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It must stop now: The media can’t allow Trump to make this election about Bill Clinton
SALON ^ | May 24, 2016 | Sean Illing

Posted on 05/24/2016 9:25:53 AM PDT by McGruff

Donald Trump has fired his first shots of the general election campaign. Predictably, they have nothing to do with anything that matters. In a new video released on Instagram, Trump features audio interviews with women who’ve accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault. Against the backdrop of shadowy audio clips, the accompanying text asks if Hillary Clinton is “really protecting women.”

We hear the voices of Monica Lewinsky, Kathleen Wiley, and a clip from a 1999 Dateline interview with Juanita Broaddrick. Near the end, as the sound of Hillary Clinton’s cackle fades, the words “Here we go again” flash on the screen.

I’m no great defender of Bill Clinton. He was a competent president and did a lot of things well, but he’s also received a pass from Democrats on a number of fronts. The triangulating, the serial lying, the capitulations to white Southerners – it was all transparent and nauseating. But here’s the thing: Bill Clinton isn’t running for president, and what he did with his penis 30 years ago is irrelevant.

(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016issues; bluedress; cankles; cigar; clinton; dna; election2016; hilary2016; hillary; impeachment; juanitabrodderick; kathleenwiley; lewinsky; liar; newyork; paulajones; perjury; pervert; rape; salon; seanilling; sink; slick; subornedperjury; thighs; trump; whatisis; x42
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Oh my, this could get so fun. With the Cosby fiasco, just keep whacking away. Where was Cosby’s wife, oh I think Hillary is just like that.


41 posted on 05/24/2016 9:40:10 AM PDT by taterjay
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To: DuncanWaring

The Clintons have marketed themselves as a Twofer from the beginning. This is their doing, not Trump’s.

Add to that that Hillary has already stated that The Bent One will have a significant position in her administration. So, yep, it is very much about Willie as well as Cankles.

Salon is mortified that someone actually has the stones to call out the Clintons and tell the truth to their faces.


42 posted on 05/24/2016 9:40:10 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: McGruff
Predictably, they have nothing to do with anything that matters.

Sean Illing conveniently ignores the NYTimes hit piece from last weekend about Trump's first wife.

It would seem that Team Clinton -- yes, that includes the NYTimes -- fired the first shots and "predictably, they have nothing to do with anything that matters."

Hillary is making Bill liable. When she says she will appoint him to deal with the economy, that makes him a part of her presumptive government, and that opens him up to 'vetting'.

Illing's complaints are typical with Democrats -- when they attack, that is okay; when they are attacked, that is evil and mean, etc.
43 posted on 05/24/2016 9:41:27 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Lexington Green

Bill looks in terrible shape. So your point may not be off the mark. However, I think he is the one person, who has nothing to fear from the present incarnation of Lady MacBeth.


44 posted on 05/24/2016 9:41:59 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Lexington Green

If Bill himself turns out to be a victim of Arkancide it would be truly ironic.

What’s Bill going to do, grow an extra 6 inches on his right arm so he can shoot himself in the back of the head like Vince Foster? Will it happen on Epstein’s Rape Island?


45 posted on 05/24/2016 9:42:21 AM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

If you recall much of the ‘92 election campaign, when Herself started making noises about “Two for the price of one”, Bill’s poll numbers started to collapse and Herself was quickly bundled-off to the governor’s mansion basement.


46 posted on 05/24/2016 9:42:40 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: McGruff

She is trying to pretend here presidency would be Bill Clinton 2.0 instead of Obama 2.0. It’s a lie, her presidency would be more like Stalin 2.0 but she is herself purposely trying to use Bill as her argument for why should be elected. Trump can use Bill as one of many reasons why she should never be elected.


47 posted on 05/24/2016 9:42:58 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: BRL

Anytime I read Thalon, I thimply have to lithp!


48 posted on 05/24/2016 9:42:59 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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To: Donglalinger

Bingo. It’s not about Bill. It’s about Hitlery’s actions after Bill did the dirty.

It’s all about character. IIRC, character was supposed to matter.


49 posted on 05/24/2016 9:43:13 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: MarvinStinson
It must stop now.

