Clark is mainly responsible for creating whatever negative image she has - but this whole thing is BS.  If she'd stopped and talked with the woman (who even if she wasn't a deliberate "plant" was certainly someone who saw a chance to embarrass Clark), the media would have seized on whatever inflammatory or sensationalist soundbite came out of the exchange.  The headlines would have then screamed either "Clark blasted by angry constituent" or "Clark gets an earful" or something like that.

There was ZERO chance Clark would have been portrayed as "listening to peoples' concerns"; the media was clearly intent on sensationalizing the exchange in whatever way possible, for clicks and newspaper sales.

If THIS is what the election is going to hinge on, people in BC are absolute effing idiots.