Bret Baier laid out the ways that Donna Brazile took advantage of her position inside CNN to help Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, and Charles Krauthammer discussed the implications with him, concluding that it is evidence of corruption in the media:
This is a dirty trick. It’s not new in the history of our politics, but when you discover it, it’s a serious offense and the people have to be fired. Let’s remember, this was not in the general election. This was in the primary and it was part of a larger scheme clearly to make sure that she won the primaries and not Bernie Sanders.
Baier interjected, “This doesn’t exactly fire up the Bernie Sanders folks.” Krauthammer said:
Well, I mean, if you are, of course, on the other hand what her answer will be, “Yes, but he supported me.” Well, that’s because he doesn’t have a lot of alternatives.
Baier said, “Doesn’t it get to Trump’s whole thing which is there are people working either in the government or in the media to help Hillary Clinton because she is establishment and elite?” Krauthammer went on:
Well, it certainly means that within the Democratic party there was a huge tendency among the elites to want to get rid of this outsider, Sanders, and socialist, Sanders — and go with what they thought is a safer bet and also the political machine that has controlled the party for so many years. The fact that you get some of this in the general election, I think, is more reflection of the general liberal bias in the media, which has been with us for 30 or 40 years. It’s not a source of surprise but that it should be this blatant I think is rather shocking.
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