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October 17, 2007

Another Old Media Political Operative Comes Out

MSNBC reports that one-time ABC reporter Carole Simpson dropped the pretense of objectivity recently to endorse Hillary Clinton for president:

CLINTON: Here's a fascinating endorsement for Clinton. Former ABC News veteran Carole Simpson surprised the campaign last night when she showed up in New Hampshire to endorse her, according to NBC/NJ's Athena Jones. “For 40 years I’ve been a journalist, and I have covered our national leaders from Lyndon Johnson to President George W. Bush,” said Simpson, who was there with her class. “I endorse you for president of the United States. It’s very freeing now that I’m not a journalist, that I’m able to speak my own mind and free expression, but I just wanted you to know that I had a dream that before I died I would see a woman as president of the United States. I think you are the woman and I think this is the time.”

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Veterans of the 1992 Clinton campaign will recall that Simpson was the moderator of the now-infamous town hall debate between Bill Clinton-Bush-Perot, in which Bush was criticized for looking at his watch. During that debate, Simpson was particularly tough on Bush to the chagrin of the Bush campaign and other Republicans.

BOOK PLUG: In my book, "The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report", I note (courtesy of the Media Research Center) Carole Simpson's status as a "bias denier" during a 1995 AOL forum:

Question: “I don’t think it’s your personal liberal bias that’s well-known, but the liberal bias of your network is obvious.”

ABC News anchor Carole Simpson: “I challenge you to give me examples of that. I disagree wholeheartedly. I think it’s again, an example of the mean-spiritedness that is these days also directed at the media.”

Note the worn-out liberal technique of refering to criticism as "mean-spiritedness."

Posted by jeffgannon at October 17, 2007 01:56 PM

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