Scarborough Cites Tapper As Example of Tough Hillary News, But...

Published: November 16, 2007, 4:39 pm

Tags: hillary clinton, jake tapper, joe scarborough, mika brzezinski, abc, morning joe, msnbc, nightline

During Brent Bozell's Thursday interview promoting our book Whitewash on Morning Joe, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mentioned that ABC's Jake Tapper had a new story out Thursday morning about how three people pardoned by Bill Clinton in 2001 had donated to Hillary for President. Scarborough used that as an example of how the networks can't be so isolated anymore in an era of New Media challenges. But there's just one problem with that theory. Tapper's story was isolated: it only appeared online, not on-air. Tapper did appear on ABC's airwaves on Wednesday evening's Nightline to forward the story Hillary really wants circulated: John McCain's campaign struggling with a supporter calling Hillary the B-word. Here's the MSNBC exchange on Tapper: SCARBOROUGH: This morning, let's talk about ABC is breaking a story this morning, Jake Tapper has a story about how three people that Bill Clinton pardoned in 2001 at the end of his presidency, have contributed money to the Clintons.

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