Tag Teaming the Press: How Bill and Hillary Clinton Work by James E. Mueller

By James E. Mueller

Tag Teaming the clicking, James Mueller's full of life account of the evolution of the click kin of invoice and Hillary Clinton, spans the interval that starts off with the couple's earliest pupil political activism within the sixties and maintains via Hillary's run for the White condominium in 2008. dependent principally on interviews with the newshounds who lined them, the booklet explains how the main robust political couple in the United States discovered to address the media-an critical ability for the twenty first Century baby-kisser.

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Maybe I have a very low one, and [reporters] have a higher boredom capacity . . they were interested in the nuts and bolts of politics and government in a way that other people aren’t,” Greenberg said when speculating on why his reaction to Clinton is different from that of many others. “Maybe I’m a minority of two or three, instead of one, but I have heard this from other people. He must have gone on for an hour. The room was full of people, and people who surely would have been interested in what he was going to say.

As he approached, he shouted my name and walked over and introduced himself,” Dumas recalled. “And he said he was a big admirer of mine, of my writing, my coverage. That’s standard. Everybody does that kind of stuff. ”18 Dumas said that Clinton’s extraordinary memory allows him to recall people he’s met even just once in the checkout line at Wal-Mart. “He doesn’t forget anyone,” Dumas said. “That is perhaps the biggest secret of his political success: He never forgets anybody. ”19 32 Chapter 3 Brantley said a few other politicians have that same “parlor trick” ability to remember names and details about people they meet.

The ensuing coverage of the police beating the students illustrated the students’ point that something was wrong with the system. ”29 But Hillary wasn’t just an observer of media effects while she was a college student. She also had some of her first lessons in how to deal with the press directly. As president of the student government, she was both interviewed by the student press and a user of it. 30 She even got some coverage in the national media for her commencement address in which she criticized the politics of the main speaker, Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts.

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