
As NewsBusters reported Monday, one of the media members that seemed to fall hook, line, and sinker for Hillary Clinton's crying game in New Hampshire was Kate Snow who covers the junior senator's campaign for ABC News, and posted a sycophantic blog about the weepy candidate's emotional performance virtually moments after it happened.
Six days later, appearing on CNN's "Reliable Sources," Snow continued to shill for Hillary, and took the pimping a step further by parroting statements made recently by Bill Clinton about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
After host Howard Kurtz showed a clip of the now infamous teary scene in that New Hampshire diner, Snow was asked how she saw the event, and responded with a statement that sounded like it had been written by one of Hillary's staffers:
Not only did I think it was a big moment, Howie, I was actually sitting down at that moment that she, her voice sort of choked at one moment, and I shot up out of my seat, because, in the room, when you were that close to her, you could feel it. You could feel that there was something that had clicked off. That something had changed. And she was showing true emotion.
So, for all of the pundits out there who weren't in the room who have been speculating about maybe it was fake, maybe she was pretending to cry and choke up, I was in the room. That was not pretend. I mean, she, there was a real emotion that was starting to come out. So, it did catch all of us. And, I looked over at Pat Healy, Patrick Healy, who's a reporter for the New York Times, and the two of us immediately exchanged glances like, "Oh my gosh, are you hearing this? This is something that we're witnessing." Because, normally, Hillary Clinton, I think anyone would tell you, she stops herself if she starts to feel, you know, she starts to show a little emotion, she'll sort of do that thing that women do where we stop ourselves from crying. You know, you sort of back off a little bit. And she didn't do that. She, she went with it. She allowed some of her feelings to show in a way that she hasn't before.
Honestly, could this have been scripted better if written by James Carville himself? Is Kate Snow a reporter covering the Clinton campaign, or working for it?
Sadly, this line got even more blurry later on in the discussion:
They will tell you, people that are close to her will tell you that this is the real Hillary Clinton. That she often, she often keeps to herself, she often doesn't show publicly, but she let it show.
Sure, Kate. This is the real Hillary Clinton, not the one that ABC's George Stephanopoulos and others who worked for Bill have claimed drops the f-word at staffers with the frequency of a drunken rapper in a Los Angeles bar at two in the morning.
Yet, Snow wasn't finished advancing Hillary talking points, for when the discussion moved to how the press are covering Obama, she became former president Clinton's advocate:
I was just going to say, what you're talking about right now, is almost precisely what Bill Clinton has been saying, particularly in the last few days on talk radio. He's been bringing this up again and again. He thinks the press is giving essentially a free ride to Barack Obama. He thinks that we haven't been scrutinizing his record, particularly when it comes to some of the statements he's made about Iraq and the Iraq war. Bill Clinton has been saying, you know, until he's blue in the face that we're not looking hard enough for inconsistencies in statements that Barack Obama has made. Now, the Obama camp has a full and ready response to that as well...
This appeared so biased that PBS media correspondent Terrence Smith took umbrage:
I've heard a lot of reporting on his limited experience, about how he's got no great depth in some of these issues. So, it's not to suggest, not that Kate is, that it's been all one-sided.
Snow then sheepishly defended herself:
I'm not suggesting. I'm repeating what Bill Clinton has been saying.
Yes, Kate, and seemingly everything that's being fed to you by his wife's campaign...and that's the problem.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.















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Sooooo........
January 13, 2008 - 12:55 ET by c5thenIf Hillary makes it to the Whitehouse (GOD forbid) is this the action she will take when Iran renigs on a promis, or North Korea takes provocative action and then blames the US for it? When Al Jezeera reports that most of the muslims do not respect the US because it is lead by a woman, will she call a press conference and sob that those statements are "hurtfull to her".
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.
ABC and Kate Snow
January 13, 2008 - 13:15 ET by JohnJDunbarThis new journalism is not only accepted , but encouraged by the management and producers of the MSM. the idea of unbiased and objective reporting has been discarded.
