Hillary Clinton's Image Control: Security Swipes Man's Phone, Erases Pic Of Her At Speech

[Purveyor]

Hillary Clinton quietly slipped into Miami on Thursday to address a travel agents convention in a speech where the former secretary of state said little about troubles abroad or the future ambitions of the likely presidential-race frontrunner.

--CLIP
At one point, a member of the audience, Andrew Rothberg, had his Galaxy Note II smartphone taken from him by security, which removed his picture of Clinton onstage and then gave his device back in front of a Miami Herald reporter in the auditorium stands.

“It’s crazy,” Rothberg said.

“That’s American politics,” said a docent, one of a handful of hotel security and volunteers who roamed the aisles looking for people taking pictures or making recordings. None was allowed.

“I wanted to take pictures for my girls; I have four girls,” Rothberg, who was writing a piece about the conference for Boca Raton-based Grey Matters Magazine, told the Miami Herald. “I think Hillary Clinton who is probably running for president in 2016 would want all the publicity she could get and I think it’s kind of ironic they would take the camera away.”

Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2013/09/hillary-clintons-image-control-security-swipes-mans-phone-erases-pic-of-her-at-speech.html#storylink=cpy

[DonCoquixote]

1. Snicker

Hillary, it's a good thing you are not officially running yet, because this would easily be your first gaffe. You are still giving many of us here an excellent reminder that we need to make you crawl through barbed wire come primary time.

[Ezlivin]

2. The picture clearly shows her talking out of both sides of her mouth

And we can't have that getting out, can we?

[Beacool]

3. These were hotel security folks.

Her security detail are SS agents. I doubt that she would have known that some hotel security guard took this man's phone and deleted a pic.

This place is becoming as bad as a RW site.

[question everything]

4. It was the organizers

Nick Merrill, a media liaison for Clinton, tells the Erik Wemple Blog: “We don’t know what the story is referring to, but whatever it is, nobody associated with Secretary Clinton was part of it – security or otherwise. So you’ll have to ask the host about this.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/09/20/hillary-clinton-speech-cell-phone-grab-what-happened/

[Beacool]

6. Thank you for posting that link.

Around here it's a perpetual Clinton hate fest and every negative article gets posted, no matter how irrelevant or untrue it may be.

[question everything]

7. I've notices. I hope that our next nominee will not be dependent on DUers

who, it appears, sometimes are more interested in preventing one of our own from winning than assuring that the Supreme Court does not become Scalia nation.

I was just watching, in amazement, how the Republicans are now split and ready to destroy any chance of them winning, Usually it is the left - worldwide - that tends to split and miss the main goal.

[Beacool]

8. Well, DU is only a small microcosm within the Democratic party.

Her nomination would not depend on their votes, although not everyone here is opposed to her candidacy. I just had CNN on and they were talking about the interview she gave to New York magazine. I haven't read it yet, but apparently it's the first time since 2008 that she publicly admits mulling whether to run or not.

We'll just have to wait and see. personally, I don't think that she's going to announce any decision until after the 2014 midterm election. Bill already hinted as much.

[musicblind]

9. I remember how bad DU was during the last primary and I hope it won't be that bad again.

She would have my vote if she did decide to run.

I fully support Obama and love him. But I would love a Hillary presidency just as much. I hope she decides to make a bid for the White House in 2016.

[davidpdx]

5. I think it all depends on whether that was made clear upon entrance that no pictures or filming were

allowed. If so, then it's fair game. The question is was that made clear to people upon entrance. I'm not defending Hillary Clinton, just to rules that were allowed in the conference.

Edit: Per post #4 there were instructions, therefore I believe deleting the picture was not wrong.