Hillary Clinton Struggles To Use NYC MetroCard

[mystery-ak]

http://freebeacon.com/politics/hillary-clinton-nyc-metrocard/

BY: Jenna Lifhits   
April 7, 2016 10:36 am

Hillary Clinton had some difficulty using a New York City MetroCard Thursday during a televised one-stop subway ride.

Clinton reportedly swiped her card five times before successfully entering the platform and boarding the 4 train from Yankee Stadium to 170th Street.

Before boarding the train, Clinton made an apparent jab at Bernie Sanders, who in an April 1 interview with the New York Daily News mistakenly said that the New York subway still uses tokens.

“It was my first term [as senator] when we changed from tokens to MetroCards,” Clinton said.

In Sanders’ interview, one Daily News editorial board member asked the Vermont senator, “How do you get on the subway today?”

“You get a token and you get in,” Sanders, a native Brooklynite, said.

The New York City subway stopped accepting tokens in 2003. Sanders moved from New York to Vermont in 1968.

Before her ride, Clinton told reporters about how unique New York is and how she treasured New York values.

“New York values, the people of New York, there is no place like it in the world, and I’m going to take those experiences, take those values to the White House,” Clinton said outside Yankee Stadium.

New Yorkers were reportedly annoyed with Clinton’s one-stop ride, which some speculated was a “major inconvenience to other riders.”

Clinton is “not much accustomed” to New York’s “rougher edges,” Time reported Thursday. Clinton consistently works out of the Manhattan office rather than her campaign’s Brooklyn campaign headquarters.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCkt0CHb0G8

[mountaineer]

More theatre. What a BS presidential campaign this is.

[A-Lert]

"Clinton is “not much accustomed” to New York’s “rougher edges,” Time reported Thursday. Clinton consistently works out of the Manhattan office rather than her campaign’s Brooklyn campaign headquarters."

You don't want to have to rub shoulders with the little people, do you your highnass?

[mountaineer]

 Hillary Clinton’s Subway Stunt Fools Reporters
April 7, 2016
By Mollie Hemingway

In 1992, Andrew Rosenthal made a major contribution to media failure when he reported on President George H.W. Bush’s trip to a grocers’ convention where new technology that enabled scanners to weigh groceries and read mangled bar codes. This wasn’t a typical scanner but one making dramatic technological advances. The pool reporter there to witness the technology and the president’s reaction to it said he was impressed.  ...

Today she rode a New York City subway for a total distance of nine blocks, or the equivalent of a few-minute walk. And the air was ripe for many jokes, of the kind that the media make if you are a Republican. But instead journalists tweeted and published stories that took it totally seriously and legitimate. The effort to make Clinton seem like, you know, just a typical subway rider, y’all? It works when you have a friendly media ...
Read the entire article at The Federalist, it's a good one

[mountaineer]

Here's another good one:

12 Times Hillary Clinton Struggled To Do Everyday Things
It's not just the subway turnstile.
April 7, 2016 By Bre Payton

Hillary Clinton struggled with a turnstile in a New York City subway station this morning. Despite her insistence that she has recently ridden on the subway (only 18 months ago!), it took her several tries before she could finally swipe her MetroCard correctly and get through the gate.  ...


... Clearly, Clinton’s struggle to complete tasks the rest of us do on a daily basis is not limited to getting through a New York City subway turnstile, but rather pervades her everyday existence. The woman cannot operate a search engine or fetch iced tea without assistance, and needs to be coached and propped up by a team of helpers to do her job.

Read the rest here