>From the Chicago Tribune
by Rick Pearson
AUSTIN, Texas---Perhaps a better dateline would be the Texas flush-handle.
Yes, it was a night where journalism turned into urinalism for the
traveling Hillary Clinton press corps, which is covering the Democratic
presidential candidate making a speech at a rally at a sports facility.
Ann Compton, the veteran ABC News radio correspondent, said the
press digs were among the more unusual she has seen. But, she added, if
it was the White House in charge of the event, they would have put
potted plants in the urinals and turned them into planters.
In any event, the Clinton campaign maintains that the filing center
was not a reaction to the campaign’s complaints that the New York
senator has been getting a lot more scrutiny than her rival, Barack
Obama of Illinois.
Yet the campaign housed the press in the bathroom/athletic training room for
about 5 hours. Was that a stall tactic?
But in a campaign that hasn’t exactly been flush with success
lately, and is looking to remain viable in Tuesday’s primaries, it’s
not unusual to wonder what the Clinton camp was thinking. Perhaps,
yellow journalism?
Posted by Frank James on March 3, 2008 9:54 PM |
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