Hillary Defends Not Going On Sunday TV After Benghazi: It's Not 'Jury Duty'
CATHERINE THOMPSON – MAY 30, 2014, 6:54 AM EDT
In her forthcoming memoir, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slams critics who lashed out at her for not speaking to the American people about the Benghazi attacks through Sunday TV shows.
Politico obtained a chapter of Clinton's new book, "Hard Choices," that deals at length with the 2012 attacks in Libya and published excerpts on Friday. In the chapter, Clinton responded strongly to those who "fixate on the question of why I didn’t go on TV that morning," writing that to those detractors, an appearance on Sunday shows was "the equivalent of jury duty, where one has to have a compelling reason to get out of it."
"I don’t see appearing on Sunday-morning television as any more of a responsibility than appearing on late-night TV," she wrote, as quoted by Politico. "Only in Washington is the definition of talking to Americans confined to 9 a.m. on Sunday mornings.”
Clinton also offered a full-throated defense of National Security Adviser Susan Rice's disputed talking points about the attacks. Rice, who was the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. at the time of the attacks, was heavily criticized by Republicans for going on TV just days afterward and saying the attackers were motivated by an anti-Islamic video.
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She was twice named one of the best 100 lawyers in the US.
a SoS - any SoS - would have more important things to do than talk to moronic pundits. 
she can return a punch...
that Hillary's refusal to appear on the Sunday morning shows was a "dereliction of duty". These folks are just insane and grasping at straws.
