TODAY AFTER THE NY TIMES E-MAIL AND BENGHAZI STORIES, HILLARY ANSWERS A FEW QUESTIONS
In a Cedar Falls "listening event" Hillary did a quick little pivot and answered a few questions from reporters --- let's see exactly what she had to say about any of it.
Hillary says the Blumenthal E-Mails were just like "talking with a friend..."
YEAH, RIGHT !
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Five questions?
About five minutes of questions and answers in a hit or miss situtation? A simple "NO" to a question about actual or potential conflicts of interest?
Calling her Blumenthal emails - "talking to an old friend from before politics"?
Who is Hillary Clinton trying to kid.
UPDATE: THE “HILLARY, I DON’T THINK THEY LIKED IT AS MUCH AS YOU DID” EDITION
HILLARY’S FLASH-PRESS-CONFERENCE IS NOT GETTING GREAT REVIEWS FROM — GUESS WHO ? — “SURVEY SAYS [DING, DING, DING, DING ! ! !] – THE PRESS...”
Here’s my quick Google search at 4:15 PM EDT for “Hillary Clinton News” [https://www.google.com/search?q=Hillary+Clinton+News&oq=Hillary+Clinton+News&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i59j69i60.8776j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=Hillary+Clinton+News&tbm=nws]:
“I Don't Believe Hillary Clinton
National Journal? - 3 hours ago
I don't believe Hillary Rodham Clinton when she says—as she did at a brief news ...
Hillary Clinton Breaks Her Silence After 28 Days of Avoiding the Press
ABC News? - 12 mins ago
After 40150 minutes, Hillary Clinton takes some questions from the press
Washington Post? - 2 hours ago
Hillary Clinton on her emails: I want them out, too
Politico-1 hour ago
Hillary Clinton and the State Department on Tuesday insisted they are not slow-walking the public release of her emails during her time as ...
GOP fumbles latest attack on Hillary Clinton's email use
CBS News-4 hours ago
Yes, Hillary Clinton should answer more questions. Let's just ask the ...
Opinion-The Week Magazine-8 hours ago
Hillary Clinton May Not Need a Second Chance to Make a First ...
In-Depth-New York Times-4 hours ago
Hillary Clinton is defending her 'loyal old friends.' Here's why that's a ...
Blog-Washington Post (blog)-1 hour ago
Who should get the black vote? Not Hillary Clinton
Opinion-Baltimore Sun-4 hours ago
.... ”
And remember, Google is known to use a search algorithm that protects Hillary Clinton.
Hillary's new campaign slogan.
You have the right to remain silent.
UPDATE: THE “NEW YORK TIMES’ SHARPSHOOTER” EDITION
[PART 1 of 2]
TIMES’ SHIFTS FROM ITS HEAVY CALIBER BROADSIDE AGAINST HILLARY CLINTON ABOUT BENGHAZI, E-MAIL SECRECY AND THE BLUMENTHAL CONNECTION TO WELL-AIMED SNIPER SHOTS ABOUT HER NIXON-LIKE REINTRODUCTION AND SIMPLISTIC ANSWERS FOR THE LOCAL IOWA “BUSINESS PEOPLE”
If one were to look at two of today’s two pieces in the NY Times about Hillary Clinton penned by Amy Chozick, one would be hard pressed to find any abiding animus or aggressive agenda on display, either by the reporter herself or on the part of the news organization for whom she works. Nonetheless, if I wanted to characterize what I see as a sub-text in each of Chozick’s articles in the most extreme terms, I’d call it “silken savagery” or “sharpshooting with a silencer equipped sniper’s rifle.”
The first of Chozick’s articles that I read on-line Tuesday evening was a back-grounder about Hillary Clinton, which seemed to be a pitch that Hillary didn’t need to be introduced or even re-introduced because she is so well known. More or less, according to Amy Chozick, what Hillary needed to do in the early campaign leading up to 2016 was to tweak her image rather than change much of her real self (See “Hillary Clinton May Not Need a Second Chance to Make a First Impression” by Amy Chozick, 5/19/15 [this article appears in the print editions of the NY Times on 5/20/15], NY Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/us/politics/hillary-clinton-may-not-need-a-second-chance-to-make-a-first-impression.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article]).
So far so good, right ? Not so fast.... Her comes the silken savagery in the form of this stiletto-like comparison: “... Not since Richard M. Nixon mounted a comeback in 1968, historians and pollsters say, has a candidate entered a presidential contest with so low a bar for name recognition or so high a bar for changing voters’ opinions....” And if you need more, there’s this: “...the campaign playbooks of Nixon and Mrs. Clinton seem to share some pages.... Nixon strove to show a more casual side by bypassing journalists and staging town-hall-style events — orchestrated by his media consultant, Roger Ailes — at theaters across the country packed with friendly audiences. Taking softball questions, he kept to his talking points and struck television viewers as more relaxed than the sweaty man they remembered from his debates against John F. Kennedy in 1960....” The comparison of Hillary emerging like a phoenix from her immolation by Obama is not any kind of stretch; and Chozick dives in without making any splash whatsoever.
[Part 2 of 2 is continued in the next Comment below]
UPDATE: THE “NEW YORK TIMES’ SHARPSHOOTER” EDITION
[PART 2 of 2]
AMY CHOZICK DESCRIBES HILLARY CLINTON'S APPEARANCE IN CEDAR FALLS WITH CLARITY, AS SHE SHOWS CLINTON'S "SIMPLE SOLUTION" TO HER PROBLEMS WITH THE PRESS AND THE LOCALS
Chozick’s second item in today’s Times is much more a straight reporting gig about Hillary’s appearance with small business people at a Cedar Falls bike shop (See “Hillary Clinton Talks to Small-Business Owners in Iowa, Then Gives Reporters a Turn” by Amy Chozick, 5/19/15 [this article also appears in the print editions of the NY Times on 5/20/15], NY Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/us/politics/hillary-clinton-says-law-is-hurting-small-banks-and-businesses.html?_r=0]). As the title clearly states, it also deals with the abbreviated question and answer session with the press held at the back end of the room.
Chozick sets it all up with this: “Tuesday’s event and the question-and-answer session after it — her first since April 21 — underscored the tension between Mrs. Clinton’s desire to establish a comfortable rapport with voters on issues she believes they care about and journalists’ intent to question her about stories that have dogged her nascent campaign, threatening to throw her off message....”
The Times writer then describes how Hillary solved this enigmatic puzzle. Answer by answer, Chozick shows that Hillary’s solution is simpler than simplicity itself. Simplify every answer, whether to the business folks or Cedar Falls or the national press, to the point of being simplistic; for example, tell the locals that you favor deregulating local banks, but not Wall Street Banks; and tell the newsies that there is a simple answer to questions about taking donations while Secretary of State and/or speaking fees from big business interests while running for president — and that answer is a very simple “No.”
Deregulate local banks but not Wall Street Banks? Does former Senator Hillary think everybody in the room is a rube?
When she was a senator, Hillary Clinton couldn't find a Wall Street Bank that wasn't her friend.
Did former Senator Hillary forget that the mortgage melt-down in 2007-2008 that caused the Clinton-Bush Great Recession was a result of Bill Clinton-era economics and banking deregulation? Bad residential mortgages spurred by the Community Reinvestment Act were an infection that spread from local banks, local savings and loans, and large and small mortgage companies to the national banks and the Wall Street Banks.
Maybe former Senator Hillary needs current Senator "Elizabeth" nipping at her heels to remind her about that stuff.
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