'Today' Devotes An Entire Half-Hour to Team Billary

Published: September 5, 2007, 3:54 pm

Tags: campaign 2008, campaign finance reform, fundraising, bill clinton, hillary clinton, larry craig, matt lauer, norman hsu, nbc, today

NBC's "Today" show devoted its entire 7:30am half-hour of its Wednesday morning program to Bill and Hillary Clinton as it invited on the former president to tout his wife's candidacy and his new book. During almost 13 minutes of one-on-one interview time with Clinton, Matt Lauer brought up the issue of too much money in politics but never asked about Bill's or Hillary's fundraising scandals, asked about Republican Larry Craig's sex scandal, but didn't mention Bill's own personal indiscretions and even let Clinton rant about the GOP's "Swift boat tactics" against Hillary. After NBC's Andrea Mitchell finished her glowing set-up piece, Lauer pressed Clinton from the left about public financing of campaigns and wondered if lobbying money should be taxed so more money could be spent on charities but never mentioned the name Norman Hsu. Lauer: "I'm curious. When you think about giving and going back to money for a second. When you think about giving and making

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