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*​**Correct The Record Friday September 26, 2014 Morning Roundup:* *Headlines:* *The Daily Beast: Myra Adams: “Wake Up, Republicans: Hillary Clinton’s Machine Can Crush You” <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/26/wake-up-republicans-hillary-clinton-s-machine-can-crush-you.html>* “In order to defend Clinton against any damaging revelations that may emerge from the select House committee on Benghazi, no fewer than three Democrat groups are ready to pounce. On September 16, Politico reported that a new pro-Clinton group called Correct the Record will work with Democratic researchers and establish a web site that ‘is designed like a news site and will issue detailed, rapid responses to charges against Clinton — mimicking the way a campaign would defend a candidate in real time during a presidential debate.’” *Ralston Reports: “Hillary to raise money for state Democrats, Reid next month” <http://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/hillary-raise-money-state-democrats-reid-next-month>* “Before she collects that $225,000 fee next month or speaking to the UNLV Foundation, Hillary Clinton will headline a fundraiser for the state Democratic Party, with a fraction of the proceeds going to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's re-election fund.” *Wall Street Journal: “At Clinton Wonkfest, a Star Is (Not Yet) Born” <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/09/25/at-clinton-wonkfest-a-star-is-not-yet-born/>* “It might as well have been called: ‘Chelsea’s having a baby.’” *Wall Street Journal blog: Washington Wire: “Bill and Hillary Still a Study in Clinton Contrasts” <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/09/26/bill-and-hillary-still-a-study-in-clinton-contrasts/>* “All these years after leaving office, Bill Clinton remains the LeBron of American politics – a reality that creates a potential pitfall for Hillary Clinton and her likely presidential campaign” *The Hill opinion: Lauren Ashburn: “How Hillary Clinton is helping GOP women” <http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/218953-how-hillary-clinton-is-helping-republican-women>* “Even the Hillary haters would have to agree that she's good for one thing: getting voters to see that women can play at the highest level of government.” *Washington Free Beacon column: Matthew Continetti: “The Golden Bowl” <http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-golden-bowl/>* “Neither the legitimate journalists nor the partisan bloggers recognize the true import of Goodman’s reporting: That the mainstream media is fundamentally lazy and horrible at their jobs.” *Associated Press: “Woman Guilty Of Trespass In Clinton Shoe Incident” <http://bigstory.ap.org/article/085c3d4b6f4e4fab9405464d808ee806/woman-guilty-trespass-clinton-shoe-incidenthttp:/bigstory.ap.org/article/085c3d4b6f4e4fab9405464d808ee806/woman-guilty-trespass-clinton-shoe-incident>* “A Phoenix woman who was accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Clinton while the former U.S. secretary of state addressed a Las Vegas audience in April pleaded guilty to trespassing, but is fighting a charge of violence against a person in a restricted building.” *Articles:* *The Daily Beast: Myra Adams: “Wake Up, Republicans: Hillary Clinton’s Machine Can Crush You” <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/26/wake-up-republicans-hillary-clinton-s-machine-can-crush-you.html>* By Myra Adams September 26, 2014 [Subtitle:] Many GOPers continue the self-deception—she’s not running. Here’s a whiff of reality from a Republican. She’s running, and she’s formidable. Over the last two years I have engaged in countless discussions with Republican friends and colleagues about whether Hillary Clinton would run for president in 2016. What I discovered were two distinct schools of thought: Republicans who were hopeful that she would not run, and Republicans who were confident that she would not run. Both camps believed that Clinton would bow out or not win her party’s nomination for one or more of the following reasons: She has secret health problems. She is too old and unattractive. An “unknown” Democrat would rise up and defeat her for the nomination, a la 2008. Her priorities will change once she becomes a grandmother. Benghazi revelations will take her down. As someone who since early 2013 was confident that Clinton would run for president in 2016, I believed that the “Clinton deniers” among my fellow Republicans were engaging in the political equivalent of sticking their heads in the sand. Now, because of five news items that have unfolded during this month of September, Republican deniers must face the