[frmrda]

Too bad that interview was w/ Matt Lauer. Surely all the lefties like Alterman will be picking up on that and beating Ann over the head with it, claiming that she lies to suit her purposes. A shame really, it was a great line.

[ewing]

Hillary may have done a new interview to promote her book with Katie Couric, where she was thrown softballs.. I dont watch the Today Show

[Quilla]

Did Coulter actually say VRWC or did ewing insert it, possibly erroneously?

[dead]

Too bad that interview was w/ Matt Lauer.

Kouric interviewed Hillary. Here’s some excerpts (insert your own moaning noises…)

Couric: “Because there’s so many people out there who say, ‘They’re just political animals. They do what’s expedient. They don’t love each other. They’re just together because it’s politically advantageous. It’s a sham.’”
Clinton: “Right, right.”
Couric: “You’ve heard all that…”
Clinton: “Right.”
Couric: “…and when you hear people passing those kinds of judgments on your marriage, does it gall you? Does it amuse you? What do you think?”
Clinton: “You know, I really don’t pay attention to it because I don’t think anyone knows what happens in a marriage between two people. Nobody could have predicted that he would have ended up being President of the United States. You know, I loved him for who he was, the kind of person that he is. And we’ve had a great, great time together. You know, it is something that I just value in my own life that I have to do what I think is right.”
Couric: “You write that the role of First Lady has been perceived as, quote, ‘Largely symbolic. She’s expected to represent an ideal and largely mythical concept of American womanhood.’ Clearly, you felt uncomfortable with the traditional role, or some aspects of the traditional role alone, of First Lady. But clearly, some people didn’t cotton to the notion of the co-presidency.”
Clinton: “And they shouldn’t have. I mean, that was never anything that was contemplated. It, you know, when I — when I arrived there as a member of my generation of women who had worked and who’d had responsibilities outside the home, as well as inside the home, it seemed the most natural of thing for me to actually continue working, not for pay, obviously, but as a full-time volunteer. And you know, I found that tradition is very hard to change.”

[new cruelty]

Too bad that interview was w/ Matt Lauer.

In her first television interview, Hillary Clinton spoke with Couric in a one-hour primetime special.

[Phsstpok]

Too bad that interview was w/ Matt Lauer.

Perkie Katie Couric has interviewed Hillary. More than once. You're probably assuming that she must have been referring to the interview about the book, which I assume was done by Matt.

[rvoitier]

Wait a minute. The VRWC is in brackets which infers that Ann didn't actually say it and maybe the poster incorrectly attributed it to that Lauer interview.
I'm sure Hitlery has done an interview with The Perky One.

[Notwithstanding]

June 10, 2003

http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:H_yO6lFHCAIJ:www.msnbc.com/news/924727.asp%3F0cl%3Dc2+couric+hillary&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Couric: “Hillary: the White House years: (laughter) Just days after your husband was sworn in as president…”

Clinton: “Right. ”

Couric: “…he announced he was appointing you to head the task force on national health care reform. Looking back on that, do you wonder, ‘What planet were we on?’”

Clinton: “There was so much going on and… so he asked me if I would do this. And I said yes because I’ve always believed that we should figure out a way to provide quality, affordable health care to every American. And, of course, it became a target. And it became a big controversy. And I also, again think we tried to do too much, too fast.”

Couric: “You write in the book that you quote, ‘Knew I had contributed to our failure both because of my own missteps and because I underestimated the resistance I would meet as the First Lady with a policy mission.’ In retrospect, was it truly appropriate to put someone who had never been elected, who never had been confirmed by the Senate as cabinet offices are, in charge as something as big as reforming health care in this country? Can you see why that would make people feel uncomfortable?”

Clinton: “Oh, absolutely. Now, you know, of course, everybody in the White House serves at the pleasure of the President. They are confirmed. They’re there to serve him. And…”

Couric: “Still…”

Clinton: “…that’s I know and — but that’s how I saw it. I saw it as, ‘Well, you know, I want to help my husband. I want to make a contribution to my country.’ But I think it was a mistake. And it certainly wasn’t done again in the administration. I kept working on issues that I’d cared about for 30 years, whether it was adoption and foster care or children’s health but never in any kind of official position. Because you know, it really did divert from the mission that he had undertaken, and that I and others were trying to help him achieve.”

[KellyAdmirer]

In the "My brush with fame" department, I chatted with Matt Lauer the day after the Hillary VRWC interview at the funeral of Katie Couric's husband. He was quite proud of it. Said he prepares for hours for interviews like that. He had a lot more hair then. ;)

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Actually, Hillary and Katie did talk about the VRWC during the humping of Lying History on the Today Show.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Too bad that interview was w/ Matt Lauer.

True. I wonder why she didn't refer to the interview with Hillary and Babba Wawwa? Wasn't that interview shown recently?

[Stew Padasso]

"Too bad that interview was w/ Matt Lauer."

If she would have said Lauer it would have been even funnier.

[Sabertooth]

Too bad that interview was w/ Matt Lauer.

For the record, Hillary's first mention of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" following the earliest public revelations of the Lewinsky scandal, were with Lisa McRee, on Good Morning America.

“The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.”
ABCNews LINK
January 30th, 1998

[JacksonCalhoun]

That interview back in '98 was supposed to be with Katie, but her husband had just died and she was out. I've despised Matty-Po ever since he let that ridiculous statement go unchallenged.