Clinton Campaign Sets Up Texas Primary Press Room: The Men's Bathroom

Wall Street Journal:

It was immediately interpreted as something of a metaphor for the Clinton campaign's attitude to the press: With Sen. Hillary Clinton at Austin's convention center for "a Texas-sized townhall," her media entourage was taken to its work space -- in a men's room of a separate community center.

The tables set up for reporters nearly abutted the urinals. That made for a more spirited rush than usual for the best working space, with female reporters quickly staking out chairs on the small room's opposite side.

One was too late: That left the unlikely scene of Tina Brown -- former editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, friend and biographer of Princess Diana -- gamely typing away close to a toilet. Or, should we say, the loo.

Read the whole story: Wall Street Journal

Comments

[Tankan]

Hillary's way of focusing the mind of the press!

Keeping it as one with her own!

[Bushgirlsgonewild]

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Wrong again, HuffPost.

It's Larry Craig's Parole Officers.

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[geg6]

And she wonders why she gets bad press?

[mrdontplay]

work out of the bathroom.

is this a reflection on how she feels about the press?

[GeorgeKaplan]

"All The News That's Fit For A Smear!" Keep the trash rolling... it's election day!

[DennyCrane]

If you were convinced the press is biased against you and giving your opponent favorable press to the point that it's hurting your campaign, would you stick them in the men's room and give them one more reason to hate you? Doesn't seem very smart. Unless of course you realize the press really isn't biased against you, but you claim they are so they'll feel pressured to go easy on you.

[zendem1]

I heard Hillary's campaign was going into the toilet.

[personalpolitical]

"Ready on Day One!"

Haha, right..

[jkbowman]

Maybe that's Photoshop too...

Hillary's ad: debate footage doctored to make Obama blacker

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/4/21311/85811/447/468408

[AZModerate]

I had no idea she had Larry Craig on her strategy team!

[Grunty1]

Hillary sending a secret message to the Republicans perhaps? Naw, probably not.

[iPolitics]

"The New Nixon: "Hillary has taken her strategy straight out of Tricky Dick's paranoid, press-bashing playbook"

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18074823/the_new_nixon
http://www.alternet.org/election08/75233/
http://www.slate.com/id/2184373/

[m4me08]

Or "yellow journalism"

Ok, really. I mean it. No more. Putting down my keyboard.

[m4me08]

Gives a whole new meaning to trying to "push out a story" or "meet a deadline"

Ok I'll stop now.

[m4me08]

I smell a headline!

[iPolitics]

It's the perfect place to write their final stories as Hillary's run gets flushed down the toilet