fact that not only is Clinton running, but that she will be a formidable opponent against any of the current potential GOP candidates. This, despite her many flaws and heavy baggage. Here are September’s five important pieces of Hillary news that fit together like a puzzle—and the last two, without political precedent. First, on September 5, in a speech at a charity event in Mexico, Clinton stated that she will announce her presidential intentions “after the first of the year.” Why would a presidential candidate mention a specific time frame five months away unless the news was extremely positive for her supporters? Second, on September 14, Hillary Clinton teased and winked-winked her way through retiring Iowa Senator Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry saying, "Hello Iowa. I'm back!" Just those four words unleashed thousands of headlines like this one from the AP, “Hillary Clinton in Iowa Stirs 2016 Speculation.” Third, the ever-shy potential “First Dude,” speaking at this same Iowa steak fry, sung the praises of Ready for Hillary, his wife’s “campaign-in-waiting,” which was out in force. “Amazing. They are amazing,” said the former president. “You know I saw some of them here. I think with the rules we’re not supposed to have any contact with them. They’re like Energizer Bunnies. They’re just everywhere.” Yes, the Ready for Hillary PAC will soon be everywhere—in fact, working in every state where there is a key Senate race in the upcoming midterm election. This is number four on my list, and it is politically groundbreaking. Never in the history of American politics has an organization with an unannounced presidential candidate tried to influence the outcome of an election in the name of that candidate. Ready for Hillary communications director Seth Bringman announced that starting on October 1, his political staff will plant itself in 14 states. A September 17 email to reporters stated the following: “This staff deployment is part of Ready for Hillary's continued commitment to channeling the enthusiasm for a potential Hillary campaign into helping Democrats on the ballot this year.” Think of it this way: Ready for Hillary is collecting political IOU’s for its leader, who can never publicly acknowledge the group’s existence. The fifth, final, and most spectacular September development on the road to Clinton’s January presidential announcement is another historical political milestone and a precursor to how a Hillary 2016 campaign will sound. In order to defend Clinton against any damaging revelations that may emerge from the select House committee on Benghazi, no fewer than three Democrat groups are ready to pounce. On September 16, Politico reported that a new pro-Clinton group called Correct the Record will work with Democratic researchers and establish a web site that “is designed like a news site and will issue detailed, rapid responses to charges against Clinton — mimicking the way a campaign would defend a candidate in real time during a presidential debate.” Meanwhile, the GOP is fractured, leaderless, and still about 19 months away from the emergence of its 2016 standard bearer – regardless whether Republicans win back the Senate in November. Take one look at the Real Clear Politics 2016 Republican presidential nomination poll averages. It gives new meaning to the words fractured and leaderless. Then, if you are a Republican with a strong stomach, check out RCP’s 2016 general election match-ups, with Clinton defeating every likely GOP presidential candidate by wide margins. All the evidence suggests that Clinton is on her way to becoming the great social movement I warned and wrote about back in January 2013 and why I predicted her 2016 victory back in August 2013. Americans may not want a coronation in 2016 but the assembling of the infrastructure to elect America’s first female president is well underway and from a Republican point of view looks unstoppable. If you think of her in retail terms, Hillary is Costco, Wal-Mart, and Home Depot all rolled into one mega-mega-mega-store. Meanwhile, the GOP’s 2016 candidates are small specialty boutiques in a suburban, red-state shopping mall. In anticipation of 2016 the GOP had better consolidate its goods and reinvent its brand. It also has to dump the Hillary deniers, because at this point, denying her candidacy is counterproductive to formulating a coherent strategy._After all that, the party can go to market with a product that is acceptable to the masses. If not, on November 8, 2016, the GOP will be out of the White House business for years to come. *Ralston Reports: “Hillary to raise money for state Democrats, Reid next