HILLARY!   COMING SOON TO A TV NEAR YOU – AT 8:14 A.M. ET:   In an act of presidential proportions, Hillary Clinton has apparently condescended to do more media interviews.  We praise our gracious queen for deciding to speak to us, the peasantry.  From Fox: 

Hillary Clinton has decided to make herself more available to the media and will begin doing national television interviews in the next week.

She reached this decision after an internal debate and the move is supported by many top campaign officials, along with her husband, Clinton insiders say.

“She’s all on board,” Jennifer Palmieri, the campaign’s communications director, told me in an interview. “America will see more of her.”

Palmieri played down the notion that the interviews, along with plans to take more questions from reporters on the trail, amount to a risky strategy. “She does fine,” Palmieri says. “That was not a concern.”

The danger, Clinton insiders tell me, is that in today’s Twitter culture, a single misstep or badly chosen phrase can be taken out of context and go viral, drowning out anything else that Clinton is saying. They are also worried that some reporters, given Hillary’s global fame, might try to boost themselves by creating a “gotcha” moment.

But a consensus has formed around the notion that allowing more routine access will drain the drama from each encounter. “The more media interviews you do, the less any one interaction matters,” Palmieri says.

The former president and first lady, as well as campaign chairman John Podesta and others, are said to recognize that keeping the press at arm’s length has damaged her campaign. They concede that her long periods of silence in the face of swirling questions about her private email, speaking fees and Clinton Foundation favor-seeking have hurt her on the crucial issue of public trust.

COMMENT:  Bottom line, it's all about electoral strategy, not the good of the country or respect for its people.  Clinton, Inc. has simply made a business decision.  Let's see what the stockholders say...if we can figure out from the financial statements who the stockholders really are.

July 6, 2015