Molly McPherson and a panel break down Patrick Clancy's 60 Minutes interview, analyzing his media-trained delivery and strategy to counter online accusations. They note the interview was used in a mistrial case and could be admissible in future court proceedings, and debate whether his appeal to social media hurt rather than helped his legal position.
So we're getting ready to watch 60 Minutes Patrick Clancy's interview.
I don't understand why he's doing it. I don't think it's a great idea.
So we'll say this right off the bat. I don't understand why he's doing it either. I really don't. I understand that he wants to correct the record because everyone online is calling him a murderer and all this. But let's watch it. New York Times, CBS took him.
And from the father, Patrick Clancy, for the first time since the trial.
His resting face kind of has a smile on it, doesn't it?
Did you know anything about I think mental illness has this ability to be tragically deceptive, so I'm sure there are things that—
That's a good line.
You got it rehearsed.
But I don't blame him getting media trained for that.
Oh, it's hard. Lindsay may repeat.
I know it's minor, but he has a goatee. Just looking at the optics on it.
One kid, and I would raise him as best I could, and I would give him—
Has she ever asked for your forgiveness?
That's a good question.
I go to St. Patrick's Cathedral, I light a candle, and I say, I love you, buddy. And I walk out on Fifth Avenue and I start crying my eyes out.
That's a very Catholic thing to do.
Before moving, he had emptied the house.
So that speaks to all the people who said he moved to New York to be with the woman.
Children's lives, experts in the field, and I asked them What do you think happened? And we, we had some pretty deep—
He's laying out the whole story, the claims people made against him online.
Dr. Rachel in a run club in New York.
So there's scuttlebutt when they met.
Know each other over coffee.
Hey, they're gonna be very specific here. This adorable photo. I guess I had so many— See, a lot of people say that, um, she looks like Lindsay. Okay, what do you think?
I think the reporter did a really good job.
I think that's his first one.
He asked good questions. I liked him.
I don't think he should have done that interview prior to watching it because he just needed to go on the record and, you know, he didn't need reach on this. He did an interview with The Atlantic, I think, or The New Yorker, I can't remember, but they used it in the court case and this case is still ongoing. It was a mistrial. So now this can be put into, you know, any future trial. The argument for not doing it— I still think it was a good interview, right?
I do too. I think he acquitted himself well. I think he rehearsed it.
Yes, yes.
He went in with lines he knew he was going to say.
He was working with lawyers and people who were scripting messages for him. Definitely don't speak, then if it's silence, the public fills the vacuum. He was judged by TikTok, and it's understandable as someone who's been judged by TikTok as well that you think what people say online is actually the court of public opinion. But I think a lot of more people understand that it's not him. He was making his case for the wrong audience.
Yeah, I'll buy that. I also think he was doing really well, but then he lost some of that goodwill when she came on. I, I think it highlighted the questions people have about their relationship, and even though they gave a timeline, I don't think she helped his— his—
Yeah, cuz she probably was pushing for that interview too.
I don't think It benefited him. I thought he was doing so well, and then I think he might have lost some of the public when she came.
I bet he was sitting on the fence on this, like, do I do it, do I not? And she's the one saying, let's do it, let's do it, because she got dragged in this and she probably wanted to clear the record. I think he— I think he did a really, really good job, added things that the public didn't know. But you know, in my job, when I work with people, more often than not, I just say to them, you don't need the reach to tell your story because you're so frustrated when people come at you. You just Need to go on the record, but also to remember that reasonable people who probably understand exactly what happened from his point of view—they're not on TikTok calling him, you know, blaming him for it.
And you know much better than I—you're never going to win the TikTok trial. No, you're not winning that.
No, and I think that was Lisa Rinna. Net positive, net negative, net neutral. Slightly net positive. I'm going to say that too. Slightly net positive. Tragic story. Yes, tragic.
