Hillary Clinton says she may quibble with being depicted as Big Brother — and IBM, for that matter — but that it’s a good thing as long as it gets people interested in politics.
From an interview with NY1 about that pro-Barack Obama video that has spread like a super-virus around the internet:.
“I haven’t seen it but I’m pleased that it seems to be taking attention away from what used to be on YouTube and getting a lot of hits, namely me singing “The Star Spangled Banner.” Everybody in the world now knows I can’t carry a tune. I thank heavens for small favors and the attention has shifted and now maybe people won’t have to tune in and hear me screeching about “The Star Spangled Banner.”
Q: Should the video be removed?
“You know, that’s for somebody else to decide. I don’t have an opinion one way of another. I think anything that drives interest in these campaigns and gets people who otherwise are not at all interested in politics, I think that’s pretty good. I might quibble a little bit about the content but if we get more people, especially young people, thinking about politics, I’m happy about that.”
— Jason Horowitz