New e-mail reveals Clinton used a racist tactic to manipulate favorable media coverage

New e-mail reveals Clinton used a racist tactic to manipulate favorable media coverage October 27, 2016

Once again we learn the deep, dark secrets inside the Hillary Clinton campaign thanks to another leaked e-mail showing a plan to deploy “brown and women pundits” to shame media outlets into covering her campaign more favorably.

Isn’t that racist? Only if it was Donald Trump, apparently.

According to a 2015 e-mail between Clinton top aide Neera Tanden and campaign chair John Podesta, a manipulative tactic employed by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to pressure The New York Times to cover his administration more positively was adopted for Clinton who felt the Times’ coverage was particularly damaging due to her criminal e-mail activity. Her campaign knew that once Bloomberg met with the powers that be at the NYT, they immediately changed to friendlier coverage and Clinton wanted the same.

As it turns out, Clinton’s campaign used a slightly different tactic to achieve similar results: send in the browns and the females. That ought to do the trick, as Tanden wrote:

when bloomberg was having problems w the times he called he called Arthur schulzburger and asked for coffee. He made the case that they were treating him like a billionaire dilettante instead of Third term mayor. It changed the coverage moderately but also aired the issues in the newsroom so people were more conscious of it. But Arthur is a pretty big wuss so he’s not going to do a lot more than that.

Hillary would have to be the one to call.

He also thinks the brown and women pundits can shame the times and others on social media. So cultivating Joan Walsh, Yglesias, Allen, perry bacon, Greg Sargent, to defend her is helpful. They can be emboldened.

Hmm, cultivate a race and women. Can you imagine if Trump was found out saying this? He would never live it down among the media. Meanwhile, Clinton is getting a free pass. Obviously, the “browns” worked it out for her.

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