NBC's Mitchell Boosts 'Personal' Hillary's NYC Campaign Rally

Matthew Balan | June 12, 2015
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

On the 12 June 2015 edition of NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell touted how Hillary Clinton's upcoming NYC campaign rally will be "focusing on her late mother, Dorothy Rodham – twice abandoned as a child by her parents; forced to make her way across country and work as a maid." Mitchell played two clips from a campaign video where Mrs. Clinton spoke highly of her mom, and underlined that "Clinton credits her mother for her passion and values – especially fighting for women and children – one reason she wants to be president."

The journalist did point out how socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is "challenging her [Clinton] from the left" and that "recent polls show a big jump in the number of people who think she's not honest or trustworthy since the controversies over her e-mails and donations to the family foundation." But she also played up that "Clinton is counting on people caring more about her plans for the future than the past."

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