The liberal media is still coming to grips with how Hillary Clinton could have possibly lost to Donald Trump. After all, she is the “smartest woman” in any room she enters. Or at least that’s what The Hill’s Amie Parnes told host Charlie Rose on his PBS show on Wednesday night.
Rose invited on Parnes and Roll Call columnist Jonathan Allen to promote their new book “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign” and asked the two to dissect the reasons for Clinton’s loss. For her part, Parnes cited Russia, James Comey and lack of enthusiasm by Bernie Sanders voters. Not listed? Clinton’s own lack of guile.
In fact, when Rose asked Parnes what Clinton was going to do next, The Hill’s senior White House correspondent gushed: “She could do anything...She will always be the smartest woman in the room.”
The following is the relevant exchange as it was aired on the May 3 edition of PBS’s Charlie Rose show:
HOST CHARLIE ROSE: So what happened to Hillary Clinton?
AMIE PARNES, THE HILL: I think it was a combination message, a combination mismanagement, there were so many factors here. And you know, we don’t want to downgrade Russia and Comey because those were obviously factors. But you know as John and I were reporting this book we started noticing these flaws in the campaign. And I think all of them kind of contributed to it. The lack of, you know, she became the inevitable candidate again. And I think that was a problem for her. There was a great sense of frustration among Bernie Sanders supporters who, some of them voted for her and kind of held their breath and voted for her. And even now are kind of, they don’t quite understand why they did it. They did it because she wasn’t Trump. But they didn’t really have that, she didn’t have that energy behind her. So I think all of these factors kind of played into that.
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ROSE: The question I’d really ask was, what’s happening to her now. What’s her future?PARNES: She, from what I understand, is not going to be a part of her foundation, her family’s foundation. She is stepping away from it. And she wants to do something different. And she is still trying to figure that out from what I am hearing.
ROSE: Could she become a university president or something like that?
PARNES: She could do anything. She’s one of the smartest people, she will always be the smartest woman in the room, I think.
