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In a report previewing Bill Clinton’s upcoming address to the Democratic National Convention, on Tuesday’s NBC Today, correspondent Peter Alexander actually alluded to some of the former president’s problems: “As a surrogate, President Bill Clinton, he boasts an incomparable resume – husband, adviser, and past president himself. But he also brings to the table tonight some significant personal and political baggage.”
One would naturally assume that any discussion of Bill Clinton’s “personal and political baggage” would include his myriad sex scandals, most notably his admitted affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. However, viewers who made such a logical conclusion would have proven wrong by the segment that followed, which completely ignored any of those infamous controversies.