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Clinton Ignores Press at Mt. Rushmore
May 28, 2008 12:11 PM
ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Gone are the days of five-a-day campaign stops. Enjoying a lighter load on the campaign trail with two stops in South Dakota Wednesday and two stops Thursday Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton played tourist at Mt. Rushmore, ignoring questions and telling the press to "learn something about the monument".
While the New York senator enjoyed the site, she was surrounded buy a U-shape of cameras hoping to get a shot of her looking at the monument while a traveling staffer insisted on standing in front of the her to block the shot. When the staffer refused to move after many calls from the press and other staffers, Clinton turned around and said "this is a tourist occasion."
A reporter attempted to ask Clinton if she could see herself on the famous monument. Clinton just raised her hands in the air and said "I" and sighed. Another reporter asked "Do you think Bill Clinton should be up there?" Clinton didn't answer and said "why don't you learn something about the monument."
Clinton then meandered around the granite platform in front of the site, singing autographs and meeting with well-wishers. Clinton was asked twice what she thought of Scott McClellan's book. Clinton simply ignored the question and kept signing.
The last time Clinton held a press availability was May 15th; today at Mt. Rushmore Clinton certainly had no plans to hold one or take questions from the traveling press. Campaigning in South Dakota Wednesday and Thursday, Clinton will also make stops in Montana on Tuesday,June 3, the same day at the state's primary.
May 28, 2008 in Bush, George W. | Permalink | User Comments (72)
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How is it the media can control this nominating process? It's been a spectacle since the beginning and the ratings will drop, when Hillary is no longer in the debates or being covered by the press...as has been the case since the last two primaries. What a shame we're in an American Idol instant fame culture. If people spent as much time researching their Presidential candidate as they do what kind of TV to buy, this thing could turn out differently. But looks like the liberal media can shove whoever down our throats. I'm glad Hillary took some time for herself and didn't speak to the press at Mt. Rushmore...I'm sure they would have misconstrued whatever she said anyway...implying she wanted to be carved into Mt. Rushmore herself.
Posted by: Debra | May 28, 2008 12:30:04 PM
Annoyed -
The equation is propaganda by media to promote a certain ideology.
Posted by: fact check | May 28, 2008 12:32:35 PM
Good for Hillary. Until the press can learn some manners, she shouldn't give them the time of day. I quit watching TV months ago. It's simply no longer news, just another tabloid.
Posted by: SadStateOfAffairs | May 28, 2008 12:35:10 PM
Hey, revolution is change.
Posted by: boneheaded | May 28, 2008 12:39:00 PM
Ugh...some of the whacked comments on here..
I agree that there will be a momentary drop in ratings when hillary is out so I am not sure what the point of saying that the media is so pro Obama is...
If they hadn't been holding Hillary up for the past few months this would not have gone on this long...any other candidate would have gotten out just like those who ran against Bill did...
but those candidates were running first because they could do something for the country...not first because it was their inherent right.
The media kept her going for ratings...now that dog has barked it's last bark.
Posted by: dl | May 28, 2008 12:43:59 PM
Not to mention all the money that has been spent...as she asking for more money from her supporters ...yet barely spending it...and keeping it all going so she can still say she needs the money...
doesn't that bother all of you Hillary supporters...that money will just pay off her bad financial management.
Posted by: dl | May 28, 2008 12:46:14 PM
Clinton is firing off all sorts of letters and memos claimiing electability.
The one thing that ruins her argument is that she's lost the primary.
I'm sure she thinks she's unbeatable and unstoppable, but she's been beat in the much smaller primary. How can she then tell the super delegates that she can win the even bigger general election?
I can only imagine how much they could lower her already low trustworthiness and honest poll.
Posted by: Lynne | May 28, 2008 12:56:56 PM
Hey Lynne -
Check out the latest polls on honesty and trustworthiness. Obama has dropped like a rock. His approval/disapproval ratings are the same as Clintons.
Posted by: kris | May 28, 2008 12:58:38 PM
I think the press have been more than fair with Hillary.
They never dig on her garbage and she has plenty of it.
