WSJ Reporter To Hillary: ‘Hill, Can I Ride On Your Lap To The White House?’

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http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/22/wsj-reporter-to-hillary-hill-can-i-ride-in-your-lap-to-the-white-house/?print=1

WSJ Reporter To Hillary: ‘Hill, Can I Ride On Your Lap To The White House?’

Posted By Kerry Picket On 4:59 PM 05/22/2015

*Updated with more e-mail reaction

An e-mail FOIA batch released by the State Department Friday included a bizarre transcript of an October 2012 interview that Wall Street Journal reporter Monica Langley had with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The source of the email and transcript, State Department Communications  Director Caroline Alder, commented, “This will be exciting when it’s FOIA’d…but will give you a sense of the interaction.”

Langley is invited to sit on the couch with Clinton at “an appropriate distance.” However, Clinton offers her a chair to bring her “within inches of the Secretary — leaning in even further.”

The reporter agrees and midway through the interview, she “grabs HRC’s knee” and Clinton began laughing “awkwardly” as she looked over at State Department Clinton senior advisor Philippe Reines.

Langley leaned in further and asked “Oh Hillary…what do you eat? Drink? Dream about when you sleep?”

At that point she began touching Clinton’s leg again and all those present in the room, including Reines, laughed “awkwardly.”

Finally, Langley tells Clinton, “They think I’m so funny [looking at Phillipe and Adler]. Hill, can I ride in your lap to the White House?”

Adler ends the transcript saying, “…this went on for about 51 minutes. And I agree with Phillipe — whatever she does, it works. It was a really great interview.”

Politico found other e-mails from Deputy Secretary of State Tom Nides and Reines reacting to the transcript sent by Adler.

“Tom, was an awesome interview. Hrc was great, but I was really impressed by how good of an interviewer Monica is. One of the best I’ve ever seen. But she was her usual wacky self and pulled one move that I can’t even describe so I’ll let Caroline do – since you’ll appreciate it given your familiarity with Monica Langley, Hillary Clinton, and the Secretary’s chair arrangement in her outer office,” Reines said before Adler sent the transcript.

Nides responded to the transcript saying, “I may go and throw up since I am laughing so hard.”

Reines writes back, CC’ing Clinton herself in the e-mail chain:

     “Tom, she moved that yellow chair as close as it went. Knee to knee. Amazed she didn’t try knee in between knee. And if that wasn’t enough, she leaned forward. More like a pivot, as far as her torso could fold forward to minimize the space between their heads. Was like the dental hygienist rolling around the floor to get the best access to your mouth depending on what tooth she was trying to get access to I’ve never seen a Westerner invade her space like that And even the non Westerners I’ve seen do it based on cultural differences have been only briefly to greet, This went on like that for 51 minutes – unacceptable in any culture. I don’t even think you see that behavior among any type of mammal.

    The touching the leg and repeatedly calling her ‘Hillary’ was just gravy.

    But it was wonderful. One of the best interviews I’ve ever witnessed. Wish it were on live tv.”

[alicewonders]

Weird.

[rangerrebew]

State Department Email Reveals Bizarre Touchy Feely WSJ Reporter Interview With Hillary
 
By P.J. Gladnick | May 22, 2015 | 6:14 PM EDT
 


Oh Hillary! Can I ride on your lap to the White House? I know President Obama sends tingles up Chris Mathews' leg so can I go knee to knee with you and draw upon your energy? Oh Hillary...what do you eat? Drink? Dream about when you sleep?

Am I describing an awestruck liberal who goes dreamy eyed in the presence of Hillary Clinton? What if I were tell you that the scenario I just described actually happened and the dreamy eyed one was Wall Street Journal reporter, Monica Langley? Still don't believe me? Well, that is the scenario that Clinton aides described in the State Department email released today. Here is the October 11, 2012 email sent out by Hillary aide, Phillipe Rienes, in which he sounds like he is setting the scene of a comedic romance novel:

Tom, she moved that yellow chair as close as it went. Knee to knee. Amazed she didn't try knee in between knee. And if that wasn't enough, she leaned forward. More like a pivot, as far as her torso could fold forward to minimize the space between their heads. Was like the dental hygienist rolling around the floor to get the best access to your mouth depending on what tooth she was trying to get access to I've never seen a Westerner invade her space like that And even the non Westerners I've seen do it based on cultural differences have been only briefly to greet, This went on like that for 51 minutes – unacceptable in any culture. I don't even think you see that behavior among any type of mammal.

The touching the leg and repeatedly calling her 'Hillary' was just gravy.

But it was wonderful. One of the best interviews I've ever witnessed. Wish it were on live tv.

Here is a tweet from John Ekdahl of the Ace of Spades having a good laugh over that scene.

 
 
I was surprised that Langley didn't reserve a motel room and the recipient of that email, Thomas Nides, even replied that "I may go and throw up since I am laughing so hard." Well, if that laughter makes you want to throw up, Tom, the next bit might make you suffocate from laughing so hard after reading this description emailed to him by another Hillary aide, Caroline Adler:


This will be exciting when it's FOIA'd ...but will give you a sense of the interaction:

HRC. Monica, have a seat
 ::HRC motions toward a chair situated an appropriate distance from her preferred spot on the couch::

Monica: ll!!Sure!!!
 ::Monica proceeds to drag her chair within inches of the Secretary --leaning in even further::

Interview proceeds... and about midway.

Monica: Oh Hillary...2016 '16 '16
 ::Monica grabs HRO's knee::

HRC laughs awkwardly — glances at Philippe

Monica: ::leaning in further::
 Oh Hillary...what do you eat? drink? dream about when you sleep?
 ::Monica again touches HRC's leg::

::Everybody laughs awkwardly — Philippe hardly able to contain himself::

Monica: They think I'm so funny (looking at Philippe and me.) HILL, can I ride on your lap to the White House?

Speaking of FOIA, here is the take-away quote from the above exchange by Phil Kerpen, contributing editor of the National Review:

 
 
Exit question: Is "HILL, can I ride on your lap to the White House?" the secret credo of the fawning MSM reporters covering Hillary's campaign?

 

Source URL: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2015/05/22/state-department-email-reveals-bizarre-touchy-feely-wsj-reporter

[massadvj]

It was a lesbian come-on and Hillary obviously fell hook, line and sinker.  No surprise for most of us here.

[mountaineer]

It was a lesbian come-on and Hillary obviously fell hook, line and sinker.  No surprise for most of us here.

[Paladin]

Monica Langley is a Senior Special Writer for The Wall Street Journal.[1] Her in-depth articles regularly appear on the front page of the Journal, where she has reported for nearly 25 years from New York and Washington, DC.

Ms. Langley is the Journal's preeminent writer of the page-one profile, particularly of CEOs, billionaires, presidential candidates and key figures in the news. She also provides behind-the-scenes narratives of corporate dramas, and breaks exclusive news about such high-profile companies as General Motors,[2] Boeing,[3] JPMorgan Chase[4] and Microsoft.[5]

In addition to awards for her work at the Journal, Ms. Langley was personally awarded the prestigious Matrix Award, as one of the nation's exceptional women in the media and the arts.

Her bestselling book about the CEO of Citigroup, published by Simon & Schuster, was titled Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World...and Then Nearly Lost it All.[6][7]

Ms. Langley regularly appears on national and international TV, cable and radio programs. She has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University and of First Amendment law at Georgetown University Law Center. Also, a member of the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, District of Columbia and Tennessee, she was a corporate lawyer for several years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Langley

I visualized some twentyish reporter who was going gaga over her feminist heroine. Instead Langley is a middle age woman with great experience and whose opinion has weight.

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