When you see the media, now we can yell, “Get a rope!”
Posted on 07/06/2015 9:25:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Via the Examiner, count me in with John Nolte and Sean Davis in wondering why this grand humiliation is being treated as a Hillary scandal instead of a media scandal.
Clinton advance aides create a rope line for the press, moving with the candidate pic.twitter.com/9S7CpVt7x4
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 4, 2015
Davis:
It was a truly embarrassing spectacle, but not for Hillary Clinton. It was embarrassing for the press, because they willingly allow this nonsense to keep happening. It almost appears as though America’s political media are suffering from something approaching Battered Reporter Syndrome: yeah, she tied us up, but only once; she still respects us.
Hillary’s strategy in the face of an all-too-compliant media makes perfect sense. Why wouldn’t she abuse and disrespect them if they’re just going to stand there and take it? She has every reason in the world to keep doing this to them. Thus far, the Clinton campaign’s strategy of either ignoring reporters entirely or using them to broadcast blatantly manipulated nonsense is working pretty well. If campaign reporters are going to allow themselves to be led around like leashed preschoolers on a field trip to the museum, Hillary would be crazy to not treat them like leashed preschoolers on a field trip to the museum.
Precisely. If you want to strain to blame Hillary for the press’s capitulation here, I suppose you could spin their behavior as a product of desperation. She’s spent three months on the trail ducking questions; submitting to the indignity of a moving rope line may be the only way for a reporter to get within shouting distance of asking her something. (Possibly because of the online uproar this weekend over the rope fiasco, Team Hillary’s now vowing that she’ll engage more with the press going forward.) But that doesn’t add up: This was a July 4th parade, surrounded by noise and attended by Hillary only for the pro forma photo op. No one was going to get an answer about her e-mail server shouting at her from 30 feet away behind a rope while she smiled at spectators. This was one of the lowest stakes appearances she’ll make as a candidate, in fact, something that could have been boycotted by the press with no risk of missing out on a newsworthy comment. Instead they submitted to this — for B-roll of her walking and waving. Why?
I’m not even demanding, as Davis is, that they stop covering her entirely until she’s more forthcoming, which is virtuous but unrealistic. I’m asking why they insisted on covering this zero of a public appearance even at the price of being treated like cattle. Is it pro-Democratic bias? Competition among media outlets to not miss a story, even when there’s no actual story? Is it the celebrity factor, the fact that she’s vastly more famous than any other pol in America, Obama excluded? Is it a function of scarcity — i.e. precisely because she’s hidden from the press since April, even the dumbest appearances in public qualify as “news”?
I like this idea on a gut level, but I’m wary:
Marco Rubio should assign handlers with rope to control any NYT reporter covering his events, wait for the outraged howls, and reply "See?"
— Popehat (@Popehat) July 6, 2015
If you want to make the press angry about being treated like animals, have a Republican try it. The question is, if Rubio pulled this same stunt on them and they erupted in indignation, how many outlets would even bother to note that he was merely following Hillary’s lead? Rubio himself would note it and some reporters would note it in passing, but there are ways to make Rubio’s sin seem worse to impressionable voters. Cable news channels could, for instance, note that both candidates had treated the media this way while only showing footage of Rubio’s rope line. They could invent distinctions to explain why it’s sort of understandable when Hillary does it but not when Rubio does (“the crush of media is worse for her,” “she’s already given hundreds of press interviews during her career while the newbie senator hasn’t”). Essentially, encouraging the GOP to pull this same tactic, even purely as a demonstration of how bizarre and untoward Hillary’s tactics are, might give the media too much credit in thinking they’d appreciate it. They might actually use it against us.
Update: Just a suggestion.
Hillary should choose two reporters at random from the pool to wrestle, with the winner granted an exclusive interview
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) July 6, 2015
MSNBC Panel Laughs at Hillary's Communication Director Palmieri As She's Struggling with Media Rope
The rope was too small and there were no handy big trees........................
I guess so
When you see the media, now we can yell, “Get a rope!”....................
Wrestle? With Hillary?................
There is no better proof that the media are willing shills for liberal politicians than they were willing to be lead around on a leash like obedient dogs and no one objected. Imagine the hell that would have been raised if any GOP candidate tried this
In this case I am with HilLIARy... why does the press think they can go anywhere and do anything?
They should not be walking IN THE PARADE taking pictures. It’s not a press conference.
When you see the media, now we can yell, “Get a rope!”
I think that most “reporters” should be handled with a rope. But I had a slightly different application in mind.
“Ropin’ Ropin’ Ropin’
See them votes are stolen
Keep the press reportin’,
She’s high!
Screw Rain and wind and weather
At night she’s wearin’ leather
Wishin’ some gal was by her side
All the things she’s missin’
A strapon, booze, and kissin’
Are waiting for the end of her ride
Keep ‘em back
(Shut em’ up!)
Shut em’ up
(Keep ‘em back!)
Keep ‘em back
(Shut em’ up!)
Gay Pride!
She’s the one
(Stuff the votes!)
Stuff the votes
(She’s the one!)
She’s the Gal
(What’s Benghazi? HIDE!)
Excellent. I love it
Thanks for the belly laugh, after last week we all need it!
She's been given all the answers in advance. Her every move is engineered to maximize public manipulation. Nothing is allowed to mar her phonied-up image.....least of all the media.
Her well-rehearsed salvo against China musta focus-grouped bigtime under the category: "Things Peons Want to Hear Hillary Say."
She's scripted to run as if she's already gotten the office.....and not actually running for office.
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Charles Van Doren of quiz show infamy was chosen to be the winner even before he stepped into the spotlight. He was groomed to win ....he was given the winning answers in advance. He merely played the part of a contestant.
The PBS series "Pioneers of Television" revealed that even the temperature of the studio was spiked at the appropriate time....and the camera cued to get a close-up of Van Doren nervously wiping his brow----duping audiences into believing he was sweating-out the answers... the answers he had been given before the broadcast.
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Although its difficult to actually think like the cunning Clintons--it's obvious the Hillary Show is a well-produced and choreographed Clinton production....from top to bottom.
Bill's waiting offstage to pocket the billion dollar Big Payoff.
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