Three months after former ABC News reporter and anchor Carole Simpson bounded on stage in New Hampshire to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, on Monday night (as previewed in this earlier NB post), she hosted a Hillary Clinton town meeting telecast from 9 to 10 PM EST on the Hallmark cable channel. At the top of the paid show, Simpson trumpeted “Voices Across America: A National Town Hall with Senator Hillary Clinton” as “an historic event bringing together voters from across America to discuss the issues that matter and the changes this country needs.” Welcoming Clinton, Simpson enthused: “It's my honor to introduce Hillary Clinton.”
Video clip of how Simpson opened the info-mercial (55 secs): Windows Media (3.6 MB), plus MP3 audio (300 KB).
The entire introduction narrated by Simpson:
Welcome to 'Voices Across America: A National Town Hall with Senator Hillary Clinton.' Live from 22 states on the Hallmark channel and worldwide at HillaryClinton.com, an historic event bringing together voters from across America to discuss the issues that matter and the changes this country needs.
Good evening, everyone. I'm Carole Simpson. Welcome. And it's my honor to introduce Hillary Clinton.
My October 18 NewsBusters item, “Hillary-Backing Carole Simpson Just as Liberal at ABC News,” recounted:
Endorsing Hillary Clinton for President at a Tuesday night rally in New Hampshire, former ABC News anchor/reporter Carole Simpson exclaimed, an NBC News blog reported, that “it's very freeing now that I'm not a journalist, that I'm able to speak my own mind.” But Simpson hardly hid her liberal political views during her years at ABC. “Long Live Hillary” read the headline over an online tribute from Simpson, then anchor of World News Tonight/Sunday, following Clinton's 2000 senatorial victory. At about the same time, she denounced Clarence Thomas as the “cruelest” Supreme Court justice “because he has consistently voted against human rights.” If Bush names more like him, she groused, “God help us.” The 1994 GOP congressional victories upset her: “I would like to think that the American people care about poor people, about sick people, about homeless people, and about poor children. I am shocked by the new mean-spiritedness.”
Check that posting for more on how she endorsed Clinton and several more examples of her liberal pontificating while at ABC News.Most infamously, in a 1999 interview with President Bill Clinton at an Arkansas tomato processing plant, Simpson made the story all about herself and her glory: “I have to bask in this moment, for a moment, because I am here talking to the most powerful man on the planet, who was a poor boy from Arkansas....I am an African-American woman, grew up working class on the south side of Chicago, and this is a pretty special moment for me to be here talking to you. How does it feel talking to me? That I made it, too, when people said I wouldn't be able to?” Clinton: “It's a great country.”... (For click and play Flash video of this, scroll down to “Just a Tad Self-Absorbed” in the MRC's 20th Anniversary edition of Notable Quotables)
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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I lasted exactly 4 1/2 minutes
February 4, 2008 - 23:58 ET by kgI lasted exactly 4 1/2 minutes watching this farce. I couldn't take it any longer and turned the station to a show about the world of ants. It was a much
better show.
This 'Voice across America' program gave you a feeling of déjà vu and
despair. It was almost surreal and gave you the feeling of the end of the world. Odd to say the least.
The only thing I like about Carole Simpson........
February 5, 2008 - 00:58 ET by Lame Cherryis the way Rush Limbaugh mimics her voice.
Hillary certainly was making the rounds........was on Letterman cackling tonight.
I watched Charlie Rose who had on a supporter for Barak Obama.
GOP does not matter.
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It's her "honor" to
February 5, 2008 - 05:45 ET by gideonmjamesIt's her "honor" to introduce a former practicing lesbian, a Begala Democrat, the most politically and morally corrupt individual in the United States, and the #1 antichrist in the western hemisphere?!!
Job 17:5
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Proverbs 6:23-24
(23) For the commandment is a lamp; and the law [the Word of God - the Bible] is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
(24) To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Psalms 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness ... they flatter with their tongue.
Flattery - Tool of the Corrupt
February 5, 2008 - 05:55 ET by gideonmjamesProverbs 2:7-8 and 16-20
(7) He [God] layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: He is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
(8) He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of His saints.
(16) To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
(17) Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
(18) For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
(19) None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
(20) That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
Proverbs 7:1-5
(1) My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
(2) Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
(3) Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
(4) Say unto wisdom, "Thou art my sister"; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
(5) That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Flattery - Proverbs
February 5, 2008 - 06:37 ET by gideonmjamesProverbs 20:19
He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets [casts pearls of truth before those who are evil] : therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
Proverbs 28:23
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favor than he that flattereth with the tongue.
Proverbs 29:5
A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.
Good evening, I'm Carole
February 5, 2008 - 06:17 ET by motherbeltGood evening, I'm Carole Simperer....I mean Simpson.......
Mrs. Clinton, or may I call you Hillary? ...as one "no one thought I could make it" woman to another, let me ask you, how does it feel talking to me, an African-American woman, which actually gives me one up on you?
My Intro to Hillary Clinton
February 5, 2008 - 07:15 ET by gideonmjames"I'm Gideon James and it is my absolute disgrace to even mention the name Hillary Clinton to you today ... "
"Guano, cow patties, huge piles of rhino cr_p, and Hillary Clinton ... a special report this evening on World News Tonight ... "
Imagine My Surprise...
February 5, 2008 - 08:49 ET by deedledeeto tune into Hallmark to see a Christmas movie that I was thrilled to see was playing again in the tv listings. When I saw Carole Simpson's face, I thought "Oh, no...it's tonight?" I promptly changed the channel and decided to check back an hour later and thank goodness they played the whole movie. Hallmark, sappy romance movie viewers like me, did not fall for Hillary "the hope of woman" invading our territory. Don't do it again!
Suck - up
February 5, 2008 - 15:48 ET by GalvanicToo much familiarity.
If it's really her "honor" to introduce Clinton, then the proper way is to identify her as Senator Hillary Clinton.
By not including her office title, she (once again) reveals herself as a partisan hack posing as a serious journalist.