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Hillary's Press Corps Flush With Pride in Austin, Tex.

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March 4, 2008 | 2:40 p.m

 

Here's the Wall Street Journal's Jackie Calmes on arriving to a Hillary event in Austin last night.

It was immediately interpreted as something of a metaphor for the Clinton campaign’s attitude to the press: With Sen. Hillary Clinton at Austin’s convention center for “a Texas-sized townhall,” her media entourage was taken to its work space — in a men’s room...

Tina Brown was there--"literally inches from a urinal" reports the Huffington Post--and so were so many others who had to file next to urinals and--we're only guessing here--San Jamar toilet paper dispensers.

Here's the video from the AP (titled "Raw Video"). We spotted a few familiar faces: there's Glenn Thrush of Newsday (wearing the reporter's hat), Michael McAuliff of the Daily News, and David Green of NPR, walking away holding his radio equipment.

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