I think there are times when most of us who have
come to support Mr. Trump wish that he would maybe spend just a bit less time
in front of reporters. But then, I
suppose, if he was to do that he wouldn’t be Trump. And you have to give him credit, he’s not
afraid to answer the tough questions.
And he said lots (and lots) of things during his hour-long town hall
with Fox News's Sean Hannity on Wednesday night. One thing, however, did kind of stand
out. It was something he said, in
talking about Hitlery. It was when he
said, “She is so protected. They are so
protecting her. She hasn't had a news
conference in, like, 250 days.”
And so I starting thinking, has it really been that
long since Hitlery has actually talked to the press? Now I knew it had been quite a while since
the old girl had ventured out in front of reporters, at least in a venue that
wasn’t pretty heavily staged and biased in her favor, because I’ve been
watching various news shows where there have been the subject of
conversation. But I guess I just hadn’t
realized how long it really had been. It’s
now been almost 258 days! It's beyond
ridiculous that one of the two people who will be elected president in 80 or so
days continues to refuse to engage with the press in any meaningful way.
But still, there are those supporters of hers who
will say, and very proudly so, that the fact she hasn’t done any press
conferences is just not that big of a deal because what she has done is to so several
sit-down type of interviews! And oh by the way, they’ll say, she has done
something that was called a "press conference", albeit with a
moderator moderating the questions. Now
from my point of view, and not just because I’m a ‘NeverHitlery’ kind of guy,
that’s simply not good enough.
Especially not when you are running to be president of the United States
and despite the fact that your last name just happens to be Clinton.
One of the most important things, when someone is
offering themselves up to represent all of us, is that we get the best sense we
can about how that person thinks on his or her feet and how they deal with
unwanted or adversarial types questions. Those two traits are big parts of
doing the job of president in the modern world.
There's nothing like a press conference to put a candidate for president
through their paces. If you don't believe
me, remember how badly Hitlery has bungled her many attempts at trying to put
her private email server controversy behind her. Things haven’t exactly gone all that well.
Hitlery's struggles with the press conference format
are a major part of why she hasn't done one in so long. She, simply put, really sucks at them, sucks
bad. So why do something that you know
that you’re not very good at unless you fell you absolutely have to? If
campaigns are about downplaying your weaknesses while putting your strengths
front and center, Hitlery's avoidance of press conferences is "Campaigning
101." And barring anything but her
taking some severe hit in the polls, I very much doubt that we will be seeing
her availing herself to the media anytime soon,
regardless of the fact that they alway treat her with kid gloves.
Now I do think that on any given day Trump does tend
to dominate the news coverage, if for no other reason than he’s not afraid to
face reporters. So one tends to not
notice Hitlery's unwillingness to face unscripted, unmoderated questions from
reporters unless one goes looking. And
let’s face it, those in the state-controlled media would much rather blow out
of proportion something that Trump has said than to spend time talking about
anything substantive that relates to Hitlery.
So in an effort to put this all into perspective, think of it this way,
the last time Hitlery held a press conference was Dec. 5, 2015. And that was before:
1. A single state had cast a vote in either a
presidential primary or caucus
2. Major terrorist attacks in Nice, Brussels and
Orlando
3. FBI Director James Comey issued his scathing
report on Hitlery's email practices while at the State Department
4. The Bernie Sanders phenomenon
5. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was run out of the
Democrat National Committee in the wake of a massive email hack attack
Another way you can look at it is that the
temperature in Washington on Dec. 5, 2015, was 44 degrees. Today it got up to 85. Or, a woman who conceived on Dec. 5, 2015,
would be 8½ months pregnant today. Also,
on December 5, 2015, the Golden State Warriors were NBA champs. So you get the idea. It's been a long time, a long time. Now, if you can believe any of the recent
polls Hitlery would at least seem to be the favorite to become the 45th
president. So the fact that she
continues to avoid questions from the press is simply unacceptable given the
office that she is seeking and the stakes involved in this election.
But look, Hitlery has any number of reasons for
avoiding a press conference, and to do so like the plague. She always looks rehearsed and her voice is
worse than fingernails across a chalkboard, and she never really looks all that
well. I can’t help but feel that they
are hiding her ill health and her inability to connect with people that isn't
robotic and rehearsed. Besides, the
state-controlled media never really holds her, or anyone on her staff or her
organization, accountable so why hold a press conference. Real unbiased reporting has long since died anyway.
Thank God commonsense is still alive, albeit to a somewhat lesser degree than
it once was.
And ya know, even those reporting on the fact that she hasn’t done a press conference in over 250 days have had no problem with giving her a pass on it. Many even treat it as being nothing more than a joke. But you can bet your bottom dollar that if it were Trump who was busying himself first running and then hiding from the press, the media would be going after him full tilt, and it would be regardless of whether he was ahead or behind in the polls. But since it’s Hitlery, who most in the media will be voting for, it’s seen as being no big deal that she’s behaving as little more than a recluse from the American people.
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