The media realizes that thing is going to end badly. There’s no hope of a shared ticket or party unity at this point. Hillary can’t find a friend and is probably looking at several years of damage control. It doesn’t sound like the media is going to help her this time:
After a laborious second rally in Brookings, where she was confronted on her brother’s arrest and her husband’s pardon scandal and seemed beaten down at times, one reporter played the song “You’ve Had a Bad Day” — used on American Idol to send off losing contenders — on his laptop as Clinton staffers boarded the press bus.
And on the press plane from South Dakota to New York, a gaggle of reporters dished on the state of the campaign over rounds of beers, laughing and joking loudly about what they judged to be an awful response to her “assassination” remarks at an editorial board meeting in South Dakota – as the Senator herself sat just a dozen rows ahead.
One friendly Clinton staffer came back to join what looked like a fun conversation, but turned back as the reporters kept up their Clinton bashing. Another walked back to use the bathroom, crossing through the gaggle as some reporters ridiculed the Senator for one thing after another. Neither party spoke to the other.
The eroding relationship between the press and the campaign isn’t malicious; it’s more that the traveling press doesn’t feel the need to disguise disdain or second guessing. It knows a dying beast when it sees one.
I’m waiting for the “Bill Clinton Shocked by Wife’s Remarks - Seeks Divorce” headline.
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