This is just odd ... Hillary bashing

JayFarrar · Nov 13, 2007

Okay, so this New Republic article is critical of Hillary Clinton's campaign spin.
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=6e01fdce-ad97-4dab-a07d-bf98dc52f681

It comes off as a little, no wait a lot whiny. Like this...

Innocent queries are met with deep suspicion. Only surgically precise questioning yields relevant answers...
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Wait, you mean just can't ask a broad, open-ended question and hope that something gets said? The hell you say.
Or this

Clinton aides are especially swift to bypass reporters and complain to top editors. "They're frightening!" says one reporter who has covered Clinton. "They don't see [reporting] as a healthy part of the process. They view this as a ruthless kill-or-be-killed game."
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Given her and her husband's previous experiences, I would say that the view they have might be right.
Of course this is buried deep...

(To be sure, no one accuses the Clinton team of outright lying to the press, as the Bushies have done, or of crossing other ethical lines. And reporters say other press shops--notably those of Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards--are also highly combative.)
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So all the reporters want Hillary to be warm and opening, but then this is also in the piece.

To be fair, when Hillary did engage the press, she often got burned. When she ruminated to the The New York Times Magazine's Michael Kelly about spirituality, he produced a mocking cover story titled "Saint Hillary." Hillary later wrote that she had been "raw with grief" over her dying father, implying that Kelly had exploited her emotional vulnerability. In 1994, with questions swirling about a big profit she turned selling cattle futures, she agreed to meet with a clamoring media. Donning a memorable pink suit, she endured an hour of harsh questioning. Afterward, according to Gerth and Don Van Natta's recent book Her Way, Hillary told her aides the exercise had been futile. "They're not going to let up. They're just going to keep coming at us, no matter what we do." The sordid Monica Lewinsky scandal only affirmed Hillary's firm belief that the "vast right-wing conspiracy" had immense power over mainstream media coverage.
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I'm hopeful that Bob Somerby or someone like him just rips the shit out of this. But for now, I just wonder what the point was other than just being another rip job.

pallister · Nov 13, 2007

Ya, there's some whining going on here.

slappy4428 · Nov 13, 2007

Maybe it's because when she tries to be warm, it comes across as... ya know.. phony?

heyabbott · Nov 13, 2007

Sounds like Karl Rove is her campaign manager

zeke12 · Nov 13, 2007

heyabbott said:

Sounds like Karl Rove is her campaign manager
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Some days, indeed it does.

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