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ABC found nothing newsworthy from the campaign trail, whereas CBS dug into its videotape archive and came up with gold from 1996. Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson was assigned to cover the First Lady's visit with the USO--singer Sheryl Crow and comedian Sinbad--to the Bosnian outpost of Tuzla. So imagine how overjoyed Attkisson was when she heard now-candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton's vivid description of the trip: "There was supposed to be some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport but we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicle to get to our base."
Attkisson duly replayed CBS' own documentation of Rodham Clinton at the greeting ceremony, not running with her head down. Her aides told Attkisson that her arrival "was not quite as dramatic" as their candidate put it. Mused Attkisson: "In politics memories should always match the videotape."
NBC's Andrea Mitchell found the tone of Rodham Clinton's campaign growing "nastier and nastier." When operative James Carville called Bill Richardson "Judas" for his Good Friday endorsement of Barack Obama, Richardson reflected on MSNBC's Morning Joe about a "sense of entitlement that the Presidency is theirs." When Evan Bayh, the Senator from Indiana, suggested new rules for counting delegates in order to favor her, Mitchell called that "Clinton's new math." NBC's Tim Russert offered an explanation that Rodham Clinton needs to convince superdelegates that she is more electable than Obama: "This is very uphill."
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