Hillary Clinton's performance in her interview with Maria "Money Honey" Bartiromo of CNBC last week was so bad that she must have sent a double (stop shivering at the thought, will ya?).
After all, the genuine Smartest Woman in the World couldn't possibly have said the things she said, as noted at Rush Limbaugh's site last Thursday. It got so bad that Bartiromo, who seemingly has barely cracked a smile since George Bush became president, felt compelled to challenge her.
Here is one of the choice offerings Mrs. Clinton served up:
(There are ) lots of people who come on your show who, you know, are gung-ho, protect the tax cuts for the wealthiest of Americans, that will not work if the economy slows down. You need to get money in the pockets of tens of hundreds of millions of Americans, and that's what I intend to do.
Would the real Hillary have told Maria that there are billions of Americans who need to have money in their pockets?
Some, including Rush, will say that she was thinking of the population of Communist China, the possible source of so much of her campaign funding, but I digress.
Here's another item she tried to push past Maria:
But I think it is, as I probably evidenced to your viewers, amusing, that we would have had these tax cuts, which I have benefited from, and people in my income tax bracket have benefited from, and the rest of the economy is stalled.
Some "stall." The real Hillary surely knows that GDP grew by 3.8% (annualized) in the second quarter, and 4.9% in the third (before final revision). Her crack staff of advisers knows that while Old Media has been busy talking the economy down, October's and November's news about growth in manufacturing, services, and the job market have all been very positive. So they wouldn't put her on a cable network covering the economy and the markets so woefully underprepared, would they?
Oh wait. I know what happened. It WAS the real Hillary, but she thought she was going to appear on NBC, not CNBC, whose viewers are largely not among the 57% (!) who told CNN's Friend of Clinton-controlled (see last few paragraphs at post) Opinion Research Corporation that they believe we are currently in a recession.
NBC's viewers, on the other hand, probably believe in even larger numbers that we are now in a recession. NBC and other Old Media networks have been talking down the economy and feeding their audiences so much doom and gloom that it's a wonder their viewers have the strength to get up in the morning.
Nobody that I know of besides Rush has noted Mrs. Clinton's pitiful CNBC performance. The idea that she might actually be involved in overseeing the economy is what really should be giving viewers the shivers.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
—Tom Blumer is president of a training and development company in Mason, Ohio, and is a contributing editor to NewsBusters
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these tax cuts, which I
December 12, 2007 - 14:11 ET by motherbeltthese tax cuts, which I have benefited from, and people in my income tax bracket have benefited from -HRC (emphasis added).
There it is again. The Clintons simply cannot stop talking about how rich they are.
PS Did Bartiromo challenge her claim that the rest of the economy is stalled? (emphasis added) Did she ask her which parts of the economy were not stalled?
This is shades of "the worst economy in 50 years" that her husband ran on in 1992, when it had already began its recovery. Clinton has to play up the economy as "stalled" now, so that when she (in her mind) gets elected, it can have a miraculous recovery.
the lies they invent only
December 12, 2007 - 13:58 ET by Edhenrythe lies they invent only work if the fossil media helps them.
On social policy, the issues can be obfiscated. Economics is a different story. Hillary is lying and wouldn't know how to help the economy anyway.
Go play with abortion, on your alter of worship. Stay the h away from the economy. you don't understand it and unless you lower taxes, allow for exploration and wider use of efficient energy technology and/or reign gubment spending, you can't help it.
So who DID
December 12, 2007 - 14:02 ET by dervishcome up with that crack about China? I tip my hat to him/her.
Hillary by herself gives
December 12, 2007 - 14:03 ET by Maverick313Hillary by herself gives me the shivers, let alone the thought of her holding the highest office in the world. Gives me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it!
If you don't stand behind our troops; please feel free to stand in front of them!
The economy will be Hillary
December 12, 2007 - 14:11 ET by Chris NormanThe economy will be Hillary and Company's playground. There's lots of neat things to play and experiment with.
Benchmarking
December 12, 2007 - 15:23 ET by TyromacSomeone needs to start benchmarking the economic data points versus the statements made by dems about the economy. God forbid they should actually win the election, they are setting the bar pretty high for what constitutes a good economy. So GDP has to be what, 5-6% for anything decent, unemployment below 4% and job growth for what, 100 months straight? Just want to make sure I know. Too bad no one will ask them.
