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I found Ms. Clinton's tenor and tone surprisingly cordial in the interview. This runs counter to recollection. Indeed, most recently there was her scathing attack of Barak Obama because former Clinton supporter David Geffen who has switched camps claimed the Clintons had turned lying into an art form.
Her swift, vicious response was a page out of the Carville play book. One can argue it is a necessary campaign function, but it becomes difficult these days to not argue that Americans seem sick and tired of it.
Her Dean-like shrill yell won't play well. Snarky comments about a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy won't play well. Mocking women by saying she's not some Tammy Wynette singing "Stand by your man" won't play well.
Indeed, the Matt Lauer interview made famous by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy gets selectively edited to only include the VRWC comment. Matt's follow-up question was to ask her "but what if it is true" to which she replied that it would be "very grave indeed."
That doesn't get mentioned anymore.
Stand by your man.
