Donny Deutsch Says Media Hyping Obama Scandals Out of Boredom

‘We spend so many year – four years, night and day staring at these candidates, that after a while we get a little bored’

Donny Deutsch on NBC: People Only Focused on Obama Scandals Because They're 'Bored' (Newsbusters)

On Wednesday's NBC Today, regular panelist Donny Deutsch downplayed the scandals embroiling the Obama administration as merely the result of the public not having anything else to focus on: "I think in this media age we spend so many year – four years, night and day staring at these candidates, that after a while we get a little bored and turned off. And really the only story to report going forward is what I'll call that kind of slippery slope." 

Co-host Matt Lauer called out Deutsch's dismissive tone: "I think you're making a little light of some of these stories. Some of these are pretty important, big stories." At the end of the discussion, Deutsch doubled down: "I think this is a function of, as I said again, of we are gonna over-magnify versus diminish anything that happens for any second term president."

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