Hillary Clinton’s campaign thought it was okay to order a comedy club not to make fun of her, which is obviously a totally normal thing to do.
That is, if this were China.
Remember the First Amendment?
The campaign actually threatened to shut the club down.
In case you haven’t heard, Hollywood’s Laugh Factory posted a three-minute video of comedians telling jokes about Hillary Clinton on its website. Yes . . . comedians making fun of a public figure. How outrageous!
And by outrageous, I mean something that any presidential candidate should not just accept but expect because that’s the way it works.
But apparently, the way the world normally works just doesn’t apply when you’re Hillary Clinton — because her campaign called the club demanding that it take the video down and give them the personal contact information of every single comic who appeared in it.
I mean, what in the world did the campaign plan to do with that? Call them and tell them they were mean?
Threaten to end their careers? What possible reason could her campaign have for wanting that information, and what possible reason could they have for thinking they had any right to ask for it in the first place?
It gets worse: Club owner Jamie Masada reports that the campaign actually threatened to put the club out of business if he did not heed their demands.
There is only one reaction appropriate here, and that is: Holy…
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