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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2609785" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/27/nbcs-chuck-todd-media-knew-how-hated-hillary-was-h/" target="_blank">Chuck Todd: Media knew how ‘hated’ Hillary was in heartland and we ‘underplayed’ it</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>NBC’s <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/chuck-todd/" target="_blank">Chuck Todd</a> confessed that he and others in the mainstream news media played down just how despised Hillary Clinton was in the heartland due to the fear of appearing “sexist.”</p><p></p><p>What’s more, he admitted, the mainstream media failed to “tell the stories of all Americans.”</p><p></p><p>“Where I think political correctness got in the way of what we all knew as reporters and didn’t fully deliver was how hated the Clintons were in the heartland,” the “Meet the Press” host admitted Thursday to former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer in a interview for the “1947” <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/fr/podcast/1947-meet-press-podcast/id1156592336?l=en" target="_blank">podcast</a>.</p><p></p><p>“And I think it was a fear of, ‘Oh, is it going to look like it’s sexist, anti-woman if we say that?’” he added, pointing out that on the hustings he saw numerous “Hillary for Prison” signs adorning the front yards of rural America.</p><p></p><p>“I think we underplayed it a little bit out of political correctness fears,” <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/chuck-todd/" target="_blank">Mr. Todd</a> said. “No member of the press corps wants to look like they’re singling out a group and making a group feel bad, right, whatever that [group] is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2609785, member: 12952"] [URL="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/27/nbcs-chuck-todd-media-knew-how-hated-hillary-was-h/"]Chuck Todd: Media knew how ‘hated’ Hillary was in heartland and we ‘underplayed’ it[/URL] NBC’s [URL='http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/chuck-todd/']Chuck Todd[/URL] confessed that he and others in the mainstream news media played down just how despised Hillary Clinton was in the heartland due to the fear of appearing “sexist.” What’s more, he admitted, the mainstream media failed to “tell the stories of all Americans.” “Where I think political correctness got in the way of what we all knew as reporters and didn’t fully deliver was how hated the Clintons were in the heartland,” the “Meet the Press” host admitted Thursday to former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer in a interview for the “1947” [URL='https://itunes.apple.com/fr/podcast/1947-meet-press-podcast/id1156592336?l=en']podcast[/URL]. “And I think it was a fear of, ‘Oh, is it going to look like it’s sexist, anti-woman if we say that?’” he added, pointing out that on the hustings he saw numerous “Hillary for Prison” signs adorning the front yards of rural America. “I think we underplayed it a little bit out of political correctness fears,” [URL='http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/chuck-todd/']Mr. Todd[/URL] said. “No member of the press corps wants to look like they’re singling out a group and making a group feel bad, right, whatever that [group] is. [/QUOTE]
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