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Joe Scarborough: The Press Favored Obama By A Longshot Over Hillary

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On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough agreed with Former President Bill Clinton‘s assertion on The O’Reilly Factor that the press favored Barack Obama, saying the “press favored Barack Obama by a long shot over Hillary Clinton.”

RELATED: Shocker: Bill Clinton Agrees With Bill O’Reilly That The Media Favored Barack Over Hillary

“(Hillary) was shredded,” said Newsweek editor Tina Brown “And withstood it with great aplomb. Really, I think a lot of it was about the press wanted a new narrative and in the end, Obama’s story of the first black president, you know, trumped the exceptionalism of her being the first woman president. It was bad luck for her that happened, but it was also a much more fun idea to have this new narrative to write about. Everyone was board with the Clintons. They didn’t want to have another Clinton story.”

“She didn’t embrace that narrative, they made her the establishment candidate.” New York magazine’s John Heilemann disputed.

“Go back to 2007 and watch people drooling over themselves on networks,” Scarborough countered.

“I totally agree, the press was in the tank for Obama,” Heilemann conceded, but noted that Clinton’s handlers kept her in a “safe box” during the campaign.

Watch Scarborough needle the press over their bias towards Barack Obama via MSNBC:

(h/t DC)

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  • Gloves V. Donahue

    The press was and is in Obama’s pocket. I guess it’s too much to expect them to investigate the candidate they want to win. They covered up Barry’s seamy past at every opportunity, and look at the result. We have an incompetent, arrogant nut in the White House.

    It will be as hard to dislodge Obama from office as it will be for MSNBC to fire Sharpton.

    Charges of racism will be flying fast and furiously.

  • Anonymous

    Yes the sky is blue and the clouds are white. Get ready for the hateful comments at Joe while ignoring Heilemann comments in 3…2…1

  • Anonymous

    Hey Joe! Its 2011 not 2007. Move on. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003105863276 Political Dookie

    The misogyny of the left runs deep. Chris Matthews, David Schuster, etc…

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    O, please, Big Petty, sing a new song. The media was initially very supportive of Hillary! Penn and her staff went out of their way to offend the media. Hillary’s campaign was poorly run. Simple as that.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Somewhat perplexing comment. Seems to me the ultimate misogyny is multiple divorces in the Rudy!/Newt style, multiple adulterous affairs in the Rudy!/Newt style, lying to your wife about adulterous affairs in the Sanford/Ensign style, leaving your wife at home with the kids while you’re lounging in a poop-laden diaper at a cat house in the Vitter style, leaving you wife at home and engaging in men’s room encounters in the Craig style, membership in a religious cult which institutionalizes and “sanctifies” the subjection and second class status of women.

  • Anonymous

    The color of OBAMO’s skin played no role in how the media masturbates all over him. It’s because he’s a big ‘entitlement-state’ Leftist who wants unfettered socialism. Media people live such an elite, privileged life. They love socialism.

  • Anonymous

    Scarborough is such a obnoxious fool, he just tries to keep his name in the news by saying the thing he thinks will get him attention…I use to watch his old show and he did the same thing…He is publicity hungry and thinks he is so intelligent & funny…sorry Joe..doubt you will be going any further up the ladder, no matter how much you kiss a…and name drop!!

  • Gloves V. Donahue

    “…supportive of Hillary.”

    No chance that media report the facts and tell the truth about all the candidates?

    They should support nobody. The MSM is a joke, and it’s not a funny joke.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    And, if that seems counter-intuitive, you are too educated. Right, LMNOPQ?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Don’t under-estimate Joe. I intend not to vote for him for president in 2016.

  • Anonymous

    What says support more then having the leading liberal talk show host at the time tell people to take Hillary in the backroom and take care of her.

  • OSTL

    Funny watchin the far left loons chuckin joe s under the bus. ;)

  • Cecelia

    Thanks, Joe, Tina, John, (WJC), but duh….

