Jill Abramson on Hillary Clinton: ‘She does get more scrutiny’ than men'

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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/jill-abramson-hillary-clinton-2016-221017


“She does get more scrutiny” than other candidates — especially male candidates, Abramson told me during a 50-minute interview for POLITICO’s “Off Message” podcast last week. When I asked her whether Clinton’s arch-defender, David Brock, had a point when he lashed the Times for giving the Clintons an unfair “level of scrutiny,” she interrupted — to agree.

“Yeah, I do,” said Abramson, who was ousted in 2014 after reportedly complaining that her compensation package was inferior to that of her male predecessor, Bill Keller.

“We, for some reason, expect total purity from a woman candidate,” added Abramson, who rose to the Times’ top job in 2011. “I did not feel, during my regime, that we were giving her way more scrutiny than anyone else.” But, she said, “Where I think Hillary Clinton faces, you know, certainly more of a burden is that the controversies she’s been in are immediately labeled, you know, ‘travelgate or ‘emailgate.’ … If you actually asked people what about any of these controversies bothers them, they don’t know anything specific about any of them.”

Abramson now pens a reporter’s notebook column – heavy on voter interviews, light on Beltway punditry — on the 2016 campaign for The Guardian. Not surprisingly, her Clinton columns are her most incisive. For all of Trump’s hourly oratorical outrages, his ersatz beef-and-wine inventory and the activities of his thin-lipped mashers at rallies, she’s just as focused on Clinton’s likely role as the first woman to win the nomination of a major American political party.


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[Trajan]

1. Trajan on Jill Abramson

Jill Abramson graduated from Harvard with a degree in History, after attending Fieldston prep school (current tuition = over $42,000 per year) ...

Before Jill's stint as executive editor at the New York Times, she was an investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal ...

According to Trajan ... Jill Abramson lived a very rich life ... A live without need or want ....

Accordingly, Trajan rejects any notion that Jill Abramson speaks for anybody outside of the 1% ...

Just like the object of her infatuation - she has lived a pampered existence of which regular folks can only imagine ....

I reject Jill Abramson's desires or concerns ...

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2. Score one for Trajan's solipsism

I bow down.

Rock on.

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3. ...

[yurbud]

4. More than her HUSBAND, who had the press talking about his penis for ten years?

[Ford_Prefect]

5. I think this pretty much sums it up: A reporter with a rep for straight answers ducks a big one.

When I ask her what she thinks, after all these years, about the core criticism of Clinton — that she is untrustworthy and lies more than other politicians — the typically blunt Abramson demurs:

“I guess I’m still thinking that through.”

A remarkable degree of understatement there you have to admit.

[karynnj]

6. Isn't people's lack of knowledge on Clinton "scandals inconsistent with MORE SCUTINY?

But, she said, “Where I think Hillary Clinton faces, you know, certainly more of a burden is that the controversies she’s been in are immediately labeled, you know, ‘travelgate or ‘emailgate.’ … If you actually asked people what about any of these controversies bothers them, they don’t know anything specific about any of them.”

Labeling does not equal scrutiny.

Try this as a mind experiment.

Assume that Obama would have named Holbrooke as his Secretary of State and he found out, maybe from his chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel that Richard Hollbrooke had set up a private server to use for his State Department work and he was getting advise from a person, Obama specifically ruled out using. Now, Holbrooke was considered a diplomat's diplomat and he had been key in the Canton agreement that helped end the war in the former Yugoslavia. He had a splendid resume.

Would Obama have ended that practice quickly - possibly asking for a resignation? Now imagine he didn't, would it - if it became known - become a scandal. I think it would and it would have reflected on Obama. I certainly do not think it would not have become a scandal.