(Late) Monday Smackdown: Make Ambinder Sucks at His Job Edition

: Hillary Clinton Gets the Coverage She Wants: From: [Philippe Reines] Sent: Wednesday, July 15 2009 10:06 AM To: Ambinder, Marc Subject: Re: Do you have a copy of HRC’s speech to share? 3 [conditions] actually 1) You in your own voice describe them as ‘muscular’. 2) You note that a look at the CFR seating plan shows that all the envoys — from Holbrooke to Mitchell to Ross — will be arrayed in front of her, which in your own clever way you can say certainly not a coincidence and meant to convey something. 3) You don’t say you were blackmailed! From: Ambinder, Marc Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:07 AM To: Philippe Reines Subject: RE: Do you have a copy of HRC’s speech to share? Got it Gawker says: “Ambinder made good on his word…. Based on other emails released in the same batch we received, Ambinder’s warm feelings toward Clinton may have made him uniquely susceptible to Reines’ editing suggestions…” From: Ambinder, Marc Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:05 PM To: Philippe Reines Subject: she kicked A on MTP And: From: Ambinder, Marc Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 12:05 PM To: Philippe Reines Subject: This is an awesome presser… She is PITCH f#$*& PERFECT on this stuff.

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