The Media however have torn down every little statement that comes out of Obamas mouth, or the Flag Pin crap, etc. I do not see Hillary or McCain wearing a Flag Pin does that make them un-American??? I wish someone on this site will explain that to me.
I also feel her statement on RFK was her not saying it directly but implying it directly.
I cannot see what you people see in her. At all.
I have checked and re-checked both out, who they are, why they voted on bills, why they did not, what they have done in their lifetime to make our life better, their policy, if I can trust them, and Hillary comes out on the bottom every time. She has done more lying about stuff she says she has done then she actually has done. Crazy!
Posted by: Becky | May 28, 2008 12:58:49 PM
Never Obama - Hillary and Bill have omitted the causus results nationwide to spin their popular vote theory.
With the ruling from the Florida court that the DNC can't fully seat Florida delegate, and with delegates deciding the winner, I'm certain her race is over.
There's always 2012...it's not the end of the world.
Posted by: Lynne | May 28, 2008 1:02:05 PM
I'm just waiting for her to pull the divine right bit for the super delegates....
As for the person who equated Mao to Obama...since when was change a bad thing? Or would you prefer Bush for eternity?
Give it up, she lost...and she doesn't have any excuse, not sexism or whatever. She lost because she has super high negatives, and because she is the literal definition of a political machine...campagining in a year when people are trying to escape one of the most effective machines in the last fifty years.
Her problem is that she is Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Chris | May 28, 2008 1:02:48 PM
Let's see---Hillary has a photo-op to say
she doesn't want a photo-op. What a
dishonest sad person who feels such
an entitlement to be president. She is
totally fake and will say and do anything
to win the election, including she and
Bill making up rules to suit them. She
knows the end is near. Obama will win
whether Clinton clones like it or not.
The highest number of delegates win--
which she does not have and can't ever
attain. She and Bill like to make up new
rules and hope some of their clones will
jump on the bandwagon (always a lot of
hanger-ons who just want the Clintons
to think for them).
Posted by: Jim | May 28, 2008 1:04:53 PM
Good luck Mrs Clinton on whatever!! you have my vote.
Posted by: Horace Montgomery | May 28, 2008 1:05:01 PM
Hillary will get this nomination.
(She has lost)
Hillary is winning the electoral vote.
(The general election is 6 months away-she will not be included)
Hillary is winning the popular vote.
(No such thing and impossible to calculate in a primary race. Also untrue)
Hillary is winning the General Election
(Again- polls are not an election and the General election is 6 months away)
Why does she have to be the winner? I supported Ross Perot twice (getting your boy Clinton elected I might add) and I wasn't resentfull he lost.
P.S I have never voted for a democrat for president in my life. Can't wait!
Obama 08!
Posted by: Peacemonky | May 28, 2008 1:06:29 PM
I guess Hillary avoiding the media since May 15th is just a build up of suspense for the concession speech.
Posted by: CWatson | May 28, 2008 1:08:16 PM
Or perhaps she's avoiding the press now because she knows she'd would meet with it at the end of this week for the good news: Florida and Michigan will get full representation.
Posted by: CWatson | May 28, 2008 1:10:25 PM
Ahh the Zionists are at it again! Trying to take out Obama just because he may help reach peace in the middle-east and the world. Do they want peace or permanent conflict in order to give Israel, each year, the $5+ billion of middle-class American's hard earned money! Zioinism is pro-Israel and anti-American. Wonder why the gas prices are going up! Blame the Zionists for siding with permanent occupation of Palestine!
Posted by: Lauren Miller | May 28, 2008 1:10:53 PM
Very nice article,,,keep up the good work.
Posted by: Kissoon Ramawad | May 28, 2008 1:11:14 PM
Hillary is the smartest woman in America.
Posted by: brigitte | May 28, 2008 1:17:25 PM
Hillary's request to learn about the history of Mt. Rushmore should be taken at face value. It's actually quite interesting, particularly if you look at the Indian perspective. They don't view this as a welcome site.
Posted by: Ni Hao | May 28, 2008 1:28:22 PM
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