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Clinton Supporter Has Message for Press
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ABC News' Kate Snow and Eloise Harper Report: At an event in Anderson, South Carolina Thursday, a voter put the media on notice. Big time.
"I just got off a plane," Kathy Adams began, saying she had been watching media coverage of the South Carolina primary contest on television during her business travels to Minnesota.
"I have a message for the press! South Carolina is not what you are portraying it to be. I want to say this and I want it heard all over this country. This is not the South you are trying to portray. We don't care about people's color or their gender. We care about finding a leader!"
"If you would just please tell them," Adams implored, scanning the room for cameras. "This election is not about them, it's about us, OK, please stop baiting these people and let them talk about what we care about. The war education, senior care, all of the issues the senator brought up and all of her opponents as well this is about us. Please make it about us."
"Amen!" Senator Hillary Clinton said loudly when Adams was all done with her rant.
"Everywhere I go, I say this election is not about those of us who are running it is about all of you," Clinton said. She did not directly address the racial component of Adams' comment.
Adams is a white woman. She is a lawyer who works as a business consultant in Anderson and travels nationally and internationally. While she was in Minnesota she said she watched CNN and local CBS and ABC affiliates. She listened to NPR and read USA Today and local Minnesota newspapers.
"I was horrified by what I saw this week on the news coverage," she said after the event.
"I felt like saying 'Folks, this is the new South. We don't do that stuff anymore.' Gender, race, it's not important. And the coverage made me feel like- what do they think we live... down on a plantation?"
For the record, the crowd listening to Senator Clinton was predominantly white. In a room packed with about 700 people, there were no more than twenty African American voters. Most of them were seated on the riser behind the Senator.
In Anderson County, according to census figures, seventeen percent of the population is black. The state's population overall is 34 percent African American.
While calling into the Michael Baisden syndicated radio program, Hillary Clinton discussed the Adams' point.
"The media that covers politics has got to understand that it's not about them either," said Clinton. "We keep getting diverted and detoured."
Clinton said she agreed with Adams that the candidates should talk about things like expanding health coverage, getting US troops out of Iraq, and making college more affordable.
ABC News' Teddy Davis contributed reporting.
January 24, 2008 in Bush, George W., Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (10)
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Um, Hills, if you don't want non-issue discussion, then you and your husband need to shut the hell up about it. Stop misquoting , stop flat out lying, and stop claimning that when the press doesn't like something you've said that the Obama campaign is behind it.
Posted by: Louis | Jan 24, 2008 5:48:27 PM
Clinton stooge "responds" on cue.
Yawn.
Posted by: Colfax | Jan 24, 2008 6:22:44 PM
Michelle Obama first bought race into this months ago when she said many of times that black people need to wake up and vote for her husband.
Posted by: Kardasia_Prime | Jan 24, 2008 7:08:09 PM
This is important, an affluent white female lawyer who supports Clinton says South Carolinians won't vote based on race, gender or class bias. It almost looked like she was Hillary's hand-me-downs.
Posted by: Kevin | Jan 24, 2008 10:50:25 PM
There you go again. Kardasia_Prime - you must have your head in the stars to blame the corrupt clintons bad behavior on Obama's nice wife.
Posted by: NickAtNight | Jan 24, 2008 10:55:21 PM
I agree that the media is what is driving the race issue. Absolutely.
I will say, the very first person I heard bring race into this campaign was Chris Rock. He contended that black people would regret voting for The White Lady when they could have voted for The Black Guy.
But, anyway...
I find it amusing that, after reporting on this woman's message, ABC journalists then felt a need to add this:
"For the record, the crowd listening to Senator Clinton was predominantly white. In a room packed with about 700 people, there were no more than twenty African American voters. Most of them were seated on the riser behind the Senator."
LIKE THE LADY SAID, WHO CARES???!!!?
Posted by: Jan | Jan 25, 2008 5:41:12 AM
The media is driving the race issue and
they are driving it hard. However, who
does this woman think she is kidding?
The South is being portrayed exactly
has it always has been and always will
be. The South is a joke, has always
been treated as such and will always be
treated as such because nothing has
changed and this election is proof.
Having stated that, why would someone
at a dinner find it necessary to point
this fact out in front of the cameras?
Could this be more of the Clinton's yet
again trying to manipulate matters and
keep the issue in the press? Could this
woman be another Clinton plant like all
the others we KNOW she planted early
on? I don't trust the woman at all.
Nothing but tricks and lies associated
with any Clinton. I had known then what
I know now about the Clinton's Bill
never would have gotten my vote. I
won't make that mistake again that is
for sure.
Posted by: Brianna | Jan 25, 2008 5:51:58 AM
Making this about Race will not help Senator Obama.
Posted by: An Opinion | Jan 25, 2008 10:42:15 AM
"Everywhere I go, I say this election is not about those of us who are running it is about all of you," Clinton said.
That strikes me as another bald-faced lie. She uses "I" much more than any other candidate in her stump speech, I've never heard her say the line above before, and what I have heard was her say twice now that "this is personal."
Posted by: Paul | Jan 25, 2008 10:55:21 AM
An Opinion - exactly right. And that ought to give you a pretty good tip-off on which campaign made the race about race. Hint - it wasn't Obama's.
Posted by: Paul | Jan 25, 2008 11:01:06 AM
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