Media Gives Hillary a Complete Pass

TGIF, Friends,

I watched the entire debate carefully last night between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, but apparently I watched a different debate than the other pundits did.

The other pundits are praising Hillary Clinton's performance, while in my opinion she proved to be exactly what her critics say she is...slimy.

That's pretty darn funny. You really want me to release the transcripts of what I told
Goldman Sachs? That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.

There were three glaring examples, and several others, but I'll discuss the three most egregious. The first came early on, but I'll discuss that one last because is positively made me scream at the TV.

The second was when Hillary was asked a "Yes/No" question by Wolf Blitzer as to weather she would raise the ceiling on taxable Social Security earnings, which is currently $118,500. 

She simply could not answer with one word and tried to talk her way around it. Finally, Bernie Sanders was able to corner her into a reluctant yes.

The third example was Hillary making the surprising claim that she's been a strong supporter of a $15-an-hour minimum wage. 

She's clearly, until last night, been backing a federal minimum wage of $12 but came up with some cock and bull explanation of how she's been backing both. This also evoked a bit of sarcastic shock from Bernie and boos from the crowd.

But Hillary's worst 'gag me with a spoon' moment was when Dana Bash tried to question her about releasing the transcripts of those three speeches she gave to Goldman Sachs for $675,000.

Personally, I want to know what she told to the company so instrumental in putting us in the biggest economic fix since the Great Depression.

But Hillary would not answer the question. She deflected it by changing the subject to Bernie not yet releasing his tax returns and again invoking the lame excuse that she'd release her transcripts if all the other candidates release transcripts of their speeches.

That, by the way, was a tacit admission that the transcripts exist.

Dana Bash tried three times to get Hillary to answer her question but finally gave up. 

Yet this slimiest moment of the night is not even making the media's highlight reels, and Dana Bash and CNN haven't brought it up again since. 

There were several other Slippin' Hill flourishes during the debate, where the candidate looked completely flummoxed or was out maneuvered by Sanders. But this morning, the media is generally singing Hillary's praises.

It's pretty obvious to me who their darling is, and it's not the old guy in the room.