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Bunker Hillary- How She Muzzles the Media
The New Republic ^ | 11-12-2007 | Michael Crowley

Posted on 11/12/2007 4:55:36 PM PST by billmor

"If grumbling about a basketball story seems excessive, it's also typical of the Clinton media machine. Reporters who have covered the hyper-vigilant campaign say that no detail or editorial spin is too minor to draw a rebuke. Even seasoned political journalists describe reporting on Hillary as a torturous experience. "

(Excerpt) Read more at tnr.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaignstrategy; hillary; media

1 posted on 11/12/2007 4:55:38 PM PST by billmor
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To: billmor

Ping


2 posted on 11/12/2007 4:56:35 PM PST by Broker (Talaga!)
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To: billmor

1. 98% of the pressitutes know she is the Marxist dream they hope for.

2. 2% of the presstitutes fear the FBI files she has in her possession.

3. 100% of the presstitutes know the history of krinton associates and the fatal consequences of those who displease them.


3 posted on 11/12/2007 5:00:47 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: billmor; All
You had to know something like this was coming,

It’s enough to make you suspect that breeding fear and paranoia within the press corps is itself part of the Clinton campaign’s strategy. And, if that sounds familiar, it may be because the Clinton machine, say reporters and pro-Hillary Democrats, is emulating nothing less than the model of the Bush White House, which has treated the press with thinly veiled contempt and minimal cooperation.

4 posted on 11/12/2007 5:01:35 PM PST by dighton
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To: billmor
Article adds little or nothing to our knowledge of the Clinton crime machine. It clearly portrays the media herd however, as pusillanimous and stupid.
5 posted on 11/12/2007 5:08:55 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: dighton

“You had to know something like this was coming,”

Of course !. The truth will always come out. She can run, spin, hide, smear, lambast, ambush, hound to death. mercilessly try to crush people but sooner or later the Truth will come out about her and her socialist agenda...This is still America, with Freedom of the Press, and enough media outlets to lat the light shine on the darkness- including the Internet. Her terror tactics are old and lame, enough already !


6 posted on 11/12/2007 5:09:14 PM PST by billmor
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To: hinckley buzzard

“Article adds little or nothing to our knowledge of the Clinton crime machine. It clearly portrays the media herd however, as pusillanimous and stupid.”

True, but maybe if the Press knows the people are behind them and they do not have to be afraid of her treachery they will get some backbone and will expose her for the weak phony she is. This is after all, a Free Republic—still!


7 posted on 11/12/2007 5:16:55 PM PST by billmor
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To: dighton

Well, duh ! Call somebody stupid, illiterate and a cowboy and see if that person treats the namecaller with comraderie and esteem !

The Clintoons, OTOH, have contempt for the media because they act like stooges and slaves.


8 posted on 11/12/2007 5:24:25 PM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: billmor
It actually is not hard to "muzzle the media" when 99% of them worship her.


9 posted on 11/12/2007 5:32:59 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: billmor
I can't believe I find myself agreeing with Hillary and her people. But here it is:

"Her ground-zero assumption is that [a reporter is] an asshole," a senior Hillary aide told her biographer, Carl Bernstein.

10 posted on 11/12/2007 5:46:53 PM PST by Michael.SF. ("democrat" -- 'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses " - Joseph J. Ellis)
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To: billmor
"There's a Swift Boat around every corner," says one Democratic operative close to the campaign.

ML/NJ

11 posted on 11/12/2007 5:49:49 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: Michael.SF.

“I can’t believe I find myself agreeing with Hillary and her people. But here it is:
“Her ground-zero assumption is that [a reporter is] an asshole,” a senior Hillary aide told her biographer, Carl Bernstein.”

That’s rather prejudicial of you. Some are surely such but not all. My problem is with people like Hillary and celebrities who use the media to serve them when they want but then spit on the media when it doesn’t toe the mark they expect. I despise media that act like lapdogs but I have respect for those trying to get out the truth.


12 posted on 11/12/2007 6:08:08 PM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: dighton; maica
the Bush White House, which has treated the press with thinly veiled contempt and minimal cooperation.

Do they mean the media that asks Pres. Bush five times in one press conference "Aren't you going to apologize?" for something that he didn't even do? We really do live in parallel universes.

13 posted on 11/12/2007 6:14:44 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: caseinpoint
Oh come on.

The comment was tongue in cheek. Get real.

Nothing in life is 100%.

14 posted on 11/12/2007 7:18:14 PM PST by Michael.SF. ("democrat" -- 'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses " - Joseph J. Ellis)
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To: Michael.SF.

Ok, how about a sarc mark for those of us who are pretty obtuse this time of night?


15 posted on 11/12/2007 8:16:05 PM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: Broker

When the press goes to coronate their Queen, this guy will definitely be left off the A-list. Why can’t he be like all the other press guys and just bow down before her? Queen Hillary definitely needs to send her minions to go straighten this guy out.


16 posted on 11/13/2007 1:49:59 AM PST by Gen-X-Dad
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To: Gen-X-Dad
The media can't even write a critical piece on Hillary without making excuses for her.

Every time this author makes a point about the Clinton's secretiveness, manipulation, news spinning and hate/distrust of the media he excuses them with a rationalization as to why it is understandable.

She treats the media like crap and they lap it up.

Of course in the end, Bush did it:
"The Bush administration changed the rules".
Even though he is talking about Clinton conduct 8 years and more before President Bush was elected.


17 posted on 11/13/2007 5:16:39 AM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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To: pbear8

BTTT


18 posted on 11/13/2007 10:26:09 PM PST by pbear8 (Padre Pio please pray for Tony Snow)
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