Patti Solis Doyle, the former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, made an awkward attempt to cover for Clinton’s tepid response to the Burns Strider revelations during a Wednesday segment on CNN.
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“We are in a moment, obviously with the Me Too movement. We are reevaluating the way we deal with sexual harassment in the workplace and sexual abuse, and we’re having a very uncomfortable but necessary conversation about the gradations of what, you know, the difference offenses,” Solis Doyle began.
“Does the guy who kisses unwantedly a woman on the forehead, or a subordinate on the forehead, is that the same as the guy who masturbates in front of a subordinate?” she continued extremely awkwardly. “Both of them need to be fired, but one of them needs to be in jail. We’re having this big conversation. So she’s right, in all industries, in the media, in the entertainment industry, in Congress, and certainly in the White House. You know I wish it had been a cleaner ‘You made the wrong call,’ not sort of.”
“Well that’s interesting, very interesting,” chimed in host Brianna Keilar.
“But, but she has a voice in this big conversation. She should have had this one statement, which, you know I’m very proud of and very happy she did, and then be a voice in the bigger conversation,” commented Solis Doyle.
Hillary Clinton has recently come under fire for allowing an alleged sexual harasser, her campaign faith adviser Burns Strider, remain on her campaign with little consequence while moving the victim to another position during her 2008 presidential campaign.