Hillary Clinton commented on the New York City and New Jersey explosions just hours after they occurred, calling the incidents “bombings” — but you wouldn’t know that from watching CNN’s coverage. 
CNN aired comments Clinton made to the press aboard a plane Saturday night. But in the footage, the cable network didn’t broadcast the portion where the Democratic presidential nominee called the explosions “bombings.”
“We need to do everything we can to support our first responders, also to pray for the victims. We have to let this investigation unfold. We’ve been in touch with various officials, including the mayor’s office in New York, to learn what they are discovering as they conduct this investigation. And I’ll have more to say about it when we actually know the facts,” Clinton said in the clip aired by CNN. 
Seconds after Clinton’s statement, a reporter sought her response to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s earlier statement that the explosions were caused by “bombs,” asking, “Do you have any reaction to the fact that Donald Trump, immediately upon taking the stage tonight, called the explosion in New York a ‘bomb’?”
“Well, I think it’s important to know the facts about any incident like this. That’s why it’s critical to support the first responders, the investigators who are looking into it, trying to determine what did happen,” Clinton responded. 
But as the Hill pointed out, citing an ABC News transcript of Clinton’s comments, the former secretary of state didn’t avoid calling the explosions “bombings,” either. Below are Clinton’s full remarks on the New York City and New Jersey explosions: 

I’ve been briefed about bombings in New York and New Jersey, and the attacks in Minnesota. Obviously, we need to do everything we can to support our first responders, also to pray for the victims. We have to let this investigation unfold. We’ve been in touch with various officials, including the mayor’s office in New York, to learn what they are discovering as they conduct this investigation. And I’ll have more to say about it when we actually know the facts.
A representative for CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment from TheBlaze. 
(H/T: The Hill) 

Obama Blames Conservative Media’s ‘Misinformation’ for Close Presidential Election

President Barack Obama says the campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump wouldn’t even be close were it not for conservative media espousing “misinformation.” 
Obama made the comment during a Democratic fundraiser attended by about 65 donors in New York City on Sunday, CNN reported.
President Barack Obama speaks to media after a meeting with US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Pentagon August 4, 2016 in Arlington, Virginia. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
President Barack Obama speaks to the press. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
“This should not be a close election, but it will be. And the reason it will be is not because of Hillary’s flaws, but rather because, structurally, we’ve become a very polarized society,” Obama said. 
“If all you’re doing is watching Fox News and listening to Rush Limbaugh and reading some of the blogs that are churning out a lot of misinformation on a regular basis, then it’s very hard for you to think that you’re going to vote for somebody who you’ve been told is taking the country in the wrong direction,” the president continued, adding that it’s “going to be hard to overcome” such structural divisions. 
It wasn’t the first time Obama has blamed the media for the increasingly polarized state of the country.
“The problem is that when we get our politics, a lot of it has to do with the fact that our media is now splintered, some people are just watching Fox News, some people are just reading the New York Times, so they don’t even start with a common baseline of facts,” Obama said in January. 
“They almost occupy two different realities in how they see the world,” the president added. 
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