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Is Hillary Clinton a Bigger Control Freak Than Obama?
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On January 24, 2015 @ 1:36 pm In The Point | 7 Comments
Obama has become notorious for trying to shut out the press by using an in-house photographer and giving interviews to non-reporters, despite the media’s compulsive bootlicking.
This is an administration that has locked reporters in closets and dodged press conferences as if the press corps had the plague.
But what if Hillary Clinton is even worse?
A bunch of networks and CNN wanted to do puff shows on Hillary to promote her pre-campaign. Instead Hillary Inc. went after them with the help of its Media Matters outlet and got them shut down. The only survivor is CBS’s flailing Madam Secretary which is so heavily fictionalized that most people don’t realize it was supposed to be a Hillary infomercial.
Now even the Scorsese doc for HBO on Bill Clinton is coming apart for the same reasons.
Mr. Scorsese’s partly finished documentary about Mr. Clinton — which once seemed likely to be released as Hillary Rodham Clinton was navigating a presidential run — has stalled over disagreements about control, people briefed on the project said.
Though parts of the film were shot over the last two years as Mr. Clinton made a philanthropic visit to Africa and elsewhere, the project is now indefinitely shelved, partly because Mr. Clinton insisted on more control over the interview questions and final version than Mr. Scorsese was willing to give, those people said.
Bill Clinton loves publicity, any publicity. The sticking point was likely to have been Hillary, rather than Bill.
Martin Scorsese certainly wasn’t doing this to hurt the Clintons. And yet Hillary can’t trust them either. A doc like this on high profile HBO would have boosted the couple, but Hillary is too controlling to allow it.
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