Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s interview with CBS over the weekend did not go over well with some of her staunchest media supporters — the ladies of ABC’s “The View.”
Comedian Joy Behar and co-host Abby Huntsman accused Mrs. Clinton of “whataboutism” after an interview in which the Monica Lewinsky scandal came up. Former President Bill Clinton’s infamous affair with a White House intern was dismissed as irrelevant when Mrs. Clinton was asked about its inherent “power imbalance.”
“Let me ask you this: Where is the investigation of the current incumbent?” Mrs. Clinton said during her “CBS Sunday Morning” appearance.
Her argument didn’t hold much weight with “The View” panel.
“What she just did is exactly what Republicans do — they changed the subject,” Ms. Behar told her audience. “And that’s why we never get anywhere in the discourse.”
“You know you have a bad argument when your immediate response is ’well, they were worse,’” Abby Huntsman replied, Mediaite reported.
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“’Whataboutism,’ they call it,” Ms. Behar said.
Ms. Lewinsky’s affair with Mr. Clinton went public after he lied during special prosecutor Kenneth Starr’s work on a sexual-harassment suit against him by Paula Jones.
Mr. Clinton was eventually impeached by the House of Representatives on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
The Senate acquitted him in February 1999.
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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