Interesting tidbit from Donna Brazile, under fire for telling her version of events surrounding Hillary Clinton and the leadup to the last general election. Today she came up with this little tidbit:
Former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile said she felt betrayed by CNN anchor Jake Tapper in the controversy over her decision to share Democratic debate questions with Hillary Clinton last year, an act she has since admitted.
Brazile, a former CNN contributor, recalled in her new book when emails stolen from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta showed that she relayed information about possible topics that would be brought up during the Democratic primary debate hosted by her network.
"The next day, even Jake Tapper took a swing at me, calling me unethical and 'journalistically horrifying' during a radio interview with WMAL even though I worked for CNN as a commentator not a journalist," Brazile wrote in her book Hacks: The Insider Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House. "When I called him on this, he did not apologize. His attack on me was really about him. He wrote in an email, 'I don't know what happened here except it undermines the integrity of my work and CNN ... you have to know how betrayed we all feel.'"
Brazile continued, "The feeling is mutual, my friend."
I could be wrong but what I get from this is the Brazile, working for CNN at the time, fed Hillary Clinton debate questions ahead of time. This is admitted by Brazile herself. But the fact that she felt betrayed by her own network and Jake Tapper in particular means what? She expected them to cover it up? Or justify it? It was an incredible breach of journalistic integrity, that, if undiscovered, could potentially have swayed an election and yet she expected her employers and fellow staff to support her? In my mind she's saying that there's a culture at CNN of supporting reporters irrespective of the truth and she was let down when they called her on it. All kinds of fail there.
