by Rick Pearson
WESTERVILLE, Ohio—Almost 12 hours after she appeared on “Saturday Night Live,” Hillary Clinton’s campaign made its first formal statement that she had appeared on the show, making a “surprise” appearance.
Clinton ditched her traveling press corps yesterday at the tarmac of Love Field in Dallas, Texas, and her aides refused to say where she was or what she was doing. While the plane was in the air, carrying her press corps, word leaked out that she was making the SNL appearance.
On the show, Clinton got mixed reviews for delivering what was billed as an “editorial response” to a parody of last Tuesday’s MSNBC debate between her and rival Barack Obama in Cleveland. As it did in a similar skit a week ago, the latest parody showed Obama getting easier questions from fawning media questioners—coinciding with Clinton’s recent theme that the media was giving a pass to Obama while she was receiving much tougher scrutiny.
“The scene you just saw was a re-enactment, sort of, of last Tuesday’s debate and not an endorsement of one candidate over another,” Clinton said on SNL. She told the TV audience that when she asked if her appearance constituted an endorsement, the show told her “absolutely not.”
For the record, the Clinton campaign made its first formal acknowledgment of her appearance in an email to reporters at 11:27 a.m. eastern time this morning, while she was making a speech to supporters in Westerville, Ohio.
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