Shame on Who?
A reader recently made me aware of something I thought I would pass along. Apparently ABC news reporting about my back and forth with Bill Clinton, in South Carolina, was sited to dispute Clinton’s charge that the media had dreamed up the controversy over the issue of race in the battle for the democratic nomination.
In Charleston on January 23rd just one day after I spoke with former president in Greenville, he had, (what has become in the age of viral video) the infamous “shame on you” moment . After being asked by CNN reporter Jessica Yellin, how race had come to be an issue in the lead up to the South Carolina primary, Clinton said, “You asked me about this…Not one single solitary soul asked me about any of this. And they never do… people don’t care about this. They never ask about it.” The part of his response that was seen by most viewers came next as he is leaving more questions about the issue are being asked and Clinton repeats “Shame on you” to the group of reporters. However a little of the shame has to be on the fellow who is clearly being dishonest.
Following Clinton’s comments, Kate Snow, Sunlen Miller and Sarah Amos of ABC news used excerpts from my brief conversation with Clinton about race and his increasingly questionable tactics, to show that people do in fact ask him about that issue on the campaign trail. As has been noted, on the evening before Clinton’s comments to CNN’s Yellin, he was asked three questions about the issue of his attacks against Obama by voters, at just that one event. This might not be breaking news, but it appears that Bill Clinton is willing to misrepresent the truth when it is politically convenient for him to do so.
Read the ABC news story mentioned above
Go to anewdaypost’s story about my conversation with Bill Clinton