CNN commentator Tara Setmayer today identified what Hillary Clinton has going for her. “Hillary Clinton — she’s her own worst enemy … she’s not her husband, she’s not the consummate politician, campaigner … warm and fuzzy person. … That is not her strong point,” said Setmayer, who is also a contributor to The Blaze TV.
So what is her strong point? Setmayer: “Her strong point is that her last name is Clinton and that she has a husband that people adore and that she’s a woman.”
Fellow CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill had a problem with all that: “That’s sexist, that’s absolutely sexist. … I reject completely the idea that Hillary Clinton has nothing going for her but her last name and her husband,” said Hill, in a segment moderated by CNN’s Carol Costello.
At which point, Setmayer pressed Hill on Clinton’s accomplishments as secretary of state. Hill stumbled a bit on that one: “Opening up Myanmar, resetting Russia, having some of the most important, I think, sanctions intensified on Iran that we’ve seen in decades. I think all of those things that this secretary of state has done that have been effective,” he responded.
The discussion broke out into a very brisk, occasionally boisterous, face-off over Clinton’s record. Charges of sexism went back and forth, but get ready, viewers: The question of just what Clinton accomplished as secretary of state will get a great deal of rotation on cable news in the coming year and a half. Clinton defenders, prepare your lists!
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