Free pass hell, they are active partisan supporters:
***Media Research Center CyberAlert***
Monday December 14, 1998 (Vol. Three; No. 198)
> 1) The White House press corps is upset that the Clinton
team isn't doing enough to fight back against impeachment. So
revealed ABC's Sam Donaldson in a report from Jerusalem aired on
Sunday's This Week. In describing how reporters want Clinton "to
get out there and fight," Donaldson ran through three press corps
recommendations resisted by Clinton's staff: Personally lobby
Members of Congress, return early from Israel to fight and make a
national TV address on the broadcast networks, not CNN.
At the top of the December 13 roundtable Donaldson told Cokie
Roberts, Bill Kristol, George Stephanopoulos and George Will:
"Many reporters who've covered the President all during the
scandal, and who may have been pretty tough on him, are almost
today beseeching the White House to get out there and fight, or
wondering why at least he doesn't. For instance, the President
says he will talk to any of these moderates who want to talk to
him, but he's not going to call them. What's wrong with calling as
long as you don't threaten them or do anything improper? Why not
pick up the phone and say ‘sir, can I just at least give you my
side of the case?'
"Then there's the question of Tuesday here. Now there's a
reason why President Clinton is here. Sunday, today, with the
Israelis and tomorrow as he promised in the Wye agreement, and
that's one reason the agreement was reached, he's going to address
the Palestinian assembly in Gaza. But Tuesday, he's sightseeing.
He's going to Bethlehem. We'd all like to do that. He's going to
Besheba (sp?), we'd all like to do that. But why not leave after
the Gaza occasion and get back home so you can continue to fight
impeachment? Well they say to us, this is very important. Is it
more important than keeping your seat?
"And finally to the question of talking to the American
people. Yes he's ((tried it, tried it)) and he hasn't come
forward. But they say they expect and hope that the American
people will rise up now in some fashion and let Henry Hyde and
other members of Congress know that they want a censure motion on
the floor. And you might say the President would address the
nation with all of the television networks because when his
people, Mr. Craig, they said, went on Larry King the other night.
Well and good. I like Larry King but he's got a small audience, no
offense. The President, why not go on all the television networks
and reach millions of people and say ‘Let me just say that I need
your help.' No they say, there's no plan for that. And that's why
finally, and I now yield the floor, it seems to a lot of us that
he's almost given up."
I guess Clinton really is the media's guy. The fact that
Donaldson thought his information is innocuous, about how the
press corps is on a mission to save Clinton, shows why
journalists are unable to understand complaints about liberal
bias.
[((tried it, tried it)) is in the double parentheses to note
that it sounded like "tried it, tried it" but I realize that
doesn't really make sense. The remainder of the paragraph is as he
said it though the sentence with Craig in it also doesn't express
a complete thought.]
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