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by ratelimitsteve 1y ago
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-214428/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clin...
>We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to [take] them seriously.
It's the "tell the press to take them seriously" that's the giveaway here.
- gruez 1y agoSo to summarize, there was an internal campaign memo discussing their strategy when communicating with the media. That's... exactly what I'd expect from a political campaign? Do you expect political campaigns to be running around like headless chickens with everyone ad libing their interviews? Yes, there's "instructing the media", but only insofar as telling their campaign's narrative, which again I'd expect all political campaigns to do. Maybe if there was actual emails of the Clinton campaign strongarming media organizations to adopt their positions there would be a scandal, but the fact that the strongest evidence seems to be an internal campaign memo suggests no such emails exist.