  • Anonymous

    c’mon joe, of course they do and they do it because it was a great story and they could sell more papers, get more viewers on tv/hits on websites.
      the press loved obama so much that they hid the fact that he did cocaine when he was young.  how many people would have changed their vote for hillary (or mccain for that matter) if they new he did cocaine?

    what really pissed me off was when, after i voted for obama, i found out that he palled around with terrorists.  i am so upset when i found out one of his friends, bill something or other, i said to myself that i would have voted for mccain if i knew that.

    boy i tell ya, this time around i am going to read up on this election and refuse to let the press do it for me.

    DAMN YOU PRESS!!!

  • OSTL

    sock alert

  • http://www.facebook.com/pages/UChicago-Charter-Woodlawn/58008049644 Greg Ingleright

    ……..but it was also a much more fun idea to have this new narrative to write about.Everyone was board [sic] with the Clintons.

    Newsweek editor Tina Brown

    Ladies and gentlemen ,  I give you the current state of journalism . Sigh .

  • Anonymous

    perfect example…i totally forgot about a priest or a reverend…was it al sharpton?  he hates america or something so obama must hate america.  how that was kept under wraps just boggles the mind.

  • Anonymous

    rev. wright!  that’s it.  you might be able to find out about him on some obscure website.  help me out…where can i find out about him?

  • http://twitter.com/#!/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Ladies and gentlemen ,  I give you the current state of journOlism . Sigh .
    fify

  • Anonymous

    how much you wanna bet when he runs for office again the press won’t give one mention to if joe was involved in covering up a murder.  i’ll bet $10,000.  j/k

  • OSTL

    think progress? daily kos? media matters? ROFL!

  • Anonymous

    I like this site because I can get the prostitute opinion here.  It’s good to know what the whores are thinking.

  • Pablo

    It was bad luck for her that happened, but it was also a much more fun idea to have this new narrative to write about.

    Yeah. Nice job, morons. Thanks a lot!

  • Anonymous

    Who does this discussion benefit?

    If it’s true each member of the press ended up ‘favoring’ him over her, then they reflected the how the general democratic voter out there felt.

    He was a likable personality and was a blank slate with nothing to write negatively about contrary to her. It does not mean that ‘the press’ convened every morning deciding who to communally like or favor

  • Pablo

    No, you didn’t. Dear God, that is hilarious. There wouldn’t happen to be any videos of you stepping on a rake, would there?  

  • Pablo

    Try YouTube.

  • Pablo

    The LA Times is still sitting on that video of Obama toasting Rashid Khalidi.

    http://tinyurl.com/2a69g9b

  • Pablo
  • Pablo

    Or having a love child with a campaign staffer while your wife who’s dying of cancer is out on the trail telling people what a great family man you are in the Edwards style, or sexual assault in the Clinton style.

    Hey, why didn’t you mention that your last line was about Keith Ellison?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Don’t think it’s her.
    Only 3 comments, and read them.

  • Pablo

    If that’s the case, why was the nomination decided by the Superdelegates?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    dork alert

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Just someone who jacked her name to give “likes” .
    3 comments and endless “likes”

  • david r

    I was a Bill Clinton supporter and supported Hillary.  I’ll never believe what you state.  I think Scarborough and Heilemann got it right.  After the election though, it’s all loser talk.  But I will NEVER vote for Obama.  He got where he is by smearing the Clintons and their supporters with false claims of racism, which the fawning press was all to ready to run with.  OK. End of the loser talk for now.

  • david r

    The investigation of Obama will be done by historians when the political climate will tolerate it.

  • Anonymous

    You are a straight up dumb ass if you believe what you just wrote.

  • Anonymous

    Are people really that petty?

  • Anonymous

    I disagree.  The color of his skin had a lot to do with it.  That, plus the fact that he is a big government socialist.  Call it “white guilt” or whatever, people voted for Obama without any knowledge of his background or policies.  The media was complicit in a complete cover-up of his past.  Obama was the least vetted and least qualified candidate in recent history.  That point is not arguable….at least, not logically arguable.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you “so-called” media for giving us Barack H. Obama.  He is, without a doubt, the worst president in history.  The sad part is that you are still propping this epic failure up.  Please get your head out of “The One’s” ass and do your job.

