No Rachel, MSNBC interview w/Jeb! is not journalism

[JoeOtterbein]

I just listened to Rachel Maddow promoting the upcoming Nicole Wallace "interview" with Mr. Low Enough Energy to Let Trump Win, or also known as Jeb!

Instead, Wallace's first interview with Jeb is a perfect example of the 100% capitulation of what we accept as "journalism" to what is obvious favoritism towards the powerful in the trade of access for fawning praise by the MSM.

Rachel needs to ask her bosses at MSNBC why she was not granted access to Bush instead of Wallace.

[spanone]

1. nicole wallace?....bwahahahahahaaa

why not george w. himself?

[JoeOtterbein]

3. He will be with Obama in Dallas tomorrow, she should crash it for an interview!

[Yavin4]

6. It's truly amazing how little we talk about W.

It's like he never existed.

[Schema Thing]

14. It's truly amazing how little the GOP talks about W

I photographed the TX GOP convention this year. For 3 Days, tons of different speakers, they would barely speak the name "Trump" (they would say "we now have to put aside our difference and support the Party Nominee to avoid a Hillary Clinton continuation of the Obama presidency" <pretty much verbatim - used 100s of times over the course of three days).

But you know who's name was never uttered once in 3 days? GW Bush. This was in Dallas, his hometown.

[CentralMass]

2. They are all corporate stooges.

[840high]

7. Happily I dropped cable.

[JoeOtterbein]

4. Wallace just asked Jeb! if "we did not listen to them" referring to Trumpers

More proof "we" are not real journalists. And now Brian Williams is talking!

[nolabear]

5. I'll give her a little credit. She called out Trump's bullying well.

It's funny, I thought Jeb sounded a tad depressed. Sad about the state of things. Bloodless. I wonder if he ever wanted to do this.

[JoeOtterbein]

8. Good point about Jeb!'s depression, he thought he had it all in the bag, bucks included

[Retrograde]

11. Blaming everybody else for his losses

I can't remember hearing such a "Poor Little Me" interview - he seems to actually think the cards were stacked against him. Blaming the Pope (and, BTW, Jeb!, the US is not the only country dealing with immigration issues)?

[JoeOtterbein]

9. Jeb! just told her to "come on man, come on woman" !!!! HUh?

Sounds like he does not talk to many people. Sad really.

[Wounded Bear]

10. If they had given him this much face time during the primaries...

he would have lost even sooner.



The pope?!?!

[JoeOtterbein]

12. I keep waiting for Jeb! to yell "I could have been a contender!"

Brando would have been appalled!

[Gothmog]

13. I listened to part of the interview on the radio on the drive home

Jeb! is a weak person and would have been a weak candidate

[SuperDutyTX]

15. hah

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