While Philip Elliott bashed Fox News anchors as zombies and incest enthuiasts in his TIME interview with Megyn Kelly (a question that somehow didn’t make the print edition), when it came to Hillary, he was a Vox-style explainer of the liberal take on politics. At the front of the magazine was a story headlined “Hillary’s new plan to trump Trump – by being boring.”
Boring is a virtue, claimed Elliott and co-author Charlotte Alter (the daughter of longtime Newsweek Clinton-booster Jonathan Alter). Hillary’s top aides “have settled into a governing-over-glamour plan in a way that Trump’s Republican rivals never did, and the candidate has far more discipline and a thicker skin than any of the 16 Trump vanquished.”
The Republicans didn’t try “governing over glamour”? Doesn’t that describe – at least in their minds – the Jeb Bush or John Kasich campaigns? Didn’t Ted Cruz display a thick skin and discipline as Trump trashed him as a liar? TIME writers just have to drag out the superlatives. She’s better than all of those vanquished Republicans. They sound like boasting fans for the home team.
Elliott and Alter described an event at a bakery in northern Virginia with some media self-loathing over reporters asking about Trump's "inflammatory comments" toward her being an Enabler of Bill:
And when harangued by reporters about Trump’s venom, Clinton sounded more Secretary of State than candidate. “I have nothing to say about him and how he’s running his campaign,” Clinton said before whisking off to meet parents picking up their children from a nearby preschool.
As if Hillary’s campaign wasn’t bashing Trump all over the media – in social media, news media, even Hillary-founded “media watchdog” groups.
Hillary is daring to be “so boring you can practically hear the muffins getting crusty,” gushed Elliott and Alter. They concluded with this clunker: “If Donald Trump is the great boor of the 2016 election, then Hillary Clinton is the great bore. This is Clinton’s new groove of snooze.”
