http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/19/hillary-s-media-generals-prepare-for-war.htmlHillary’s Media Generals Prepare for War
Lloyd Grove
With a presidential run in the cards, and as her email controversy continues to rumble, Hillary Clinton is assembling a tried-and-trusted set of defenders around her.
Call them the four horsemen—or maybe it’s five or six; the number keeps growing—of Hillary Clinton’s media apocalypse.
They include old Clinton hands like James Carville, Lanny Davis, Karen Finney, and Kiki McLean—plus erstwhile recording industry lobbyist Hilary Rosen and antagonist-turned-acolyte David Brock—who are regularly leaping onto their steeds and riding to the defense of the unannounced Democratic presidential frontrunner.
While Clinton is hardly a damsel in distress, she lacks a formal campaign organization that can rapidly respond to damaging publicity. Thus, in the past two weeks, since “Email-gate” was launched with an above-the-fold front-page story in The New York Times, the former secretary of state’s ex-officio champions have been a near-constant presence on cable and broadcast television.
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