Mama Bin Cranky

Claire Shipman, one time White House correspondent, has written a book with co-author Katty Kay, advising women on how to get more confidence. The book is called “The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know”. Claire Shipman is married to Jay Carney, White House spokesman.

So she writes this books advising women on confidence, but she isn’t confident enough to go on Fox News and promote the book. She backed out of a segment with O’Reilly last night leaving her co-author to deal with it.

Last week there was a lot of press about a puff piece on the Shipman/Carney family that showed Communist propaganda posters adorning their home. I just read an article where she and her co-author say Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill are confident women. Shipman then tells us she is a Christine Lagarde groupie. How grounded is that? I would guess that 99.9% of American women would not know who Lagarde is.