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Fri 28 Dec 2007 12:08
by Kevin McGehee
54° and rain
in Chattanooga, TN
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
[Media Ochre]
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Her Inevitableness has tired of the press.
As she races through Iowa in the days before next week’s caucuses, Hillary Clinton is taking few chances. She tells crowds that it’s their turn to “pick a president,“ but over the last two days she has not invited them to ask her any questions.
Before the brief Christmas break, the New York senator had been setting aside time after campaign speeches to hear from the audience. Now when she’s done speaking, her theme songs blare from loudspeakers, preventing any kind of public Q&A.
She was no more inviting when a television reporter approached her after a rally on Thursday and asked if she was “moved” by Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. Clinton turned away without answering.
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Hillary Clinton’s no-question policy didn’t sit well with some of the Iowans who came to see her speak.
“I was a little bit underwhelmed,“ said Doug Rohde, 46, as he left a rally in a fire station in Denison. “The message was very generic—and no questions.“ » Clinton’s “don’t ask” policy
Her attitude toward the fawning media has been a low-level issue for her campaign for quite some time. Yet the same press corps that went ballistic when John McCain told a reporterette to “get out of here,“ gives Her Inevitableness a pass.
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