NBC and its anchor Andrea Mitchell still owe Juanita Broaddrick a public apology over their slam that her claims of rape against former President Bill Clinton have been “discredited,” she says in a new report from Breitbart’s Aaron Klein, who interviewed her on his radio show.
WND reported the story two months ago when Mitchell made the unsubstantiated claim about Broaddrick’s allegations, presented on that very network nearly two decades ago.
Then the network abruptly edited the video of the slam, to remove the work “discredited” and replace it with “long-denied.”
The network had conceded the change in a letter to Broaddrick’s lawyer, who also is her son, but had made no public acknowledgement until word of the editing reached the media.
Then it posted a terse announcement that “upon review,” the network removed that word.
On the “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” program over the weekend, Broaddrick blasted the media’s kid-gloves treatment of the Clintons.
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“I just think it’s a double standard. I don’t think that they want to bring out these bad things that Bill Clinton has done. And they are letting the victims of his crimes suffer because they don’t want to go up against him and his machine,” she said.
She took particular issue with NBC, which has yet to publicly issue an apology for the “discredited” slam, which was removed from the online video.
Broaddrick, in her earlier letter to the network challenging that editorial comment, had asked for the apology.
“NBC has always protected him. And Hillary. And I don’t think it is ever going to change. I don’t understand it. I think it’s wrong. But there’s really nothing at this point that I could do about it. I’m just glad, Aaron, that they did at least take out ‘discredited’ from their report and made the caption that they had taken it out,” she said on the program.
Kevin L. Hickey, Broaddrick’s son, had been told by NBC that the video was being edited to remove the slam, but he then said he was disappointed NBC and Mitchell “will not apologize for this egregious error.”
“Why not now go the extra step, the morally right step, and publicly acknowledge the mistake and public’y apologize?” he asked at the time.
NBC did not respond to Breitbart’s request for comments.
The “discredited” comment came as the network was trying to report on some very negative developments for Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president.
Donald Trump, then the GOP’s presumptive nominee for president, ripped away the “philandering husband” façade from Bill Clinton, publicly charging on Fox News’ “Hannity” that the former president committed “rape.”
Then, on the same day, the victim, Juanita Broaddrick, described for the first time – in a WND exclusive sit-down interview conducted in Broaddrick’s Arkansas home – exactly how the alleged 1978 sexual assault had deeply and permanently scarred her life throughout the intervening decades. And Broaddrick mentioned something else: Of all mainstream journalists, the one she spoke to recently on the phone, seeking an update from Broaddrick on the rape incident and its aftermath, was NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
How ironic, then, when Mitchell said on-air that Broaddrick’s rape allegation, first televised by her own network in a sensational “Dateline” segment in 1999, had been “discredited.”
“Lisa Myers actually warned me about Andrea,” Broaddrick told WND at the time, responding to Mitchell’s comment essentially calling her a liar.
Broaddrick’s description of the attack came in an interview with attorney Candice Jackson, who wrote about it for WND.
Jackson said of NBC’s latest maneuvers: “Wow. I didn’t realize what NBC tried to pull. I mean it’s just further evidence that there are no journalistic standards that the mainstream media isn’t willing to trample on in order to help protect the Clintons right now – and to kill the reputation of someone who has been willing to come forward with a story that has only ever been corroborated never discredited.”
It was Lisa Myers, former senior investigative correspondent for NBC Nightly News, who in 1999 was so convinced of Broaddrick’s authenticity that she interviewed her for the network’s primetime story.
Indeed, Mitchell’s “discredited” claim clashed directly with Myers, who as recently as 2014 confirmed, “Nothing has come up since that story was reported that in any way undercuts what Juanita Broaddrick said.”
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Here’s what Broaddrick said at the time in response to Mitchell’s claim:
“Nothing has changed from the detailed investigation NBC did into my story in 1999 before airing my Dateline interview with Lisa Myers,” Broaddrick said in a statement to Jackson, who previously authored the acclaimed book, “Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine.”
The earlier video has Mitchell clearly calling the claims “discredited.”
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The later video, posted at Breitbart, has her calling it long-denied. Her comment followed Trump’s description of Clinton’s behavior as “rape.”
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“Donald Trump using that word unprompted, during an interview last night with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. Bringing up (sic) long-denied accusation against former president Bill Clinton, dating back to 1978 when he was Arkansas attorney general,” she says in the new version.
WND reported that commentators pointed out Mitchell “is correct to say this allegation is ‘long denied,’ but on what basis is she calling it discredited? On the contrary, Broaddrick’s allegation is arguably the most consistent and believable accusation of sexual assault made against Bill Clinton (though not, of course, the only one). For a little perspective here, note that even progressive site Vox says the allegation, ‘has not been definitively refuted.’ Vox also notes that reporter Michael Isikoff’s book contains a reference to a concession by Clinton’s lawyers that he may have had ‘consensual sex’ with Broaddrick.”
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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In “Their Lives,” Jackson documented the failings in the White House’s denial at the time, a statement that read, “Any allegation that the president assaulted Ms. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false.”
Explained Jackson: “No attempt to argue that Clinton wasn’t even in Little Rock on the day in question, or that he had never been alone with her, or even that they hadn’t had sexual relations. The denial was immediately parsed by some on the press and public wary of Clinton’s overly technical, legalistic use of the English language. Broaddrick wasn’t known as ‘Ms. Broaddrick’ in 1978, some noted – at that time she was ‘Mrs. Hickey.’”
And, Jackson added, “She alleged rape, not ‘assault.’”
Broaddrick told Jackson she decided to speak out now because of a campaign-season comment from Hillary Clinton.
“It was all because of Hillary’s tweet in December [2015] where she said we all need to ‘believe the victims of sexual assault.’ How can she be so ignorant? Doesn’t she know we’ll all come forward again? She was saying in that tweet that all of us are liars. Has she lost her mind?” she said.
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