"Rare feat": Senator Clinton appears on all five major talk shows in one Sunday morning

LAT: Clinton makes the talk-show rounds
In a rare feat, the Democratic front-runner appears on all five major Sunday programs, discussing Iraq and her health plan.
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 24, 2007

WASHINGTON -- -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton reinforced her position as the Democratic presidential front-runner Sunday as she executed the rare feat of appearing on all five major TV talk shows in one morning, defending her new healthcare proposal and vowing to oppose any Iraq war funding unless it is tied to starting a U.S. troop withdrawal.

"I will not vote for any funding that does not move us toward beginning to withdraw our troops, that does not have pressure on the Iraqi government to make the tough political decisions that they have, that does not recognize that there is a diplomatic endeavor that has to be undertaken," the New York Democrat said on "Fox News Sunday." President Bush plans to ask Congress this week for nearly $200 billion to fund the war through the end of next year.

Clinton -- who holds a 22-point lead over her closest rival, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, in the latest national Gallup Poll on the Democratic presidential field -- did not criticize her opponents for the party nomination. Instead she focused on her general-election prospects, highlighting her success in winning Republican and independent votes in her two Senate races. "Anyone who gets the Democratic nomination is going to be subjected to the withering attacks that come from the other side," Clinton said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I think I've proven that I not only can survive them but surpass them."

Appearing on "Fox News Sunday" for the first time in more than three years -- and almost exactly a year after former President Bill Clinton had an angry confrontation on the show with host Chris Wallace over attempts in the 1990s to capture Osama bin Laden -- the senator laughed loudly when asked why she and her husband "have such a hyper-partisan view of politics."

"Well, Chris, if you had walked even a day in our shoes over the last 15 years, I'm sure you'd understand," she said. "But you know, the real goal for our country right now is to get beyond partisanship, and I'm sure trying to do my part, because we've got a lot of serious problems that we're trying to deal with."

Clinton took to the airwaves Sunday after unveiling her long-awaited healthcare proposal, the American Health Choices Plan, last week....

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We don't get much down here in Oz and I would have loved to see the way she dealt with him. Anything like when Bill went off?

given the opportunity to appear on all the Sunday morning shows.

The corporations made their choice well over a year ago and have been pushing it even since.

I believe it was Mencken that said, "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public", he was right as usual.

Hillary is the media and corporate choice, and while other candidates are screened out or ignored, Hillary gets all the free press time she needs or wants. Gee, I wonder what she had to bargain away to the MSM to get this kind of exposure? Her husband already gave out the '96 Telecom Act, what's next, Hillary narrowing down the media to just Faux? She is real chummy with ol' Rupert. Nah, I bet it's something to do with that pesky internet thing, you know, the last place where people can get real, unfiltered news. Hmm, wonder how long Net Neutrality will last under Hillary?

Hillary's media people did a good job getting her on all the Sunday morning talk shows. That way she gets her message out to the widest possible audience, speaking live so they can't twist her words.

As much as I hate FOX News, I think it is part of the media landscape and Democrats cannot afford to ignore it in the run up to November 2008.

From what I have read, it looks like Hillary did a great job on FOX News.

Hillary already has her alibi on the '96 Telecom Act "That wasn't me. Ask Al Gore."

As an Al Gore fan, I don't like it, but I can see it's a fair answer.

"get their candidates" on those shows, the show's producers decide who will be invited. Virtually every politician in DC will sell their children for a spot on the Sunday morning shows, unless they're trying to dodge a scandal, and the candidates all want it even more.

I am sure however, that being married to the guy that made it possible for them to establish their quintopoly over all of the media in the nation didn't hurt.

But I don't think we should blame Hillary for everything that went wrong in the 1990s.

When asked about this issue - she said it came under Al Gore's area of responsiblity.

Earlier this year, Meet The Press devoted a whole show to an interview with John Edwards.

So it's not true that they are ignoring everyone except Hillary.

I can see it's difficult for the "second tier" candidates to get media attention.

But I think Kucinich could be on TV every day and still would not win the nomination.

For various reasons (personal & political) he does not come across as Presidential.

The fact that he performed poorly in 2004 is also a drag on his campaign.

at the time.

All, or nearly all, of the candidates will get a spot on the Sunday morning shows, it is the fact that she got all five on the same day, that exposes the collusion taking place.

My reply was only tangentially about Congressman Kucinich's campaign, but since you've brought it up, please name another candidate that has been as obviously suppressed, when not actually excluded as he has.

Take ABC as the latest, and most egregious, example. George Stephanopoulos refused to call him until well after the majority of the audience had tuned out, and this was followed by them going as far as to edit him out of the photograph used to report the event. There are dozens of examples of the fascist power structure's efforts to keep his ideas out of the people's consciousness.

I talk to Democrats everyday that have never heard of him, let alone have any idea what his proposals are, yet when polled by ideas, the overwhelming majority of Americans agree with and endorse his ideas.

TPTB fear his ideas and do not want to have their candidate forced to answer questions about them. Just another battle in the class war that we pretend does not exist.

And, like it or not, Hillary Clinton is a "get" - and it has nothing to do with media bias.

A "get" is when a show books someone that is difficult to get on your show, a politician in a campaign is not a "get".

Musta been hard work. :shrug:

But I watched her on CNN and NBC yesterday morning. Tried to keep an open mind.

I have to admit - she does a very good job at dealing with these TV interview situations.

I loved how she can take a question about MoveOn.org and turn it into criticizing Bu$h-Cheney.

The way she speaks is very credible, very believable, very reasonable, very human.

In these kinds of TV interviews I think she is a better communicator than her husband.

While I am still wishing Gore and leaning Edwards, I am becoming more comfortable with Hillary everyday.

If Hillary wins the nomination I hope that all of us will work for her to win in November 08.

We could do a lot worse than winding up with a Clinton-Clark ticket next year. B-)

Which is one of the reasons I hope she wins. I think she'll run a beautifully efficient administration too. We need someone to get this country out of the ditch Bush put us in.

and their secrecy and privilege - which means: NO ACCOUNTABILITY for any of the Bushes and their crimes of office - and THAT is why Bushes AND Clintons are dangerous to our EXTREMELY vulnerable democracy right now.


http://consortiumnews.com/2006/111106.html


How many of you really believe our nation can survive as a democracy without truth and reconciliation?

admire her hard hard work and great campaign tactical abilities.