I'm neither a Hillary fan nor a Hillary hater. In 2008 I was for Barack or Hillary or both. But like Chris, our resident Hillary fan, I thought Hillary did a great job on SNL this weekend. She was so... human. I loved the gay marriage joke/dig—and, hey, Hillary does a good Donald Trump impression. And she can sing! Who knew? Hillary was so good on SNL that you can't help but wonder why she does this sort of thing so rarely. I'm not talking about how rarely she does skits on comedy shows, but how little access she grants to the media generally. Why not do an hour-long, sit-down interview with Rachel Maddow? Why not go on Fresh Air with Terry Gross? Why not go on Real Time with Bill Maher? Flood the zone. Hillary grants so few interviews that anyone who does get time with her—like Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC—feels obligated to put the screws to her about her freaking email server. More interviews, more interviewers, and Hillary might have time to talk about other shit and show us a side of herself besides Hillary Playing Defense.

Because what she's doing now—making herself extremely scarce—clearly isn't working. It's not shoring up her poll numbers or driving Bernie's down. So why not do something else? Back when Hillary was Secretary of State, back when she was popular, she was a lot more available to the media. So... maybe... go back to what was working and stop with what clearly isn't working?