Hillary' impressive Fox News interview on Benghazi

Hillary Clinton gave a 30 minute interview on Fox News with co-hosts Bret Baier and Greta Van Susteren.   Much of the time was spent on questions about Benghazi.   She answered them all.

To quote the liberal media:   "They didn't lay a glove on her." 

I watched an extensive clip from the interview, and I have to agree.   Hillary nailed that interview.   She was concise, detailed, and confident in her answers.   She showed that she had been intimately involved in monitoring the situation and that she took appropriate action, given what we knew at the time.

She also pretty well dismantled -- at least for fair-minded listeners -- any charges of trying to manipulate or cover-up how Susan Rice's talking points were sourced.

Further, Hillary kept her cool and seemed entirely on top of the situation.   She looked fully capable of being commander in chief.   It's going to be hard for the right wing conspiracy theorists to twist anything she said into derogatory accusations.

Ironically, she appeared much more open and confident than she had with liberal NPR host Terry Gross in talking about the evolution of her ideas on gay marriage.    At least in the segments of both shows that I saw, Bret Baier was a much less challenging interviewer.  Terry got into a power struggle with Hillary by trying to force her to say that her views of gay marriage had "changed."   She wouldn't accept Hillary's preferred characterization as her views having "evolved."

There was nothing in Bret's interveiw segments on Benghazi (at least the portion I saw) in which he did the kind of relentless followup questions trying to force her to admit to a certain word.   Instead, he let her explain in her own words.

All in all, the Fox interview was a terrific performance for Hillary.  It should go a long was into dispelling questions about her competence, her command of the facts, and her temperament.  She is fully capable and ready to be president.

Ralph

PS:   Hillary has widely been criticized -- both from the left and the right -- for getting "testy" in her exchange with Terry Gross.   First, I think that's unfair in that Terry was the one picking a fight and trying to force her choice of words.   It's quite sufficient to say your view have "evolved," without using "changed," which would have been spun by the opposition into "flip flop" and thrown back at her.

But, second:  If Hillary was "testy," then what do you call the insulting personal attacks (calling people "stupid" to their faces) that Chris Christie routinely engages in with the press?  Is this a sexist difference?   When Hillary stands her ground, she is "testy."   When Christie openly demeans people he is being a "bully" -- but the tone is that that's just him and you have to expect and accept it as his way.  It doesn't damage him the way "testy" does for a woman politician.