CNN's Jeffrey Toobin: 'I regret my role' in Hillary Clinton false equivalence

By First Amendment 
Monday Jan 29, 2018 · 1:47 PM EST

Ever wonder why we have Donald Trump? One of the reasons right here.

Look at this admission by CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin of how terrible their reporting was during the 2016 Presidential campaign. He admits *they* felt reporting a negative about Donald Trump, deserved a negative story about Hillary Clinton.

Simply incredible.

At least Toobin feels *some* regret. You can’t say that about many in the media.

So long as President Trump continues disgracing the Oval Office, thoughtful people will probe their own role in helping him get there.

Such appeared to be the motivation behind a mea culpa issued by CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on comedian Larry Wilmore’s “Black on the Air” podcast. In a discussion of presidential politics, Wilmore argued that Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, was the victim of a “coordinated attack” coming from Republicans. “Benghazi was … the expression of that attack. In fact, what’s his name, was it [former Rep. Jason] Chaffetz who actually kind of agreed that that’s what they were doing, was weakening her as a candidate.” (Wilmore may have been referring to Rep. Kevin McCarthy, who said in 2015, ““Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.”)

No question about the attack on Clinton, responded Toobin, citing “all that bogus stuff about the Clinton Foundation” — perhaps a reference to the Uranium One story or even to the pre-election reporting of Bret Baier — later withdrawn — that there would be an indictment relating to the foundation.

“And I hold myself somewhat responsible for that,” continued Toobin, a steady presence on CNN since 2002. “I think there was a lot of false equivalence in the 2016 campaign. That every time we said something, pointed out something about Donald Trump — whether it was his business interests, or grab ’em by the p–––y, we felt like, ‘Oh, we gotta, like, talk about — we gotta say something bad about Hillary.’ And I think it led to a sense of false equivalence that was misleading, and I regret my role in doing that.”

Source
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/29/1736897/-CNN-s-Jeffrey-Toobin-I-regret-my-role-in-Hillary-Clinton-false-equivalence