You could’ve gone your entire life without witnessing this and you probably would be better off too. On Wednesday’s CBS Mornings, co-anchor Gayle King sat down with former first lady, Secretary of State, and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for part two of a gushy softball interview about her new fiction political thriller called “State of Terror.” At one moment in the interview, most sane viewers were probably driven to a state of terror and revulsion when King read aloud from a sex scene in the book which Clinton and co-author Louise Penny wrote.
“Turning now to our conversation with the authors of a bestselling political thriller that’s getting some great, great reviews. That would be former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny, the very famous author”Before revealing the details of their meeting, King exaggerated.
“The women met through Clinton’s childhood best friend, her name is Betsy Ebeling, and Betsy is no longer with us, but she brought these two together.”King added, ” “while their book is about a Secretary of State named ‘Ellen,’ who’s got blue eyes, who wore Spanx, working to stop terrorists, they told us it’s also a tribute to women’s friendship, including their own.”
King was worried that Clinton would reveal too much about her actual State Department, as the book was about a woman Secretary to State.
Clinton explained that “because when you’re in these very high-stakes situations, and where it’s so hard to know what to do because the facts are uncertain or even in conflict, and the characters you know, they are — they hold these positions, but they also bring all their baggage, their personalities, their temperaments, their backgrounds, and so we wanted that tension.”
King looked at the chapter about sex scenes in the book and attempted to discover if Penny or Clinton had written it.
KING: There’s a love story in the middle of that, too. And I’m curious about who wrote this line. Do you know which one I’m going to read?
‘Felt his naked white skin as it slid against her dark, moist body, luminous in the afternoon sun, she could feel the weight of him on top of her lying heavy on her heart.’ Was that to Hillary Rodham Clinton?
CLINTON : It was, according to me.
KING: A
CLINTON: From our fertile imagination.
PENNY: Right. Before sexting, I haven’t been through — that’s as far as we were willing to go. Pathetic. Harlequin Romance doesn’t want to get in touch.
CLINTON: Yes. CLINTON: Yes.
PENNY: Yes.
KING: No, but I got such a kick out of it because I’m thinking, part of me went, ‘Oh, my.’ Well, there was also —
CLINTON – It was moving with Penny.
While King seemed to be having a blast laughing while Hillary cackled and screeched with her friend Louise, it’s safe to say that even the CBS audience was repulsed over the thought of a sex scene written by Hillary Clinton.
But, leftists are still at CBS Mornings loved it, and even after the interview was over, couldn’t stop swooning over Clinton and Penny like a group of preteens at a Justin Bieber concert.
King turned to Nate Burleson as co-host, and he gave King high praises for the pair. “you can clearly tell they have a great rapport.”
King The story of how Penny and Clinton met was told sympathetically “They had met even before they wrote this book. In 2016, Louise lost her husband, and Hillary Clinton who didn’t even know her wrote her a note of condolence about her husband. Louise expressed her deepest sympathy and said that they were still in mourning. Hillary mourns the election loss. She was mourning the loss of her husband and their best friend, her best friend brought them together.”
Burleson said he would tell “she was tickled when you started talking about the steamy part of that book.”
As NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham pointed out, the media was appalled when then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich wrote a “steamy” novel back in 1995, but they are all over it when Hillary Clinton published one.
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To read the transcript of this segment click “expand”:
CBS Mornings
6/29/2022
Eastern, 8:35:32GAYLE KING: Turning now to our conversation with the authors of a bestselling political thriller that’s getting some great, great reviews. The famous authors are Louise Penny and Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State.
Their book is thus called “State of Terror.” It’s co-published by Simon & Schuster, which like CBS is a division of Paramount Global.
The women met through Clinton’s childhood best friend, her name is Betsy Ebeling, and Betsy is no longer with us, but she brought these two together. And while their book is about a Secretary of State named “Ellen,” who’s got blue eyes, who wore Spanx, working to stop terrorists, they told us it’s also a tribute to women’s friendship, including their own.
(Begin VT)
KING: Number one, this book the whole time, I’m reading it, Secretary Clinton, I’m going, “Did that happen to her? I wonder who was there. Is she in the same place? “Who said that?” So first, let’s get back to where it started.
HILLARY CLINTON (Former US Secretary Of State): Gayle, this was my first approach.
KING: You didn’t.
CLINTON: No. I didn’t.
KING: Why?
CLINTON : Because she is a bestseller of fiction. I’ve written nonfiction, never written fiction. I didn’t want to lose her friendship, you know, if we were not compatible.
LOUISE PENNY (Author).: It was a worry because I’d never worked with another person. I’ve never written a political thriller. But if you’re going to do it, this is the one you want to do it with.
