As we’ve seen over and over again this election cycle, the media, including The Hill has been so far up Hillary Clinton’s ass, they could file press reporters from there. Now all of a sudden, The Hill wants some transparency from Clinton News Network. The Hill is calling on CNN to conduct an internal investigation on debate question leaks. Yea, good luck with that one. The Hill is trying so desperately save their reputation after their various smear pieces on Trump and fawning over Clinton. Sorry The Hill. You are basically Politico now.
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In light of new revelations Monday that former CNN political analyst Donna Brazile appears to have passed on yet another debate question in advance to the Clinton campaign, the network must — without delay — conduct an internal investigation into how exactly this happened and who was involved.
Such an investigation also must be conducted by an outside firm to ensure integrity.
To review this disturbing story from the beginning, on March 12, 2016, Brazile, who in addition to providing political commentary for CNN also was vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee that was allegedly neutral in the party primary, passed along a town hall debate question to Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri.
Despite overwhelming evidence, thanks to hacked emails from WikiLeaks, Brazile denies having done so, and instead pointed the finger at the Russians.
For its part, CNN, via one of its media reporters, attempted to shift the focus of any wrongdoing to TV One’s Roland Martin, seemingly suggesting he was to blame to passing the question along to Brazile.Martin — a former CNN political commentator — was a co-moderator of the March 13 town hall featuring Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Per a CNN story written shortly after the Brazile email to John Podesta was revealed by WikiLeaks: “How did the text of a CNN-TV One town hall question about the death penalty end up in the hands of the Clinton campaign ahead of time? New evidence on Wednesday suggests that TV One co-host Roland Martin may have been the link from the town hall prep process to the Democratic National Committee.”
Regardless of whether Martin was involved — there’s no proof either way — I called for CNN to conduct an internal investigation at that time.