NBC is suppressing footage of Bill Clinton rape-accuser Juanita Broaddrick’s claim in a 1999 interview that Hillary Clinton tried to intimidate her into silence, contends the head of a media watchdog.
Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, noted that last week, NBC released a long-held video of Donald Trump making vulgar remarks, which has taken center-stage in the campaign “just in time to exert maximum damage against him.”
“Now, shockingly, we learn that NBC is suppressing a damning 1999 video interview with Juanita Broaddrick. This interview purportedly shows Hillary Clinton trying to intimidate Broaddrick to not talk about her rape allegations against Bill Clinton,” he said.
Former NBC journalist Michael Isikoff, known for breaking the Monica Lewinsky story, initiated the call for the network to release the raw footage of the Lisa Myers interview with Broaddrick, which was broadcast on “Dateline.”
Isikoff, in a chat on the website Sidewire, pointed out that Broaddrick’s critics doubt Clinton threatened Broaddrick, because Broaddrick did not mention it in the “Dateline” interview.
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“Folks have made much of the fact that her claim about the conversation she had with Hillary wasn’t in the interview that ran. Broaddrick said it got cut out; Lisa Myers has since agreed Broaddrick said this then – and NBC chose to cut it out,” Isikoff said.
“So NBC ought to check its archive and run the full interview. (AS long as they’re now culling their archives!)”
Bozell said the “indictments against NBC continue to grow.”
“It is guilty of journalistic corruption of the highest order. If they do not release this interview unedited, they should be denounced by the entire journalism community. No one can deny that NBC is as dishonest as it is partisan. How anyone with any sense of journalism ethics can work there, I don’t know.”
Clinton’s campaign surrogates, meanwhile, have been casting Hillary Clinton as a victim of her husband’s sexual misdeeds.
On “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg alleged the women who claim they were assaulted by Bill Clinton him “slept with him knowing he was a married man … so … [Hillary] is the victim here.”
But Myers, at the time of the Feb. 26, 1999, interview, said she found Broaddrick credible.
As recently as two months ago, she said, “Nothing has come up since that story was reported that in any way undercuts what Juanita Broaddrick said.”
Isikoff said Myers later confirmed Broaddrick’s claim that NBC edited out references that could have damaged Hillary Clinton.
WND reported Trump released an ad featuring the voice of Broaddrick.
Earlier this year, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell claimed Broaddrick’s allegations were “discredited,” and a subsequent letter from a lawyer for Broaddrick convinced the network to even go back into the archived video and edit out the word.
The ad shows Broaddrick saying: “He starts to bite on my top lip and I try to pull away from him.”
The ad:
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Trump charged in a Fox News interview that the former president committed “rape.”
On the same day, Broaddrick said in a WND exclusive sit-down interview in her Arkansas home the alleged rape in 1978 has deeply and permanently scarred her life. Broaddrick also noted that she had recently received a phone call from Andrea Mitchell, who was seeking an update on her rape claim.
“Lisa Myers actually warned me about Andrea,” Broaddrick told WND after Mitchell called her claim “discredited.”
Broaddrick has become engaged in this year’s election because of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. She tweeted earlier: “I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73 … it never goes away.”
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She explained that her statements were prompted by Hillary Clinton’s claim that all victims of sexual assault should be believed.
“Thoroughly disgusting – Hillary’s comments on rape. Shame on you Hillary, shame on you!” she wrote.
Other networks later followed Mitchell’s lead, with ABC’s Tom Llamas calling Broaddrick’s statements “discredited” and Nancy Cordes’ on CBS saying: “They were referring to a trio of women who say Bill Clinton made unwanted sexual advances in 80s and 90s. Mr. Clinton denies it. Two of the cases were plagued by factual discrepancies.”
Broaddrick was interviewed by Los Angeles attorney Candice Jackson, who conducted the in-person interview with Broaddrick for WND. Jackson previously authored the acclaimed book “Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine.”
“And if NBC now thinks my experience has been ‘discredited,'” Broaddrick continued, “why would Andrea Mitchell call me to ask me for any new information about my encounter with Hillary after the assault? And why wouldn’t Andrea Mitchell have written her own news story explaining exactly how I’ve been discredited? Lisa Myers actually warned me about Andrea. Andrea is obviously mad at me for exposing her rudeness and bias when she called me this year. I think being a lapdog for Hillary Clinton discredits Andrea Mitchell and NBC as journalists!”
Here is NBC’s original 1999 “Dateline” segment featuring Lisa Myers interviewing Juanita Broaddrick about her alleged rape by Bill Clinton:
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Watch Broaddrick’s interview with Sean Hannity about that moment with Hillary Clinton:
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