Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright isn’t impressed with the blow-by-blow horse race coverage of the primary season and blames the media.
Albright revealed that to an audience January 19 at a Borders bookstore in Tysons Corner, Va., outside of Washington, D.C., to promote her new book “Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership.”
She said the media weren’t asking the right questions when it came to assessing the candidate’s “critical thinking skills.”
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“I think it is very important to discuss your critical thinking skills. What hasn’t happened is that – and I hate to always go in this direction – is the media has to do a better job of asking the questions instead of, you know, always looking for some fight and to have the capability of actually having a discussion.”
Albright also compared the media coverage of the presidential primary to the coverage of the 2000 Bush/Gore race.
“In the last campaign between Vice President [Al] Gore and Governor [George W.] Bush, people were saying, ‘Who is nicer? Who is more pleasant to be with?’ So … I really think the important thing is to try to assess the critical thinking skills and the approach to issues.”
On NBC’s January 8 “Today,” Albright revealed she was working with Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Clinton had faced criticism, which was heavily covered by the media, for saying the successes in the civil right's movement of Martin Luther King, Jr. were due in large part to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
At the appearance, Albright also attempted to connect last year’s Minnesota bridge collapse, among other things, to the Iraq war – days after the National Transportation Safety Board determined the bridge collapsed from a design flaw.
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“I think what we’re seeing as a result of a huge budget and a huge deficit are a number of problems in terms of being able to fund programs,” Albright said. “I’m not an expert on health care, but issues of Social Security, health care, infrastructure – I mean, we just heard about the bridge issue in Minneapolis – and various aspects. The war is costing an incredible amount of money and we do have to have a defense budget that supports our military. But, I think the cost of the war – is incremental in every way – has added to the increase of the deficit.”




















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What a joke. I mean
January 20, 2008 - 22:28 ET by 89CanesWhat a joke. I mean seriously, she has as much credibility as Jimmy Carter.
Albright isn't fit to sit in the same room with Condi Rice. Period.
Senility
January 20, 2008 - 22:30 ET by Gat New YorkShe is a very sad case. It seems the entire Clinton administration is desperately trying to rewrite history and to attempt to secure a positive view in history.
The more Bill speaks the more he reminds people of just how bad a President he was - especially Democrats.
Don't go away mad..
January 20, 2008 - 22:36 ET by motherbeltActually, please do. Please go away, Mad.....
That bridge in MN didn't
January 20, 2008 - 22:39 ET by MidAmericaThat bridge in MN didn't just deteriorate during Bush's term. The clinton's 'infrastructure budget' should have made the repairs if the bridge was only a few years from catastrophic failure.
Actually, a recent report
January 21, 2008 - 09:32 ET by HermanoActually, a recent report said the bridge collapsed not because of age or use, but in the use of a substandard metal supports. It would be analogous to a manufacturing issue. In other words, even the suggestion of this being the fault of diverting funds elsewhere is kind of like saying a car broke down because it rusted out when in fact it got hit by another car.
HALF-BRIGHT...
January 21, 2008 - 10:06 ET by danybhoyMadeleine Albright is dumber then she is ugly, & yes, it is possible.
Here is the deal Maddy, the idiots in St.Paul (my home town)at the state capital take our transportation funding & spend it on everything but roads & bridges in the TwinCities metro area. We get LiteRail(dozens of people are riding it), plenty of bike/hiking trails up in northern Minnesota(nice to have, but serves very few people), & many outstate road projects that don't much for many people. We have the money, our politicians do not spend it in a wise manner.
We in Minnesota have no real leadership on transportation funding, the fact that Maddy Half-bright feels the need to blame Bush's war in Iraq should disqualify her from serious public discourse in the future. You sucked as Sec.of State, & you suck when analyizing Minnesota's transportation issues. Stay in the Beltway & shut up.
"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise" Mark Levin
Oh yea, the libs have the
January 20, 2008 - 22:38 ET by GregEOh yea, the libs have the lines. If it's extremely hot somewhere, or extremely cold somewhere, it's all global warming. If something that could be fixed isn't it's because there's not enough money and that's all due to the Iraq war. Nevermind that that bridge wasn't going to be touched regardless of monies.
Must be great to be a lib. Always a victim.
Raising Capital
January 20, 2008 - 22:43 ET by ShaftBigScoreMr. Albright is just trying to sell books to pay for the future facelift.
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. President Ronald Reagan
I want a group picture of
January 21, 2008 - 12:36 ET by kgI want a group picture of Albright, Reno, Helen Thomas, and anyother Democrat beauties on a poster that says "Vote Democrat".
critical thinking
January 20, 2008 - 22:47 ET by needleSo, class, bearing in mind what passes here for critical thinking, are there any more questions as to why our
foreign affairs where so dismal in the last four years of the Clinton administration?
Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.
