Greta Van Susteren: ‘I Was Wrong’ About Hillary Clinton…
In a Huffington Post op-ed, Fox News host Greta Van Susteren said she was “wrong” about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “I didn’t think Secretary Clinton would run for president in 2016.”
“I suspected Secretary Clinton would decide not to run because she is in a unique position in that, without being president, she has a global platform to do so many things and she can avoid the headaches of running for office and even holding office,” Van Susteren wrote. “You can accomplish a great deal even if you are not president. But alas… I was wrong.”
Van Susteren also revealed her strong desire to sit down for an extensive interview with the former top diplomat, decrying the usual campaign practices of only making candidates available for 10-minute interviews.
“How do you learn what a candidate really thinks about and how the candidate would go about solving issues like jobs, the economy, ISIS, etc. in ten minutes?” she wrote. “You can’t. Short interviews regrettably tend to be more show business than information business.”
In terms of interview questions, Van Susteren surprisingly said she would avoid any questions about the Benghazi, given that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the chairman of the House Select Committee on the 2012 attacks, plans on talking with her: “So I will let them do their job,” she wrote.
In the op-ed, Van Susteren also disclosed her husband’s relationship with former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), who will likely also jump into the presidential race. Her husband is a “close friend and supporter of” O’Malley.
“He may be the one candidate who I may not ask to interview as I don’t know how I would do it,” she continued. “I will have to think about that and maybe there is a good way, but he hasn’t even announced so I won’t bother thinking about it now.”
She ultimately maintained her fairness in covering campaigns over the years, and implied that news organizations who deliberately post a “lousy or unflattering” picture of any Republican or Democratic candidate simply isn’t being fair: “Lots of times you need to read beyond their words.”
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