From the September 29 edition of WAMC's The Roundtable:
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DAVID BROCK: All that has been covered about Donald Trump has really been the atmospherics around Donald Trump. He hasn't put out that many serious plans, but no real serious effort to look at his record, at his business record. And this applies to some of the other candidates too. There is, I argue in the book there are Clinton rules. And the Clinton rules are that what's considered normal and usual for every other politician somehow is made to look wrong when the Clintons do it. And there is a kind of double standard at work, and it's particularly at work with Hillary. Some will argue that's in part because she's one who is poised to break the glass ceiling. But we could spend the whole interview here talking about email problems of other republican candidates, of Jeb Bush seven years later turning over a small portion of his email. I don't think voters are really interested in that, so I'm not going to go down that road too far. But the reality is there is a double standard here, and there's serious examination to be done of other candidates. And yet, even before she declared her candidacy, you had every media institution in the country with a full-time reporter on the so-called Clinton beat. They were looking for every half of a crumb they could find and inflate it into something that it really wasn't. I don't, by the way, think this is ideological or partisan by the press, I think this is just, other than Donald Trump the Clintons are probably the best out there for ratings and for newspapers and for click-throughs. And so they get a disproportionate amount of coverage. But I think you are right that the Trump coverage could be more substantive, and so could the Hillary Clinton coverage. She is out there, day-in and day-out rolling out a lot of substantive programs that I think try to address some of the problems that we face in the country. And you may get one small story about her college affordability plan, or her plan to reform campaign finance reform, or the path to citizenship for immigrants, but it has trouble breaking through the din of email, email, email.
