In early July, the Washington Post put together a handy online clock that shows just how long it’s been since Hillary Clinton held a press conference. As of Thursday afternoon, the counter stands at 258 days.
Here's handy tool for tracking how long it's been since HRC held a press conference, via @pbump: so far, 258 days https://t.co/hQeTAXWiQ5
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) August 18, 2016
Chris Cillizza did the math and worked out that Clinton hasn’t taken questions from the press in 8.5 months, long enough for a woman to have conceived a child and prepared the nursery for her new arrival.
If you conceived on the day Hillary Clinton last held a press conference, you would be 8.5 months pregnant today https://t.co/5SwyaulCrS
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) August 18, 2016
https://twitter.com/freedlander/status/766365052135940096
Come on, indeed. As we’ve said before, just because the media is rooting for Clinton doesn’t exactly mean she has any less disdain for them than Donald Trump does. He, of course, never tires of expressing his dislike of the “crooked media,” while Clinton flat-out ignores any question that might make it past security and into her range of hearing.
It’s much like that promised California debate with Bernie Sanders — it couldn’t possibly benefit her, so why risk it?
As a supporter of her's I really want her to be hit harder on this. Bugs the hell out of me.
— Sean Roper (@MrSeanRoper) August 18, 2016
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What’s depressing is that most Clinton supporters don’t seem to want her to lower herself to acknowledge the media and argue that she’s perfectly right to ignore their questions.
I don't understand this obsession. Do you really like press conferences that much or just the gaffs that come out of them?
— Scott Landis (@ScottCLandis) August 18, 2016
who cares. Why should Hillary do anything that would jeopardize her opportunity to win at this point. Can't risk a Donald Victory!
— Enough (@ehartman1975) August 18, 2016
why should she? So you can just ask her why nobody likes her?
— Chris (@Schaloob) August 18, 2016
@washingtonpost Y'all really REALLY want to ask her why she's "so unlikable" again, don'tcha?
— Bette Davis Sideeyes (@jaciem) August 18, 2016
And she'll win by a landslide. Ordinary people do not want to see you folks rehash the emails over and over again live. Sorry
— SportyTech (@Cloudee81) August 18, 2016
For what purpose, @TheFix? So you can ask her about the emails & why she is unlikeable for the umpteenth time? Oh, please! @washingtonpost
— Cindy McNary (@Nadomom) August 18, 2016
https://twitter.com/pmuss2/status/766402172070273024
Are Trump’s new campaign hires writing any of this down? Emails, likability … Clinton fans do NOT want these issues addressed.
https://twitter.com/SharpObserver/status/766358341878775812
@washingtonpost Pls leave her alone until she has secured the Presidency. She's talking and listening to the VOTERS right now.
— AY Allgood (@ayallgood) August 18, 2016
Sounds like standard operating procedure to us. Just leave her alone until she’s president, and then maybe she’ll take your questions.
no one cares. So you could ask her about the emails and why no one likes her? Profound.
— graduation kitty (@wildcardriggins) August 18, 2016
No one cares, so stop asking.
"No one" https://t.co/qGDhlDBbu9
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) August 18, 2016
No story on Hillary Clinton would be complete without charges of sexism and/or racism, so why doesn’t the Washington Post’s racist tracking tool count the press conference Clinton gave at the joint gathering of the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists earlier this month?
You would actually be 11 days pregnant. https://t.co/BzT1t32E2W
— Irregular but not Outlandish (@spiderstumbled) August 18, 2016
You aren't counting her press conference at @NABJ earlier this month?
— Craig Pittman (@craigtimes) August 18, 2016
So are you going on the record to say you don't believe the NABJ/NAHJ aren't "press"?
— Noboru Akimoto (@NobAkimoto) August 18, 2016
I have no idea why the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists doesn't count.
— Irregular but not Outlandish (@spiderstumbled) August 18, 2016
Racism, obviously. That, or the fact that after a speech, Clinton took questions from the two journalists moderating the conference and then answered questions from three reporters in the audience, two of whom had reportedly been selected ahead of time.
The Clinton campaign’s press secretary, Brian Fallon, sure thought it looked a lot like a press conference.
Pretty sure she is standing at a podium taking questions on a broad range of topics from national print and TV reporters
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) August 5, 2016
Reporters, however, did not.
.@NABJ/@NAHJ president describes today's event with Clinton as a large press conference.
It is not.
— Dan Merica (@merica) August 5, 2016
Hillary Clinton about to speak and take a few questions from journalists (including @kwelkernbc @lorimontenegro) at #NABJNAHJ16 convention
— Monica Alba (@albamonica) August 5, 2016
Which is, for the record, not a press conference. https://t.co/OW9LaqnY1A
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) August 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/llerer/status/761600582356439040
Clinton introducer at #NABJNAHJ16 calls her Q-and-A a large press conference. It's not a press conference.
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) August 5, 2016
So why the obsession with a presidential candidate who refuses to address questions that haven’t been pre-screened and asked by reporters approved by the campaign?
She CAN'T hold a press conference; she'll have to lie about her lies & confuse herself (short circuit). Better for her to be mute.
— Speakheartedly (@speakheartedly) August 18, 2016
@instapundit Did Marie Antoinette hold press conferences with little people? No. So eat your cake and enjoy it!
— Ian (@JR767RDU) August 18, 2016
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