month” <http://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/hillary-raise-money-state-democrats-reid-next-month>* By Jon Ralston September 25, 2014, 11:19 Before she collects that $225,000 fee next month or speaking to the UNLV Foundation, Hillary Clinton will headline a fundraiser for the state Democratic Party, with a fraction of the proceeds going to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's re-election fund. The event will take place before Clinton's speech and a yet-to-be disclosed location and will cost donors $10,000 for a VIP ticket ($15,000 for couples) and $1,000 if you just want to go to the reception. The event is for a joint fundraising entity called the Reid Nevada Fund, with most of the proceeds, as you can see below, going to the state party. This will be a nice infusion -- I can smell high six figures here -- going into Election Day. *Wall Street Journal: “At Clinton Wonkfest, a Star Is (Not Yet) Born” <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/09/25/at-clinton-wonkfest-a-star-is-not-yet-born/>* By Peter Nicholas September 15, 2014, 6:58 a.m. EDT NEW YORK – The theme of the wonkfest known as the Clinton Global Initiative was “reimagining impact.” It might as well have been called: “Chelsea’s having a baby.” The daughter of the former and – possibly – future president of the U.S. was a very pregnant looking fixture at the conference, prompting guest speaker Barack Obama to offer up his presidential motorcade in case she went into labor right there in the ballroom of the Sheraton in midtown Manhattan. That didn’t happen. But the baby seemed on everyone’s mind. In panel discussions, moderators invariably asked Bill and Hillary Clinton about their new role as first-time grandparents. At one point Chelsea Clinton drew the baby into a discussion of the plight of the African elephant, worrying that her first child could “grow up in a world without elephants.” CNN’s Erin Burnett, in an interview with Mr. Clinton on Wednesday, asked him if would need to “baby-proof” the White House – a question that had the added bonus of teasing out whether his wife indeed plans to run in 2016. Mr. Clinton gave away nothing: He said he was merely interested in becoming a grandfather. “One thing at a time,” he said. CNN then played a video feed of actor Matt Damon asking Mr. Clinton a question about clean water and sanitation. But Mr. Damon couldn’t resist. “Are you excited to be a grandfather?” Mr. Clinton made clear he’s been thinking about the baby’s arrival. (In a separate interview, he suggested the baby could come by Oct. 1.) Are you excited?” Ms. Burnett asked the 42nd president. “I’m out of control,” said Mr. Clinton. He’s been giving himself advice on how best to play his part. “Every day I get up and I say: you have to remember whose child this is,” Mr. Clinton continued. “Do not interfere! Be there when you’re welcome. Be loving, but not judgmental.” *Wall Street Journal blog: Washington Wire: “Bill and Hillary Still a Study in Clinton Contrasts” <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/09/26/bill-and-hillary-still-a-study-in-clinton-contrasts/>* By Peter Nicholas September 26, 2014, 6:00 a.m. EDT NEW YORK – Take a workmanlike pro basketball player and stick him next to LeBron James and the contrast will be glaring. One makes jump shots; the other dazzles with thunderous dunks. All these years after leaving office, Bill Clinton remains the LeBron of American politics – a reality that creates a potential pitfall for Hillary Clinton and her likely presidential campaign. Watching the two on stage this week at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual conference drove home the point. The former president is the natural politician of the family; Mrs. Clinton the natural policy wonk. His speeches sound conversational, improvised. Hers sound scripted. He looks like he’s having fun; she looks like she’s working. There was a revealing moment Sunday night when Mr. Clinton, perhaps not realizing a microphone was on, approached a drummer who had just performed in the Sheraton ballroom and gushed over “the riff you just did.” The amateur sax player was relishing the moment, admiring the skills of an accomplished musician. Both worked the conference hard over three days, discussing efforts to fight Ebola, expand the supply of clean drinking water and preserve endangered wildlife. In one instance each used a personal story to make a point. Speaking to CNN, Mr. Clinton got a question about NFL football player Ray Rice’s assault on his then-fiancée in an elevator. Mr. Clinton, as a boy growing up in Arkansas, had his own brush with domestic abuse, stepping in to warn his stepfather not to hit his mother and half- brother. He paused a beat, causing the