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Hillary Clinton says election defeat left her 'gobsmacked'
Fox News ^ | September 10,2017

Posted on 09/11/2017 12:34:24 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Clinton said she never thought of not going to Trump's inauguration as a former first lady.

"And so there I was on the platform, you know, feeling like an out of body experience," she said. "And then this speech [by Trump], a cry from the white nationalist gut."

She said that during the campaign Trump was quite successful “referencing a nostalgia” that would give hope, comfort and settle grievances for millions of people upset about gains made by others.

“Millions of white people,” Pauley asked.

“Yeah, millions of white people,” Clinton replied.

Clinton also defended her "basket of deplorables" comment about Trump supporters in the interview.

"Well, I thought Trump was behaving in a deplorable manner," she said. "I thought a lot of his appeals to voters were deplorable. I thought his behavior as we saw on the 'Access Hollywood' tape was deplorable. And there were a large number of people who didn't care. It didn't matter to them."

Clinton said she didn't believer her deplorable comment energized Trump voters.

"They were already energized

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To: Teacher317

Huma ...


41 posted on 09/11/2017 3:43:05 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth ( Freep u, Schmucky)
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To: Hojczyk

They can whitewash it all they want, but “gobsmacked” means a man did something surprisingly in a woman’s mouth


42 posted on 09/11/2017 3:47:02 AM PDT by knarf (thank you)
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To: Geronimo
the cell phone video of her collapse at the 9/11 Memorial Service was the optic which confirmed she was either a very sick old lady or a raging drunk...or both

And the brashness to send out a body double onto the street just a few hours later, really to refute the video was a huge mistake. Subjects of protection details are never allowed to stroll loose in public like that.

43 posted on 09/11/2017 3:53:42 AM PDT by Dustoff45 (Pass the spicy catsup. We've got Trump now.)
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To: A Navy Vet

I wonder if the mean the same millions of white people that elected bathhouse barry (twice)


44 posted on 09/11/2017 3:57:53 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: Hojczyk

One wonders what Hillary is putting under her snout when she does her alternate nostril breathing.


45 posted on 09/11/2017 4:08:36 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Right Wing Assault

What’s the matter, Hillary?

The theme you based your campaign on, “It’s time for a woman to be president.”

But exit polls say that college-educated white women opposed you. Why then did the smart women reject you, eh?


46 posted on 09/11/2017 4:08:55 AM PDT by poconopundit (CNN is... Corruption News Neglected)
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To: Hojczyk

This will be the last time I open or comment on anything with “Hillary Clinton”in the title. Bye bye doofus.


47 posted on 09/11/2017 4:09:22 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Hojczyk

So much of what Hillary ‘knows to be true’ is in actuality totally false. She used that impressive campaign war chest to create an alternate reality to sell to the voters. Her problem was that she actually bought into the crapola that she was selling.

Trump’s campaign was not in any way ‘deplorable’. That was a Hillary idea that the Media continues to run with to this day. And it isn’t going to help the Dems win an election. They have to deal with reality before that can happen.


48 posted on 09/11/2017 4:13:46 AM PDT by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: Hojczyk

Narrow minded bitch

Anything not visible through her paper towel tube is deplorable


49 posted on 09/11/2017 4:13:55 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: vette6387
5,000 ineligible voters in New Hampshire.... Every last one of them: find them, prosecute them, fine them and jail them.

Now that's a very good idea...

50 posted on 09/11/2017 4:15:54 AM PDT by poconopundit (CNN is... Corruption News Neglected)
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To: Teacher317

I wouldn’t touch that gob even if I had a 10 foot dhimmi-pole.


51 posted on 09/11/2017 4:19:43 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .)
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To: knarf

Please provide a link to a source for that. I searched for definitions of gobsmacked and did not find that one anywhere.


52 posted on 09/11/2017 4:21:46 AM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: Hojczyk
Hillary casting aspersions on White people; still the same candidate as ever.

DemocRAT to the Core.

53 posted on 09/11/2017 4:23:30 AM PDT by CptnObvious (uestion her now.)
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To: A Navy Vet
Clinton also defended her "basket of deplorables" comment about Trump supporters in the interview. "Well, I thought Trump was behaving in a deplorable manner," she said. "I thought a lot of his appeals to voters were deplorable. I thought his behavior as we saw on the 'Access Hollywood' tape was deplorable. And there were a large number of people who didn't care. It didn't matter to them."

