Bloggasm

Can anyone tell me why the hell Hillary Clinton’s campaign decided to set the press corps up in a men’s bathroom in a Texas building? And then she complains about how the press treats her? Jesus.

As a commenter in one blog put it: “Do you think this is a sign the Clinton campaign is on its last legs? Kinda of a humorous “eff off” to the press as they go down in flames?”

UPDATE: Well, it must be the day for bizarre candidate/press relationships. I had heard that John McCain was hosting a barbecue at his ranch for his press corps, but it wasn’t until just now that I read an actual first-person account of the whole affair.

The campaign booked the senator’s aides and reporters into one of the only big hotels in town: the Enchantment Resort, a five-star hotel nestled so far back in the picturesque red rock canyons of Sedona that most in the group found that their cell phones were out of range. To cope with the stress of being incommunicado, people booked massages at the hotel spa and went on hikes, including one on which an instructor sought to help participants unblock their “inner chi.” “Let me tell you, I’ve got a lot of chi today,” joked Steve Duprey, a close friend of McCain’s from New Hampshire who has been traveling with the campaign. Others played golf, went swimming or simply explored the hotel compound. “I haven’t walked this much in eight months,” one campaign regular confessed. Perhaps this scene gives some insight into why McCain jokingly refers to the media as his base.

This is one of those cases where a news article makes satirists redundant.