It appears the Clinton campaign is still going after NBC/MSNBC for their coverage of the candidiate. This time, they are targeting Tim Russert for telling viewers Tuesday night: “We now know who the Democratic nominee is going to be, and no one is going to dispute it.”
Howard Kurtz writes today that Jay Carson, Clinton’s press secretary, “fired off an e-mail yesterday to Chuck Todd, NBC’s political director. While assuring Todd that he was ‘not trying to be a jerk,’ Carson wrote: ‘Can you think of one good reason we should continue to cart you guys around the country with us given that your network has declared the entire race over?'”
Well, well. Of course, NBC and everyone else pays to be on the flights. And further, NBC was hardly the only network declaring it’s over.
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, the same George Stephanopoulos who, because he once worked for Pres. Clinton, has been accused of being cozy with the campaign, made the declaration much earlier than his competitors. But the call went nearly unnoticed because Stephanopoulos said it during the west coast update of World News. At 9:33 ET (6:33 PT), Stephanopoulos told anchor Charlie Gibson:
“There is no math for her to come back. There’s no realistic path for the nomination now for Hillary Clinton. Barring some kind of revelation, that drops Obama from the race, he is going to be the nominee.”
Mind you, that was almost three hours and 45 minutes before ABC, NBC, FNC and CNN called Indiana for Clinton.