Clinton’s ‘basket of deplorables’ gaffe stuns both parties

The New York Post ^ | September 12, 2016 | Fredric U. Dicker

[AlaskaErik]

The clinging to their guns and bibles remark didn’t seem to hurt Barry.

[tbw2]

I get the impression when she was saying “basket of .... deplorables”, she was going to say despicable but realized that’s a popular and positively received movie title.

[nopardons]

He's a GOOD reporter and mainly write about state politics.

Making fun of someone's name, especially someone whom you know nothing at all about, isn't a wise thing to do.

[nopardons]

The U is his middle initial.

Good grief...has FR turned in to kindergarten, now ?

[Yo-Yo]

It shouldn't stun anyone. During the Democratic Debate on October 14th, 2015, All of the candidates were asked "What enemy are you most proud of?"

Hillary Clinton answered: "Well, in addition to the NRA, the health insurance companies, the drug companies, the Iranians. Probably the Republicans."

[nopardons]

No they don't and GROW UP!

He's a good political reporter and notice, please, that I did NOT call him a "journalist"!

[Amendment10]

Hillary is living in a 60s time warp imo. “Motivate” people by giving them something to hate.

[M Kehoe]

Good afternoon.

Okay, I’ll take your word for the “good reporter,” but the alliteration was too good to pass up.

5.56mm

[Little Ray]

It is not a gaffe. They really feel that way. It didn’t hurt her position with her voters one bit.
The only way it MIGHT hurt Hillary! is by motivating “deplorable” voters.

[TexasTransplant]

Thanks for the idea ...

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[The Sons of Liberty]

Clinton’s ‘basket of deplorables’ gaffe stuns both parties

Madam Hillary Benghazi's off-handed condescending remark is galvanizing the hordes that despise her!

PROUD TO BE DEPLORABLE!

[RayChuang88]

Hillary did the worst thing possible: she directly attacked a whole bloc of voters. Maybe she should have asked for the advice of director Paul Feig, who insanely denounced the moviegoing audience directly for the "reboot" of the Ghostbusters movie and that movie didn't even make its combined production and market cost back by a long shot.

[nopardons]

I’ve been reading the N.Y. Post for many decades and Mr. Dicker’s columns for as long. He REPORTS news...he usually doesn’t make smarmy comments about anyone, and though I can see the temptation, making fun of his name, shouldn’t have become the topic of this thread.

[JusPasenThru]

Correct. It was not a gaffe, it was a rare moment of unvarnished honesty.

Much more frightening is to call a bloc of Americans “irredeemable”. Send them to the concentration camps?

[LydiaLong]

Oh please. It will damage her for 5 minutes. The parasites are still going to vote for her.

[lafroste]

I ordered 2 of those shirts and I worry that they will be obsolete before they even get here (on Wednesday).

[bjorn14]

It could move some independents to Trump. IMHO.

[Little Ray]

I really hope so.
Pretty much all the voters who know anything about the candidates are spoken for. Now both sides are bidding for the LIVs.

[BeauBo]

Not a gaffe.

It was written into her script, and she has used it at other recent events.

Typical Leftist hate-mongering and demonization.

[rightwingcrazy]

“It’s Exhibit A of her political incompetence”

It’s Exhibit A of her bigotry.