The big headline from the taped piece tonight on Charlie Gibson's 'World News'... NO BIG NEWS. The interview was really light with little substance. This was simply a list of feature questions.
Some quick notes about each Q/A.
What was she like as a kid? Ordinary, middle-class, Chicago kid.
Did father know best (in reference to the TV show and her family experience)? Yes.
When she was a teen, what was her fascination? She was president of the Fabian fan club. She spent a lot of time at slumber parties. She added that there were never gender differences in her family. If the family played football, the males and females all played.
Did you write to NASA at 14? Yes. They told her to be an astronaut, she needed to be a man… that they were not accepting girls.
Her college experience at Wellesly? She hated it. She wanted to go home. Her mother said ‘Don’t you dare.’ She became the first student speaker at commencement.
About meeting and marrying Bill Clinton. She was reluctant to marry Bill Clinton. ‘I have never known anybody like him’ ‘I knew I was getting into something really big… what ever it was.’
About the first female president…. She’s modest… saying she doesn’t want any special privileges in the campaign.
As a whole, this piece was a letdown. It took 2:00 to ask questions that really give us no insight into her ability to lead this country in such troubled times.
ONE MORE NOTE...WHEN THE CONTROL ROOM GOES WACKO!Hillary Clinton's serious answer about the economy goes wrong when the CNBC control room tries to change shots. Special note to anchors, directors and TDs... the power of user-submitted sites make all your simple mistakes readily available for the world to see.
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