audience to lean in and listen more intently. “I know a lot about this subject,” Mr. Clinton said. “I grew up in a home with domestic violence. And God I hope that it works out alright. I hope he really is OK and he never does it again.” Mrs. Clinton, in a separate panel, talked about her mother Dorothy Rodham, whose divorced parents sent her to California at age eight to live with unloving grandparents. “My own mother faced a lot of very difficult challenges and her resilience coming out of an abusive and neglectful childhood made such a big impression on me,” Mrs. Clinton said. Knowing what her mother endured helped convince her there must be “more attention paid to how we help our youngest children get off to the best start.” In Mr. Clinton’s answer, one feels the pain of family wounds; in Mrs. Clinton’s, a prescription for better policy. The test for a future Clinton campaign is not to have the former two-term president overshadow his wife on the trail. He tends to steal the show. Not that Mr. Clinton is always in top form. In the 2008 race, he caused problems for his wife’s campaign by veering off message at times. Mrs. Clinton is more disciplined and seldom makes news not of her choosing. Times are different now, and some advisers to Mrs. Clinton believe her seriousness can work to her advantage. In 2008, voters rejected Mrs. Clinton in favor of the more likable and charismatic candidate, Barack Obama. Six years later, Mr. Obama’s approval ratings have tanked and many of his supporters are annoyed that large pieces of his agenda have stalled. The prison at Guantanamo is still open; America’s roads and bridges are still in disrepair; wages are still stagnant. In this environment, voters might be more open to a serious-minded candidate who perhaps stands a better chance translating campaign promises into law. That’s the thinking. In any case, it may be the Democrats’ best hope. Bill Clinton can’t run again and Mr. Obama is lame duck. There’s no LeBron James in the Democratic field. *The Hill opinion: Lauren Ashburn: “How Hillary Clinton is helping GOP women” <http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/218953-how-hillary-clinton-is-helping-republican-women>* By Lauren Ashburn September 26, 2014, 6:30 a.m. EDT Even the Hillary haters would have to agree that she's good for one thing: getting voters to see that women can play at the highest level of government. No matter what they think about her handling of Benghazi, Clinton's visibility is a plus in a land where a measly one out of five pols roaming the halls of Congress is female. Whether she runs for president or not (and, of course she's running), Clinton's supposed fictional depiction in the new CBS drama, "Madam Secretary," about the exploits of a newly minted secretary of State and mom of two, will most likely help all female politicians — not just the former New York senator and her Democratic counterparts — by raising awareness that hey, women can really do this stuff. (Unless, of course, you're Shenna Bellows fighting a rare female vs. female Senate race in Maine, where incumbent Republican Susan Collins is killing it.) Research shows that strong, highly functioning female characters serve as role models and change public perceptions of what women can accomplish. By watching shows about female politicians, voters more easily imagine a government run by women. And, the more our daughters see images of women leading our country, the more they believe that they can hold any elective office in the land. So the fact that the reviews for the Morgan Freeman-backed series (Sundays at 8:30pm EDT on CBS] glisten with praise: "riveting," "splendid," "entertaining" and "ably led by Tea Leoni," is positive news for all women who strive to make the world a better place, no matter what their politics. Still don't believe it? Let's talk to a card-carrying Mensa actress. Academy Award-winner Geena Davis, who played a female president on ABC's "Commander in Chief" series, advocates seeing more positive media images of powerful women as a way to change our male-dominated culture. Davis, 58, is known for (among other things) her role as Thelma in the girl-power film "Thelma and Louise." She's a former nationally ranked archer, and founder of the nonprofit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. At her institute's recent conference in Washington, she quoted a poll taken during the "Commander" that series found 68 percent of people who were familiar with the drama were more likely to vote for women. "That's why media images are so powerful," Davis tells me. "Life imitates art." Megan Beyer, director of external affairs for EDGE Strategies, a Switzerland-based company that verifies that