Frank says Clinton’s speech unified party, blames media for perception of division
By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com ReporterDENVER -- U.S. Rep. Barney Frank gave U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton high marks Wednesday morning for her speech and said that the party is unified, despite media accounts.
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Newton)Frank (D-Newton), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told PolitickerMA.com that Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) was “great” before going into the Massachusetts delegation breakfast, which he sponsored Wednesday morning.
The speech showed the Party is unified, he said, but it didn’t keep the press from reporting on a rift between presumptive nominee Barack Obama’s (Ill.) supporters and Clinton’s that doesn’t exist.
“[The speech] unfortunately didn’t do the job of stopping the media from exaggerating this whole ordeal,” Frank said.
Later, in his remarks to the delegation, Frank again chided the press for their coverage of Obama and Clinton at the convention.
“For them, the alternative is to write about substance,” he said, “and there is nothing they hate more.”
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