ABC..All Bad Crap
Just another in-kind
January 13, 2008 - 13:31 ET by motherbeltJust another in-kind contribution to the Clinton campaign, by the MSM.
Kate Snow: I'm not suggesting...I'm parrotting...uh...repeating...um reporting what Bill Clinton has been saying....LOL
Geez Kate!
January 13, 2008 - 16:27 ET by heldmywPull the cigar out and get back to work.
American Society
January 13, 2008 - 13:36 ET by iveseenitallJust as with our schools, our government, and so many other "institutions" in American society, at the MSM the inmates are running the asylum. Only a conservative Republican win in November can slow the insanity. If it's Shillary or B.O.-- hold on to your hats (and your wallets).
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
....Not interested...
January 13, 2008 - 13:53 ET by neighbI could care less what Hillary does, "in the moment" to show that she has, "real emotions". I'm want to know VERY MUCH what she has (in her case HASN'T) done to justify her so-called entitlement to the Oval Office.
We are continually asked to accept the shilling of the MSM and the likes of the Kate Snow's of the world as they describe Hillary's recent, latest Academy-Award-winning-in-this-case-New-Hampshire-primary-winning acting job's emotions as her real, true and sincere personna.
Let's assume they are correct. That leaves any logically thinking person only one conclusion: For the past 35 years Hillary has been a fake, a fraud and living a lie.
Here is TRUTH: Hillary Clinton IS a fake and a fraud. And her performance at this Q&A in NH was just the most recent example of it.
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Kate Snow of the Hen Cluck Clinton Flock
January 13, 2008 - 15:22 ET by Lame CherryKate Snow is sounding more and more like a talking Barbie Doll.........pull the string and the same things keep coming out in grinning school girl wide eyed breathless delightful pantings, so what she says is unimportant.
What is important to me is this as I feel base today:
I have had it with Kate Snow and the plunging necklines and no breasts looking like Tom Brady with a shaved chest. Her voice is annoying like Joy Behar whining.
Therefore to put up with this toothy blonde, I want ABC to require this Barbie doll to wear mini skirts from now on to at least show off the one asset she has in legs.
At least with the sound down, one could at least look at something like an ugly Patriot football cheerleader CBS features.
It just goes to the LC Doctrine, liberal women are idiotic and should always be seen and never heard, Kiran Chetry is a good example of a successful liberal female........short skirts and cleavage, so no one knows what she is nattering on about.
Take the hint ABC, Bill likes cutie blonde reporterettes. He did the CBS babe, Hillary got her fired and the world rotates normal.
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ABC shill
January 13, 2008 - 17:47 ET by docbWeeks ago I commented on Snow's glowing coverage of clinton. We must remember that Snow like many in the MSM are only readers which shows in the delivery when unscripted as it does with clinton. To admit that she is a parrot for Bclinton is evidence enough. Sadly, many have little opportunity to deleve deeper into the morass that is politics and that is precisely what hillery and her surrorgates are counting on. It seems to have worked in NH. The educated females have never been strongly in her camp and they will be empathitic to a point but will not stand for her returning to the old dirty ways. The clinton camp has tried now to roll the clock back to before the widespread coverage by other than MSM and the internet. They can no longer say they did not say it because there are thousands of clips to prove they are the same liars they have always been. I sincerely hope that Obama and Edwards can keep going because they[clintons] will destroy themselves before they destroy America. If light is shining on them. I pray for Obama and Edwards and the USA. Hear J Kerry gave Stephie on ABC a thrashing and never wavered.
Kate Snow
January 13, 2008 - 18:47 ET by fitzfongYet another Clinton Bimbo Eruption.
She IS a Clinton staffer
January 13, 2008 - 21:54 ET by mattmApparently all you need to land a good job with ABC (or any other MSM network) is a pretty face and a democratic party registration.