"What’s more revealing is the strategies the Clinton entourage (in collaboration with their friends in the media) employ to protect Mrs. Clinton from the consequences of her remarks. To name just a few
- There’s the aforementioned rustiness.
- You asked for her to stop with the prefabricated answers, so don’t be angry/disappointed/surprised. (A.K.A. be grateful.)
- It’s sexism (an all-purpose smear that we will hear unendingly)
- The press is unable to handle complexity. Or as Carl Bernstein (who wrote an instantly forgettable book about Hillary Clinton) put it, “Part of her problem goes to her mistrust, justified in significant measure, of the press, and its difficulty in handling complexity and ambiguity in context.”
Finally, my favorite, from a story in POLITICO which passed this concluding remark along without comment
- “Focus groups over the years have shown many voters find Clinton more appealing the more they listened to what she has to say, according to her advisers.”
The article in it's entirety is at National Right to Life: Hillary Clinton, gaffes, and the list of all-purpose excuses