I get alerts from ABC News via email, and one hit my inbox this afternoon with this subject line: “Clinton Hears Voices from Beyond: ‘Keep Going’.”<\/p>\n
Naturally, given that ABC News’ headline suggested that a leading presidential candidate was hearing voices in her head, I was curious what on Earth the report (which had the same headline as my email subject line) actually said. Wouldn’t you know it, Hillary Clinton is not delusional<\/a>.<\/p>\n ABC News’ Eloise Harper and Kate Snow Report: In McAllen, Texas this morning Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said she wasn’t giving up on her race for the White House. <\/p>\n Speaking about her work in South Texas as an organizer for George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, Clinton said two strong Texas women inspired her — Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and Texas Governor Ann Richards. <\/p>\n Clinton said they taught her about courage and determination. Then she suggested that she is hearing from them even as her campaign struggles to compete after a string of losses.<\/p>\n “I can hear their voices saying, ‘You keep going! You give the people a real choice about the future!'” she said at a campaign event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Note to ABC: Clinton did not mean she can literally<\/i> hear the voices of dead people. She is not schizophrenic. “Clinton Hears Voices from Beyond” is not a particularly helpful headline.<\/p>\n Or, as Kevin put it<\/a>, “Look. I know that campaign coverage can get mighty dull and the search for something resembling actual news can get pretty desperate. But seriously, folks, this is what we professional writers call a ‘figure of speech.’ Hillary is not suggesting that she hears ‘voices from beyond.’ OK?” The woman described by Bob Woodward as a spiritual adviser to first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton disputed several of Woodward’s published assertions Sunday night .<\/p>\n Jean Houston, interviewed at the Newark Airport by CNN, said that Mrs. Clinton did indeed have imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt at Houston’s suggestion.<\/p>\n “(But) that was maybe four minutes out of hours and hours of conversation,” she said.<\/p>\n In his new book “The Choice,” Woodward wrote that Houston, co-director of the Foundation of Mind Research, urged Mrs. Clinton to write “It Takes a Village,” and assisted extensively in rewrites. Houston said that she did help edit the book, but that Mrs. Clinton “wrote that book entirely.”<\/p>\n Houston said she made the suggestion to hold the imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt and others “to focus her busy mind on issues that surrounded the book.”<\/p>\n “That was it,” Houston said. “No spooks. No seances. Nothing. She’s the least psychic person I’ve known, and I’m a close second. … I don’t have a psychic bone in my body.”<\/p>\n Mrs. Clinton wrote about her imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt in her June 10 syndicated column. She said she talked to Roosevelt about the role of a first lady. “She usually responds by telling me to buck up, or at least to grow skin as thick as a rhinoceros,” Mrs. Clinton wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Reporters grew to realize this was a silly little flap 12 years ago, but if there’s one thing we’ve learned, especially when it comes to the Clintons, the media has a way of coming up with new little flaps all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I get alerts from ABC News via email, and one hit my inbox this afternoon with this subject line: “Clinton Hears Voices from Beyond: ‘Keep Going’.” Naturally, given that ABC News’ headline suggested that a leading presidential candidate was hearing voices in her head, I was curious what on Earth the report (which had the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nIf I had to guess, I’d say it’s at least possible that ABC News is trying to piggyback on this two-day story<\/a> from 12 years ago.<\/p>\n