Former Democratic Colleagues Stephanopoulos and Carville Discuss Democrat Strategy
After the last two Republican presidential debates. Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos turned to Democrats for reaction. After President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress, the morning show host again featured a Democrat. On Tuesday, Stephanopoulos brought on Democrat James Carville for reaction to the President's tax plan. The journalist asked his former Clinton White House colleague how the White House would deal with a new book charging incompetence and sexism. But Stephanopoulos seemed interested in extracting the White House from possible danger: ” How does that portrait strike you? Does it square with what you've seen? And how would you advise the White House to handle this book? ” Carville responded, in part by asserting that the White House “can't do anything about what's in that book.” It's interesting that Stephanopoulos would speculate about such a strategy as he was very aggressive in suppressing Unlimited Access , an anti-Clinton book back when he was a White House staffer. A March 24, 2004 MRC CyberAlert recounted a past Stephanopoulos dodge on his role: George Stephanopoulos was asked on Tuesday’s Good Morning America, in reference to Dick Clarke’s book, if he’d “ever seen an administration put on a sort of full-court press against one individual as they did yesterday?” Stephanopoulos insisted: “On a book? No, never, it's never happened before.” Hmmm. Wasn’t Stephanopoulos in the Clinton White House in 1996 when the public relations apparatus under Stephanopoulos went full bore to discredit FBI agent Gary Aldrich’s account in his book, Unlimited Access, about what he saw as an agent assigned to the White House? Stephanopoulos did ask a few tough questions. On the subjct of the Republican claim that the President's call or tax increases, the host wondered if the GOP's “class warfare charge might stick and scare off the moderate voters that Obama's going to need next year?”
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