Spin Cycle

Here's the O'Reilly/Hillary interview from last night, if you missed it.

There's a passage in the middle where Hillary says God bless us for being rich, which is pretty clumsy and probably doesn't come off the way she intended. There's another passage in the middle where she says she won't raise the cap on Social Security, and O'Reilly looks a little uninformed/creampuffy -- never noting that an AP reporter overheard her telling a voter in Iowa the opposite.

There's a passage near the end where she seems to agree that Fox is fair and balanced. And there's a passage at the very end when they talk about New York, and HRC sounds weirdly gubernatorial: "We do have to make some big changes in New York, changes that I've advocated. And I hope we'll finally get around to doing it."

It's worth watching as a pretty good example of many of the things that are wrong with modern political coverage. A TV personality, not well versed, equating a brusque persona with a tough interview, but being properly polite to someone he perceives as another "important" person, providing a platform for the politician to deliver her talking points: