Casey Knowles

3:00 AM Girl Thinks Hillary’s Ad is ‘Fear-mongering’ ‘Cheap Hit’

By Noel Sheppard | March 11, 2008 - 08:45

By now, most people have seen or heard about Hillary Clinton’s 3:00 AM ad implying that the world would be safer if she rather than her opponent Barack Obama was to answer an emergency phone call to the White House in the dead of night.

In a truly delicious twist of fate, the young girl pictured in the ad is now an active Barack Obama supporter.

On Sunday, ABC’s “Good Morning America” team interviewed Casey Knowles, who depicted the ad as “fear-mongering” and a “cheap hit to take”:

ABC's Wright: 'Trouble Is' Ads Like Hillary's 3 AM Work

By Mark Finkelstein | March 9, 2008 - 08:32

Ads like Hillary's "it's 3 AM" work--and that's a problem. At least in the view of David Wright it is. As I described here, the ABC reporter doesn't work particularly hard to keep his Obama light under a basket.

Wright-the-ABC-Obamacan was back at it today. GMA ran a segment featuring Casey Knowles, whose image as an eight-year old was used in Hillary's ad. Knowles has since grown up to be an active, 17-year old Obama supporter. To set up the interview with Knowles by Bill Weir and Juju Chang, Wright narrated a segment about the ad itself.

Wright spoke as a brief clip of the ad played in the background.