females are in leadership pipeline at companies — believes "it's the time for women" to penetrate the top spots in all industries. But whether or not that's true, and whether positive TV and film images move the dial, there is still a paucity of female players interested in the real-life political terrain — and it's a treacherous path once elected. The female pols who get voted in to click their heels on the marble halls of the Capitol are more likely to trade their Manolos for wing tips the higher they climb the political ladder, says Abigail Disney, a television producer who spoke at the Institute on Gender in Media. "Female politicians who get to the top have to act more like men." Just ask New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D), who was told by a male colleague not to "lose too much weight" because "I like my girls chubby." Gillibrand exposed her battles with sexism on Capitol Hill in her recently released book, Off the Sidelines. Yet she decided not to name names saying, "It's less important who they are than what they said." (The New York Times later reported that this offender is the late Sen. Daniel Inouye [D-Hawaii], which Gillibrand will not verify.) Female lawmakers "have to calibrate how open — as a powerful woman — they can be," says Jill Dougherty, a former CNN correspondent who covered the White House and State Department and is now a public policy scholar at the Wilson Center. She notes that some women on Capitol Hill buck that trend and "get together socially to work up a platform or an idea" that crosses party lines, a rarity today among their male counterparts. As a media critic, I'll go out on a limb and say that women have a long way to go both on screen and off. The depictions of women in "Real Housewives" — of any city — are proof of that. And we don't need to read the 2011 Davis Institute-funded study to know that there's far more female T&A than political prowess on TV. While Carrie Mathison, the CIA operative in "Homeland" played by Claire Danes, and Olivia Pope, the D.C. fixer in “Scandal” played by Kerry Washington, have burst onto the scene since then, it's simply not enough. Until we have a real female commander-in-chief — whether Hillary Clinton or a female GOP contender like South Carolina's Nikki Haley or New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, whom Ann Romney recently said she would "love to see" run, we'll have to settle for fictional forerunners to fight our battles. *Washington Free Beacon column: Matthew Continetti: “The Golden Bowl” <http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-golden-bowl/>* By Matthew Continetti September 26, 2014, 5:00 a.m. EDT [Subtitle:] Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative, and our supine media Amy Chozick covers Hillary Clinton for the New York Times. She is an enterprising and dedicated reporter, and many of her stories have annoyed the 2016 presidential frontrunner. This week Chozick covered a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. It was her turn to be annoyed. Chozick’s most revealing article about the event had nothing to do with the scheduled agenda, or with the opaque, labyrinthine, and seedy finances of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, or with the tsunami of clichés from the stage about global warming, gender equality, wellness, empowerment, polarization, Mohammed Yunus, sustainable development, globalization, Palm Oil alternatives, uplift, board diversity, education access, green energy, Malala, information technology, organic farming, public-private partnerships, and #YesAllWomen. The article had to do with Chozick’s bathroom habits. Every time she felt the urge, a representative of the Clintons would accompany her to the ladies’ room. Every time. And not only would the “friendly 20-something press aide” stroll with Chozick to the entrance of the john. She also “waited outside the stall.” As though Chozick were a little girl. If it was not embarrassing enough to be chaperoned to the water closet by a recent college graduate no doubt beaming with righteousness and an entirely undeserved and illusory sense of self-importance, some earnest and vacant and desperate-to-be-hip Millennial whose affiliation with the Clintons, whose involvement in their various schemes, consists of nothing more than her uniform of white shirt and silk scarf—if this was not on its own an indignity and an insult for a correspondent of the New York Times, when Chozick asked for comment on the bathroom police, she received the following response: Craig Minassian, a spokesman for the initiative, directed me to a press release about American Standard’s Flush for Good campaign to improve sanitation for