Halperin: Hillary 'Great Public Servant, Extraordinarily Strong Candidate'

MarkF | August 17, 2015
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You know those super-fast-talking disclaimers run at the end of some ads?  The kind of CYA things the lawyers force the advertisers to say? That's what Mark Halperin's pro forma praise of Hillary on today's Morning Joe brought to mind. 

Halperin first ripped Hillary's campaign as the most "unresponsive to basic questions" he's ever dealt with, and reported that "elite Democrats" are worried about being stuck with scandal-ridden Hillary as their candidate. But Halperin apparently felt obliged to include this bit of posterior-protecting pablum: " she's still an extraordinarily strong candidate, a great public servant. She's, I think, right now, the most likely person to be elected president."