Posted on 11/16/2017 5:05:46 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
Why the Democrats Really Turned on Bill Clinton It’s not about his victims, it’s about money and power. November 16, 2017 Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.
In the winter of ’56, Khrushchev told the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that Stalin may not have been a very nice guy. In the fall of ’17, the media began to concede that maybe Bill Clinton did abuse a whole bunch of women. And maybe those women weren’t really part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to make a bloated piggish progressive hero seem like he might not be a very nice guy.
Why are Democrats turning on the Clintons? Same reason Khrushchev turned on Stalin. They’re purging the Clintons for the same reasons that they defended them. They’re calling out Bill Clinton for his sexual assaults for the same reasons that they covered them up. It’s about power and money.
The Democrats smeared Bill Clinton’s accusers then. Now they’ll exploit them to throw the Clintons out.
The #MeToo campaign provided an opening. But if you really want to understand why the left is disavowing Bill Clinton, ignore the hashtags and look at the bigger picture.
Earlier this month, the rollout of Donna Brazile’s book raked Hillary Clinton and her campaign over the coals. The former interim DNC boss made the case that the Clinton campaign had rigged the primaries.
Brazile’s outrage at the rigging is laughable. Not only was she caught passing a debate question to Hillary, but the only reason she was allowed to replace Debbie Wasserman Schultz is that she was a Clintonista who had served as a Clinton adviser and was promoted to head Gore’s campaign.
After Hillary’s collapse, Brazile was left out in the cold. Like Schultz, she was one of Hillary’s fall girls. And unlike Schultz, she didn’t have a cozy congressional district to call her own. Her CNN contract was torn up after the debate question leak. (Though if you think CNN was actually surprised that a Clinton ally leaked it to the Clintons, you’re also shocked that there’s gambling going on at Rick's Cafe Americain. CNN had disavow Donna who then had to disavow Hillary. Now the Dems are disavowing the Clintons.)
Brazile’s book tour was Act 1 in purging the Clintons from the Dem establishment. Talking about Bill Clinton’s sexual harassment and abuses is Act 2. And the odds are very good that there’s an Act 3.
Why get rid of the Clintons? Let’s look at what the First Grifters have been doing to the Dems.
In May, Hillary rolled out Onward Together. The new SuperPAC was supposed to fundraise for lefty groups. But the groups don’t actually appear to be getting the cash.
Understandable. The flat broke Clintons always have lots of bills to pay and private jets to book. And good chardonnay doesn’t come cheap. A 1787 vintage Chateau d'Yquem runs to $100K a bottle.
Fresh from that success, a paid advisor to Hillary co-launched something being called Party Majority. This wonderful new organization would “act as a parallel structure to Democratic Party committees at the national and state levels”, vacuuming up a whole lot of cash while putting its boot on the DNC.
The Clintons were once again trying to displace the DNC. And that would let them skim a lot of cash from the DNC to fund their political operation and lifestyle. And, even once again, rig the process.
Who’s up for Hillary in 2020?
Party Majority rolled out in early November. Since then the Clintons are suddenly being hit from all sides by their own.
Funny how that works.
If President Hillary Clinton were in the White House, the First Gentleman could work his way through an entire nunnery and every media outlet in the country would praise him as our greatest feminist.
If the Clintons had done the decent thing (for the first time in their miserable grifter lives) and stepped away from politics, Bill could have been a bitter, bigoted and befuddled Democrat elder statesman.
Just like Jimmy Carter.
But the Clintons just wouldn’t stop. And so the circular firing squad has finally been convened. Its members are hypocritically pretending that they’re purging Bill because they suddenly care about the women he had sexually assaulted over the years.
It only took the Dems an entire generation to figure out that rape is wrong.
Hillary Clinton’s approval ratings are terrible. Every time she goes on television, more people are likely to vote Republican. Her entire existence is a reminder of why the Democrats lost so badly in ’16.
Not only won’t Hillary Clinton retire to bake cookies and send anonymous threatening letters to her neighbors because their kids occasionally throw a ball over her mansion’s iron gates, but she insists on sabotaging the 2020 candidates who are her party’s best hope to succeed where she miserably failed.
Hillary Clinton’s book, What Happened, took numerous shots at Bernie Sanders. And her entire book tour appeared designed to sabotage his book tour. Then she began attacking Joe Biden.
Both Bernie and Joe, unlike her, are viable 2020 candidates. (Which says nothing good about the Dems.)
The media doesn’t suddenly “believe Juanita”. Or rather it always knew that Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones and the other women were telling the truth. It didn’t silence them because it thought they were lying. It silenced them because they were telling the truth about its guy.
Now Bill Clinton isn’t the media’s guy anymore. He’s a problem.
And what the media does “believe” is that the Clintons will continue to be a liability that might cost them victories in 2018 and 2020. The DNC badly needs money. The Clintons are once again posing a threat to the DNC’s financial viability. And the Dems have become less willing to lose House and Senate seats to sate the insatiable greed of the grifters from Hope.
Then there’s 2020. The Dems don’t want to risk their nominee facing passive aggressive attacks by Hillary Clinton. Nor do they even want to see Hillary Clinton on the air for the entire election.
The Clintons could have had a nice retirement. Seats on boards and foundations. Occasional smaller scale speaking gigs. Bill would have been a featured speaker at the next DNC convention.
And maybe even Hillary in a lesser role.
But they wouldn’t go quietly. And now the left is making it a mandatory retirement.
Act 1 blames Hillary for rigging the primaries. Act 2 calls out Bill’s abuse of women. Acts 3, 4 and 5 will delve into some other Clinton scandals that Democrats have been denying for over a generation. If the Clintons don’t get the message, the final act will plant a big red boot in their behinds.
