ABC's Snow on Hillary: No Subject Too Small; No Issue Too Dense

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By Scott Whitlock | January 7, 2008 - 13:34 ET

ABC journalist Kate Snow continued her habit on Monday of parroting Hillary Clinton's campaign spin. Filing a report for "Good Morning America," she gushed over just how hard the senator is working for a resurgence in the polls. Snow raved, "No subject is too small. No issue too dense. Hillary Clinton is taking question after question from voters, from reporters."

Spinning seemingly ordinary tasks, Snow continued, "She's pounding the pavement, literally going door to door for votes." The GMA contributor also explained that "the new Hillary critiques Barack Obama for putting a lobbyist at the top of his New Hampshire campaign." Later in the segment, she repeated the phrase: "The new Hillary confronts Obama saying he's changed his positions." Snow has a long history of history of portraying Senator Clinton's every move as brilliant:

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On October 1, 2007, she lauded the Democrat's much derided cackle as an example of someone who's either enjoying herself or is "the master of a shrewd political skill, disarming her critics with a gleam in her eye and a roar straight from the belly." A few weeks later, on October 25, Snow touted that, on the occasion of her 60th birthday, "for Hillary Clinton, being a member of AARP is fund-raising gold." (For a round-up of Snow's rhapsodizing about the candidate, see a November 30, 2007 NewsBusters post.)

A transcript of Snow's January 7 segment, which aired at 7:03am, follows:

SAWYER: But let's begin with GMA weekend anchor Kate Snow who is at a coffee shop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Kate?

SNOW: Good morning, Diane. Senator Clinton herself is calling the shots. This morning, she'll fill this place, Café Expresso, with a bunch of voters. She is planning her attack.

SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON: I will be a great president to work with you on all of the things that matter to the people of New Hampshire. Thank you all very much.

SNOW: No subject is too small. No issue too dense. Hillary Clinton is taking question after question from voters, from reporters. She's pounding the pavement, literally going door to door for votes. It's all about fighting off Barack Obama and John Edwards.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE VOTER: I notice during the debate they were double teaming you.

CLINTON: Did you notice that?

SNOW: She admits, she had to do something radical.

CLINTON: If a campaign doesn't evolve, it probably is dead.

SNOW: So, the new Hillary critiques Barack Obama for putting a lobbyist at the top of his New Hampshire campaign.

CLINTON: If you're going to be railing about lobbyists and then you have the chair of your campaign who is a major lobbyist in this state, I think that is an interesting piece of information.

SNOW: The new Hillary confronts Obama saying he's changed his positions.

CLINTON: If you gave a speech, and a very good speech, against the war in Iraq in 2002, and by 2005, '06, '07, you vote for $300 billion for the war you said you were against, that's not change.

SNOW: On issue after issue--

CLINTON [Montage]: That's not change. That's not change. That's not change.

SNOW: Now, Clinton told me that she herself is not frustrated but within her camp, I can tell you there is some tension with one day left to go, Diane, to right the ship.

—Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.

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SNOW: The new Hillary

SNOW: The new Hillary confronts Obama saying he's changed his positions.

CLINTON: If you gave a speech, and a very good speech, against the war in Iraq in 2002, and by 2005, '06, '07, you vote for $300 billion for the war you said you were against, that's not change.

Isn't this a little strange?  She's accusing Barack of speaking out against the war and then, in affect, voting FOR the war by helping to pass a war spending bill, two diametrically opposed actions, and somehow, "that's not change"????  That's what she said, right?  I'm so confused!!! 

No, no.

You're confused. What Obama did was change his position in a bad way. The right way would be to vote for the war authorization initially, and to speak out against it now. 

Vote for what you spoke against, bad; speak out against what you vote for, good.  See? Politics is subtle, sometimes.

Yeah, that's what she said.

Yeah, that's what she said. I find it to be an odd attack, too.

SNOW: So, the new Hillary

SNOW: So, the new Hillary critiques Barack Obama for putting a lobbyist at the top of his New Hampshire campaign.

 

You know, I just love how THIS has become an issue with these democrats ...

Not-a-one-of-`em had a problem with Sen. Tom Daschle (D) as Senate Majority Leader ... and HIS wife was a lobbyist:

 

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0201.mencimer.html

 

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/june01/2001-06-06-daschle-linda.htm

Yeah, but

-- now they're into change. You know?

She's just jealous because all of her lobbyist friends keep winding up in prison.

By the way --

Just how many "new Hillaries" are we going to have to listen to, anyway?

And Now Hillary Eyes Are Welling Up

Oh yes ladies and gentlemen, finally, she's showing real, very real emotion.  Spurred on by a wonderful question from the audience "How do you do it?"  Hillary replies, "It's not easy." (water your eyes now!!!).  Now it's all over the news  "Hillary Shows Emotion".  Give me a barf bag; get Bill on stage to wipe away her tears and give her a hug.

Right; I just finished

Right; I just finished watching that video.

I have so many opportunities for this country...

I kid you not, she said that.

As tired as she is, and as difficult as it is, she just can't give up (choke) because it's just too important to this country (sob).

And would someone PLEASE tell her that she has beaten the phrase "on day one" black and blue, senseless, and three feet into the ground?

 

 

Hillaringo:


I don't ask for much, i only want your trust,
And you know it don't come easy.
And this love of mine keeps growing all the time,
And you know it just ain't easy.

I DEMAND to see the raw

I DEMAND to see the raw footage to see how many takes she had.

And the raw ONION, as well. 

Check out my exclusive edit of BBC News America's interview with Mrs Clinton: It's news to me!

"for Hillary Clinton, being

"for Hillary Clinton, being a member of AARP is fund-raising gold."

Isn't that odd. All the AARP does for me is send me junk mail and push Democrats ideas. I haven't been able to raise as much as a dime from the AARP. Do I smell cattle futures?

HERE'S THE QUESTION...

 I heard Jim Quinn(from Pittsburgh morning radio's "Quinn & Rose")bring up something that plays into this sort of story. Kate Snow has a habit of parroting Hillary Rotten Clinton's campaign spin, much of the media has been doing the same during most of the time since 1992 when Bill & Hill showed up, it's not just Kate Snow.

What Quinn "axed" was this...If the MSM can push their agenda with Obama rather then the Clintons, will they throw them under the bus & use Obama as their vehicle to further the liberal agenda. He says yes, the Clinton's have not been very nice to the MSM, even though they support them. The MSM still has to kiss their @$$es all the time or fear getting zero access.

If this happens or already has happened, she may very well be done. Snow will be no gauge, she does'nt know any better. But for example, during MSNBC's Iowa coverage, Mathews was more then willing to make that switch, BathTubBoy was not. He is in the tank for Clinton Inc, & it showed. And he got blasted by the Kos-kids for it. It won't happen overnight, but if they can push the same MSM agenda without getting crapped on by Hillary, I believe they will push Obama.

 

 

"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise"  Mark Levin

Change is ....

Her latest ploy--- tears and answering questions is straight out of their playbook. It worked for Bill and they are hoping it will work for her--but she is not NOT Bill.
On about page 38 of that same playbook is 'Get the question asked. IE: PLANT if we have to and they did.
C.Snow lives up to her name---she has been wowing around hillary for weeks.
Change is first the vision, then the courage to listen to what the people want, then to execute...Your can hire policy wonks and old guard people to point out the potholes BUT you do not elect them.
I, too, have been with her in small and large groups and she wants this soooo badly that she is in overcontrol and grinding her teeth. Ambition has outstripped her moral code and exposed her strident center. Sadly I would love to have a woman in the WHitehouse but it is not this one.
GO OBAMA