Ok, I have been waiting for this transcript to be posted and it came up this morning. Lisa Caputo, former press secretary to Hillary Clinton during Bill's first term in the White House, being interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room this past Tuesday night. Follow me over the fold!
He asks her what should happen with the voters in Florida and Michigan who were stripped of their delegates because their primaries were moved.
CAPUTO: Well, I look -- Hillary Clinton has been very clear about that. I mean, she went to Florida and thanked them for their votes.
BLITZER: She didn't campaign there and he didn't campaign there. And his name was not even on the ballot in Michigan.
CAPUTO: Right, because of the Democratic National Committee situation there. But I think that, look, we just have to wait and see.
BLITZER: Do you want them to have caucuses now, those two states? Because it's unlikely they could organize a primary, given the expense.
CAPUTO: No, I think they have spoken... those states have spoken.
Blitzer looks dumbstruck and says well basicly they haven't really because Obabma's name wasn't actually on the Ballot in Michigan and as for Forida no one actually campaigned there. Her answer?
CAPUTO: But she won those states.
BLITZER: I know, but that's not exactly fair, considering his name wasn't even on the ballot or that they couldn't -- none of them could even campaign there.
CAPUTO: That's a Democratic National Committee process issue.
BLITZER: But you can't say she won those states.
CAPUTO: But she did win the states.
BLITZER: With all of his hands tied behind his back?
CAPUTO: Well, you could make the same argument in caucuses, where Hillary Clinton perhaps didn't invest any money.
She didn't invest money in some caucuses is equal to her "winning" a contest that wasn't even happening WTF? WE need to head off these sort of lies before they become the conventional wisdom. If we can't stomp down these sort of things in the primaries we don't deserve to get to the general.
Here is a link if you wish to read it for yourself.
(halfway down the transcript)
EDIT: Thanks for recommeding this! I just want folks to see this and have an actual transcript to quote from. I think it is important that we shine some light on this awful behavior.