three million people in the developing world. ‘Since you are so interested in bathrooms and CGI,’ Mr. Minassian said. Forms of civility, etiquette, and protocol bind Chozick in her dealings with the men and women who work for the subjects of her beat. They do not bind me. And so let me say on behalf of Ms. Chozick, and on behalf of all the other reporters who have been “escorted” to and fro toilets across America so that not for a moment do they escape the scouring eyes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, that Craig Minassian can stick his big obnoxious head in the toilet and Flush for Good. I am tired of the double game the Clintons have been playing since last year, when Hillary left the Obama administration and began plotting her 2016 campaign: the passive-aggressive, push-pull tactic of complaining about and condemning supposedly harsh media coverage even as she and her husband and their minions use access and connections to advance their preferred narratives, bullying reporters and outlets who do not conform, and responding to press inquiries with snark and insults and flip and mendacious retorts. What is more I am tired of the mainstream media’s complicity in the manipulation and goaltending, the manner in which reporters for establishment outlets accept the Clintons’ absurd regulations and spin, for reasons that are baffling and mysterious to me: whether it is out of ideological or partisan bias, or journalistic self-interest, or the calculation that one day bills will have to be paid, the scribbling will have to end, and jobs in the White House or at SKDKnickerbocker will have to be obtained. There was no mass protest over the despotic rules at the Clinton Global Initiative. Chozick’s complaint did not become a rallying cry for press freedom. No major institution threatened not to cover next year’s meeting. Marty Baron, the executive editor of the Washington Post, tweeted a quote from one of his writers, Chris Cillizza, who said the Clintons “have as dim a view of the political press as any modern politician.” Perhaps that view is justified. Look at how easily the Clintons overpower “the political press.” Look at the Anaconda Vise in which they hold the mainstream media. Did the metro dailies use this week’s conference to follow up on Chozick’s reporting from last year on the conflicts of interest and ethical dilemmas and outrageous spending at CGI and the Clinton Foundation? To reexamine Alec Macgillis’s long 2013 profile of Bill Clinton’s protégé Doug Band, whose consultancy is mixed-up in the foundation’s and the initiative’s partnerships and sponsorships and commitments? To conduct even the most mundane inquiry into whether there is anything left to reveal about Hillary Clinton’s past? Let’s see. “At Clintons’ 3-Day event, Hillary basks in a candidate’s dream setting,” read the headline in the Los Angeles Times. “Clinton world braces for big news on baby front,” read the headline in the Wall Street Journal. “Clinton wonk party outshines U.N. meeting,” read the headline in the Washington Post. USA Today ran items on the pledge that soda companies made at the event to cut calories by 20 percent in 10 years, on Hillary Clinton’s backing of President Obama’s Syria policy, and on Bill Clinton’s truism that the country has become more tolerant of racial and sexual minorities. The Times ran an article on the soda spiel too. Meanwhile, for the fourth time this year, Alana Goodman of the Washington Free Beacon broke news about the former first lady who everyone seems to believe has been thoroughly vetted: In this case, Goodman unveiled Hillary Clinton’s previously unpublished correspondence with radical activist Saul Alinsky. The exchange of letters is a fascinating glimpse of Clinton’s relationship with one of the central figures of the New Left, the author of Rules for Radicals and the theorist behind community organizing about whom Clinton wrote her college thesis. Goodman’s piece is both a scoop and a worthwhile read, on the most basic level to see how Clinton kissed up to Alinsky, calling his work “revelation,” and on another level to compare the youthful Hillary against her later incarnations as rapist defense lawyer, cattle futures trader, land speculator, failed health care reformer, victim of infidelity, junior senator, failed presidential candidate, secretary of State, blood clot victim, and motivational speaker. For the fourth time in 2014, Alana Goodman has scooped the combined resources of the largest media companies in America. And for the fourth time in 2014, the media has reacted bizarrely and schizophrenically to her reporting. Actual, real-life, news-obsessed journalists said, oh, here is an interesting aspect