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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Say What?!
“We’ve seen over the last several months that Mr. Trump has repeatedly chosen to kick reporters out of the room for asking tough questions. It appears he’s taking that approach to a new level by avoiding those questions entirely.”
– White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest took a jab at Trump for backing out of the GOP debate.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I don’t think it has anything to do with sexism. There’s real, serious policy differences between the two of them. And there are serious qualms about Hillary’s record, and the policies she vocally supported when she didn’t have an actual vote (yes, support for welfare-to-work and 3 strikes can be attributed to Hillary, not because Bill signed them into law, that’d be sexist, but because Hillary vocally supported each in the 90’s and continued defending the same policies well into her tenure as Senator). The statistical voting records only show so much, because not every policy issue gets brought to the Senate floor. Indeed, the most liberal policies will almost never be brought to a floor for the Senate to vote on. Raising those issues doesn’t make me or any one else sexist. And finally, it’s not about the past, it’s about the future. That’s what elections are about. So if I can look at what Hillary’s proposing versus what Bernie’s proposing, and see real differences, and know that I come down on the side of Bernie, does that make me a sexist?”
Related: Hillary Clinton and the men who hate her.
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What We’re Reading
The rise and fall of Fox News fraud Wayne Simmons. (Rolling Stone)
A profile on Samantha Bee, the first female host of a late-night satirical news show. (New York Magazine)
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