Jeffrey Toobin Expresses Regret For The Way He Covered Hillary Clinton In 2016
"But her emails..."
There is no greater indictment of the failures of the American media than that one sentence.
Everyone and anyone with even a degree of sentience knew that Donald Trump was not fit for the presidency.
He was a white supremacist.
He cheated at everything.
He lied about everything.
He committed adultery.
He bankrupted companies and stiffed contractors.
He knew next to nothing about foreign policy or economic policy.
He was embraced by the swampiest of DC swamp creatures and conservatives too fringe or unethical for normal politicians to want to be seen with.
The damaging stories about Trump's life and proclivities came at us like a machine gun. So many stories. So many terrible things. Such an unfit person.
But the vast right wing conspiracy machine that games our mainstream media can't allow that information out to the masses without "balance." In a general election against a Democratic candidate who outstripped Donald Trump in intellect, experience, understanding, and qualifications, the mainstream media needed to focus equally on whatever they could to detract from Hillary Clinton as much as the Wurlitzer of hits against Donald Trump.
But psychologically, that minimized the far more damaging litany of Trump problems and outsized Hillary Clinton's. If you have to use the false equivalency of ten column inches for both candidates, each of Donald Trump's issues took up a half an inch, and Hillary's emails took up all ten.