On CBS’s “This Morning,” co-anchor Gayle King pondered whether Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tires of people questioning her authenticity.
Over the weekend, Clinton participated in an interview with John Dickerson, moderator of CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Dickerson asked Clinton to describe herself in “three words” that showed she was “real.”
“I can’t possibly do that,” said Clinton, after a hearty laugh. “Look, I am a real person with all the pluses and minuses that go along with being that. I’ve been in the public eye for so long that I think it’s like the feature you see in some magazines some times: Real people actually go shopping.”
Reacting to the exchange on Monday, Gayle King said, “I wonder if she gets tired, John, of people wondering if she is a real person. I think she sits there and goes, ‘But I am real,’ which is what she said yesterday.”
Dickerson said “some people” might think Clinton’s answer was “the way a normal person would react to a goofy question like that.”
Clinton’s campaign has been criticized for appearing inaccessible and overly calculated. She has, until recently, largely avoided national interviews and preferred carefully staged town hall-style conversations with supporters.
Two weeks ago, the New York Times ran the headline, “Hillary Clinton to Show More Humor and Heart, Aides Say.”
