteps. But it sure feels like a close game being called in the third inning by some of the political establishment media possibly bored with the Clintons, in Hillary in particular..."

2) Jan. 9: Media bias in politics?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22581293#22581293 (11:17)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22598286/

'Live with Dan Abrams' for Jan. 9
Read the transcript to the Wednesday show

Guests: Rachel Maddow, Candice DeLong, Kelli O‘Hara, Jim Riches, James Gordon Meek

DAN ABRAMS, HOST: "Tonight: Some of the Washington establishment media seemed to relish the idea of ending Hillary‘s campaign early. It was a good story that turned out to be just that, a story. And now, the justifications are pouring in..."

3) Jan. 10: Does media hate Hillary Clinton?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22600471#22600471 (10:25)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22609449/

'Live with Dan Abrams' for Jan. 10
Read the transcript to the Thursday show

Guests: Monica Lindstrom, Anne Bremner, Tim Susann, Tre Benson

DAN ABRAMS: "Five reasons the inside Washington media hate Hillary...

My theory: Number one—the Clintons are old news. They‘ve been on TV and on the front page since the early 90s. Everything has been covered and uncovered. There‘s nothing new, especially in comparison to newcomer, Barack Obama, whose story is a fascinating and noble one. Number two—as a result, some of the inside DC media are constantly searching for some, any crack in the Clinton armor. Number three—over all these years, her staff has developed a testy relationship with many in the press. Snapping at reporters the stories they don‘t like, freezing out others. Number four—Hillary knows how to avoid making news when reporters do get to talk to her. She plays it safe and knows which questions and answers will get her into trouble. That can be maddening for those of us who ask questions for a living. And number five—because she‘s a moderate politically. She doesn‘t have the kind of passionate base of supporters on either side of the aisle who might otherwise come loudly to her defense. That‘s my theory. Here now, Josh Green, wrote an article on Hillary for “GQ,” that her campaign reportedly got the magazine not to run. MSNBC political analyst, Lawrence O‘Donnell and Republican strategist, Jack Burkeman. All right. Lawrence, you know, what do you think of that theory, that the media, maybe it‘s not personal for some of them, but that they just don‘t like the Clinton story..."

It is not really a level playing field or an even primary contest when Hillary Clinton is having to deal with attacks from BOTH the Obama campaign and from much of the mainstream media who are rooting for Obama WHEN THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE OBJECTIVE!

I strongly recommend watching these three videos and then forwarding them on so that more Democratic primary voters will be aware of the very obvious and blatant anti-Hillary media bias that is going on in much the mainstream media right now!

Mitch Dworkin

http://www.securingamerica.com/

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/10756
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Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on January 15, 2008 - 10:29am.

and that Barack Obama has received a free ride in the media as I have very credibly and thoroughly documented:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14414

Lee Cowan of NBC News said about Obama: "it's almost hard to remain objective"

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on January 14, 2008 - 9:32am.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14336

Howard Kurtz on Obama's "easy ride" & will the press "provide tougher scrutiny?"

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on January 7, 2008 - 2:44am.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14319

Carl Bernstein said about Barack Obama "he had a kind of free ride up until now"

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on January 5, 2008 - 9:40am.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14266

Dana Milbank on Hillary: "The press will savage her no matter what, pretty much"

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on December 30, 2007 - 10:48pm.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14242

Joe Sestak did a great job of defending Hillary to a very biased Chris Matthews!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on December 28, 2007 - 5:40am.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/13814

Why I think Chris Matthews crossed the line showing his own bias against Hillary

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on November 5, 2007 - 3:30am.

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on January 15, 2008 - 10:32am.

a race war to bait Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton:"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22657057#22657057  (12:45)


Media behind racial dust-up?
Jan. 14: Dan Abrams argues the media invented a race war to bait Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and debates his theory with The Huffington Post’s Roy Sekoff and political analysts Craig Crawford and Keli Goff.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22657057#22657057  (12:45)

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on January 17, 2008 - 8:43am.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22671742/

'Live with Dan Abrams' for Jan. 14
Read the transcript to the Monday show

Guests: Keli Goff, Roy Sekoff, Craig Crawford, Jack Burkman, John Ridley, Monica Lindstrom, Jim Moret, Daniel Hernandez

DAN ABRAMS, HOST: But first: Tonight, the inside Washington media buzzing about the supposed war over race breaking out between Clinton and Obama, but in reality the DC media I believe invented this war and sucked the candidates into race baiting gotcha politics.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

KIRAN CHETRY, NEWS ANCHOR: Race now the dominating campaign issue on the Democratic side right now.

HEATHER NAUERT, NEWS ANCHOR: The issue of race.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A war of words has erupted between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over the issue of race and civil rights.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The clash already with her comments this week and the way they have been interpreted about Martin Luther King.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Clearly, the Clintons know how to play racial politics.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ABRAMS: The reality is - this is much adieu about almost nothing. While this weekend Obama and Clinton were offering up differing plans to address an economy headed towards recession, the DC media in particular were basically ignoring the issue that voters say is most important to them—the economy. And instead mischaracterizing this comment by Bill Clinton about Obama.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BILL CLINTON, FMR. UNITED STATES PRESIDENT: Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I have ever seen.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ABRAMS: Well, some inside DC media, some opportunists, some critics hollered and howled that Bill Clinton was calling Obama‘s campaign a fairy tale, thereby insinuating that a black man could never be president. No. That has nothing to do with what he said. All you need to do is play it in context in particular including the sentence before that one.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

B. CLINTON: It is wrong that Senator Obama got to go through 15 debates trumpeting he‘s superior judgment and how he had been against the war in every year. You said in 2004, you didn‘t know how you would have voted on the resolution. You said in 2004, there was no difference between you and George Bush on the war and you took that speech you are running on off your Web site in 2004 and there‘s no difference in your voting record and Hillary‘s ever since. Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I have ever seen.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ABRAMS: Now that‘s a legitimate issue in question. But too many in the press were developing a story about race...

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Submitted by LJM on January 15, 2008 - 1:03pm.

Isn't Abrams also the general manager or something for the news shows there?


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