And this won’t even be the first time that the Dems tried to get rid of the Clintons.
After Bill’s time was up, the Dems and the media tried to head off a Hillary political career at the pass. Let’s flip through the pages of the New York Times in 2001 that describes Hillary's “calamitous Senate debut” and cautions that “talk about her presidential prospects has ground to a halt.”
“The man is so thoroughly corrupt it's frightening,” a Times column reads. “The Clintons may or may not be led away in handcuffs someday.”
In AmSoc, history is constantly being rewritten. A few years later, no criticism of the Clintons could be allowed. And everyone forgot that Carter’s chief-of-staff had called them, “The First Grifters.”
Or at least they pretended to forget.
It’s not the first time that the Dems have tried to get rid of the Clintons. But it might be the last.
Like Stalin’s Communist successors, Democrats should not be allowed to pretend that they knew nothing or that their purge of the Clintons is motivated by a sudden attack of integrity.
They’re purging the Clintons for the same reason that they covered up for them.
They’re calling out Bill Clinton for his sexual assaults for the same reason that they covered them up.
They did it out of political self-interest then. And they’re doing it out of political self-interest now. There’s nothing clean or honest about what they’re doing. There’s no moral reckoning here. Only a political reckoning. It’s not about the women Bill abused. It’s about DNC cash and the 2020 election.
That’s the dirty, ugly truth. And it’s as dirty and ugly as the Clintons and the Democrats.
Democrats are the party of perversion and they wear it like a badge of honor.
Of course they have. The Obama wing wants to take over. Jarret is still in DC staying at the Obama residence. The removal of the Clintons is essential for Obama to become the unquestioned head of the party. Obama won two elections garnering the two highest vote totals in history. The rapidly changing demography of the country allows the Dems to have a black man as the face of the party. Obama is also far younger and better able to raise money for the party.
And the Dems know that the Clinton Foundation is being investigated. The chickens are starting to come home to roost for the Clintons.
The turn on Bill Clinton is all about getting Roy Moore. In a few weeks it will all be forgotten.<>?i>
No, the turn on Clinton will not be forgotten because it will set the stage for a return of the attacks on Trump for his sexual misconduct as raised by 16 different women during the campaign. The Dems will say that both Trump and Clinton along with Weinstein and other men of power must be treated the same and that the women who make these charges are speaking the truth.
Factor in that the left has always considered Bill's getting sex forcibly or in other ways as his "reward" for being a defender of the democrat agenda......and for getting elected president for them.
Plus....most memorable is how the calculating Clintons actually used Bill getting lewinskied to get votes for his reelections.......and to cement her political ambitions.
“You can bet that they will be resurrected at the right time, whether it is at impeachment hearings if the Dems take the House in 2018 or in 2020.”
Just another reason the dems are willing to allow some of their own to be taken down.
They think they can spin it into the moral high ground.
President Trump is the big scalp they crave. If the dems and GOPE have to sacrifice half their members to get the big scalp they will do it without hesitation.
I assumed it was to make their attacks on Roy Moore more believable (and less hypocritical).
Clearing the way for Michelle Obama to run in 2020.
“Factor in that the left has always considered Bill’s getting sex forcibly or in other ways as his “reward” for being a defender of the democrat agenda......and for getting elected president for them.”
The issue isn’t the issue, the issue is the agenda.
Sadly, for the Clinton Cabal, they are now most useful as grist for the mill.
“Plus....most memorable is how the calculating Clintons actually used Bill getting lewinskied to get votes for his reelections.......and to cement her political ambitions.”
The original Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste gang.
Rahm learned from the best.
The Clinton Cabal makes the Byzantine empire look honest and open by comparison.
A viler pair never “graced” our country.
A BRILLIANT ARTICLE ...........I WISH I HAD WRITTEN IT MYSELF!!!!
A BRILLIANT ARTICLE ...........I WISH I HAD WRITTEN IT MYSELF!!!!
The Clintons are true magicians -—
They can turn $100,000 worth of bubbly into PEE........
Guess that is the true definition of ‘pissing money away’.....
This time there will be no circling of the wagons around them.
“The Dems are in a civil war right now.”
At least someone is going after the Clintons...AG Sessions sure as hell isnt.
I agree, this time the Saudi and Hollywood money that used to back the Clintons up is greatly diminished. IMHO, the only major money source left is Soros.
What I find curious is obama didn’t get a cut on the uranium deal.
Yep. OBAMA/JARRETT/AYERS are taking over.
The Dems are going to go full blown radical Commie. All Dem Candidates will from now on be hard left socialists. Our government is going to get packed with them and they will obstruct and cause more and more chaos.
Obama hasn’t finished transforming America yet.
How do you know that? Do you have inside information. DOJ and the FBI are not supposed to deny or confirm the existence of ongoing investigations. IMO something is up given Hillary's pointed, personal confrontations with Trump. She is trying to provoke him so that when the investigation is made public, she can claim this is a political witch hunt, pun intended, worthy of a Banana Republic.
What most people don’t realize is the the CIFUS committee is only an advisory board. The President must approve or disapprove of the action regardless of what is recommended. Since Obama was probably made aware of the FBI investigation into the Russians using bribery to influence the decisions on the control of US uranium during his daily intel briefings, the buck stops with Obama. He should have killed the deal regardless of what CIFUS recommended.
I always enjoy Greenfield’s cut to the bone through the fat and loose skin articles.
It’s so refreshing over what counts for journalism elsewhere where one has to practically decode what those writers are saying before understanding what they are trying to say in their bumbling gurgling ways.
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