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'Supposedly' corrupt? WaPo blogger runs lame interference for Hillary

The Washington Post’s Paul Waldman penned an op-ed in which he calls out Donald Trump for corruption. And that’s fine. Goodness knows there’s plenty of fodder there.

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But Waldman seems to be under the impression that if Trump is corrupt, Hillary isn’t. At least not nearly as much as Trump. You see, Hillary’s reputation for corruption is the media’s fault, or something:

Here’s the headline, by the way:

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Waldman writes:

To repeat, the point is not that these stories have never been covered, because they have. The point is that they get covered briefly, then everyone in the media moves on. If any of these kinds of stories involved Clinton, news organizations would rush to assign multiple reporters to them, those reporters would start asking questions, and we’d learn more about all of them.

Asking questions, eh? You mean, like, “How was your Labor Day Weekend?” But we digress:

That’s important, because we may have reached a point where the frames around the candidates are locked in: Trump is supposedly the crazy/bigoted one, and Clinton is supposedly the corrupt one. Once we decide that those are the appropriate lenses through which the two candidates are to be viewed, it shapes the decisions the media make every day about which stories are important to pursue.

And it means that to a great extent, for all the controversy he has caused and all the unflattering stories in the press about him, Trump is still being let off the hook.

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Yes, it’s Trump who’s being let off the hook. Trump, whose every word and move is breathlessly covered by the media. Poor, put-upon, “supposedly corrupt” Hillary.

Newsflash, Paul: Nowhere is it written that two people cannot be jaw-droppingly corrupt at the same time.

Exactly.

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