Posted on 04/12/2017 5:12:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hillary Clinton has granted her first public interview since losing the election. It came on April 6 at the Women in the World Summit, organized by leftist editor Tina Brown. Clinton was introduced by comedian Samantha Bee. On cue, as expected, she gushed: "You deserve to hear it 100 times -- it should have been you."
The assignment to interview Clinton fell to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. He later wrote a column on his Hillary chat, beginning by saying: "In the most wrenching, humiliating way possible, Hillary Clinton has been liberated. She is now out of the woods again, and speaking her mind."
And why not? The path is marked by rose petals dutifully placed by her equally humiliated legions in the press.
It was "humiliating" to lose to Donald Trump -- that lout. Clinton was the anointed one, and as the press told us, she was the most qualified presidential applicant since Thomas Jefferson. So the feminists at this conference wanted to know: Why do Americans hate women so deeply? What the hell is wrong with those self-hating white Republican women?
This was the kind of challenging "question" Kristof lobbed at Clinton: "This is a women's empowerment conference, so I have to ask. You know, fundamentally, a man who bragged about sexual assault won the election and won 53 percent of the white women's vote. How is it that in the 21st century -- and what does it say about the challenges that one faces in women's empowerment -- that in effect, misogyny won with a lot of women voters?"
Clinton loved the question. It's the kind of softball she's been served her entire career. "Certainly, misogyny played a role," she declared. "I mean, that just has to be admitted." She and Kristof mulled over what he called "abundant social science research" that says we admire men for being ambitious and successful but find women "less likable" when they are powerful.
So here we are, five months after the election, and the best analysis these people can muster sounds exactly like ... the last weekend of the campaign. Then-President Barack Obama used this argument as his closer: Don't be a sexist! He said: "I want you to think about it because she is so much better qualified than the other guy. She has conducted herself so much better in public life than the other guy."
Clinton complained that when she left the State Department, her approval rating was 64 or 65 percent, but "by the time they finished with me, I was Typhoid Mary." "They" meant Trump and the conservative media. Never would this woman ever concede that the more the public saw and heard her, the less it liked her. In an added note of self-pity, she added: "Poor Mary. She didn't deserve it either."
The woman who might have been our commander in chief standing up to Russia, Iran, North Korea and the Islamic State group complained about being called names, drawing fervent applause. She explained that the aim of anti-Clinton bullying was "to crush your spirit, to make you feel inadequate, to make you doubt yourself. And I just refused to do that, and that infuriated them even more."
Nowhere in this dialogue, and nowhere in the Kristof column that followed, did they even briefly entertain the notion that misogyny could define the Clintons. She can complain about Trump's "targeting of women" but can't imagine that anyone could say the same for her husband. Let us not forget that Kristof and his newspaper thought Juanita Broaddrick's absolutely believable accusation of Bill Clinton raping her was "toxic waste."
Hillary Clinton never allows an interviewer who would ask her about her role leading the Bimbo-Bashing Patrol to destroy the reputations of her husband's victims. No one is allowed to ask whether Broaddrick was lying when she said that after the alleged assault, Hillary Clinton gripped her hand firmly and thanked her for her support, and suggested that she stay quiet.
They certainly refuse to contemplate that women could vote for Trump because Clinton stood passionately on the libertine left, supporting abortion on demand, every LGBT dictate and the erosion of religious liberty. It is reported that half of the aborted babies are girls. Couldn't that be "misogyny"?
If only someone at these media-elite confabs would ask how a majority of women can be smeared as hating themselves if they don't check every radical-feminist box.
Look in the mirror
We don’t hate ourselves, Hillary.
We hate you.
Hey Hillary, I don’t hate myself, I just despise you.
Progressives never accept responsibility for their failures.
That’s funny. I always considered her a self-loathing woman after the way she cynically stayed with her predator husband and attempted to punish his woman. But, oh, it’s the rest of us who have a problem!
Bill’s *women — plural.
Yes. There were that many.
I just Thank GOD every day this bitch was not elected....GOD bless Donald Trump!!!
Hillary, they didn’t like YOU in particular, not that they didn’t like women.
This is HRC being held accountable for not holding herself accountable.
Self hating = are non sheep = have minds of their own = retain moral values
I’ll never forget the closed room press conference that Trump had after some media stupidity, and they were all speculating “he’s going to withdraw from the race!!”
When they entered the room and saw Donald Trump sitting there with Juanita Broaddrick and 3 others bill clinton assaulted they looked like they wanted to run from the room. I pictured the guy from star wars shouting “it’s a trap”.
Several of them even turned around to try to leave immediately, but the excited and gleeful throng was still pushing their way inside.
Then they saw the cameras focused on THEM, and decided to stay in the room.
Misogyny seems to mean only when a Republican does it.
My dear wife of 42 years said to vote for Hillary would be to akin to sending our grandchildren to front of line for the guillotines.
The real self-hating women are the de-genderizers.
It’s been almost six months since election day. Hillary is among the worst sore losers if she is still whiny about this. The electoral college is at fault for her loss, and she isn’t as likable as BHO either.
They?
Whatever you need to tell yourself to get through the day.
The women I know, actually just hated the fact you were a lying, corrupt, criminal, POS.
She’ll never go away. Never. Not until she assumes room temperature. She thinks she has to tell people how to live their lives and rule over them, until the day she dies.
Liberal Projection. It's not just Hillary, they all do it.
When Hillary Clinton and Russ Feingold both lose in Wisconsin, you have to consider that maybe there’s a little more to the story than self hating women.
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