Allbright
January 20, 2008 - 22:49 ET by Cool ArrowThe same woman whose parents died in a Nazi death camp so she could sell out Israel.
Pity she wasn't raised properly.
I ♣ My Seal
Reno and Albright two of a kind
January 20, 2008 - 23:06 ET by Jonah JohansenApparently both of these incompetents were forced on Bill by Hillary. I have read that all of her closest campaign advisers/inner circle are women. If we are unfortunate enough to have her as President this will be the kind of people she will choose for the most important cabinet posts.
They printed a moronic demagogic Op-Ed piece by her in our local paper full of clichés and cheap shots against the President.
An example of her clear thinking and her intellect
She condemned people who worry about China’s military buildup as fear mongers because the US spends more on defense than then the rest of the world combined.
I am not sure that is true, even if it was true its illogical the US outspent the Soviet Union on defense throughout the cold war that doesn’t mean they were not a threat.
Trips to win
January 20, 2008 - 23:33 ET by Cool ArrowAllbright, Reno, and Helen Thomas, and all you're missing is a cauldron and some Shakespeare.
I ♣ My Seal
Love it! The Terrible Triplets!
January 21, 2008 - 08:03 ET by PawpawNPut these 3 in a show, make them a singing[whining] group, whatever-maybe even the circus!
HEY NOW...
January 21, 2008 - 10:09 ET by danybhoyAlbright, Reno, & Thomas...thems some sexy wommmizz...
Beauty + Brains = these 3 dopes...or maybe not.
"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise" Mark Levin
yawn ..
January 20, 2008 - 23:10 ET by drillanwr<PWAAHAAHAAA!> ... eh hemmm ... <phfeh!>
She's a vicious, filthy
January 20, 2008 - 23:28 ET by Sonny LykosShe's a vicious, filthy piece of sh*t - just like the two others she's aligned herself with. Say anything to gain power, the exact philosophy in people we DON'T want in the WH. And once the hildebeast is in the WH, all of us will be treated as her servants. And the MSM that loves her will then, also be treated by her like the pieces of sh*t that they are too.
You'd think that at 65 I would accept the incredible stupidity of the masses, and yet, I find myself still amazed at the public's self-genocidal mental disease. Government schools have done their job well!
Sonny
January 21, 2008 - 09:04 ET by ricklailGovernment schools have done their job well!
Amen to that. My oldest daughter turned 35 last Friday. I am still trying to get her straightened out from the damage done by the government schools.
"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.” General George S. Patton.
I for one cant' wait for
January 20, 2008 - 23:42 ET by BlazerI for one cant' wait for a Dem to be elected again so moving picture show's will be in color and sound again, people will get around in vehicles powered by combustion engines, a man will walk on the moon, there will be a cure for polio, a television will be in every home and people will be able to communicate on devices called computer's. Everyone will spontaneously break out in song and dance and it'll rain Skittles and confetti and cartoon animal's will follow us everywhere we go.
And in this same fantastic world Maddy Albright will forget she ever said this:
"According to Colin Powell's memoirs, Albright once argued for the use of military force by asking, "What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about, if we can’t use it?"
...,and she'll also pretend that the oil for food global get rich scam never happened and that her the Burglar and Clinton being asleep at the switch during the nineties is the reason why were in Iraq and Afghanistan now
And maybe, just maybe said elected Dem will let Maddy Lite-Brite sit down over champagne with Achmadinijad, Assad or Chavez and sell them some satellite or missile secret's, promise to finance some light water reactor's for them, and give them some basketball's signed by some NBA star's .
This ladies either senile, has early onset Alzheimer's or has one bad a$$ case of Stockholm syndrome. Neville Chamberlain was obviously her role model.
Somebody please throw momma from the train.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
Blazer, the scariest thing
January 21, 2008 - 00:29 ET by Sonny LykosBlazer, the scariest thing is that knowing that all of this stuff is out there about the Clintons, and their henchmen and hench women, and their pasts, and yet the pubic will still vote them into office. Christ! I might as well be living in a society of ants. Collectively, at least one half of all Americans don't have enough brain power to light a bulb.
Secretly, I think that every time someone watches a soap opera, Oprah, Friends, and the other nitwit TV programs, their TVs are zapping their viewers brain cells. Between Hollywood and schools we just don't have a chance. I mean, think about it. How in the hell do these people even make it to work each day much less reconcile their check books.
Even I have a single 37 year old daughter who has a %60K management job in the health care industry who when my wife asked her "How many states do we have?" she replied: "Either 48 or 52."
It's true. You can bring a horse to water, even a %$#&* lake, but you simply cannot force it to drink. That goes for facts, education, and other just basics about what the hell is gong on in the country. Everyones world is as far as those fresh water angle fish I raise in a hobby - the extend of only a few cubic feet of their tanks, and that's it. From home to work, and back to home and make dams sure nothing in between gets in the way of those soaps and Oprah, Friends, Rules of Engagement, How I Met Your Mother, and 2-1/2 Men.
