Covering the Clinton Campaign in Seven Easy Steps!

[cali]

Andrew Romano
right. The rest of the press is in its holding pen.

Everyone knows that Hillary Clinton is wary of the media. Here's what that means, in real time, on the trail:

Step One: Receive an email from "Clinton Campaign, Press Office" saying that on Saturday, November 17 at 9:30 a.m. PST, Sen. Clinton will tour the Sheet Metal Workers International Association (SMWIA) Apprenticeship Facility at 2540 Marco Street, Las Vegas, Nevada--and that said tour is "OPEN PRESS."

Step Two: Go to 2540 Marco Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, where you are immediately told that, while Sen. Clinton is still planning to tour the facility, you, as a member of the press, are not actually allowed to tour it with her. Sigh.


Step Three: Follow a Clinton staffer and a dozen or so reporters and cameramen to a workroom in the far corner of the Apprenticeship Facility, then, at the staffer's command, assemble on the left side of a large table--and the left side only. Instead of a tour, you get a holding pen. "After she enters, Sen. Clinton will stop here"--indicates the opposite side of the table--"to speak with the facility director," the staffer will say. "You are to stay there. Then she will come over here"--walks to another table--"where she will look at these products. You will stay behind that piece of tape. Then she will exit through that door"--points to one side of the room--"and I will lead you out over there"--points to the opposite side of the room. Crack up when a colleague imitates the cheery Clinton staffer: "And this is the room where you can go f**k yourself!"

Step Four: Wait for 20 minutes in the empty workroom. Admire the sheet-metal shark hanging from the ceiling. "Don't worry," the Clinton staffer will say to a dark-suited Secret Service agent, "We're not leaving them unattended." Turn toward the entrance when someone shouts, "It's Hillary!" Turn away from the entrance when you realize it's Hilarie Grey, Clinton's Nevada communications director. Admire the sheet-metal helicopter hanging from the ceiling. Laugh when a reporter says, "Maybe she's going to bring some knives--and then, you know, we'll watch her sharpen them." Stop laughing.

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Read the rest at:

http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2007/11/19/covering-the-clinton-campaign-in-seven-easy-steps.aspx

[hedgehog]

1. So, President Hillary Clinton will treat the press differently than

President George Bush how?

[cali]

2. not a good sign at all.

I thought this blog entry was quite enlightening.