Another Clinton idea theft...
December 12, 2007 - 15:24 ET by the_red_stateCall the cops...it's another Clinton idea theft! President Bush already gave tax breaks to tens of millions of Americans with the $400 tax rebate check in 2001 along with a reduction in normal, dividend, capital gains and estate tax rates. Typical Clinton statement...ignoring facts and trying to revise history to suit her needs according to the audience. God help us if they get back into the White House.
You forgot the children
December 12, 2007 - 20:58 ET by KC BeachEvery time a lib friend of mine talks about tax cuts for the rich, I ask them if they consider themselves rich. When they reply no, I ask how they could take advantage of the child tax credit GW gave us if only the rich got the tax cuts.
BARTIROMO...
December 12, 2007 - 15:46 ET by danybhoyIt's just 1 dishonest & corrupt woman interviewing another. I would'nt trust either 1 of them to give me an honest opinion in a million years. Just another MSM fiasco.
"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise" Mark Levin
Why the invective?
December 13, 2007 - 08:05 ET by UnsaneReally, I don't get all this invective I have seen here and elsewhere aimed at Maria Bartiromo. I thought her line of questioning was outstanding. (She offered perhaps the toughest line of questioning and the toughest interview of Clinton I have seen to-date.) Nor do I think of her as dishonest or corrupt.
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
Tom. 70% of Dem's believe we are in a recession?
December 12, 2007 - 16:07 ET by Gary HallTom. On CNN's, Anderson Cooper, last night, CNN Correspondent Tom Forman was discussing the economy with AC and sized up the results of their polling on the current recession fear mongering as:
Of course, as I thought we all knew and as you have well laid out, we are not in a recession - so why ask the question?
There is only one reason why so many gullible folks think that we are in a recession, and that is simply because the media has worked overtime as of late trying to convinced the public that we are in a recession - all for their self serving political greed.
Either one of these so called "news reporters" could have correctly stated, "of course, we are not in a recession by any definition of the term." When you know for a fact that we are not in a recession, you don't ask if we are in a recession.
The LA Times/Bloomberg poll, in November, asked the question in a much more professional manner (although asking it at all is eveidence of their own bias).
Such polls are only done by the media when they are wanting to intruduce fear into the public. As we were heading into a recession in late 2000, during the midst of a hisoric stock market crash, the MSM had no interest in promoting fear of the coming recession - which was well expected by the experts - because they wanted Al Gore to win - so they just marched to the tune that nothing was happening.
Perhaps CNN pollsters could ask all sorts of worthless questions which are in the ozone.
- Do you think that the US is currently in the middle of a nuclear war?
- Do you think that New York City is currently 20 feet under water from Global Warming?
or "Do you think Iraq is in
December 12, 2007 - 16:26 ET by Chris Normanor "Do you think Iraq is in a civil war, because we say it is."
Of Course
December 12, 2007 - 22:34 ET by Tom Blumeryou're right. It's journalistic malpractice to even ask the question as CNN did.
Far be it from me
December 12, 2007 - 18:22 ET by mattmto be fair to Hillary, since she's never fair to anyone else, but it didn't sound to me like she said "tens of hundreds of millions," it sounded more like "tens of, hundreds of..." i.e. that she was correcting herself in mid-sentence.
Of course, she's still full of it. The economy is doing pretty well in most areas, but there's absolutely nothing Hillary or any other Dem is proposing that will help. They all want to raise taxes and increase social spending. If it hadn't been for the GHWB spending caps and the 1994 GOP sweep, BJC would have destroyed the economy. Even still, he left office with an economy in free-fall, that only supply-side policies could solve....
The tax cuts need to be expanded.
You might be right, but
December 12, 2007 - 18:32 ET by dervishit doesn't help her much. The US population is about 300 million -- so she's saying at least 2/3 of us need a handout?
Right. She's still full
December 13, 2007 - 13:13 ET by mattmRight. She's still full of it. I just cringed a little when Rush made fun of the "tens of hundreds of millions" remark because it could leave him open to charges of unfair criticism. I'm sure his hearing problem played a part in that.
Nevertheless, his overall point that Hillary was babbling on with typical claptrap nonsense was spot on...