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CBS only mentioned Samantha Power in passing while NBC and ABC both assigned a reporter to the 38-year-old Harvard University professor, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Men's Vogue photo spread poser, foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama and source for The Scotsman. She views Hillary Rodham Clinton as "a monster who would stop at nothing to win." NBC's Andrea Mitchell outlined one reason why Power was forced to quit her role with Obama after the monstrous quote surfaced: "It was clear that an apology for her remarks would not be enough in a campaign that claims to be different from politics as usual." ABC's David Wright (embargoed link) pointed to an interview that Power gave to the BBC in which she undercut Obama's pledge to start pulling out troops from Iraq immediately he assumed office: "You cannot make a commitment in whatever month we are in now, in March 2008, about what circumstances are going to be like in January 2009." Wright drew a parallel with Obama's economic advisor Austin Goolsbee of the University of Chicago, who "in the heat of the Ohio primary appeared to undercut Obama's tough stand on NAFTA" by talking to Canada through back channels.
ABC's Wright also played a soundbite of Obama's sarcastic response to Rodham Clinton's 3am telephone spot: "What do people think I am going to do? I am going to answer the phone and I will find out what is going on!"
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