CLINTON: And once we decided, okay, we’re going to stick a toe in the water, then we got to work on the outline, and what’s it going to be about? What are the main characters? Is there a plot that is driving the characters?
That was my favourite part of the entire process.
PENNY: Me, too.
CLINTON. Because we spent so much time FaceTiming, talking through, and Louise then asked the crucial question.
KING: Which was the crucial question?
PENNY – The crucial question was: “Hillary, what kept your awake while you were Secretary Of State?” How did you wake up each morning at 2 a.m.? “What were your worst nightmares?”
KING: As the book opens there’s a terrorist bombing at different major cities such as Frankfurt, London and Paris. And I thought, that’s a good way to start. And then the book is, it’s who is responsible for this.
It takes us on an extremely wild ride. Hillary, it was a fascinating glimpse into the workings of government.
CLINTON: Yes.
KING: I was curious if you were worried about sharing too much information or how your feelings about people. There seemed to be so much of it, allowing us to see the whole picture and lifting away all layers. What did you think?
CLINTON: That’s really what I wanted to do, Gayle.
KING: Yeah. It was something I experienced.
CLINTON: Yes. Because when you’re in these very high-stakes situations, and where it’s so hard to know what to do, because the facts are uncertain or even in conflict, and the characters you know, they are — they hold these positions, but they also bring all their baggage, their personalities, their temperaments, their backgrounds, and so we wanted that tension.
PENNY: One of the things that I really appreciate that you described so brilliantly was the stress of having to make life and death decisions when you don’t — when you have very little time, and you know, you don’t have all the information.
CLINTON: Right.
KING: There’s a love story in the middle of that, too. And I’m curious about who wrote this line. Do you know which one I’m going to read?
She could feel his white, naked skin sliding against her body. It was luminous under the afternoon sunlight. The weight of him on top of her felt heavy. This was Hillary Rodham Clinton.
CLINTON : It was, according to me.
KING: A
CLINTON: From our fertile imagination.
PENNY: Right. Before sexting, I haven’t been through — that’s as far as we were willing to go. Pathetic. Harlequin Romance doesn’t want to get in touch.
CLINTON: Yes. CLINTON: Yes.
PENNY: Yes.
KING: No, but I got such a kick out of it, because I’m thinking, part of me went, “Oh, my.” There was also —
CLINTON – It was moving with Penny.
KING: I found her character entertaining because she wasn’t a mouse burglar. She did accept some stuff, but she had to take a bit of it.
PENNY – This is Ellen, Secretary.
KING: Ellen was the Secretary of State and she needed to take a few steps to get her cards in order to win.
CLINTON: Yes.
KING: I was curious how often A. had been bitten, or if it has ever happened to anyone else.
CLINTON: Oh, yes. Yes.
KING: Do not underestimate your mother and be over-deliverable, but remain firm and true to her identity and the things she is going to do.
CLINTON : Gayle I believe it is a common occurrence for all women. It is true. I don’t think it’s in any way unique to Secretaries of State or women in government and politics. I think, it’s whether it’s the media, academia, professions, literature, whatever it might be, we’re always being underestimated. It can be difficult to balance out not allowing anyone to underestimate you but knowing the right timing to respond.
That was the most enjoyable part of writing the book, because Louise and me talked about it a lot.
PENNY: And what’s interesting is that we had the same experience with the books. Because it was written by two women of the same age, we were — it wasn’t — underestimated.
KING: It was these women who saved the day.
PENNY: Right. And then they don’t do it by putting on Lycra and kicking down doors and picking up, you know, grenade launchers.
KING: Yes.
PENNY: It’s done with their brains.
CLINTON: Brains.
PENNY: I mean, there’s a certain amount of the other stuff happening, too, but they don’t need to resort to that. They do because they’re smart, and they’re thoughtful.
(End VT)
KING: Smart and they’re thoughtful. This is what we love. You can now buy “State of Terror” in paperback wherever you are interested.
Nate and Nate have an obvious rapport. Before they published this book, the couple had been friends for years. In 2016, Louise lost her husband and Hillary Clinton who didn’t even know her wrote her a note of condolence about her husband.
NATE BURLESON :
KING: Louise felt touched and said that they were both in mourning. Hillary was grieving for the loss of her husband and best friend. Hillary was grieving her husband’s death and her best friend. Her best friend had brought them together.
They are so close. They have so much fun together.
BURLESON, Yes. She laughed when you talked about the steamy parts of that book.
KING: Yes.
BURLESON: That’s for sure. Okay.
KING: They still didn’t tell me who wrote that line.
BURLESON: Right, right.
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