CNN Still Touting Bill Clinton as 'Asset,' Despite Bad Poll For Hillary

Matthew Balan | January 20, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

CNN is staying true to its reputation as the "Clinton News Network," even after it released a poll on 19 January 2016 which found that Hillary Clinton is behind competitor Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire by 27 points. The following morning, on the 20 January 2016 edition of CNN Newsroom, Carol Costello spotlighted how Bill Clinton was "about to take the stage to stump for his wife, Hillary Clinton — something, perhaps, that is much needed at this moment, since Hillary Clinton seems to be lagging in some of the polls that are out there."

The liberal network seems to have forgotten that former President Clinton actually started campaigning for his wife in New Hampshire on January 4, 2016. CNN anchor Michaela Pereira hyped on that morning's New Day how "Hillary Clinton is going to use her not-so-secret weapon, her husband, out on the campaign trail. Former President Bill Clinton about to make his first solo stop out there for her." For the remainder of the day, CNN would brush aside the possibility that the former President and his past scandals might actually hurt his wife's campaign.

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