of her majesty’s biography that hitherto has been ignored. And liberal hacks wrote blog posts that implicitly recognized our story of being worthy of a response even as they reassured their blinkered and complacent audiences that there was nothing to worry about, no news here, just a bunch of crazy Likudnik nepotists cracking wise in the frat house. Neither the legitimate journalists nor the partisan bloggers recognize the true import of Goodman’s reporting: That the mainstream media is fundamentally lazy and horrible at their jobs. Here you have all of these interesting things about Hillary Clinton just sitting in archives across the country for years, and no one has bothered to look at them because liberals cannot apply the “objectivity” through which they cover Charles Koch and Dick Cheney to people like Tom Steyer and Hillary Clinton. Instead they have to wait until the alternative media forces the issue, whether the issue is Van Jones, or Steyer’s coal investments, or Hillary’s past, or the IRS scandal, or Benghazi, or the Dave Brat challenge to Eric Cantor. In each instance the mainstream media roll their eyes and mutter under their breath as they report the news in which everyone is interested but them. They impugn and mock and dismiss and marginalize conservative media when what they should be doing is thanking us for doing their work. I am not entirely without sympathy. Mainstream journalists are under pressures that we are not. They have to pretend for example that David Brock is a serious person. They are implicated in the liberal Democratic project through family or sympathy or ambition. They have to take angry calls from the White House and congressional Democrats and candidates. One of Alana Goodman’s scoops involved a meeting at the D.C. bureau of the New York Times at which Hillary Clinton’s top lieutenants complained about the paper’s coverage of their boss, saying it was too intrusive and critical and that Clinton is not a public figure but an expectant grandmother. Leave Hillary alone, she’s under a lot of stress right now, she still has to wear those glasses at night, we have long memories, all she wants to do is swim, she hasn’t made up her mind about 2016, she’s putting the finishing touches on her book, dinner last Saturday was a lot of fun we should do it again sometime, she’s really a private person and doesn’t like all of this attention, why do you have to be so mean to her, I’m not going to write that recommendation letter for Sidwell Friends, Chelsea’s afraid the bad press may affect the baby, yes I’ll be at Hilary Rosen’s on Friday, we are totally uninteresting and unaffected and blameless and prosaic and apolitical but cross us and we’ll cut your f—ing knees off … Could you have been at that meeting and not laughed? It will be the unabashedly ideological media that provides the best coverage of the corporatist “centrist” stalking her way back to power. And not just the conservative media: There is plenty of sublimated progressive grumbling at, and critical reporting of, the Hillary juggernaut. Alex Seitz-Wald of MSNBC wrote a fair-minded piece, “The agony and the ecstasy of the Clintons at CGI,” that was a much clearer analysis of the event than any in the major papers. Seitz-Wald went so far as to mention the “elitism problem” and “Wall Street problem” that dog the Clintons, whose idea of combating income inequality is to talk about it while vacationing in a multimillion dollar mansion in the Hamptons, then rub their chins at lavish uplit plenary sessions with Hollywood celebrities and foreign leaders and the head of Goldman Sachs. In the coverage of the Clintons this week you saw in microcosm the future of political journalism: aggressive ideological reporting will be on the margins but will score the hits. And the mainstream media will be on the inside, credentialed and “legitimate,” their cherubic handlers marching them willingly to marble-tiled hotel bathrooms—hapless prisoners of the golden bowl. *Associated Press: “Woman Guilty Of Trespass In Clinton Shoe Incident” <http://bigstory.ap.org/article/085c3d4b6f4e4fab9405464d808ee806/woman-guilty-trespass-clinton-shoe-incidenthttp:/bigstory.ap.org/article/085c3d4b6f4e4fab9405464d808ee806/woman-guilty-trespass-clinton-shoe-incident>* By Ken Ritter September 25, 2014, 6:19 p.m. EDT A Phoenix woman who was accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Clinton while the former U.S. secretary of state addressed a Las Vegas audience in April pleaded guilty to trespassing, but is fighting a charge of violence against a person in a restricted building. A spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said Thursday that 36-year-old Alison Michelle Ernst is