Posted on 07/11/2016 9:38:18 PM PDT by Trumpinator
What’s more vexing, the media's insistence that Hillary Clinton hold a press conference—which she hasn’t since December 2015—or Clinton’s refusal to accede to their demand?
To hear reporters talk about it, Clinton’s unwillingness to participate in a freewheeling but formal forum with reporters has risen to a central issue of the campaign, with everybody from the Washington Post to ABC News to New York magazine hectoring her about her press conference avoidance. Clinton isn’t having any of it, insisting at the end of May in an appearance on Jake Tapper’s CNN program The Lead that she’s made herself plenty available to the media, giving nearly 300 interviews in 2016 alone. Yes, yes, said Tapper, interviews, but how about conducting an actual press conference? Story Continued Below
“Oh, I’m sure we will,” Clinton blithely promised, a promise that five weeks later she has still not kept.
A press conference has no leader, no controlling authority to rule questions out of order, no policeman to hold back anarchy. The competitive pressures at a press conference are like those at a debate, only the questioners are in higher or more intense competition with one another. Journalists asking questions at a press conference hope to make news with their questions, even if the politician doesn’t answer properly. Indeed, a tough question that is dodged in a press conference can often be more newsworthy than a question adequately answered. If debates are about closure, press conference are about conflict. This chaos brings out the worst in Clinton, who craves and thrives in more controlled environments, something she’s very aware of. Jorge Ramos unsettled Clinton with a couple of press-conference-style questions at the March 2016 Univision debate, asking repeatedly if she would drop out of the race if indicted for her email indiscretions.
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Well that is a trait we want and president...not.
Chaos for Trump is like like a tonic. Bring it.
Does this mean a press conference is coming under very favorable circumstances?
It would be curious to imagine a four-year period of President Hillary and how her staff would be working 24/7 to maintain the “controlled environment”. Perhaps one single news conference over the whole four year period? Imagine her doing one and the COUGH problem occurs again?
Eventually some idiot from CNN will ask....what exactly does the cough come from and have you been to a doctor?
I can see it now:
Reporter #1 please stand and read the question you were given.
Reporter #2, please stand and read the question you were given.
Reporter #3, please stand and read the question you were given.
I think Putin will enjoy making her environment chaotic as will ISIS and al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood and the Chinese and the Iranians and the....
You get the idea.
It’s pretty obvious that Clinton intends to ride the BLM Express to the White House.
Trump should find a way to ridicule Shrillary for being so afraid to face the press. As has been said, she’s spent more time answering FBI agents than having press conferences in the past 7 months (not that the FBI agents gave her any tough questions, either).
It used to be the MSM would get all in a tizzy if George W. Bush hadn’t faced the press in a few weeks, but they let Shrillary go 7+ months in hiding without a peep about it. Not to mention how Obozo never gives a real press conference, but only invites a couple of carefully chosen questioners..... the ‘Rats are allowed to manipulate the MSM completely.
Mrs Clinton, did you kill Vince Foster?
Mrs Clinton, what was your involvement in the Waco Massacre where you, Janet Reno and Weasly Clark killed over 70 innocent men women and children?
Mrs Clinton, how do you justify the defrauding of hundreds of retirees in the Whitewater scandal?
Mrs Clinton, why did you laugh and joke after helping a child molester win his case when you knew full well he was guilty?
Mrs Clinton, do you feel any remorse for conducting cover-ups and enabling your rapist husband while he was president?
Mrs Clinton, does it bother you that your husband is a rapist and child molester?
And finally Mrs Clinton:
Why did you let Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans die while desperately defending the facility in Benghazi Libya, without lifting a finger, or otherwise responding to their hundreds of requests for assistance?
They kissed Obamas ass for going on eight years while letting him slide on press conferences now they politely are asking Hillary to talk to them . Press conferences are a thing of the past and you brought it on yourselves media.
In a Presidente Hillary press conference reporters will be able to ask any questions they want.
However, if she doesn’t like the question she will raise her right hand.
An aide will then stamp the right hand of the reporter with a yellow star.
When it is time to leave the press conference all reporters with a yellow star will be escorted out the right side of the auditorium—into the gas chamber in the next room.
That is called “freedom of the press” Hillary style.
I'll be shocked if she actually has a debate with Trump. Why would she ever bother with a press conference?
For example, "Did you ever send classified material over your email." "I never once sent email that was marked CLASSIFIED." [Because we all know she'd even told her underlings to remove the markings in at least one instance]
EVERYTHING this wretch says in her evasive answers are carefully constructed. And that takes time which she doesn't have in a press conference.
When Hill the shrew has a press conference she calls upon “reporters”, she has in her hip pocket to ask her planted soft ball questions.
It is always phony with these klintoons.
Worked for the little boy now in office.
Obviously a whole passel of very stupid black folk out there as they ALL voted for the maggot twice. And he never did squat for any of them.
the actuality is that out of a tightly controlled situation, she cannot function
there is really no there there
How evil are the Republicans? Could you limit your answer to 20 minutes please?
Explain to us how you will be the best President ever?
As a follow up question - How evil are the Republicans? I know that's redundant, but I think you missed a couple of points. I'm not going to let up until I think I've got a complete answer.
Describe the utopia that will ensue upon your election to the Presidency.
Just how stupid are the people who say you're not qualified to be President?
After you're elected, are you going to exile your enemies, or send them off to camps? Wouldn't the latter option be the best, so that America never has to endure their evil again?
That was exactly how they managed 8 years of BJ Clinton’s presidency; they never exposed him to an impartial press conference. Every question would have been about his sexcapades (both before and after Monica).
So many potentially damaging questions and not enough believable lies to put them to rest......Hillary’s in a bit of a dilemma.
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