Rapegate Victim Slammed, Is NBC trying to discredit its own Rapegate exclusive by leaking details of Juanita Broaddrick’s blockbuster interview to Clinton friendly reporters?, Newsmax February 4, 1999

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From NewsMax February 4, 1999.

“Rapegate Victim Slammed”

“Is NBC trying to discredit its own Rapegate exclusive by leaking details of Juanita Broaddrick’s blockbuster interview to Clinton friendly reporters?
Anyone who heard Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift Wednesday night certainly got that impression, as she slammed the Rapegate victim as a less than credible witness.

Appearing on Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes, Clift claimed that Broaddrick’s story had “numerous discrepancies” and insisted that NBC was sitting on her story because it didn’t check out.

“She can’t even remember that date when it happened,” Clift barked, after host Sean Hannity challenged her on NBC’s cover-up.

Clift’s apparent insider revelation about Broaddrick’s story begs the question: How does she know? Since she told all to Dateline, Broaddrick and her husband have refused to comment on the content of the interview, hanging up immediately on most reporters who call. The detail Clift cited has not been reported elsewhere.

Dubbed “Eleanor Rodham Clift” by Clinton critics, the Newsweek reporter is a famous presidential apologist and could be expected to mount a vigorous defense against any prospective Clinton rape charge.

But Clift’s claim that NBC is sitting on Broaddrick’s story because it lacks credibility flies in the face of what Broaddrick herself was told by NBC’s Lisa Myers last Tuesday.

Explaining NBC’s skittishness, Myers warned Broaddrick: “The good news is, you’re credible. The bad news is, you’re very, very credible.” The network’s private investigators combed through the Clinton accuser’s backround and deemed her “squeaky clean”.

On Monday, NBC Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert also tried to discredit his own network’s Rapegate exclusive, comparing the story to videos distributed by the Rev. Jerry Falwell charging Clinton with complicity in murder.”

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