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Clinton Aides Melt Down in Front of Press

Ex-frontrunner's staff scrambles to spin as strategies fall flat

By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 26, 2008 2:11 PM CST

(Newser) – With many top Washington reporters in attendance, two senior Hillary Clinton advisors tried to make their candidate’s case yesterday—and instead “severed all ties with reality” in a “flailing, a lashing-out,” Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank writes. The session, he says, "explained everything about the bitter relations between Clinton's campaign and the media."

Accused by one journalist of being antagonistic, the campaign spokesman responded, “I’m just angry.” Behind the scenes, the Clinton campaign’s in “full recriminations mode,” Politico adds, as “a dizzying array of potential storylines” find no quarter. "Her advisers acknowledge wearily that they have not cracked the code for deflating Obama," Mike Allen and John F. Harris observe.

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., reacts as she attends a low dollar fundraising reception at the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University, in Washington, Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., reacts as she attends a low dollar fundraising reception at the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University, in Washington,...   (Associated Press)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, is introduced by Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell as she at  a low dollar fundraising reception at the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University, in Washington, Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, is introduced by Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell as she at a low dollar fundraising reception at the Lisner Auditorium at George...   (Associated Press)
Clinton advisor Howard Wolfson
Clinton advisor Howard Wolfson   (AP photos)
In this photo provided by CBS, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's adviser Howard Wolfson talks on the phone after appearing on CBS's Face the Nation in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/CBS Face the Nation, Karin Cooper)
In this photo provided by CBS, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's adviser Howard Wolfson talks on the phone after appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington, Sunday,...   (Associated Press)
Clinton advisor Harold Ickes
Clinton advisor Harold Ickes   (Getty Images)
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