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ANALYSIS/OPINION:

In early 2007, the mainstream political pundits were already falling in line, predicting that Hillary Rodham Clinton would be her partys presidential nominee for an election still nearly two years hence.

Hillary was The Chosen One. The pundits said she was unstoppable: She had the Clinton Machine behind her the ruthless team of operatives and dirt-diggers who twice put her husband into office as well as tens of millions of email addresses and, of course, access to hundreds of millions of dollars at the snap of her fingers.

She lost. Badly. But she didnt just lose. While selling herself as the mature candidate whom Americans could trust to handle properly that emergency 3 a.m. phone call, she got her hat handed to her by a 47-year-old with more experience as a community organizer than a U.S. senator, a job hed held only since 2004.

Americans didnt love Barack Obama. And most probably didnt fall for his tripe about hope and change and a post-partisan presidency. They simply didnt like and didnt trust Hillary.

More, though, the media decided it was time for a change. Instead of a professional politician an old and tired face the mainstream media put its muscle behind the up and comer. When reports emerged in March 2008 that Mrs. Clinton had lied about taking hostile fire from snipers during a March 1996 visit to U.S. troops at Tuzla Air Base in Bosnia, the press pummeled her.

There was a new Chosen One. And while she stayed on for two more months, Mrs. Clinton was done. The media had decided they bailed on her to support the man whose victory would be the historic election of the first black president. On June 7, she quit the race.

Now, shes back with a whole new bag of lies. But this time she has a plan: Shell control the media and shes already putting her plan into action.

Before her Sunday announcement, Team Hillary held private dinners with media bigs. Off the record, of course. Attending were ABCs Diane Sawyer, David Muir and George Stephanopoulos, who was Bill Clintons White House communications director (and also the guy who created the war on women narrative the press used against Republican Mitt Romney in 2012). Also wining and dining were CBSs Norah ODonnell and NBCs Savannah Guthrie, who recently attacked Sen. Rand Paul and repeatedly talked over him during a contentious interview (which, as you can predict, led to MSM charges that Mr. Paul hates women).

MSNBCs Joe Scarborough (once a Republican lawmaker) was there, as were several reporters from CNN, and, as always, Mike Allen of the liberal Politico website.

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JOSEPH CURL: Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign strategy is to control media