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Fri Nov 23, 2018, 05:52 PM Nov 2018

That time.... when Hillary absolutely NAILED the media.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-blasts-fox-news-as-fully-owned-subsidiary-of-trump-admin_us_5bf82315e4b0eb6d930e2714

You watch Fox News, it’s always, ‘Something terrible is about to happen,’ ‘Something terrible did happen,’ ‘These people are doing all these awful things,’” the former Democratic presidential nominee told the paper.

“It is totally divorced from reality, but it is superb propaganda,” Clinton said. “I don’t know the best way to puncture that. You have to hope that reality catches up with politics and entertainment at some point.”

Trump’s rival in the 2016 election said she believes “the press does not know how to cover these candidates who are setting themselves on fire every day, who are masters of diversion and distraction.”

“Now [Trump] doesn’t attack Fox News, because they’re like a wholly owned subsidiary of Trump and the Republican Party now. So he attacks the press and the broadcast media that raise questions about him, that don’t give him fidelity and loyalty,” she said.

She suggested the press rethink its quest for “balance” when it comes at the expense of fact.

“This is a person who believes in very little,” Clinton said. “He does have visceral responses to what goes on in the world around him. He does have a strong streak of racism that goes back to his early years.”
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