MSNBC’s Hall: Discussion of Miss Universe Is ‘Substantive’ Campaign Story

Curtis Houck | September 30, 2016
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Amidst the media’s wall-to-wall coverage on Friday morning of Donald Trump’s late-night tweetstorm about former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, MSNBC host Tamron Hall bemoaned the idea that this is a collective degrading of political decorum because it’s a “substantive” because it concerns whether Trump can win over women voters. 

Of course, this admission by Hall serves as a glaring double standard concerning how the prevailing thought has been that invoking any number of Clinton scandals both salacious (Bill’s sex scandals) or not salacious (Clinton’s e-mail server, Clinton Foundation) are boring distractions and could drive voters to Hillary Clinton who somehow feel sympathetic.

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