Trey Gowdy Just Elected Hillary Clinton President

Rolling Stone ^ | 10/23/15 | Matt Taibbi

[Baynative]

With Thursday's interminable, pointless, haranguing, disorganized, utterly amateurish attempt at a smear job, the Republicans and their tenth-rate congressional attack schnauzer, South Carolina's Trey Gowdy, got people feeling sorry for Hillary Clinton. Over the course of 11 long hours, they made the most eloquent argument for a Hillary Clinton presidency yet offered by anyone, including Clinton herself.

[hsmomx3]

All I keep thinking is what’s in his file?

[huckfillary]

The problem is the Dems are thinking 10 moves ahead. They are already thinking the 2024 election cycle.

[entropy12]

Nah, the Rats know only 3 strategies....

1. Scare the seniors

2. Massive voter fraud

3. Massive increase of immigrants from 3rd world...and amnesty to illegals who become 80-85% Rat voters.

Trump has already neutered items (1) & (3).

[BigEdLB]

Ignore that she lied to the families of the Benghazi heroes about an effing video when the b***h KNEW it was a LIE.

[struggle]

About as accurate as the VA rape story.

[Vermont Lt]

There is nothing in the file.

Being a cold bitch is not criminal.

Gowdy was left holding the bag. How McCarthy has a position in Congress just amazes me.

[struggle]

Yeah, I don’t see Democrats winning this election. They BARELY won 2012 with massive fraud and with MITT ROMNEY as the Republican lol. People didn’t even feel the effects of Obamacare back then.

I just hope Bernie runs 3rd party.

[SunkenCiv]

Matt Taibbi shills in the Rolling Stone. I guess there were no fake rape allegations to publish.

[Vermont Lt]

The FBI has to be the one to pull the trigger.

Gowdy is done.

[entropy12]

I hope they do not pull trigger too soon. Otherwise Biden has time to jump in. IMO Biden has better chance to win in November than Hillary. Sanders would be mush easier to defeat than Biden.

[semimojo]

the point of the investigation was to confirm what many believe....that she and her cohorts were running guns thru Libya and it was a deal gone wrong...

If that was the point then the failure was truly epic. They didn't even begin to develop that line of questioning.

[Mike Darancette]

Low information voters weren’t watching the hearings so they will be told by the media. Most of them will forget.

[ontap]

Matt Taibbi is a disgusting idiot!!

[Tupelo]

Yelling and screaming and gnashing of teeth ain’t gonna help, because the damage has been done and on purpose, I believe.

That said, I also think the headline is correct.
“Trey Gowdy Just Elected Hillary Clinton President”
With a huge assist from Kevin McCarthy.

I for one, have no doubt this was planned. As in ‘96, ‘08 and ‘12, the party leaders do not want to win.

Now look at the four front runners for the Uniparty nomination and ask yourself; Can he beat Hillary and the press and the Democrats and the Cochran wing of the Republican party?
Trump is the only one that can maybe possibly over come her
huge advantage(s).

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Just finished listening to the McLaughlin group. All five talking heads, three of which are nominally rightwing, agreed that Hillary had won the hearings.

Gowdy may have meant well, or he may have been in the tank for the GOPe.

Either way he screwed up big time. He needed to have specific and serious charges to bring against Hillary, or else he should have just cancelled her testimony.

The only good news is that now that Hillary has been rehabilitated, there are no worries that the GOPe has to go up against Biden, who I believe they feared more than Hillary.

[Tau Food]

The author is correct insofar as he points out that the presentation was chaotic and unfocused. It seemed like each Republican member had his/her own point to make (some of them trivial) and it seemed like there was no on organizing the entire presentation.

It's impossible to determine how closely they came to reaching their goal without knowing exactly what they were trying to prove. I think that they should have come to some agreement on an effort to prove one or two significant facts and to forget all the trivia. I don't think that anyone can say exactly what "they" were trying to prove because I don't think that the representatives had a uniform strategy.

[FredZarguna]

this is how a large number of potential voters get their information

If by large you mean, "several" or "not very many" then yes. It's not clear that Rolling Stone is even going to be making payroll much longer. But their influence ended decades ago.

[Rusty0604]

I saw a headline on Yahoo saying something to the effect that the hearing was an opportunity for Hillary to act presidential. I guess lying is presidential to some folks.

[catnipman]

Which is a true story by Rolling Stone, A. or B.?

Question:

A. Co-ed “Jackie” was gang-raped by a gang of rich white frat boys at the University of Virginia?

B. Trey Gowdy Just Elected Hillary Clinton President

Answer:

Neither are true; it’s a trick question.

[Verginius Rufus]

She couldn't even remember the ambassador's name (thought it was Chris Smith), had not let him have her email address or her home phone number, and apparently had had no contact at all with him since he had been appointed ambassador.

I didn't watch the 11 hours. Did anyone ever focus in on (1) why Stevens was in Benghazi or (2) why Obama did nothing during the 8 hours the attack lasted?