From the moment Hillary Clinton walked onto the national stage, the media hailed her as a woman on the verge of history, a feminist trailblazer, a pioneer of women’s liberation, like a female Neil Armstrong landing on the moon in Guccis. If her husband was elected president, she would be the first First Lady to have an “independent” career of her own. The many liberals and feminists now in the press corps could visualize one of their own as a White House spouse, chafing at the demand to glue on a plastic smile and pretend she lived for the annual Easter Egg Roll, choosing instead to use her honorary office to strike blows for “social justice.” Empathy for Hillary’s pioneer plight oozed between every sentence of many Woodstock generation media accounts.
It’s a pattern we have seen repeated again and again in the 15-plus years since.
When it comes to Hillary Clinton, the national media have flagrantly abandoned their duty as a supposedly independent, dispassionate press. They have shamelessly served as cheerleaders for Mrs. Clinton from the moment she emerged on the national scene in 1992, with Time’s Margaret Carlson describing her as “an amalgam of Betty Crocker, Mother Teresa, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.” Liberal reporters — and, truth be told, female liberal reporters especially — have hailed her as a feminist role model, a brilliant intellect, a politician of striking compassion, an inspiring leader, and more.
What makes the media’s coverage of Hillary Clinton even more deplorable are the recurring examples of noncoverage. Over and over they have refused to cover Mrs. Clinton’s staggering number of personal, political, and financial scandals, ignored her leftist political agenda, and dramatically downplayed her significant political failures. Plain and simple, they have whitewashed her record to turn her into the formidable presidential candidate we’re all assured she is.
Of course, Hillary’s supporters, in and out of the media, love to tell us that no one has been has been more investigated or scrutinized than Hillary Clinton. But that claim is not just wrong, it is utterly absurd.
We need to take a step back to discuss what constitutes a “news” story in the first place. A news story on a political scandal involves a few stages. First there is the allegation, which, if it carries a whiff of credibility, leads to the second step — investigation. A thorough investigation, examining all the angles while seeking independent confirmation of charges, is complete only when it has reached the third stage of the process — resolution, where the theoretical, the hypothesis, is proven or disproven and there is now fact, truth.
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