Hillary on Tyra Banks Show: White House Feels Like 'Prison'

Hillary on Tyra Banks Show: White House Feels Like 'Prison'

By Tim Graham (Bio | Archive)
January 15, 2008 - 08:00 ET

It's sometimes hard to get around to all of the non-traditional interviews the presidential candidates are doing. Hillary Clinton may never sit down with Bill O'Reilly, but she did do an interview with Tyra Banks (and suck up by saying she'd like to be on Tyra's show "America's Next Top Model.") A preview of the show, set to air Friday, was offered by Andrew Malcolm on the Los Angeles Times blog Top of the Ticket. He also found Hillary once again lamenting the White House as a prison:

Not that it's going to diminish her ambition to live there again, but Hillary Clinton says she views the White House as something of a prison...

"Do you ever get lonely?" Banks asked the New York senator. "Do you ever sit in your room by yourself sometimes and just feel alone?"....

"I don't feel lonely," Clinton claimed. "But I do feel sometimes isolated. Because when you are in these positions that I have been in, it can be very isolating. It is one of the reasons I put on the dark glasses and the baseball cap and go out of the White House. President Harry Truman once said that the White House was like the crown jewel of the American penal system because you can feel confined."

Malcolm didn't find that Tyra Banks responded by making any catty references to Hillary's jailed Whitewater business partners like Susan McDougal, jailed law partners like Webb Hubbell, or her first co-presidency's tendency to offer last-minute pardons to cronies and drug dealers like Carlos Vignali. That's why Hillary feels safe being interviewed by a supermodel.

—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.

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(and suck up by saying

January 15, 2008 - 08:15 ET by motherbelt

(and suck up by saying she'd like to be on Tyra's show "America's Next Top Model.")

I'm sure Banks will notify her when they do their "piano legs" search.

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist it. That's right up there with her wanting to join the Marines.

Forgot about that one!

January 15, 2008 - 10:07 ET by celator

"That's right up there with her wanting to join the Marines."

I'd forgotten about that comment! Yea, you can see her now.. "Hup, one two three, Hup, one, two, three."

Well that explains it

January 15, 2008 - 11:02 ET by kg

"White House feels like a prison"

Well, that explains why she acted like a crook and a liar in the White house. I imagine that is also why she had that foul mouth. Perhaps she will return the items she stole from the White House (belonging to the American people) someday.

I wonder what happened to all those "W" keys stolen from the keyboards?

It is one of the reasons I

January 15, 2008 - 08:22 ET by rimsky

It is one of the reasons I put on the dark glasses and the baseball cap and go out of the White House.

'scuse me? Hill! Girl! You aren't there yet! Wake up! er.. is she talking about when Willie was prez? Sorry.. I just get frustrated with some of her statements.

Would that have been her NY

January 15, 2008 - 08:28 ET by motherbelt

Would that have been her Yankees cap? Oh, wait! She didn't get that until the end, when she decided to run for the Senate from NY and invited the Yankees to the WH!!

The Curse of The Hillary?

January 15, 2008 - 10:28 ET by Del Dolemonte

Let's not forget that since she managed to con an entire state into electing her the Junior Senator twice (while promising that she would serve out her term when she ran the second time), the Yankees have yet to win a World Series.

Not only that, but they gave us the biggest choke in baseball history, losing the ALCS to the Boston Red Sox after taking a commanding lead in the early games of the series.

You know, Del, not that I'm

January 15, 2008 - 19:51 ET by motherbelt

You know, Del, not that I'm defending her, but I don't think she ever actually said she would serve out her term. She tap-danced around it, doing the Clinton two-step that she learned from the Master. He even went around saying she shouldn't have to promise; George Bush didn't promise when he was elected Governor of Texas.

You have to watch it with the Clintons, as you know. They are masters at double-talk.

The curse of the Hillary, huh? LOL I like that. However, better to keep the curse in NY rather than DC.

YANKEES CAP...

January 15, 2008 - 14:33 ET by danybhoy

I remember her being Cubs fan as well. Hell, I remember her joining Cubs play-by-play legend Harry Carry in the booth years ago. That was nuts, he's trying to call the game, flirt with Hillary, & get her to talk about her love of baseball & the Cubs. It was sad & funny at the same time.

I don't believe Hillary for 2 seconds when she says she is a Yankees fan. I do believe Rudy when he says he is a Yankees fan, & while I would'nt vote for him, I believe Obama when he says he's a Bears fan.

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

OMG, the "I'm Likable" Schtick again...

January 15, 2008 - 08:37 ET by reasonsjester

This is such a phony-baloney ruse by Hill to pose as a sensitive thoughtful human being. Hillary is a well-documented shark who makes suspect land deals, shreds documents, "loses" evidence, and raids the offices of recently deceased partners in the middle of the night. Save me the "forlorn housewife" routine, Hillary. You're not fooling the majority of people, who still find you a repugnant power-hungry witch. Remember "vast right-wing conspiracy"? You're no babe in the woods, honey.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. - Marcus Aurelius

This is another in a series

January 15, 2008 - 09:49 ET by jdhawk

This is another in a series of BS interviews that fails to touch on anything in the way of the substantive issues that a possible future president will have to deal with.

Tyra Banks is a black ditz purveying crap. billary is scouring the media for any venue to get back in the good graces of liberal black (I know - that's redundant) America after her campaign's comments that are perceived by hypersensitive black America as bordering on racism.

Lest we forget that billary is a socialist as is bambi. Either will up already confiscatory taxes and ensure less opportunity for all as they dramatically increase the role of government in our lives.

A Ditz, Yes

January 15, 2008 - 10:31 ET by Del Dolemonte

Ditzes don't need to be classified by the color of their skin.

I stumbled across Ms. Banks' "show" one day while channel surfing, and since she had a guest on who looked interesting I paused and watched for a few minutes. The guest was much more interesting than she was.

Huh....????

January 15, 2008 - 12:13 ET by awesum

What American would truly make an assinine statement like that........

Unless they hated America........

Or wanted to portray the victim.....

but she IS a victim

January 15, 2008 - 12:30 ET by SouthJersey1953

Haven't you been paying attention? EVERYONE is out to get her and they are constantly being "unecessarily rude" to her. She takes it 'personal.'

It's not Right vs. Left; it is Right vs. Wrong

As a narcissist, Hillary

January 15, 2008 - 12:45 ET by stratman

As a narcissist, Hillary will never feel lonely by her wonderful self. Of course having a mirror nearby or a sycophantic yes- man/woman at her beck and call helps too.

Poor pitiful yet corageous Hillary... willing to subject herself to the inequities and indignities of White House life again for the good of the nation.

Killing them with kindness isn't working. Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.

Too Clever By Half

January 15, 2008 - 14:40 ET by fitzfong

Nah, this one's just another Clinton trick. She actually thinks she's going to attract conservatives to vote for her because they might think they're sentencing her to four years in prison. Not falling for it, Slick Hilly. ;-)