Hillary arrives by private jet for Ferguson-area speech

Showing she's one of the "little people" just like you.

Welcome to the Hillary Show

The Weekly Standard's Jonathan Last reminds us what to expect from the Washington press corps as they cover "Hillary!"

Are you old enough to remember Dukakis, one of the most uninspiring political figures to ever run for president?  Here's an example of how it went.

Didion, who covered politics only sporadically, and as an outsider, wrote a fantastic piece for the New York Review of Books about the nature of press coverage during the '88 campaign. Her most telling example came on a morning in San Diego when Didion, as part of Dukakis' traveling press, witnessed the candidate briefly tossing a baseball on the tarmac, shortly after his plane landed. Here she is:

About this baseball on the tarmac. On the day that Michael Dukakis appeared at the high school in Woodland Hills and at the rally in San Diego and in the school-yard in San Jose, there was, although it did not appear on the schedule, a fourth event, what was referred to among the television crews as a "tarmac arrival with ball tossing." This event had taken place in late morning, on the tarmac at the San Diego airport, just after the chartered 737 had rolled to a stop and the candidate had emerged. There had been a moment of hesitation. Then baseball mitts had been produced, and Jack Weeks, the traveling press secretary, had tossed a ball to the candidate. The candidate had tossed the ball back. The rest of us had stood in the sun and given this our full attention, undeflected even by the arrival of an Alaska 767: some forty adults standing on a tarmac watching a diminutive figure in shirtsleeves and a red tie toss a ball to his press secretary.

The Hillary Movie, update

Hillary ditches Scooby van and flies to New Jersey after wrapping up three-day Iowa campaign tour - toting her own luggage!

United flight 3954 carried Clinton from Omaha, Nebraska to Newark, New Jersey on Thursday

Met by a Town Car and a police escort – on the tarmac – for what's likely a short trip back to her Chappaqua, New York estate

Follows Iowa campaign swing full of controlled interactions, staged conversations and little interaction with real people

Clinton was, however, photographed pulling her own suitcase down an airport concourse

Proving she's just like you and me.

A reporter with the liberal news outlet Vox tweeted a photo of Clinton toting her own luggage on Thursday in Omaha

Just to set the record straight on Chipotle

It appears that "someone" - presumably on the Clinton campaign - tipped the NY Times off that she had lunch at Chipotle.

Nor did the restaurant’s staff notice Mrs. Clinton, until this reporter, tipped off that she had dined there, telephoned.

Well\, it would not have done much good if this particular scene in "Hillary the Movie"  wasn't covered by the press.

The Hillary Movie, cont.

The headline says that "Hillary didn't trip" but that's beside the point ... because she didn't pay.  Huma Abedin apparently carries the money.  When you're part of the Ruling Class you have "people" who do that.

Bud Norman notes that ...

Every campaign’s attempts to make the candidate seem a regular down-home American are faintly ridiculous, but in Clinton’s case it is downright hilarious. The spectacle evokes the image of Bill and Hillary Clinton at leisure in one of their mansions, much like King Arthur and Guinevere in “Camelot,” wondering “What Do the Simple Folk Do?” and coming up with the most wildly inaccurate conjectures.

Just this week has seen Clinton scooting across Grant Wood’s Iowa in a vehicle that has been dubbed the “Scooby Doo van,” making her putatively routine visit to a Chipotle franchise, chatting amiably with plain old midwestern folks at some Frank Capra-esque watering hole, wandering the halls of some distinctly non-Ivy League campus, and grousing about the indue influence of rich people’s money on America’s once-pristine politics. All of it was so obviously contrived that even the press noticed, and actual regular down-home Americans were far less likely to be fooled by any of it. ....

The “Scooby Doo” characters didn’t have two accompanying black vans full of Secret Service agents, either, nor did any state Highway Patrols clear traffic for their madcap capers ....

But that's how the movie's made. You're just not supposed to notice the crew and the supporting cast, just watch the flickering images on the screen.