[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
As of the morning of 5 October 2016, ABC's morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover Bill Clinton's Monday slam of ObamaCare as a "crazy system." By contrast, ABC's Good Morning America, along with CBS This Morning, aired news briefs on 5 October 2016 about a study of the hibernation habits of squirrels in the Arctic. NBC and CBS's evening newscasts both covered the former president's remarks during their 4 October 2016 editions, but omitted mentioning the issue the following day on their Wednesday morning shows.
CNN's New Day set aside three minutes and 15 seconds on 5 October 2016 to former President Clinton's critique of ObamaCare at a campaign stop for his wife in Flint, Michigan. Chris Cuomo played a clip of the Democrat's comments and asked CNN Politics executive editor Mark Preston, "He [Clinton] pointed out a flaw in ObamaCare. [Mike] Pence echoed it last night. How big of a deal?"
Preston first asserted, "I don't know if it's going to be able to break through, in the end, through all the discussion around Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the lead up to Sunday's debate." He soon added, however, that "the problem for Hillary Clinton is, that's her husband...Bill Clinton was giving voice to a lot of people who are very frustrated with ObamaCare, in the fact that it's costing them a lot more money now that it's implemented."