Hillary-Backing Carole Simpson Just as Liberal at ABC News

Published: October 18, 2007, 3:32 am

Tags: 2008 presidential, carole simpson, hillary clinton, abc, video

Endorsing Hillary Clinton for President at a Tuesday night rally in New Hampshire, former ABC News anchor/reporter Carole Simpson exclaimed, an NBC News blog reported, that it's very freeing now that I'm not a journalist, that I'm able to speak my own mind. But Simpson hardly hid her liberal political views during her years at ABC. Long Live Hillary read the headline over an online tribute from Simpson, then anchor of World News Tonight/Sunday, following Clinton's 2000 senatorial victory. At about the same time, she denounced Clarence Thomas as the cruelest Supreme Court justice because he has consistently voted against human rights. If Bush names more like him, she groused, God help us. The 1994 GOP congressional victories upset her: I would like to think that the American people care about poor people, about sick people, about homeless people, and about poor children. I am shocked by the new mean-spiritedness. Most infamously, in a 1999 interview

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