WaPo’s Ruth Marcus: Hillary Video ‘Relentlessly, Insultingly Vapid’
24 hours after Hillary Clinton released the introductory video of her campaign, its found its fiercest critic: liberal columnist and non-pot smoker Ruth Marcus, who called “relentlessly, insultingly vapid” on Monday.
“Seriously, this makes Ronald Reagan’s gauzy ‘It’s Morning Again in America’ commercial look like a Brookings Institution seminar on economic policy,” Marcus wrote.
Marcus acknowledged that Clinton was attempted to make the campaign more about voters than about her, a departure from her 2008 strategy. But.
“But everyday Iowans deserve to hear more from the woman who would be president about what, exactly, she intends to do in office. It disrespects them to spend precious video seconds on the cute boy playing a fish in his school play.”
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Marcus, who has a history of calling out Democrats on pandering, also noted:
Adding insult to vacuousness was the demographic box-checking nature of the video, however beautifully filmed. Working mom, check. Hispanic entrepreneur, check. Retiring grandma, check. Gay couple, check. African-American family, check. Hardworking small-businessman, check. South Asian, inter-racial, lesbian, check, check, check. If your demographic was not featured, you should write the campaign and it will probably splice you in.
This is not to say that Clinton has lost Marcus’ vote. “No politician does policy more seriously, with more detailed attention to the briefing books and seminars with the experts, than Hillary Clinton,” Marcus added. “This combination of intelligence and drive is actually a good reason to elect her president. Not that you would know it from this launch.”
[h/t Washington Post]
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