  • Joke Scareborough

    Hey, you got a point. It’s 2011 and the media is still drooling over Obama and doing his dirty work on his opponents. Thanks for correcting Joe.

  • Joke Scareborough

    Amen, Don!

  • Joke Scareborough

    Anyone else find it bizarre reading Tina Brown’s comments, as if she wasn’t a big part of the attacks on the Clintons and the fawning, promotional coverage of Obama?

  • Anonymous

    They sure did- they even managed to make Bill Clinton into a racist and he was our 1st. black president.

  • Anonymous

    “Hey Joe! Its 2011 not 2007. Move on.”

    It is???? Funny, all you libs do is talk about Bush.

  • Joke Scareborough

    I wish a few hundred people would occupy the LA Times and force them to release the Obama/Khalidi tape. It’s preposterous that an entity which claims to be in the news business deliberately conceals pertinent news which the country needs to hear.

  • Anonymous

    Man, you should really stop looking in your mirror, dear.

  • Anonymous

    Hello! Bush was the President who bankrupted the country. Joe is just another talk show host. Get it?

  • Joke Scareborough

    The mainstream media, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, Time, Newsweak, WaPo all loathe conservatives. They will never stop promoting Obama.

  • Anonymous

    what?

  • Joke Scareborough

    He was a blank slate, and when the media started finding out the many undesirable controversies surrounding Obama, they media made sure that he stayed a clean slate.

    President Clinton, Hillary and all of her vocal supporters were demonized and called racists. I was one of the first when I let it be known that there was no way in hell that I would support anyone who hung around with the racist bigot Rev Wright for 20+ years.

    All I can say to all the Liberals who went after me during the 2008 Democrat primaries, calling me a racist,…you f*cked with the wrong person, and payback is a real bitch.

  • Anonymous

    Joe is just another talk show host.”

    son, your point is that 2007 is history, a selective point to YOU.

    And Bush? did he do this to the country- record in poverty, on welfare, in foreclosure, on food stamps,record # of children homeless- run up a debt at the rate of $1.4 trillion a year,  and 8.6% unemployed and that’s a low figure for Barry because 315k workers stopped looking for work in ONE MONTH.

    Yeah, son, that Barry is doing a heck of a job!

  • david r

    Bush bankrupted the country and Obama a’int done shit to fix it.  The stimulus was a joke.  And he got severely boned by the Wall Street barons who took the bailout money and paid themselves the largest bonuses in history.  Now the economy limps along, with little oil production in the Gulf and a ban on the Canadian pipeline.  And small businesses are so flummoxed by and afraid of Obamacare that unemployment is the order of the day.  Get it?

  • david r

    Now you understand that when the Democrats let you down, you are at the mercy of the poop-laden diaper types.

  • Anonymous

    The MSM was bias? You don’t say? I remember when McCain appeared on The View and Babs wouldn’t even look at him and the old hag  Joy Behar said was his ads against Obama were ” lies.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsUau_eru7I

    Later, when Obama is on and the 1st. thing Babs says to Barry is “We think you  are very sexy looking.”

    http://www.tressugar.com/Barack-Obama-View-1507472?page=0%2C2

  • Anonymous

    Your right, you can’t attack a man on his positions when he has none, voting present the majority of the time, that in itself was the story, but dwelling on that wouldn’t have gotten ” their black man ” elected.. He’s an empty suit.

  • CarmanK

    FOX and the MURDOGs are just drueling all over Obama. And of course, they love Barney Frank and Wall sTreet Reform and while we are at it, THE WALL STREET HUSTLERS are still running free and the Cheney and Bush aren’t in jail. The Press is overall more Conservative than liberal, and ther are facts to back that up, but then you are not interested in FACTS. But, I suggest you might just consider; the newspapers sell advertising which is their life line, and oh, gee, who buys ADVERTISING? Business members of the CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE, conservative business types.

