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Chelsea Clinton Stonewalls 9-Year-Old Reporter

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That’s the fear clapping.Photo: AFP/Getty Images

We couldn’t help but notice the following moment in a scantly picked-up AP story last night:

Sydney Rieckhoff, a Cedar Rapids fourth grader and “kid reporter” for Scholastic News, has posed questions to seven Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls as they’ve campaigned across Iowa this year. But when she approached the 27-year-old Chelsea after a campaign event Sunday, she got a different response.


Do you think your dad would be a good ‘first man’ in the White House?” Sydney asked, but Chelsea brushed her question aside.

It sounds like Hillary’s campaign is taking its maniacal obsession with press control a wee bit too far. Come on, Chelsea, throw the little girl a bone. Don’t you remember when you were a cripplingly awkward preadolescent who was just trying to be taken seriously? Because we remember it. We remember it all too well.

Chelsea Clinton Guards Her Words [AP]

Chelsea Clinton Stonewalls 9-Year-Old Reporter