“When I was ready to say what I said, I said it.”
Hillary Clinton’s interview Thursday with NPR’s Terry Gross turned contentious when Gross pressed Mrs. Clinton on same-sex marriage and the Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996.
Hillary Clinton won’t say when she "evolved" on gay marriage; gets testy with Terry Gross http://t.co/CngfDYC6Vy
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) June 13, 2014
The exchange became so testy and convoluted that the Washington Post put together a flow chart to trace Hillary Clinton’s runaway train of thought. Behold:
Hillary Clinton’s complicated views on gay marriage, diagrammed. Very cool. http://t.co/NsnpokigEu pic.twitter.com/b5an1pgY9w
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 12, 2014
The fine print at the bottom comprises two quotes from Clinton: “You are playing with my words,” and “You are trying to say that I used to be opposed and now I am in favor and I did it for political reasons.”
Political reasons? A Clinton? Perish the thought!
https://twitter.com/analogkid2112/status/477245128080228352
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