“… we don’t even tell our own story very well these days,” Hillary Clinton told Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic magazine interview; the same piece in which she criticized the president’s foreign policy of “don’t do stupid stuff.”
Like President Obama, Clinton must believe she operated completely under the radar and that no one was paying attention to what she said and did, or didn’t do.
Hillary Clinton had an opportunity to help tell the story of the U.S. using Voice of America, but didn’t attend any meetings. (AP photo)
For example, in her book “Hard Choices” she wrote about the important outreach role the Broadcasting Board of Governors and Voice of America played during the Cold War, but added that “we had not kept up with the changing technological and market landscape.”
As secretary of state, Clinton had a seat on the BBG and, according to former board member Victor Ashe, she could have helped make changes if she’d wanted.
“It’s hard to take seriously her criticism when she simply never attended a meeting when she was a member or advocated her views to us in any serious format,” said Ashe, “ Had she attended, we would have adopted her advice and agenda in all likelihood.”
Voice of America produces news and cultural programs in 45 languages and reaches more than 164 million people around the world every week on TV, radio, and the Internet.
Why, during her four years at State, didn’t she make time to attend a board meeting and offer her recommendations on how they could do a better job of telling our story?
But they wouldn’t have used her infamous quote, “The most important thing I did was to help restore America’s leadership in the world.”
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