  • CarmanK

    Scarborough is an entertainer who is trying to make his mark on TV. The TPARTY BIGOTS already tried to INVESTIGATE OBAMA. THEY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO INVESTIGATE HIS ADMINISTRATION TO DEATH, but each time they think they have uncovered a SCANDAL or wrong doing, it all links back to the BUSHIES and their total corruption of the federal system of governance. The TPARTY dominated US HOUSE are chomping at the bits. Issa is trying every avenue, but he hasn’t uncovered anything NEW. OBAMA has withstood the KOCHROACH/MURDOG ASSAULTS time and again.

  • SouthernYankee

    Many people didn’t vote for Hillary for one reason and that was Bill Clinton’s baggage.  Republicans are so good at being nasty.  That is why I didn’t vote for her.   She is doing a great job as secretary of state.  Anyone that doesn’t think the republicans didn’t want Hillary to run is a liar.  The ops research on her was well under way with the republicans.  They were begging for her to run.

  • Joke Scareborough

    Now most of the country, Republicans included, are pining for any Clinton to be President.

  • Anonymous

    i’m sorry, i guess sarcasm doesn’t translate well here.

  • SouthernYankee

    You keep believing that.  I am going to vote for Obama again.  Maybe in 2016 if the good lord is willing and I am still living I would vote for Mrs Clinton.  Republicans only want her to run so they can beat her because of her husband.  But I don’t think that will work now.  Especially since republicans don’t have such a clean page on family values any longer.

  • Anonymous

    If by their own admission the press was obviously in the tank for Obama over another Democrat, is there any doubt the same (or more) occurred in terms of the Republican?  Most importantly, what is there to suggest the press wont once again abrogate their responsibilities as journalists and do it again in the coming election?  THAT is why O’Reilly asked the question.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RD7VI4JIGOLEZWXOF5UU5PE3II Juliet Abanike

    David Axelrod brilliantly played the race card on the Clintons by using surrogates.Remember the what the House Majority Whip said about President Clinton? I am a Democrat who will never support or like anything this President does because of the race card they played on the Clintons. Who can forget his mentor Rev. Wright casting aspersions on the Clintons while preaching to his congregation?

    The first black President, oh well, compare what President Obama have done for the black community to what President Clinton did. Change we can believe. I will work extra hard in this coming election to make sure that this fool is defeated!!! How I wish Herman Cain would have won this coming election … but for the press and the covert President Obama cronies. They ran him out of contention, things they accuse him of doing, President Obama have done. Time for talking is over, everyone who wants President Obama out of office should get ready to put in the time to knock on doors. He is raising a billion dollars for his re-election campaign! He could not invest that much time and energy to help attract businesses in our black communities though. He makes time to attack the same people that would create those jobs.

    Time for President Obama to go to the private sector.
     

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    yeah, that same durn lib’rul press that ignored the millions who protested the iraq war, but calls every handful of teabaggers a movement worthy of blanket coverage. When will this imaginary persecution of conservatives in the media end?!?!
    Oh, and if you don’t want to hear charges of racism, then maybe you folks in the GOP should condemn the racists and birthers who speak so frequently for your party.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    awwwww….poor teabaggers. Still can’t accept that Obama and Joe the Biden wiped the floor with Grandpa McCain and your beloved Sarah. The media coverage was more than critical of Obama (which is why we heard about nonsense like Rev. Wright, is-he-a-muslim? and flag lapel pins throughout the campaign) and was rather gushing of McCain. The hard truth for you is that conservatism failed under Bush and your candidates for ’08 sucked. 
    Quit whining about an imaginary lib’rul bias and deal with it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    LOL Sure you were a Democrat. It’s funny how all these used-to-bes who were supposedly so angered by the primaries that they were gonna go PUMA “and not vote Democrat not never again!” failed to materialize in 2008. They’re as mythological as the unicorn.
    Oh, and this bit cracked me up:
    “Who can forget his mentor Rev. Wright casting aspersions on the Clintons while preaching to his congregation?”
    Well, I suppose no one can forget something that didn’t happen in the first place.

  • Anonymous

    You have a short memory, I remember Bush admin approving the $700Billion for the banks. Your remember, the one Hank Paullson went to beg for in congress?

  • Anonymous

    You mean the depression that started under your hero W. Bush. And is still having an effect today.

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