due for a jury trial Oct. 29 in U.S. District Court on the violence charge. U.S. District Magistrate Judge George Foley Jr. on Monday ruled Ernst fit for trial after reviewing results of a psychological exam sought by her lawyer, William Carrico, an assistant federal public defender. Carrico was out of the office Thursday and unavailable for comment. Both charges are misdemeanors. Ernst faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine on each. Clinton, a former first lady and Democratic senator from New York, was speaking on stage April 10 at the Mandalay Bay resort to a recycling industry conference when Ernst threw a soccer shoe past her. Clinton flinched and ducked but wasn't struck. She continued her speech. Ernst surrendered to security guards who escorted her out of the ballroom to a sofa in a hallway where she told an Associated Press reporter she threw a shoe and dropped some papers. Ernst didn't identify herself or explain her action before security officers ushered reporters and photographers away. Authorities said Ernst wasn't a credentialed conference attendee and wasn't supposed to have been in the ballroom, which had more than 1,000 people. The shoe-throwing incident reminded some of former President George W. Bush dodging shoes thrown by an Iraqi journalist during a Baghdad news conference in December 2008. Shoe-throwing is considered an insult in Arab cultures. *Calendar:* *Sec. Clinton's upcoming appearances as reported online. Not an official schedule.* · September 29 – New York, NY: Sec. Clinton headlines fundraiser for DCCC for NY and NJ candidates (Politico <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/hillary-clinton-new-york-fundraiser-110902.html?hp=r4> ) · September 29 – New York, NY: Sec. Clinton headlines another fundraiser for DCCC (Politico <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/hillary-clinton-headline-dccc-fundraiser-110764.html?hp=l8_b1> ) · September 29 – New York, NY: Sec. Clinton meets Indian Prime Minister Modi (Zee News <http://zeenews.india.com/news/india/no-modi-sharif-meeting-in-new-york-mea_1474656.html> ) · September 30 – Washington, DC: Sec. Clinton keynotes Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Inc., conference (CHCI <http://www.chci.org/news/pub/former-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-to-address-leadership-luncheon-at-public-policy-conference> ) · September 30 – Potomac, MD: Sec. Clinton fundraises for Maryland gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown (WaPo <http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/hillary-clinton-to-headline-fundraiser-for-maryland-gubernatorial-hopeful-brown/2014/09/19/3e9b4aea-4057-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html> ) · September 30 – Washington, DC: Sec. Clinton fundraises for New Hampshire state Sen. Lou D’Allesandro of Manchester (New Hampshire Journal <http://nhjournal.com/hillary-clinton-to-host-dc-reception-for-long-time-friend-dallesandro/> ) · October 2 – Miami Beach, FL: Sec. Clinton keynotes the real estate CREW Network Convention & Marketplace (CREW Network <http://events.crewnetwork.org/2014convention/>) · October 2 – Miami, FL: Sec. Clinton signs “Hard Choices” at Books and Books (HillaryClintonMemoir.com <http://www.hillaryclintonmemoir.com/miami_book_signing>) · October 2 – Miami, FL: Sec. Clinton fundraises for Charlie Crist ( Politico <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/hillary-clinton-charlie-crist-campaign-florida-111229.html> ) · October 6 – Ottawa, Canada: Sec. Clinton speaks at Canada 2020 event (Ottawa Citizen <http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/hillary-clinton-speaking-in-ottawa-oct-6> ) · October 13 – Las Vegas, NV: Sec. Clinton and Sen. Reid fundraise for the Reid Nevada Fund (Ralston Reports <http://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/hillary-raise-money-state-democrats-reid-next-month> ) · October 13 – Las Vegas, NV: Sec. Clinton keynotes the UNLV Foundation Annual Dinner (UNLV <http://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-foundation-annual-dinner?delta=0>) · October 14 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton keynotes salesforce.com Dreamforce conference (salesforce.com <http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF14/highlights.jsp#tuesday>) · October 28 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton fundraises for House Democratic women candidates with Nancy Pelosi (Politico <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/hillary-clinton-nancy-pelosi-110387.html?hp=r7> ) · December 4 – Boston, MA: Sec. Clinton speaks at the Massachusetts Conference for Women (MCFW <http://www.maconferenceforwomen.org/speakers/>)