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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary Clinton destroys Fox News — but needs to ditch excessive caution - By Joan Walsh
Easily handles lame right-wing grilling -- but on paid leave, marijuana and racism, risk avoidance is unsatisfyingJOAN WALSH
Hillary Clinton has always been a quick study, and just a week into her book tour, shes worked some of the rust out of her system. In back to back televised interviews with CNNs Christiane Amanpour and Foxs Bret Baier and Greta Van Susteren, there was none of the defensiveness we saw last week with Diane Sawyer or Terry Gross. She was calm and confident throughout, she bested Bret Baier on Benghazi, charmed Amanpour and Van Susteren and yet she remains way more cautious than she should be if she wants to run for president again.
Because Hard Choices is on foreign policy, Clinton mainly faced foreign policy and national security questions. But there were three questions in the CNN/Tumblr Town Hall with Amanpour that will likely matter to the younger, female, strongly African American Democratic base, and her answers were unsatisfying on all of them.
One reply was so unlikely I have little doubt shell eventually be walking it back. Asked in the CNN town hall whether she supports measures to strengthen the Family and Medical Leave Act her husband signed in 1993 by adding some portion of paid parental leave, she said she supports state and local initiatives to do that but stopped short of saying it should be federal law.
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Hillary Clinton destroys Fox News — but needs to ditch excessive caution - By Joan Walsh (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jun 2014
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I call them the Benghazi Network now - and no longer call them Fox News
aint_no_life_nowhere
Jun 2014
#3
Hillary is an awesome woman, but she is very much attached to the corporate media, she plays to it.
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#5
senseandsensibility
(17,680 posts)1. Hillary was, is, and always will be a
cautious candidate. That's not going to change, and I'm surprised that JW thinks it will.
BeyondGeography
(39,438 posts)2. Walsh is right; state what you're for
No one knows what is politically possible in 2017. Live a little.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)3. I call them the Benghazi Network now - and no longer call them Fox News
hamsterjill
(15,246 posts)4. I haven't seen the Faux interview, but I watched Amanpour's
I like Christiane Amanpour a great deal. Hillary was awesome in my opinion. Very personable and always knowledgeable.
I hope I can find the Faux interview online somewhere!!!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)5. Hillary is an awesome woman, but she is very much attached to the corporate media, she plays to it.
She recognizes how the corporate media controls the thoughts of so many, she does not wish to offend by going all populist on them.
Mistake, dip your toes in that water, madam, it is refreshing and what the voters want, maybe not the donors so much.