Team Clinton: The Starting Line-up of the Pro-Clinton Press Corps
Table of Contents:
- Team Clinton: The Starting Line-up of the Pro-Clinton Press Corps
- Admissions of Bias
- Ken Bode
- Tom Brokaw
- Margaret Carlson
- Eleanor Clift
- John Cochran
- Katie Couric
- Sam Donaldson
- Linda Douglass
- Eric Engberg
- Howard Fineman
- Bob Franken
- Bryant Gumbel
- Al Hunt
- Gwen Ifill
- Peter Jennings
- Jim Miklaszewski
- Bill Moyers
- Dan Rather
- Steve Roberts
- Bob Schieffer
- Bernard Shaw
- Maria Shriver
- Evan Thomas
- Nina Totenberg
- Brian Williams
- Juan Williams
- Judy Woodruff
- Jim Wooten
Margaret Carlson
Time columnist,
former Time White House Reporter
and Deputy Washington Bureau Chief;
panelist on CNN's Capital Gang
"As much as we try to think otherwise, when you're covering someone
like yourself, and your position in life is insecure, she's [Hillary
Clinton] your mascot. Something in you roots for her. You're rooting
for your team. I try to get that bias out, but for many of us it's
there."
-- Quoted in The Washington Post, March 7, 1994.
"There are many women in the press, and you couldn't have fought the
battles you have fought to get where you are and not find what the
Republicans said about women offensive...It's not possible, you cannot
be that objective. When Marilyn Quayle says that I have given up my
essential nature as a woman and that I don't take care of my family
because I'm working, I cannot help but feel offended by that."
-- In a 1992 Freedom Forum report.
"As the icon of American womanhood, she is the medium through which
the remaining anxieties over feminism are being played out....Perhaps
in addition to the other items on her agenda, Hillary Rodham Clinton
will define for women that magical spot where the important work of the
world and love and children and an inner life all come together. Like
Ginger Rogers, she will do everything her partner does, only backward
and in high heels, and with what was missing in [Lee] Atwater -- a lot
of heart."
-- May 10, 1993 Time.
"Valentine's Day at the Red Sage restaurant. Even at a romantic
outing, the President can be the date from hell, talking to everyone
but the girl he brung....Finally alone, they have `painted soup' and
the lamb baked in herbed bread. They exchange gifts and touch each
other more in two hours than the Bushes did in four years."
-- On Bill and Hillary, in the June 1993 Vanity Fair.
"What the public now thinks is that the White House, the President,
brought the Republicans back from this extremist program. They really
didn't want that. It was a mistake to think there was a huge mandate
for, you know, poisoning the water, tainting the meat, removing all
these regulations."
-- Capital Gang, April 27, 1996.
