On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday, show host Joe Scarborough speculated whether the media would treat a Hillary Clinton run differently in 2016 than they did in 2008.
“In late May of 2007, everybody that came on was 100 percent certain it was going to be [Rudy] Giuliani versus Clinton,” Scarborough said. “Everybody from the South, everybody from the West, everybody from both ideological sides, everybody knew it was going to be Giuliani and Clinton and, of course, we got neither. So I, you know, I love Hillary and I can’t imagine anybody coming between her and the presidency this time but, you know, there’s a long, long way to go.”
But Scarborough had one other question, which was how the media might treat a Hillary Clinton candidacy in 2016 with knowing it seemed to favor then-candidate Sen. Barack Obama during the 2008 Democratic primary.
“Donny [Deutsch], that’s the question — that is the question about Hillary Clinton,” Scarborough said. “The media savaged Hillary Clinton. I always said the media was biased against Republicans and they have been biased against Republicans. I’ve never seen the media more biased against any single candidate than they were Hillary Clinton in 2007 and 2008. The question is, does the media give Hillary a fair shot next time? Is the media biased towards Hillary next time to compensate for 2008?