Former MSNBC Host: I Had to Get Permission From the President of the Network to Criticize Hillary Clinton

We are real news, Mr. President.

The NY Post:

A former MSNBC host claims she was told she needed to have the network president vet her commentary if it included any criticism of Hillary Clinton before she ran for president in 2016.

Krystal Ball, a former Democratic Party congressional candidate from Virginia, was a co-host of "The Cycle" from 2012 until 2015 for the left-leaning cable news channel owned by Comcast.

Ball, 41, recalled her MSNBC monolgue in 2014 when she urged then-Sen. Clinton (D-NY) to not seek the Democratic Party nomination for president.

"I did this whole thing that was like, 'She sold out to Wall Street. People are gonna hate this lady. She's like the terrible candidate for the moment. Please don't run,'" Ball said during an appearance last week on Joe Rogan's Spotify podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience."

"I was allowed to say it," she said, adding: "I deliver my thing. I did it exactly how I wanted to do it."

But apparently, Ball's advice to Clinton -- who would go on to lose to Donald Trump -- did not sit well with Phil Griffin, who was MSNBC's president at the time.
Former MSNBC pundit Krystal Ball said that she was told in 2014 that she needed then-network President Phil Griffin's permission to criticize Hillary Clinton.
Former MSNBC pundit Krystal Ball said she was told in 2014 that she needed then-network president Phil Griffin's permission to criticize Hillary Clinton.

"Afterwards, I get pulled into an office and you know [I was told], 'Great monologue, everything's fine. But next time you do any commentary on Hillary Clinton, it has to get approved by the president of the network,'" Ball said.

Ball told Rogan that while she did go on to make "further Hillary Clinton commentary, I would love to say that that didn't affect me and that I was there to be a truth teller."

"Listen, I'm a human being," she added. "I'm sure I responded to the incentives of that system, like, 'God, I don't want to get in trouble with the boss.'"

But her self-censorship to please the Real News Mr. President didn't work.

Note that this was "shortly before they let [her] go."

Once you've demonstrated you can't be trusted to be On The Team 100% of the time, the leftwing propaganda media fires you.

But they're Real News, right?

posted by Ace at 12:07 PM

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