The difference between how the NY Times treated Hillary Clinton vs HW Bush

Remember the fable of George HW Bush and the supermarket scanner? Here’s how the NY Times described it back then:

ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 4— As President Bush travels the country in search of re-election, he seems unable to escape a central problem: This career politician, who has lived the cloistered life of a top Washington bureaucrat for decades, is having trouble presenting himself to the electorate as a man in touch with middle-class life.

Today, for instance, he emerged from 11 years in Washington’s choicest executive mansions to confront the modern supermarket.

Visiting the exhibition hall of the National Grocers Association convention here, Mr. Bush lingered at the mock-up of a checkout lane. He signed his name on an electronic pad used to detect check forgeries.

“If some guy came in and spelled George Bush differently, could you catch it?” the President asked. “Yes,” he was told, and he shook his head in wonder.

Then he grabbed a quart of milk, a light bulb and a bag of candy and ran them over an electronic scanner. The look of wonder flickered across his face again as he saw the item and price registered on the cash register screen.

“This is for checking out?” asked Mr. Bush. “I just took a tour through the exhibits here,” he told the grocers later. “Amazed by some of the technology.”

Marlin Fitzwater, the White House spokesman, assured reporters that he had seen the President in a grocery store. A year or so ago. In Kennebunkport.

Some grocery stores began using electornic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade.

Having sampled the ways of the American shopper, Mr. Bush tried to identify with the American bad mood.

It was written by the incomparably hypocritical Andrew Rosenthal.

Never mind that it wasn’t even true:

Andrew Rosenthal of The New York Times hadn’t even been present at the grocers’ convention. He based his article on a two-paragraph report filed by the lone pool newspaperman allowed to cover the event, Gregg McDonald of the Houston Chronicle, who merely wrote that Bush had a “look of wonder” on his face and didn’t find the event significant enough to mention in his own story. Moreover, Bush had good reason to express wonder: He wasn’t being shown then-standard scanner technology, but a new type of scanner that could weigh groceries and read mangled and torn bar codes.

Newly released Hillary emails indicate that she is unable to use a fax machine– 30 year old technology:

And here’s how the NY Times describes Hillary’s bewilderment:

She needed advice from a longtime aide about how to use a fax machine, which will almost certainly be recycled by critics who seek to make her look out of touch.

Hillary can’t drive a car, she can’t use a fax, she can’t remember how many devices she uses, she can’t remember when Cabinet meetings are held, she can’t remember where her emails are, she can’t remember what’s on them, she can’t remember soliciting Sid Blumenthal’s advice and she can’t remember Benghazi.

Today Hillary agonizes whether to fly First Class or take the private jet, she and Bill are worth somewhere North of $200 million but it was HW Bush who had trouble presenting himself in touch with middle class life.

Andrew Rosenthal is an execrable piece of garbage.

DrJohn

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Except for liberals being foolish.