Hillary: I Love Talk Radio
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Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2004 9:28 p.m. EDT

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said this week that she's a big fan of talk radio and loves engaging in the give-and-take of political debate with callers.

"I love to do talk radio interviews," Clinton claims in the September issue of Talkers Magazine. "I confess that I prefer local New York talk radio because of the opportunity it gives me to connect with New Yorkers." Clinton didn't say which hosts she prefers in a radio field overwhelmingly dominated by conservatives routinely derided as "Clinton-haters" by her White House spinmeisters during the 1990s.

But the top Democrat says now, "Talk hosts are deeply connected to their communities, so I always learn from them."

She even went so far as to praise the Internet, a medium that broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal that nearly ended her reign as first lady.

"The good news is that with the content available on the Internet and all of the other information options out there," she told Talkers, "the public does have the opportunity to hear and see and read political reporting from a variety of points of view."

Sen. Clinton was offered a talk radio show of her own in 1999 on WABC Radio, but turned it down when program director Phil Boyce said she couldn't use her own handpicked call screeners.

In the dozens of New York radio interviews she's given since becoming senator, Clinton has never accepted calls from listeners.

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