Amy Chozick, a reporter on the Hillary beat for The New York Times, reviewed how the 2016 Hillary campaign would be different than the losing 2008 effort. Late in the story, the subject turned to the managing the press. When you fuss at them for forcing them into making news with “unanticipated questions,” they abjectly apologize!
For example, last month in Little Rock, Ark., a Politico reporter, Mike Allen, lobbed a couple of unexpected questions at Mr. Clinton after he delivered prepared remarks at the “Playbook Cocktails with Bill Clinton” event.
Mr. Clinton made news by questioning whether Mr. Obama’s delay on an immigration overhaul affected the weak turnout of Latinos in the midterm elections. Mr. Clinton’s team appeared livid with the organizers about the unanticipated questions.
"I had misunderstood the parameters, and I’m very sorry about that,” Mr. Allen said. A spokesman for Mr. Clinton declined to comment.
Apparently, liberal reporters should know instinctively you should never ask Bill Clinton to advise Obama out loud....even if Clinton can’t resist second-guessing the current president’s moves.
Allen, a former New York Times reporter, is held up as a quintessential (and possibly the most influential) Washington reporter in Times reporter Mark Leibovich's book This Town.
