In the Cheney-like world of HRC, secrecy must be maintained at all costs, and the media spin must be insolubly controlled. A current Politico article documents how she threatened to block access to Bill unless a story she didn't like concerning dissension within her campaign was spiked. Relevant portions are as follows:
Green was not a particular favorite of the Clinton campaign, however. He took the assignment from GQ not long after finishing an unflattering 13,000-word profile in the November 2006 Atlantic Monthly, which concluded that the junior Senator from New York is, more or less, a timid, calculating pol.
"Today Clinton offers no big ideas, no crusading causes — by her own tacit admission, no evidence of bravery in the service of a larger ideal. Instead, her Senate record is an assemblage of many, many small gains. Her real accomplishment in the Senate has been to rehabilitate the image and political career of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Impressive though that has been in its particulars, it makes for a rather thin claim on the presidency. Senator Clinton has plenty to talk about, but she doesn’t have much to say," he wrote.
Green approached the Clinton campaign to discuss the details of the story, which he described to Wolfson over dinner at a downtown Washington, D.C. restaurant, a source familiar with the conversations said.
Soon after that, Carson, who is now Hillary Clinton’s traveling press secretary, told GQ that the former president would not cooperate with Saunders’ planned profile if Green’s piece ran.
This is the same old Clinton / Bush / Clinton media-relations tactics, now from a self-proclaimed "change" candidate. Some might say this is "just how the game is played," but those who lived thru the Carter administration and the Dean campaign know otherwise. Don't accept the usual cynicism about politics. The truth wants to be free.
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