Hillary Clinton did it again this week. She shamelessly expressed curiosity about UFOs. This time, it was with a morning crew at a Harlem radio station, and why not? CNN’s Wolf Blitzer would rather clip his toenails with a chainsaw than soil himself with that UFO crud on live TV. So regardless of your political persuasion, this is bold and unprecedented stuff, on several levels. For one thing, the Clinton opposition has yet to demonstrate it knows how to convert her enthusiasm into a blunt medieval torture instrument. But what should concern us even more is what the media reaction reveals about its capacity for accommodating truly revolutionary discourse.
From the get-go, back in early January, after the Democratic frontrunner told a New Hampshire newspaper she wanted to declassify federal UFO records, her remarks were so far off the grid of approval, they sifted into the public domain through the mesh of incredulity. “Hillary Clinton (jokingly) pledges UFO probe,” announced CNN, which didn’t sit in on that interview and dreamed up a headline based not on fact but faulty intuition. CNN wasn’t the only place that choked on it, either. “Hillary Jokes That She’ll Investigate UFOs, Area 51” declared The Daily Caller, the website of conservative bow tie guy Tucker Carlson.
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