Charlie Rose Recites Glowing Book Review to Hillary Clinton’s Face

Charlie Rose Recites Glowing Book Review to Hillary Clinton’s Face (NewsBusters)

On Monday night, Charlie Rose lovingly opened his interview with Hillary Clinton by reciting a glowing review of her new book. Clinton sat down for the full hour suck-up on Rose’s PBS show and was greeted to Rose reading from Jennifer Senior’s New York Timesbook review of What Happened. In fact, Rose couldn’t get through the entire open without sharing a laugh with Clinton as the two seemed to revel in the rapturous review.  

Rose began by gushing about sales of the book: “First of all, it’s a bestseller, a runaway bestseller. I think the fastest rising, non-fiction book in five years.” 

He then repeated the bouquets thrown at the book by Senior: “This is what one reviewer said: ‘What Happened is not one book, but many. It is a candid and blackly funny account of her mood in the direct aftermath of losing to Donald Trump....It is a feminist manifesto. It is a score-settling jubilee. It is a rant against James Comey, Bernie Sanders, the media....It is a thumping of Trump.’ So, congratulations.”