Bobby Kennedy's daughter Rory on Hillary Clinton's assassination comment

Rory Kennedy, the award-winning documentarian ("Ghosts of Abu Ghraib," "American Hollow"), was on hand at TV Press Tour to talk up her upcoming HBO documentary, "Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House."

Kennedy is also the daughter of martyred Senator Bobby Kennedy and an avowed Barack Obama supporter. So, it only made sense to ask her what she made of Hillary Clinton's comment that she was remaining in the Democratic Presidential campaign because, "We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California." Invoking an event that traumatized a nation and leaving the potential for contemporary echoes to linger in the air struck observers as everything to egregiously ill-advised to shockingly irresponsible (Keith Olbermann almost had an aneurysm on-air).

Kennedy's response was incredibly (perhaps disappointingly) diplomatic: "I thought it was an unfortunate comment. I didn't think she meant anything by it. It was just exhaustion. She had said the same thing before but in a far less toxic way, not causing such a flare up. It was insensitive. And it's unfortunate she didn't apologize directly to Obama for it. That's who she should've apologized to. Whatever.

"It was probably one of those things where she was not tapped into what the implications were, which speaks to her being a little out of touch. I imagine if I had been campaigning, I would've been exhausted from attending so many events, speaking at so many of them, sleeping only four or five hours a night. It's inevitable that you'd slip up - on my best of days, I say things that are not entirely thought through.

"I think that she alienated a lot of people, she got a lot of people angry at her. It was a hard-fought race, and the more it went on, the more the candidates would alienate the other side. This is true on both sides. That's the nature of the race. Bill Clinton made valid point when he said, it could've gotten much much uglier. But I loved that race. I though it was a great race; I loved every second. It was about two really smart people who worked ferociously and, in the end, she made more mistakes."