My column from Lebanon newspaper 10/19/16: On April 10, 2015, a cocktail party for “leading news figures and top-level Clinton staff” was held at the Upper East Side home of Joel Benenson in New York City. Benenson is the chief strategist for the Hillary Clinton campaign. It was also described as a “fully off the record” gathering designed to set out Clinton’s campaign message shortly before her official announcement on April 12 to run for the presidency. Those reporters who responded to the invitation that they would attend included Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos from ABC, Mark Halperin and John Heillman from Bloomberg, Rachel Maddow from MSNBC, Savannah Guthrie from NBC, Maggie Haberman from the New York Times, and others whose names may not be as familiar to you from CBS, CNN, Daily Beast, Huffington Post, the New Yorker, PEOPLE magazine, Politico, VICE and VOX. Food and drinks were provided by the ca...