Poor Shelly Sindland. The senior correspondent for Fox 61 in Hartford has had no luck getting Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama to chat with her at recent voter meet-and-greet events that had no scheduled reporter Q&As.

In Hartford on Monday, Hillary Clinton totally snubbed Sindland. And then last night at roundtable a Stamford diner, Michelle Obama wouldn’t answer any questions from Sindland. The nerve!

As she said, “I had more freedom of the press in the former Soviet Union.”

Okay, this isn’t the Soviet Union. Like not even a little bit. Even though Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama are public figures, they don’t owe answers to every reporter in every situation ever.

And Chelsea Clinton was smart not to answer questions from that 9-year-old reporter for Scholastic News in Iowa. Because whatever she said would have been national news; even what she didn’t say was national news.

With a 24-hour new cycle and YouTube capturing every tear, politicians have a right to say no to questions occasionally. Killing inquisitive journalists in the Soviet Union, or even modern-day Russia, that was crossing the line.