The only thing missing was Mark Penn taking a dump with the stall door open
(Photo via CNN)
From TIMES’ Karen Tumulty:
This has got to be a first. Here in Austin, on the night before that make-or-break Texas primary, the Clinton campaign has set up a filing center for the traveling press corps ... in a men’s room. Insert metaphor here.
More from Tumulty here:
UPDATE: The Independent Film Channel is interviewing Gail Sheehy over by one of the urinals. I am not making this up.
UPDATE2: Official comment from campaign spokesman Doug Hattaway:
These accommodations should in no way be taken as a commentary on the quality of our media coverage.
That’s the way to get the media on your side. Line ‘em up next to the pissers and then wipe your ass on their shoes. Brilliant.
I used to think that Giuliani ran the worst campaign of these primaries, but now I’m not so sure.
MORE (with additional pics):
The reporters, including The Times’ Louise Roug, were set up in the toilet with tables right next to the urinals. Their dinner was delivered there too—tamales piled in the corner and candies served in paper cups.
In any event, the Clinton campaign maintains that the filing center was not a reaction to the campaign’s complaints that the New York senator has been getting a lot more scrutiny than her rival, Barack Obama of Illinois.
Yet the campaign housed the press in the bathroom/athletic training room for about 5 hours. Was that a stall tactic?
But in a campaign that hasn’t exactly been flush with success lately, and is looking to remain viable in Tuesday’s primaries, it’s not unusual to wonder what the Clinton camp was thinking. Perhaps, yellow journalism?
Posted by Kevin K. on 03/04/08 at 12:23 AM • Permalink
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