That's what McCain said when Michelle Bachmann exposed Hillary's Huma.

McCain made that one stick, too. Michele is gone, and - AFAIK - not one Republican has brought it up again.

Mr. niteowl77

50 posted on 05/24/2016 9:43:16 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why shouldn’t the word be spread far and wide about the Clinton Crime, Rape and Pillage syndicate? Slick SKATED all through the 1990’s, by flashing his “Aw, shucks!” LI’l Abner hillbilly grin, and bluster when that did not work.

Now, he is an old man, obviously in failing health, and Herself is trying to drag him out on the campaign circuit, as some kind of paragon of whatever passes for “virtue” among liberals.

Except, Slick never was that guy. He was a groper, and on his best day, he rode sleaze and schmooze to the top. Never much of an original thinker, he was an amiable fool who had attached to the right puppet masters, and was under the control of some very big international money, never had all that much allegiance to the ideals of “America”.


51 posted on 05/24/2016 9:43:54 AM PDT by alloysteel (The Triumph of Trump - finally, does the hegemony of the Republican elites get broken?)
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To: McGruff

Hey, put some ice on it.


52 posted on 05/24/2016 9:43:57 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: MarvinStinson

I wonder when Trump is going to bring up Huma Abedin, the Muslim Brotherhood spy and “special” friend of Hillary?


53 posted on 05/24/2016 9:45:08 AM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016)
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To: McGruff

If Bill Clinton is irrelevant, where does he plan to live during a Hillary presidency? Is the author saying Hillary was irrelevant during Bill’s terms in office?

It is relevant when Hillary postures herself as this great champion for women. How did she stand up for women who were speaking truth to power when that power was President Clinton?

Finally, don’t you find it simply sickening when a member of the media demands that the media do something? Most normal Americans would love to have a lapdog media that constantly attacks our opponents and refuses to cover our misdeeds?


54 posted on 05/24/2016 9:45:36 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Join the Jihad! Al Qaeda Members For Hillary! Keep John F. Kerry Sec. of Appeasement)
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To: McGruff

This fool doesn’t want to see it but, Trump runs the media, they don’t run him. It’s all over for the media a poll last month showed the media has just a 6% trust rate from the America people.


55 posted on 05/24/2016 9:46:03 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: V_TWIN

Oh, I bet they play Poker alright....
Just not with playing cards and chips.......
EEEEuuuuuuhhhhhhh (thats disgusting)


56 posted on 05/24/2016 9:46:27 AM PDT by BigpapaBo (If it don't kill you it'll make you _________!)
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To: McGruff
The media can’t allow Trump to make this election about Bill Clinton . . . Bill Clinton isn’t running for president, and what he did . . . 30 years ago is irrelevant.

Actually, part of the reason Trump did so well so far is that the media tried to control the narrative, which proved Trump's point about the corruption of insider politics. Trying to control the remainder of the narrative is one of the best things the media can do for Trump. Go for it Salon and MSNBC. Give it your best shot.

As for what Bill Clinton did 30 years ago, what matters is what Hillary did 30 years ago. She was in charge of "Bimbo eruptions", she was in charge of "nuts or sluts", and she was in charge of "drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park . . ." At the time, it helped that even Clinton's wife was protecting him. After the blue dress, even Clinton supporters saw that Hillary was engaged in vicious character assassination against her husband's victims. Under today's even more punitive feminism, Hillary could pay a heavy price for her vicious abuse of Bill's victims.

57 posted on 05/24/2016 9:46:52 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I think Trump knew how he’s gonna beat Shrillary.

What Salon actually did was ask the media to falsify their reporting. To not report what Trump is saying.


58 posted on 05/24/2016 9:47:49 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: Deo volente

Trump is playing multi-dimensional chess, and the rest of them are playing in their sandboxes. :)


59 posted on 05/24/2016 9:48:07 AM PDT by siamesecats (God closes one door, and opens another, to protect us.)
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To: McGruff
what he did with his penis 30 years ago is irrelevant

But, it's perfectly fine for the NYT to LIE about Trump's girlfriend from 30 years ago. Got it.

60 posted on 05/24/2016 9:48:11 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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