Candidate Who Hates and Ignores the Press Will ‘More Formally’ Take Questions Today

J.D. DurkinSep 5th, 2016, 11:23 am
 

Today, a major party presidential candidate who famously shies away from all members of the media came out from underneath her bunker to face the ravenous press corps head on.

This footage from the wild — posted to Twitter by Yahoo News‘ Liz Goodwin — is so incredibly rare that it is worthy of a David Attenborough voiceover:

The candidate — identified as 68-year-old Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State — has not faced the media in the form of an open-ended press conference in a whopping 275 days. This morning she boarded the press plane to wish them a happy Labor Day, indicating that she would “more formally” speak to them some more later on.

“I am so happy to have you all with me!” said the enthusiastic Clinton, who is the standard-bearer for the Democratic party in 2016. “I was just waiting for this moment,” she continued, a wait that has gone on for what feels like decades.

“I wanted to welcome you onto the plane,” she offered, while she got peppered with questions from the gathered reporters like, “How was your Labor Day?” “Are you ready?,” and “Do you have a Labor Day message?”

“Oh, I do, you’ll hear it,” replied the former Secretary of State who continues to suffer from vicious allergy symptoms triggered by tough questions from the press.

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell told Richard Liu that she believes Clinton will speak to the press again between campaign stops in Ohio and Illinois. “It’ll be the first Q&A we’ve had with her since a lot of things have happened.”

Mitchell’s statement is correct, if you view 275 days as the amount of time where “a lot of things” could happen. “I’ll come back and talk to you more formally,” Clinton promised.

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J.D. Durkin (@jiveDurkey) is an editorial producer and columnist at Mediaite.
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