Something funny happened on Hillary Clinton’s way to the forum of public opinion in her attempt to tar Donald Trump with the Charleston shootings — First, it fell flat as a pancake; next, people started recounting different stories about what had happened — Hmmm ?
Hillary’s failed attempt to achieve a “Sister Souljah Moment” at the expense of Donald Trump — was a blatant attempt to politicize the funereal moment of the nine murdered victims of the Charleston Emanuel A.M.E. Church — It is akin to what she did as Secretary of State over the flag-draped coffins of four dead Americans following the Benghazi fiasco in 2012
But all of that has received only passing attention in the main stream media — The question again arises — Why ?
Earlier today I mentioned in a comment thread to another post on this blog that Hillary Clinton, in an appearance on the KNPB “Ralston Live” program with Jon Ralston, said, “Public discourse is sometimes hotter and more negative than it should be, which can, in my opinion, trigger someone who is less than stable.... I think we have to speak out against it. Like, for example, a recent entry into the Republican presidential campaign [who] said some very inflammatory things....” (See my 6/19/15 comment “UPDATE: THE “ HASHTAG HILLARY CLASSIC [#HILLARYCLASSIC] ” EDITION” to my 6/16/15 post “DONALD TRUMP” below on this blog).
HILLARY CLINTON IS BEING PROTECTED BY THE MSM FROM HER VERY UN-PRESIDENTIAL MOMENT ON THE AIR WITH JON RALSTON
Those remarks about Mr. Trump by Mrs. Clinton received almost universal coverage. However up to this point, that coverage has been very muted and subdued. The reasons for that are not yet clear. However, I put it to you that — it isn’t too far-fetched to suggest these two points: first, the way in which Hillary Clinton attacked Donald Trump was a major political blunder; second the MSM is protecting Hillary by letting her hide in plain sight, like they have done so many times before. A perfect example of this is an article that appeared in Politico, which completely downplayed the despicable attack upon Mr. Trump by Hillary Clinton — here’s how Politico did it: first, the headline “Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump's racial rhetoric 'not acceptable' ”; then the lead paragraph, “Hillary Clinton took a swipe at Donald Trump on Thursday, saying — without mentioning the New York real estate tycoon by name — that his presidential launch speech was offensive to Mexicans and “emblematic” of the kind of rhetoric that cannot be tolerated in the wake of the tragic South Carolina shootings....” (See “Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump's racial rhetoric 'not acceptable' ” by Adam Lerner, 6/19/15, Politico [http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-racist-speak-119210.html]). Clearly, the Politico author completely reversed the cause-and-effect implicit in Hillary Clinton’s remarks to protect her from what she obviously was trying to do.Even when Adam Lerner recounted Mr. Trump’s complaint, he never addressed it in terms of what Hillary Clinton had said and implied about Mr. Trumps speech.
ABC NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THE FACT THAT HILLARY CLINTON ONLY “SUGGESTED” THINGS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP AND HIS REMARKS
ABC News took a completely different tack, “Hillary Clinton didn't call The Donald out by name, but she suggested in an interview Thursday that comments like ones the real estate tycoon-turned-Republican presidential candidate made during his recent announcement speech could "trigger" events like this week’s church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina....” (See “Hillary Clinton Suggests Donald Trump-Like Comments Can 'Trigger' Events Like Charleston” by Liz Kreutz & Rick Klein, 6/19/15, ABC News/ via GMA [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-suggests-donald-trump-comments-trigger-events/story?id=31884003]). Maybe, Hillary was being very subtle and too clever by half; knowing that if it all blew-up, she could get out of it by saying something like — "I never meant to say anything like that at all...."Well, see for yourself. This is the context in which Hillary Clinton couched her remarks about her prospective Republican opponent, Mr. Trump: “We have to have a candid national conversation about race, and about discrimination, hatred, prejudice,” Clinton said of the Charleston shooting in the interview with Jon Ralston. She went on, saying, "Public discourse is sometimes hotter and more negative than it should be, which can, in my opinion, trigger someone who is less than stable.”
Even though the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, did not mention Donald Trump by name, Hillary Clinton did explicitly mention the remarks he had made in his announcement speech on Tuesday. Here’s what she said, “I think we have to speak out against it.... Like, for example, a recent entry into the Republican presidential campaign said some very inflammatory things about Mexicans. Everybody should stand up and say that’s not acceptable.”
