Posted on 07/06/2015 7:03:02 PM PDT by lbryce
Full title:Hillary spokesman: We roped off the media like animals to keep her parade appearance from becoming “chaotic"
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.
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So, what is your take on it? would you consider this a Hillary scandal or a media scandal?
I consider it irrefutable proof that the media is owned by the DemocRAT Party.
It would be amusing to watch Ted Cruz submit them to the same treatment, though.
She loses the media...she is done.
It would be quite amusing to have one of the GOP candidates always do exactly what Hillary does. I imagine the press reaction would always be significantly more harsh when the Republican does it.
Those pants. THAT TARGET....
Reporters don’t cross the line in North Korea or Iran... Hillary would be happy there.
Other than that it was the usual hard ball questions - like, ‘what kind of ice cream do you like Hillary... oops We mean ‘your Majesty’...
Not only that see the confederate flag in
background
Perfect! Great point. Great visual. Should go viral!
Hillary laughed referring to press control, “we call that one the rope a dope” [cackle]
Great article.
‘Warning’ next time before you post ......THAT.
My God. Forgive me for even thinking this. I wonder what she would look like at age two, in a car seat.
In the bottom of one of the many lakes in Illinois.
Just a diamond in the rough.
Yep, that’s the confederate flag alright.
I consider it Kabuki Theatre.
The 'message' of the play is that Hillary is so popular that they have to rope off the reporters to keep them from trampling her to death.
To be fair, most of them actually behave like animals. So, I find it difficult to find fault here, although it is an embarrassing photo.
AFAIK, that photo has been edited (or the others without the Confederate Flag were edited).
Multiple versions of that picture exist, and most of them don’t have the flag showing up there.
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