The media certainly seemed to have no love lost for presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton this past week, as easy questions and enamoring statements filled the airways after the former First Lady clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.
Unfortunately, the media's drooling praise over Clinton weren't the only asinine comments the media made this week. Click through to see last week’s most ridiculous quotes from the so-called "journalists" about Clinton, Donald Trump, and even police officers.
“When Hillary Clinton swept onto the stage at her victory rally Tuesday night, the thunderbolt of history struck many Americans, no matter their love or loathing for her: A woman could be the next president of the United States.”
— New York Times reporters Patrick Healy and Sheryl Gay Stolberg on Hillary Clinton’s nomination, June 9.
“It is an historic moment. You think back to 1848, Seneca Falls in New York....People picketing in front of the White House in 1917, telling Woodrow Wilson that America is no democracy if 20 million women can’t vote. So, I think this is in a long line of things that many women and men have done across this country for almost 200 years and I think it’s part of a culmination and we’ll see other moments. Obviously, if she wins, it’ll be the biggest.”
— CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson during live coverage of the June 7 primaries.
“You have talked so often about the unfinished business, not only in this country but around the world when it comes to women’s rights. Is having the first female American president part of that unfinished business?”
...“You told me in September that you still hear your mother’s voice....What would she say to you as you walk on the stage tonight?”
— Some of ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir’s questions to Hillary Clinton in a June 7 interview.
“Madame Secretary, last night when you took stage in Sacramento, there was a woman standing next to me who was absolutely sobbing. And she said, you know, ‘It’s time. It’s past time.’ And you see the women — you see people here and people just come up to you and they get tears in their eyes. Do you feel — do you feel the weight of what this means for people?”
— NPR’s Tamara Keith to Clinton at a June 6 press availability shown live on CNN Newsroom.
“She pushed hard for health care reform, and then she withstood the terrors and personal anguish of her husband’s troubles of 1998, and then she had the raw courage to run for Senate from New York....Hillary Clinton has been a leader with guts, with energy and purpose and incredible resilience, and she didn’t get to where she is right now by any other way.”
— Chris Matthews wrapping up MSNBC’s Hardball, June 8.
Yamiche Alcindor: “What do you say to women who say that you staying in the race is sexist because it’s getting in the way of what could be the first female president?”
Senator Bernie Sanders: “Is that a serious question?”
— Exchange between Bernie Sanders and a New York Times reporter at a June 6 press conference in Emeryville, Calif.
“When I watch Trump, I just want to blow my brains out — or maybe not my brains, but I’m just like ‘What are you talking about? Jesus.’ I know that Hillary fights for equality for all people and we are no good unless all of us are equal.”
— Singer/actress Cher, at a June 6 “She’s With Us” concert held to promote Clinton’s presidential campaign, as quoted by Billboard’s Griselda Flores in an article posted the next day.
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"Let’s be clear: It’s never a shame to storm the barricades set up around a fascist."
"Advice: If Trump comes to your town, start a riot.”
— Emmett Rensin, deputy editor of Vox’s first person section, in a pair of June 3 tweets.
“It reflects badly on people who are against Trump, but you’ll get that kind of thing when you get inflammatory statements like Trump makes....”
— CNN political commentator Bob Beckel on CNN Tonight, June 2, discussing the violent anti-Trump protests in San Jose, California.
Last but not least, Howard Bryant had one the most ignorant and harebrained statements of all time:
“Policing is clearly one of the most divisive issues in the country — except in the sports arena, where the post-9/11 hero narrative has been so deeply embedded within its game-day fabric that policing is seen as clean, heroic, uncomplicated....Nobody seems to care much about this authoritarian shift at the ballpark....The increasing police pageantry at games sends another clear message: The sentiments of the poor in Ferguson and Cleveland do not matter....While athletes are routinely criticized for ‘not doing more,’ it is conveniently ignored how deeply their employers have mobilized against the most powerless elements of their fan base.”
— Columnist Howard Bryant in the June 6 edition of ESPN Magazine.