Tin Can Orator in the White House?

Bernstein: Hillary Clinton is inauthentic

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says his biography reveals her ‘real’ self

A new biography’s unflattering portrayal of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton as someone who “camouflages” her real self for political gain is starting to attract attention — and not for the salacious stories most books recount about the Clintons.

“A Woman in Charge,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Bernstein, gives scant attention to the tense days the former First Lady spent in the White House when Bill Clinton was sneaking around with his intern, Monica Lewinsky. Instead, the former Washington Post reporter, who helped blow the lid off Watergate, attempts to portray Hillary Clinton as someone who is willing to rewrite her own history to advance the political career she put on hold when she moved to Arkansas with her college sweetheart who would later become president.

“This is a woman who led a camouflaged life and continues to,” Bernstein told TODAY host Matt Lauer on Friday in an exclusive interview. “This book takes away that camouflage.” The book, which he called the first “real biography” of Hillary Clinton, will be available on June 5.

To tell the story of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s journey from a humble childhood marked by abuse at home to the White House, and later the U.S. Senate, Bernstein talked to about 200 close friends and advisers to the Clintons. Bernstein said he learned a lot about Hillary Clinton, including steps she took to try to silence the various women linked to her husband throughout his political career.

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I have long harbored this gut feeling that there is something phony about Hillary R. Clinton in the way she talks to her audience. It appears that she takes on the stance of an actor, tailoring her rhetoric to what is pleasing to the specific audience, making her sound like a tin can orator – irritatingly loud and without substance. I could not quite articulate an adequate description of this Hillary character, until now that Carl Bernstein said so in his book, i.e. - inauthentic. She is patently artificial in her ideas and corresponding words, so much so that she appears flip-flopping on important issues. Naturally when there is no solid foundation for ideas, the substance expressed in words keep changing like the colors of a chameleon. I would not entrust the onus of the White House to this unstable character.