Reporters Crash Hillary Clinton’s Facebook Q&A

Hillary Clinton’s Facebook Q & A was supposed to allow Clinton take questions from ordinary Americans about her positions. But a number of journalists flooded the event to ask the media-shy presidential candidate their own questions.

A few journalists actually managed to get their questions answered (mostly the left-leaning ones). Among them was Washington Post‘s Wesley Lowery, with a question about the Black Lives Matter movement…

…and the Huffington Post’s Laura Bassett and Alexander Howard:

Clinton also answered a question from CNN’s Dan Merica pressing her on a potential flip-flop, although she dodged the question on why her views changed:

Among the reporters who were snubbed were BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski, who wrote a long string of questions:

…the Washington Examiner’s Ariel Cohen:

…Business Insider’s Hunter Walker:

…and MSNBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald:

A few conservative organizations (and Grover Norquist) showed up for the fun as well:

But to be fair to Clinton, a few reporters’ questions weren’t exactly the most serious:

[Image via Hillary Clinton 2016 Facebook]
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