CNN and NBC are both working on different Hillary Clinton projects, with NBC working on a mini series with Diane Lane and CNN putting together a documentary. The projects have made strange bedfellows, with calls from both the left and right to end the projects.

The first protest of the projects was unsurprising. On Monday, the Republican National Committee asked CNN and NBC put the brakes on the plans now or it would not work with the networks to broadcast the 2016 GOP primary debates.

“It's appalling to know executives at major networks like NBC and CNN who have donated to Democrats and Hillary Clinton have taken it upon themselves to be Hillary Clinton's campaign operatives,” RNC chairman Reince Priebus said, notes The Huffington Post. “Their actions to promote Secretary Clinton are disturbing and disappointing.”

Both networks then shot back. CNN said that its CNN Films is making the documentary, which it expects to screen in cinemas and air in 2014. “Instead of making premature decisions about a project that is in the very early stages of development and months from completion, we would encourage the members of the Republican National Committee to reserve judgment until they know more,” the statement read. “Should they decide not to participate in debates on CNN, we would find it curious, as limiting their debate participation seems to be the ultimate disservice to voters.”

NBC News said that the project is from NBC Entertainment and NBC News “has no involvement in this project.”

The next attack on the projects came from the left, with Media Matters founder David Brock sending a letter to NBC and CNN, calling for them to stop the projects, since they “could coincide with a potential Clinton presidential campaign, the timing raises too many questions about fairness and conflicts of interest ahead of the 2016 election.”

The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd also supported Priebus, writing, “Reince Priebus says a lot of goofy things, but the chairman of the Republican National Committee has a point.”

NBC announced its series last month, assuring critics that it would air well before the 2016 election.

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