Going backwards
Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, the student who claimed Hillary staffers used her to plant a question, now says she wasn’t the only one. Plus, the entire experience has put her off politics:
Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, a 19-year-old sophomore at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, said that giving anyone specific questions to ask is “dishonest,” and the whole incident has given her a negative outlook on politics.
Alienating the youth vote probably isn’t a good move for Hillary.
In other news, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer has been warned! There will be none of that question asking business at the next debate. Via Drudge:
‘This campaign is about issues, not on who we can bring down and destroy,’ top Clinton insider explains. ‘Blitzer should not go down to the levels of character attack and pull ‘a Russert.’
For the record, here’s what “a Russert” looks like:
“Senator Clinton, Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer has proposed giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. You told the Nashua, N.H., editorial board it makes a lot of sense. Why does it make a lot of sense to give an illegal immigrant a driver’s license?”
Asking a candidate a question based on their own expressed views on a specific issue? How dare he, that character assassin!
In all seriousness, does anyone in the major media care that the Hillary Clinton campaign is actively trying to intimidate journalists into staying away from tough questions?