Funny how NBC decided to dump Obama hack Stephanie Cutter just hours after signing her because of her conflict of interest with Obama. That wasn’t a problem with NBC signed David Axelrod a few years ago. The conflict of interest also didn’t matter to NBC when hey hired Robert Gibbs, Obama’s first press secretary. Maybe NBC is just sexist.
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NBC’s official statement recanting its new hire reads as follows: “We look forward to Stephanie’s insights on our air during this election year, but she will appear as a guest and not as an analyst due to her leadership role in the battle over the President’s Supreme Court nomination.”
Wemple noted that CNN dismissed similar concerns when Cutter and Newt Gingrich co-hosted the reboot of Crossfire without giving up various other political commitments.
More recently, he also noted, Lee Fang of the leftist website the Intercept reported that the networks — ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC — were failing to disclose financial ties between pro-Clinton guests/commentators and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. Fang reported a Cutter appearance on Meet the Press failed to disclose that her firm Precision Strategies did work for the Clinton campaign.
Fang also noted Cutter spoke warmly of the savvy Clinton campaign: “I think that Hillary Clinton has done everything right. She has run a good campaign. She has outperformed in debates. She’s raised money. She’s got a great ground game. But what she can’t control is this string of anger that is connecting both parties right now.”
She’s “done everything right”….including hiring Cutter’s firm.
The Obama hack Cutter has also donated $2,700 to Killery.