Media Matters – Bernard: Hillary Clinton “will run a parallel government” if named secretary of state
Posted by janisstrope on November 19, 2008
You might want to put on a tinfoil hat before watching this, because honestly, I don’t know what planet Michelle Bernard and Jennifer Donahue live on. It is one thing to have an opinion, but it is quite another to make things up. Senator Clinton is being vetted for Secretary of State, and these two women talk about her like they are in the locker in high school.
Bernard puts forward the fantasy that Clinton would run a “parallel government”. To which government? The government of the United States of America? The government she served as First Lady and where she has represented the State of New York in the Senate for 8+ years? To so glibly accuse Clinton of planning treason is despicable slander.
And Donahue points out that when Obama and Clinton were running against each other, Clinton tried to bury Obama…. I think, when you are competing with someone, you DO try to beat them. That’s the whole point of a race.
Of course these comments are made on MSNBC, the network that has had to repeatedly apologize for their slams of women, from Chelsea Clinton to Sarah Palin.
My question is, why do seemingly bright women embarass themselves on national television, by taking unfounded pot-shots at a woman who did more to elect Obama than any other Democrat in the Party, beyond Obama himself? To question how loyal she would be to this nation is ludicrous.But they got their face time on television, at the expense, once again, of a woman who has done nothing more than have the audacity to consider accepting a call to service as Secretary of State.
I apologize for not having the video here, but unlike every other blog in the known universe, WordPress does not support the function for some mysterious reason, and VodPod didn’t work.