Needless to say, Trump’s remarks had been made the day before a white gunman opened fire in a historically African-American church, killing nine black people; and Hillary did want that connection to be clear. So what did she do next, Clinton spoke about guns as a factor in the Charleston shootings — “The second thing is guns. Let’s just cut to the chase – it’s guns," she said. She couldn’t have been more explicit — the causes of the Charleston shootings were: first, the Trump speech; and second, it’s the guns.
Interestingly, in the main stream media, and even most of the rightist press, radio and cable-news, it was Hillary Clinton’s “second thing” – “it’s guns” that got the bigger coverage — much more than the Donald Trump stuff.
HILLARY CLINTON’S ATTACK ON DONALD TRUMP WAS A BLUNDER OF SUCH MONUMENTAL PROPORTION — IT SHOWS THAT SHE LACKS THE JUDGMENT AND TEMPERAMENT TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Obviously, Hillary Clinton was attempting her version of her husband Bill’s very famous “Sister Souljah Moment.” — And Hillary was more than happy to try it out at the expense of a GOP presidential candidate, in this instance -- Donald Trump.So far Hillary’s attempt to Sister Souljah her opponent Donald Trump has fallen into the “Epic Fail” category of political gamesmanship, because it was the wrong thing to do — and it was done at an especially wrong time.
So far the only pushback against Mrs. Clinton has come from Donald Trump himself, his spokesman Sam Nunberg, and various reports, mostly in the right-leaning media covering Mr. Trump’s and Mr. Numberg’s pushback.
BUT REALLY, right now, things could and should be much worse than that for Mrs. Clinton — what she did against the backdrop of the nine victims of what looks like lone-wolf domestic terrorism in Charleston, South Carolina was one of the most ill-timed and distasteful acts ever perpetrated by a presidential candidate. It is also something that plays into the emerging narrative that Hillary Clinton will do or say anything to achieve her selfish aims — and the general public sensibilities or the particular needs of grieving survivors of a tragedy useful to Hillary can be damned.
But, as I said above she is being protected by a large chunk of the main stream media, who are giving her a pass and letting her hide in plain sight on this one, just like so may before.
However, to use Hillary’s own words against her, “Public discourse is sometimes hotter and more negative than it should be, which can, in my opinion, trigger someone who is less than stable.... I think we have to speak out against it. Like, for example...” against a Democrat candidate for president who has shown her unfitness for the office because she has demonstrated her lack of judgment and lack of temperament for the job with her rather thinly-veiled, vile and divisive attacks against Donald Trump at a terrible moment in our country, when standing together as a nation should have been paramount to her. — Of course that Democrat candidate is Hillary Rodham Clinton, or as we know her — "Hillary just being Hillary."
And we don't want Hillary just being Hillary as our next president, do we ?
Trump is a "contender"?
ReplyDeleteRESPONSE: THE "NOT JUST 'A CONTENDER' -- BUT 'A TOP TIER CONTENDER' " EDITION
ReplyDeletePundits say that Donald Trump comes in at about the Number Eight (#8) of those running and/or ready to come into the race.
The pros fear Trump sticking around until the primaries and caucuses, because he can pop-up even higher than #8 when GOP voters get to vote.
For now everybody can get away with saying Donald Trump is not serious; and that he will never do any real organizing or campaigning.
Trump will not run.
ReplyDeleteHe will drop out before Iowa. This year is no different than any other.
FLASH >>> UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE “HILLARY CLINTON AS RACIAL HYPOCRITE” EDITION
ReplyDeleteSOMETIMES YOU JUST CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP – ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO HILLARY CLINTON’S BEING A PHONY
HILLARY SCOLDS AMERICA ABOUT RACE RELATIONS, RACISM AND SEGREGATION — WHILE SHE AND BILL STILL LIVE A LIFE OF “ WHITE PRIVILEGE” IN A “SEGREGATED” – “LILLY-WHITE” NYC SUBURB
In a speech to a conference of American mayors held in San Franciso, “Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton characterized the United States as racist and lamented what she described as a troubling increase in racial segregation in modern-day America in a speech on Saturday....” ( See “Hillary Clinton Chides America For Racism, Lives In Town With 1.9 Percent Black Population” by Eric Owens, 6/20/15, Daily Caller
[http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/20/hillary-clinton-chides-america-for-racism-lives-in-town-with-1-9-percent-black-population/]).
