She squinted her eyes at time, maintaining her cool in the face of a partisan interviewer trying hard to make her stumble.
He tried to make her look like a religious kook with the talk of the war being God’s will for a Holy War. The fact that she was borrowing from Lincoln went right over his head. He tried to probe further and was smacked in the head when she quoted from the Declaration of Independence. Despite the fact that she was very clear that she cannot speak for God’s will, he tries a third time. This time he got real personal about her son, and took her out of context, and once again she stood her ground.
You’re right. The way she quoted Lincoln and referred to the Constitution was masterful!
How could he argue with that?
After watching this again, I love how she tries to straighten him out by saying, “that’s what I meant by that Charlie.” Every time she used his name, it reminded me of when Linus finished the nativity story and said, “that’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.” Like Charlie Brown, Charlie Gibson is miserable and needed someone to set him straight on an important message that he was missing.