This has been edited down a bit, but you get the idea. In the name of meeting the public, Hillary is merely setting up a bunch of advertising shoots with people brought in to play the foils. No Questions. Wouldn’t you like to hear what she would do about the mass murdering of Christians in the Middle East, or her opinion on the Iran negotiations, or the advances of ISIS into Afghanistan? And look how easy it is for her to sucker in the press.
Palm Beach Post
Friday, April 17, 2015
Communication for Clinton is one-way
Hillary Clinton did a presidential candidacy announcement, to be followed up by a series of small conversations as a way to get closer to “the people.”
This — and the road trip to Iowa via one-on-one meetings with carefully selected “average citizens” — does not get her closer to public scrutiny. It insulates her from it. It enables her to create a series of carefully crafted commercials, with little opportunity for the press or the public to ask questions. For Clinton, communication is a one-way street. It is the reason she used private email servers — to avoid having her public communications open to review under the Freedom of Information Act.
This high degree of “message control” by political leaders is dangerous to a free society where a high level of transparency and candor is necessary to an informed voting public.
LARRY HORIST, BOCA RATON
On The Starboard 