Showing posts with label Andrea Mitchell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andrea Mitchell. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Carly Fiorina runs circles around Andrea Mitchell

Newsbusters, by Kyle Drenen


'Running circles around' sounded good. That's all.

Andrea Mitchell tries to defend Hillary through her blandly general semi-truisms and Fiorina delivers sharp specifics to the contrary. Example question:
She's had a lifetime, though, in public service.  Going back to before she was first lady in Arkansas. She can argue that she's got a record of women's issues, from the Beijing Women's Conference to all of her work with the Children's Defense Fund going up through the senate, senator from New york, that's a record. Secretary of state. How do you compare yourself to her?
Oh boy. So much to Fisk so little time. Fiorina attacks Hillary Clinton's tenure at State. 
It's also true that as secretary of state she took women's rights and human rights off the table for discussion with China. It's also true as secretary of state that she called Bashar al-Assad a “positive reformer.” It’s also true in 2011, when she was secretary of state, she said that Iraq was a “free, stable, sovereign nation” and now we have a nation falling apart, Iranian influence growing, ISIS growing. It’s true that she said that she could reset our Russia – our relationship with Russia and Vladimir Putin is on the march. So I think all of those things I just named go fundamentally to what is her track record.