These men and women are in the drivers seats, while we are resigned to sitting in the back. And they vote!
I surrender. I give up.
NO! I will not surrender.
January 21, 2008 - 07:50 ET by Pete WilsonNO! I will not surrender. I will not give up. Someone once said, and I am ashamed that I do not know who is was, "I would rather die on my feet that to live on my knees."
I only hope that the American people will wake up, and not force us back into the nightmare that the Clinton Presidency was. Ms. Albright is merely a symbol of that nightmare.
That is right, don’t surrender.
January 21, 2008 - 10:18 ET by needleI hope you and everyone else who reads this
web page are telling their friends and neighbors about NewsBusters. This is as good as any way to effect the
reversal.
Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.
Albright gives me the creeps
January 21, 2008 - 00:44 ET by Lame CherryThat woman just reminds me of a vampire's ghoul in charge of the check in desk at the Psycho Hotel California where you check in any time you like but you can never leave.
People are complaining about Bill blowing his cork, but this woman is so stupid in the things she says she makes Sean Penn and Hugo Chavez look like Einstein and Edison.
Why any campaign would want this crowmeanderthal (my word for an old crow that looks like she crawled out of a cave mumified) around sounding like a Kos blog on dope, only a Clinton would know.
The idea is to put people on your staff who will appeal to the people not already voting for you..........Hillary already had the cranky feminazi hags with blue hair voting for her as New Hampshire proved.........Hillary if she was not taking a dive needs Chelsea to sex it up and get the Bill Clinton geezer dirty old pervs to vote for her. Chelsea with a push up bra and showing some leg will do that.
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Besides the MSM
January 21, 2008 - 00:49 ET by SlicksterAnd her clone Helen Thomas who actually listens to this old transvestite?
HELL-EN...
January 21, 2008 - 10:15 ET by danybhoyIn her latest book, "If Dems had Any Brains, they would be Republicans", Ann Coulter calls old Helen "that old arab". I died laughing when saw that.
"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise" Mark Levin
As Secretary of State,
January 21, 2008 - 00:52 ET by fitzfongAs Secretary of State, Albright showed us that she hasn't a clue about national security or world affairs. Now, not simply content to parade her ignorance on those subjects, she must also show us that she's a triple threat by grandstanding on economic issues...about which (once again) she knows nothing. And judging by the picture on her book cover, she is even incapable of applying makeup (although she may have been using that Homer Simpson rifle contraption, so I'll cut her some slack). Overall, though, she's an intellectual lightweight.
Madeleine Albright is a joke.
January 21, 2008 - 00:55 ET by R D HelmMadeleine Albright has to be one of the most intellectually vacant people to ever hold a cabinet-level position in the history of this country.
She makes Joycelin Elders sound like Albert Einstein.
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -J.W. von Goethe
True--she is nothing but a
January 21, 2008 - 04:11 ET by Andrew H.True--she is nothing but a failed beaureaucrat who knows little about actually doing critical thinking.
Liberalism is a convenient lie.
Books?
January 21, 2008 - 07:59 ET by okiehawk44Exactly how many books has M.A. sold -- no not given away to libraries etc., but actully sold and to whom? She had nothing to say when she had a job so how could she write about it?
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #976
January 21, 2008 - 08:55 ET by Red JeepAmazon.com Sales Rank: #976 in Books. Last week it was 1800 and something.
May I Ask You An Answer?
January 21, 2008 - 08:37 ET by CrashMadeleine must have forgotten about Kerry altogether. Next, good luck persuading the MSM into reporting ... we've been saying the same thing for years.
If you don't like finger pointing by the press, then why are you trying to attach the blame of a bridge collapse on Bush? FACTS: The bridge was under repair, Minnesota held back the money on road repairs in favor of liberal style public transportation and the report hit the Presidents desk ten years prior to the collapse. Where's Sandy Burgler when you need an historical white out?
TALK ABOUT BRIDGES
January 21, 2008 - 09:27 ET by Der AlteI think the troll mentioned in the story was very lucky to get out from under her bridge in Minneapolis before it fell on her!
GRR
January 21, 2008 - 11:57 ET by candanceI am sooo tired of people who don't live in Minnesota, people who don't hear all the local details about it running around telling everyone what happened like they know the whole story. In the 90s we didn't go around blaming random things on Bill Clinton.
I just saw mrs albright
January 21, 2008 - 12:13 ET by johnnybubI just saw mrs albright speak last week in st louis, probably the worst speaker in the 6 yr history of the lecture series,, she had to read everything word for word and it was embarrassing to think she had to speak on behalf of our country!!
during the questioning from the audience, she was unbelievably unpatriotic,,,had a blame america first for everything,, and when asked about india and pakistan aquiring nukes during her time she still managed to blame bush,,
this woman had no business being secretary of state in any administration,, and to thinks she could write a book on this subject shows her arogance,,