Lanny Davis, the former special counsel to Bill Clinton’s White House and a longtime Clinton confidante, went off on MSNBC host Tamron Hall Friday, accusing her of “arguing” with him and pursuing a “double standard” over Hillary Clinton’s private email address.
Though hardly a bastion of conservative politics, Davis felt he was being unfairly treated by MSNBC during an interview on the private email and computer server she used during her time as Secretary of State.
After he noted that former Florida Republican Governor Jeb Bush and former Secretary of Stat Colin Powell had used private emails for official business, Hall said that Davis’s opponents may conclude that he was “deflecting” from Hillary’s own problems.
Calling the remark a “jab at me,” Davis said he was “not deflecting. Jeb Bush is a fine man, what he did was nothing wrong. I’m saying there’s a double standard in media coverage, where we’re not pointing out that there’s precedent for what Hillary Clinton did, whether it’s a governor or whether’s it’s Secretary of State Powell, that’s all.”
“Well, Secretary of State Powell did not control his own home server . . .” Hall said.
“Excuse me, Governor Bush did!” Davis exploded. “So when you make these distinctions, you’re in argument now, you’re not doing fact! You wanna argue with me, that’s your right as a host of a program –”
“Well I’m not a host of a show that argues, I asked you a question,” Hall said.
“Then why not talk about Jeb Bush having a home server!” Davis said. “Why did you omit that?”
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