Hillary Clinton’s eyes welled up at a campaign stop in New Hampshire today, and you can bet that her brief moment of emotion is going to be chewed over endlessly over the next 24 hours. In an early take on the “story,” the New York Times‘ Patrick Healey and Marc Santora take the odd route of inserting the press themselves in their description of the moment:
“Some of us are right some of us are wrong,” she continued, firming up a bit — and sounding, some reporters felt, either angry or resentful about Senator Barack Obama. “Some of us are ready, and some of us are not. Some of us know what we’ll do on day one and some of us don’t.” (emphasis ours)
She sounded angry or resentful about Obama? That’s a fascinating bit of mind reading by the two Times scribes. We wonder what other tricks–other than being able to peer inside the private thoughts of politicians–they can do.
Paul McLeary is a former CJR staff writer. Since 2008, he has covered the Pentagon for Foreign Policy, Defense News, Breaking Defense, and other outlets. He is currently a defense reporter for Politico.