This morning on the radio, they found this little tidbit: Hillary made her "deplorables" comment in September of '16. The "Access Hollywood" tape didn't come out until October. So once again, Hillary's caught in an outright LIE.

54 posted on 09/11/2017 4:23:33 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: Hojczyk
"Well, I thought Trump was behaving in a deplorable manner," she said. "I thought a lot of his appeals to voters were deplorable. I thought his behavior as we saw on the 'Access Hollywood' tape was deplorable. And there were a large number of people who didn't care. It didn't matter to them."

Tin ear...welded shut

but we knew that.

55 posted on 09/11/2017 4:24:27 AM PDT by spokeshave (The Fake Media tried to stop us from going to the White House, I am President and they are not. DJT)
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To: COBOL2Java

It came to me.....hillary is expendable


56 posted on 09/11/2017 4:24:53 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: savedbygrace
Please provide a link to a source for that. I searched for definitions of gobsmacked and did not find that one anywhere.

It's a British slang/colloquial word meaning 'left speechless'...popularised by the Fleet St. tabloid press twenty years ago...

57 posted on 09/11/2017 4:28:48 AM PDT by Geronimo (God Bless America and President Donald J. Trump...)
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To: Hojczyk

Since day one when she first appeared on the American political scene, I felt that this woman was intellectually bankrupt, and malignantly unstable mentally.

Every single time she has opened her mouth since Tuesday, November 8, 2016, that conviction has only deepened for me.


58 posted on 09/11/2017 4:34:53 AM PDT by rlmorel (Those who sit on the picket fence are impaled by it.)
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To: Hojczyk

I think someone needs a Gobstopper.

-PJ

59 posted on 09/11/2017 4:37:21 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: savedbygrace; knarf
Please provide a link to a source for that. I searched for definitions of gobsmacked and did not find that one anywhere.

World Wide Words: Gobsmacked

Q: From W S McCollom: I was looking at a UK magazine and ran across gobsmack. What can you tell me about this term?

A: You’re most likely to come across this mainly British slang term as the adjective gobsmacked; your gobsmack and another form, gobstruck, are less common.

Gobsmacked combines the northern English and Scottish slang term gob, mouth, with the verb smack. It suggests the speaker is utterly astonished or astounded. It’s much stronger than just being surprised; it’s used for something that leaves you speechless, or otherwise stops you dead in your tracks. It suggests that something is as surprising as being suddenly hit in the face. A couple of examples:

I was utterly gobsmacked to hear that a 22-year-old woman from America has put her virginity up for sale.
The Sun, 1 Nov. 2010.

The noise and testosterone roiled off the track, rushed up the stands, and almost knocked me over. I was gobstruck. I looked at Alex. Her eyes were bugged out, and she was smiling ear to ear. “Holy cow!” Alex said. “HOLY COW!!”
Parade Magazine, 24 Aug. 2008.

Though the trail of written evidence was until recently believed to date only from the early 1980s, we knew it went back a lot further in the spoken language. A report in the Guardian in February 1985, relating an encounter with the famous footballer Sir Stanley Matthews, implied that it was even then 40 years old. This is supported by a recent find:
I’m so amazed that only the Malderbury dialect can express my condition: “I’m properly gob-smacked”.
A Woman of Bangkok, by Jack Reynolds, 1959. A version of the text was published in 1956 as A Sort of Beauty. There’s no such place as Malderbury.
Gobsmacked, like gob itself, comes from northern English and southern Scottish dialects. One reason why it starts to appear in print in the 1980s is that it was used by the writers of gritty television series set in northern cities, such as Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff, about five Liverpudlian tarmac layers, and Coronation Street, set in a fictional suburb of Manchester (Jeffrey Miller included it in his glossary Street Talk — The Language of Coronation Street in 1986).

It was taken up shortly afterwards by broadsheet newspapers such as The Times, the Sunday Times and the Independent as well as the Guardian and by politicians who used it to display their demotic credentials. It has since travelled widely. William Safire commented in The New York Times in 2004 that the “locution is sweeping the English world”. The success of the Scottish singer Susan Boyle in BBC television’s Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 led to a further boost, since she used it copiously in interviews.

It’s an obvious derivation of an existing term, since gob has been a dialect and slang term for the mouth for four hundred years (often in insulting phrases like shut your gob! to tell somebody to be quiet). It possibly goes back to a Scottish Gaelic word meaning a beak or a mouth, which has also bequeathed us the verb to gob, meaning to spit. Another form of the word is gab, from which we get gift of the gab.

60 posted on 09/11/2017 4:39:15 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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