Posted on 10/29/2014 5:09:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
Liberals have this terrible and annoying habit of congratulating themselves for their intellectual heft merely because they hold liberal views. Once this arrogant notion reigns, it's tough for liberals to acknowledge when one of their own says something so remarkably untrue and stupid that it makes you wonder just how ignorant is the liberal really.
At an event for Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley in Boston on Oct. 24, Hillary Clinton told the assembled Democratic faithful: "Don't let anybody tell you that, you know, it's corporations and businesses that create jobs."
This makes about as much sense as "Don't let anyone say that it's governments that tax people." In attempt to dig out of this rhetorical face-plant, Clinton contended at an event in New York on Oct. 27 that she had "shorthanded this point" in a way that confused the public about what she actually meant. But now listen to her "clarification:"
"Our economy grows when businesses and entrepreneurs create good-paying jobs here in an America where workers and families are empowered to build from the bottom up and the middle out -- not when we hand out tax breaks for corporations that outsource jobs or stash their profits overseas."
That sounds like a hundred Democratic Party stump speeches, creating the evil Snidely Whiplash corporate villain. It also affirms the obvious fact that business creates employment -- at least in a free market economy. That's not a "clarification" of her incredibly stupid gaffe. It's not fixing a "shorthanding." It's a badly disguised retraction.
To Republicans, this sounded like a more illiterate version of Barack Obama's lame 2012 campaign dismissal of that free market economy when he told business "You didn't build that." Entrepreneurs should always credit their success to government-funded highways and teachers, and never to their own skills in the marketplace. It attaches Clinton to Obama's radical waist, and that's not good when he's sporting the lowest-ever approval ratings for an incumbent president.
Team Clinton knows, however, that it can get away with all of this, at least within the "objective" press. There was no coverage of this ridiculous gaffe on ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR or PBS. CNN twice obsessed over whether Hillary and Sen. Elizabeth Warren should have hugged or posed together at the Coakley event, ignoring the idiotic remarks. The same diversion bubbled up Saturday with weekend talk-show host Steve Kornacki on MSNBC.
The New York Times reproduced the stupid remark in a Sunday story, albeit on page A-13, in paragraph 10, when the reader has lost interest. But that was better than the competition. There was no coverage in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, or USA Today. Even the local Boston Globe skipped over the remark. Reporter Akilah Johnson just offered campaign boilerplate from Hillary, such as: "We cannot possibly rest between now and Nov. 4. ... You don't want to wake up the day after this election and say, 'I wish I could have done more.' "
Ken Thomas and Philip Marcelo filed a story for the Associated Press, and skipped the stupidity entirely. This was their chosen Hillary quote to reproduce, touting Coakley in a close race: "From my perspective, it shouldn't even really be a race. It should not even be close, but we're living during an election season where it's close everywhere ... and that's why Martha needs you."
The people who complain that our news media consumption is too "polarized" -- and their assumption that conservatives depend too much on alternative media -- fail to acknowledge how our traditional "news" media are consistently burying Democrat gaffes they don't want anyone to hear about. When Hillary says something stupid, they want it to be just like that metaphorical tree that falls silently in the forest. Peace and quiet is comforting.
The scary thing to me is that HRC and her ilk actually believe such statements are true. I.E., it is government policies and incentives that drive corporations to create jobs. It is government spending that fuels the money supply and creates spending and consumer demand that fuels job growth. It is the government that has so become entwined in the economy that it has become the major driver of American prosperity. Progressives honestly believe this to be so, and therin lies the danger.
Fascist fingers of the $ociopath of $tatists...
President Jimmy Carter appoints Clinton to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corp., an organization that provides federal funds to legal-aid bureaus throughout the United States.
The Whitewater Development Corp. is formed by the Clintons and James and Susan McDougal.
In 1990, Hillary Rodham Clinton was the only woman on the board at Wal-Mart, a company based in Arkansas, where she was first lady.
She was on the board of Wal-Mart and several other corporations.
From 1982 to 1988, Clinton was on the board of directors, sometimes as chair, of the New World Foundation
In addition to her positions with nonprofit organizations, she also held positions on the corporate board of directors of TCBY (1985–1992), Wal-Mart Stores (1986–1992)] and Lafarge (1990–1992)
There is no way she mispoke. If you watched the video she was all ‘coy like lefty’ when she said it. Certainly fodder for her opponents in 2016.
That is not all she flunks. Hillary is worthless.
Yeh Hellary and you had all volunteer leftists publish, print and distribute your lame book which you got a nice payday from Simon and Shyster Co. Smartest leftist hag in America.
Well, they elected a homosexual muslim half-black incompetent husband of a moose. Twice.
It’s not that great a leap.
ANY woman that, in the same calendar year, earns over $7M, and declares that she and her husband were ‘flat broke’, needs to be committed, straitjacket and all!
Maybe so, but she’s a whiz at futures investments.
“Has America declined to such a point that it will elect a senile socialist President who is the lesbian wife of a philandering ex President?”
We elected a guy who is essentially Al Sharpton with a Harvard degree, who hates America, white people, has a muslim name and absolutely no qualifications.
For now, at least, Bill’s cow isn’t running, and her mistaking entitlements for enterprise and wages can be laughed off, chalked up to too much botox on her brain.
She flunked US Embassy security 105 also.
It doesn’t matter what classes you passed or flunked if you have NO common sense.
No one ever makes a point of the obvious logical fallacy here. If "government-created" infrastructure was truly the reason for an entrepreneur's success, then everyone should be a millionaire because everyone has access to that same infrastructure. They are not, therefore it isn't.
Uh there is no Embassy Security 105. Its a joke you know ha ha? It means she has no common sense. That was the whole point. She also flunked How To Deal With Putin 101 :-)
The title should be obviously reflect reality: “hillary klintoon flunks life”. This degenerate, while wealthy, is a complete loser and a criminal. She was fired from the Watergate committee for incompetence and illegal activity. Her “marriage” is a failure to a philandering criminal. She failed as “first” lady, stealing the silverware and china on her way out. She somehow had Vince Foster murdered and covered it up. She killed 4 Americans at Benghazi through her actions or inactions. While she was secretary of state, $6,000,000,000,000.00 was “unaccounted for”. She has a history of ongoing, chronic dishonesty. She has as her companion and confidant, huma, an iranian whose mother is the head of the female branch of the moozlum brotherhood. Her only child looks interestingly like a close friend of the family. She is obese. She is fugly. She can’t even hire a good ghostwriter (her recent book was an abject failure and waste of paper). I could go on but I have something better to do...pick up an obama that my dog left on the lawn just now.
“As if smart and ‘conservative are polar opposites.”
I wonder if you’ve ever gone to another baseball game with him.
Let me help you with that. No. :)
Excellent!
IMHO
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