Hillary on Fox News Sunday. Help or hurt?

[ksoze]

Chris Wallace hit her with a barrage of past videos and statements regarding the email issue and she valiantly tried to push back. Unfortunately, to that audience it likely only gave them more ammo and the Washington Post is giving her 4 Pinocchios on her claims. Trump however thankfully has the news cycle with his recent issues.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/07/31/clintons-claim-that-the-fbi-director-said-her-email-answers-were-truthful/

[LuvLoogie]

1. She did great.

[DURHAM D]

2. I give the Post 100 Pinocchios for being too damn stupid

to understand the email issue. F-them.

[UMTerp01]

3. I'm so confused.

Did Comey clarify what he said during testimony afterward in terms of her not telling the truth. I remember her saying that emails were RETROACTIVELY marked classified and so that at the time the email exchanges were going on she believed she had not been passing back and forth classified info. Thats the story she said and has been saying. Comey said it was not truthful in testimony. But then was there a clarification? I mean I am so sick of this. Joe Scumborough said that she out and out lied during the Fox News interview, whereas others are saying she is cherry picking the truth.

[patricia92243]

7. I saw ALL of Comey's testimony. Fox just showed parts of it. Comey explained some of the

e-mails were wrongly classified, some had a little (c) on certain sentences, etc. He explained Hillary was not very sophisticated on computer use (He did not mean this as an insult.)

There is simply no way a person could watch ALL of his testimony and think Hillary deliberately lied. But by showing snippets of it as Fox did, they could very, very easily make it look the way the way they wanted it to. Hillary should not have fallen into their trap and stay off Fox. She is not going to win any votes from them, so why waste time and maybe do some harm.

I hope she can run ads showing all the important Comey statements.

[emulatorloo]

4. Comey under OATH at hearing said she didn't lie and didn't break the law.

Sounds like 'fact checkers' can't get their facts straight

All in all I think the interview was excellent. Poised, funny, warm, extremely well prepared.



P.S. Please don't accuse me of lying about Comey, I posted several links during the congressional hearing to articles that quoted Comey. I didn't bookmark them and I find it very difficult to use DU's search engine.

[scheming daemons]

5. No impact... because Trump's ridiculousness has pushed that to the back pages.

[Doodley]

6. She won't swing many who watch Fox News, but I think she did a great job.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

8. It might have hurt her

if Trump weren't such a crackpot, but with his attack against the Khans rightfully eating up the news, I think she's OK.

[beachbum bob]

9. hillary did awesome....Foxnews and Chris Wallace did what we expected

you think they will go after trump like this?

any bets?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. She did great!

I only wish that she would've pointed out the following exchange at the hearing. Not mentioning it reminds me of Kerry when he seemed to just accept the "voted for it before he voted against it" nonsense from Bush in 2004. I kept hoping Kerry would simply point out that the bills weren't the same because details had changed.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/07/hearing-backfires-gop-fbi-director-clinton-email-judged-classified.html

MATT CARTWRIGHT: You were asked about markings on a few documents, I have the manual here, marking national classified security information. And I don’t think you were given a full chance to talk about those three documents with the little c’s on them. Were they properly documented? Were they properly marked according to the manual?

JAMES COMEY: No.

MATT CARTWRIGHT: According to the manual, and I ask unanimous consent to enter this into the record Mr. Chairman

CHAIRMAN: Without objection so ordered.

MATT CARTWRIGHT: According to the manual, if you’re going to classify something, there has to be a header on the document? Right?

JAMES COMEY: Correct.

MATT CARTWRIGHT: Was there a header on the three documents that we’ve discussed today that had the little c in the text someplace?

JAMES COMEY: No. There were three e-mails, the c was in the body, in the text, but there was no header on the email or in the text.

MATT CARTWRIGHT: So if Secretary Clinton really were an expert about what’s classified and what’s not classified and we’re following the manual, the absence of a header would tell her immediately that those three documents were not classified. Am I correct in that?

JAMES COMEY: That would be a reasonable inference.

[kacekwl]

11. I believe she gave a great interview but

Will not help with most Fox viewers.

[sofa king]

12. Doesn't matter.

Fox News is the Romper Room of politics. Nobody serious pays attention to them or what they are saying. Voters who do pay attention to it are already lost to rational thought and probably irredeemable.

The audience to which Mrs. Clinton was playing is a wafer-thin subsection of Democrats who are too dumb and uninformed to realize how serious this election really is, who therefore also watch Fox News. It's great to have them on our side, sort of, but they can't be counted upon to vote in the undercard elections or read three lines of amendment text.

I personally would have done as President Obama did and just boycott them entirely.