Hillary Rodham Clinton Choreographs the Talk Shows
Hillary Rodham Clinton does her dance on the Sunday morning talk shows this September 23, 2007. C’mon, George Stephanopoulos, former Clinton Administration press secretary, is sold as an objective interviewer for Hillary Rodham Clinton. At least Tim Russert called her on a few of her statements although no grilling was to be had. That may explain some of what causes HRC to get away without defending her past. Too many people in the media have a history with her as well.
She claims to denounce anyone disrespecting those who have served. She repeatedly mentions Max Cleland and John Kerry. She diminishes any reference to MoveOn attacking General Petraeus most likely because she voted against the measure in Congress to spank MoveOn for the attack.
In one interview and nearly in the same breath she claims her health care plan will give those who want to participate coverage equivalent to Congress then describes it as similar to Congress. She also claims there will be no new bureaucracy and that it won’t be run by the government. If you are providing government funds for a program there will be government bureaucracy involved. Whether it is described as new or not is really of no significance. We all know that the private sector is more effective delivering services than the government is.
And what is David Brooks talking about when he says HRC sounded Presidential? What does anyone mean by that? It is nice if a President sounds like one might expect a President to sound. But it is much better having an effective President that is not characterized as sounding Presidential than the other way around.
What the Sunday talk shows featuring Hillary Rodham Clinton may have missed is what the following columnist expresses succinctly in the referenced opinion column.
Stanford Matthews
MoreWhat.com
September 24th, 2007 at 12:21 am
I only saw her on FNS and Kristol pointed out what you did vis a vis the Moveon ad. He said that it is a patently ridiculous to compare a political attack to an attack on a General in the middle of a war.
As far as her Health care plan, she was of course being totally disingenuous with regard to all the extra bureaucracy and Newt pointed that out right after she was done.
My fear is that the country is actually going to buy her plan. Rasmussen’s latest survey says that Americans want Universal care.
It will take conservatives and libertarians debating tooth and nail to show her plan for the socialist government monstrocity that it is. You are right in that these rounds of interviews certainly did not help.
September 24th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Both Russert and George S. let her go on with her canned campaign speech. Russert called her on one or two items but let her talk her way out of it.
Thanks for stoppin’, thanks for takin’ the time to comment.
September 24th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
All the interviewers let her off the hook, IMO. No follow-up questions and whatever double-speak she offered went unchallenged. It was a total love-fest.
When she said the USA should surrender in Iraq, no one asked about the potential consequences for Iraq itself, nor did they ask her to justify her previous statements, nor did they ask what that withdrawal would mean to USA credibility in the future.
When she said that we outsourced Iran policy, no one asked her if it’s bad to work with out allies.
When she said we need to socialize the medical system, no one asked about the huge unfunded liability of Medicaid and how we would pay for all this medical care without huge increases in taxation.
When they asked about Hsu and she said that everyone has some problems with fundraisers, no one asked if everyone has a $milllion problem, nor did they compare this situation directly with Abramof, nor did they ask about the growing Democratic party problem in this regard.
….in case you didn’t get it, I don’t support Hillary. She will be very bad for the country.
September 24th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
You’ll get no argument about of me.
Thanks for stoppin’ and takin’ time to comment.
September 24th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
You mean a fundraising issue like GW Bush and Enron?