The WCFCourier reported yesterday:
In the Courier interview, Clinton again denied her campaign ever suggested it had scandalous information on Obama.
“It’s totally untrue, and I don’t understand what motivates him,” she said of Novak. “He’s not a friend to Democrats, that’s very clear.”
When asked about her reaction to Obama’s response to the column — her campaign has criticized Obama for playing into Republican hands — she said:
You’ll have to ask them why they do what they do, and why they say what they say.”
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- Given the fact that the Hillary campaign often releases information to the Drudge Report (not a friend of Democrats) and also had Fox News chief Rupert Murdoch hold a fundraiser for Hillary (especially not a friend of Democrats), forgive me if it’s a little hard for me to swallow. Can’t some of these journalists ask the tough, hard questions? That should have been the immediate follow-up.
- Also, journalists need to call her out for always pretending like she doesn’t know what her spokespersons are saying and doing. It’s almost as if they aren’t really her spokespersons. She did it for the gender thing and now for this situation. Her campaign plays attack dog and then she denies any association with what her spokespersons say.
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