After five years, you folks still are blind to the way the Clinton administration operates.
In the lead editorial on Jan. 7 (“When the messenger messes up”) in which you take it upon yourselves to do mea culpas for other news media sources, you discuss the Agence France-Presse photo in which the Clintons are dancing on a beach in the Virgin Islands and state: “Ironically, the image of the smiling, relaxed pair clearly enjoying each other’s company is one of the most appealing images of the Clintons the public has seen. But that is not the point.”
That is exactly the point. We have seen that the Clinton administration is expert at playing the public relations game, and they let the press and the public see only what is to their advantage. I trust that the Secret Service was with the Clintons on that beach and that they were aware there were photographers there also.
I must also assume that the photographers were cleared by the Secret Service so that it could be established that they were pointing something no more lethal than a camera at the dancers.
This is just another Clinton public relations stunt with the objections regarding loss of privacy intended to ensure even wider dissemination of the photo.