The Daily Caller article went on to quote Hillary in part, as follows: “‘Once again, racist rhetoric has metastasized into racist violence,’ she said, referring to the acts of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old man who has reportedly confessed to to murdering nine people at a black church in Charleston, S.C. on Wednesday....” However, she provided scant detail of any specific “racist rhetoric” that “metastasized” into the tragic act(s) of Mr. Roof at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C.
Mrs. Clinton is also reported to have said the following to the gathering of U.S. Mayors in San Francisco: “We must address these issues as a nation, and we must also address them as individuals.... Cruel jokes can’t go unchallenged, offhand comments about not wanting ‘those people’ in the neighborhood can’t be ignored, and news reports about poverty and crime and discrimination can’t just evoke our sympathy — even empathy — they must also spur us to action and prompt us to question our own assumptions and privilege.”
What Hillary didn’t tell the gathering of mayors was that those “assumptions” and that “privilege” precisely described a privileged lifestyle pursued throughout most of her adult life, and which continues to the present. You see, Mrs. Clinton’s criticism of white Americans for “privilege” and “not wanting ‘those people’ in the neighborhood” stands in stark contrast to the personal decisions she has made for herself and her family.
She now lives in the very tony town of Chappaqua, N.Y. which is a virtual lilly-white enclave of wealth and privilege carved out from any of the racial minorities in other parts of Metropolitan NYC or even the blacks in her own county. Before that in Little Rock, the Clintons availed themselves of the benefits of segregated country clubs; and as for schooling Chelsea, it was a big “NO” to majority black urban schools and “Yes” to private schools for the wealthy and privileged.
On thing certainly can be said about Hillary Clinton’s moralizing scolds about race, racism and racial segregation — IT REALLY LOOKS AND SOUNDS QUITE HYPOCRITICAL....
Trump definitely a contender.
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President Sanders.
ReplyDeleteGet used to it !!
I dont know about President Sanders, but, I do like his fried chicken.
ReplyDeleteUPDATE: THE “HILLARY DOUBLES DOWN — AND DOUBLES DOWN — AND DOUBLES DOWN” EDITION
ReplyDeleteYET AGAIN, HILLARY CLINTON SHOWS THAT SHE HAS NEITHER THE JUDGMENT NOR THE TEMPERAMENT TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
HILLARY HORRIBLY DEMAGOGUES THE CHARLESTON CHURCH MURDERS INTO A MYTHICAL NARRATIVE ABOUT COLLECTIVE “WHITE GUILT” AND RACISM
HILLARY CLINTON IS DOING HER BEST TO CHANNEL AL SHARPTON AND/OR RACHEL DOLEZAL AS SHE HYPOCRITICALLY TRIES TO STOKE BLACK OUTRAGE AGAINST ALL THINGS TRADITIONAL, SOUTHERN AND AMERICAN IN HER ATTEMPT TO STAY AHEAD OF OTHER DEMOCRATS AND THE WHOLE GOP FIELD
In item after item, Hillary Clinton is pedal to the metal pushing the abominable notion that all white people are racists to their core; and that one way or another everybody was in some way responsible for Dylann Storm Roof’s nine acts of homicide in the [Sisiter/Mother] Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston.
Hillary Clinton was not content with her position that the Confederate Battle Flag be removed from the grounds of the South Carolina Capital after Nikki Haley the South Carolina Governor formally advocated for its removal. Immediately, Mrs. Clinton switched her call to demanding that the Confederate Battle Flag should not be displayed anywhere in America because it might give offense to some blacks — many have supporters and opponents have since described or acknowledged that as an extremely radical position.
Of course, all of that is the height of hypocrisy, since in 2008 there were a variety of Hillary Clinton Campaign buttons that incorporated images of the very same Confederate flag when she was running in the South against a black man with a Muslim name, Barack Hussein Obama. To make things worse, in 2008 a high up person in Hillary’s Clinton’s Primary Campaign in Pennsylvania, Philip J. Berg, was one of the early principals of the “Birther” movement — eventually taking a case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court over issues connected to then-President Barack Obama’s birth records.