Overheard yesterday, on The Situation Room:
BLITZER: You were quoted in “The Washington Post” as saying this on Monday. You said, “The media does not like the Clintons for whatever reason. Maybe some of it’s the Clintons’ fault, but the media does not like the Clintons.”
Has she gotten a bum rap, unfair treatment, compared to Barack Obama, over the past several months?
RENDELL: Wolf, there’s absolutely no question about that. I don’t know if you saw “Saturday Night Live.” It’s become a national joke.
In fact, one of your — I think — no, it was MSNBC’s reporter who was covering Obama. He said, in referring to one of the senator’s speeches, he said, you know, hearing this speech, it’s hard not to get involved and be partisan. And then I think Brian Williams congratulated him on having the guts to say that.
Well, I don’t know what journalism class he went to, but I have always been told that it’s important for journalists, for reporters, to give the news straight and not to be influenced and not to be partisan. I don’t think the senator has had a fair shake from the get-go, and I think Senator Obama, who’s a terrific guy, who if he’s the nominee, I will support with every ounce of energy I have, but he’s basically been given a free ride.
Do you remember The Times story about a month ago about Senator Obama being pro-nuclear energy, and not only that, but changing a position in response to a big power company who later went on to become among his biggest contributors? Well, how many of the young Obama supporters out there at these rallies do you believe, Wolf, know that he’s pro-nuclear?
BLITZER: Probably not a whole lot.
RENDELL: I would say probably not one.
BLITZER: All right. Well…
RENDELL: And why didn’t that story have legs? Why didn’t CNN, why didn’t MSNBC, why didn’t other newspapers report it?
BLITZER: Well, we did report it. But you know, we can’t report the same stories every single day.
RENDELL: Oh, a teensy…
BLITZER: But let me talk about Pennsylvania for a moment, because we don’t have a lot of time.
Bwahahahaha!
Oh, that is so rich.
Because, like, I don’t have to suffer through the same fucking reports for an entire week before CNN rotates to new content. And I don’t even mean to suggest that they harp on the same topic – hells no. I mean to say that they replay the exact. same. segment. over. and. over. And that goes for CNN as well as CNN Headline News. Fuck, the two channels even recycle their stories between one another.
Try again, Wolf. 48 hours a day between the two CNN channels, and you arses fill it with maybe 12 hours of original content. And most of that is utter nonsense, anywhos.
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