Clinton, the inartful dodger

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has given just a handful of press conferences since she began mererly hinting that she might run for president. A few news outlets point this out occasionally, but most let her get away with it.

Meanwhile her rival, GOP nominee Donald Trump, has a reputation for being hostile toward the press because he blacklists organizations and certain reporters from his events and routinely calls out media bias. But as Politico noted last week, Clinton has been using Trump's treatment of the press as cover for her own avoidance.

"First, the Clinton press conferences and gaggles became rare," the paper wrote, "Now, the Trump campaign's foot-dragging in allowing a basic press pool — a group of reporters that share travel duty to cover public events and minimize the logistics burden on the campaign — has given Clinton cover to not institute a protective pool, which would cover the candidate's every move and ride on the campaign plane in the same way the White House press pool does and which typically begins when the candidates becomes the party's official nominee."

Even before Trump's blacklisting and complaints, Clinton wascorralling reporters with ropes, like animals, to keep them from asking her tough questions.

Yet Clinton still receives undeserved love from the press. In the rare instances that she deigns to take questions, the press cheers her responses. Yeah, that really happened.