The Washington Free Beacon's Elizabeth Harrington spoke with Fox Business host Stuart Varney on Wednesday about the cozy relationship between the establishment media and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Varney spoke to Harrington after he and his panel went through leaked John Podesta emails showing what the host described as "collusion" between mainstream media figures and the Clinton campaign. Among them included CNBC reporter John Harwood boasting about feeling vindicated through his provocations of Donald Trump, and the Boston Globe's Marjorie Pritchard offering tips about how Clinton could coordinate an op-ed piece with the newspaper's own reporting on her New Hampshire visit to maximize its impact.
"I'm calling this disgraceful collusion," Varney said to Harrington. "I could be accused of going a bit far. What do you say?"
"I think what these emails confirm is what we already know, that the media is biased and that it is practically an extension of the Democratic Party," she said.
Varney asked her if she'd seen anything like the level of coordination shown in the Podesta emails.
"It's not just this cozy relationship that we already know about. It's actually working hand in hand," Harrington said.
Harrington brought up an exchange between New York Times writer Mark Leibovich and Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri where the writer effectively gave the Clinton team "veto power" over quotes from an earlier interview he did with Clinton.
"Now the New York Times is saying, 'oh, this is an off-the-record arrangement,'" Harrington said. "Off the record is not changing quotes from taking out a reference to Sarah Palin when she's talking about how she eats moose stew. Off the record doesn't start halfway through a sentence ... Really, what we see here is on all levels, you have CNN, Boston Globe, New York Times, at every level, not just bias but working to amplify and promote the Hillary Clinton campaign."