Posted on 09/19/2017 5:01:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Well, it looks like Hillary Clinton is moving onto the latest offensive in her rampage against those who she feels contributed to her defeat in the 2016 election: the media. At Recode in May, a tech conference in California, she said that the media covered her emails like it was Pearl Harbor. She also says that the press didn’t do their jobs last year, and that they “can’t bear to face their own role in helping elect Trump, from providing him free airtime to giving my emails three times more coverage that all the issues affecting people’s lives combined.”
Seriously, lady—weren’t you the one who attacked Trump on his temperament, his antics on the campaign stump, and the hot mic moment with that Access Hollywood tape, where he made some off-color remarks about women. No one cared about that last year, and no one cares about it now. The issues you felt were important, minimum wage hikes and a partial push for tuition-free college, all register miserably with voters. In fact, in the last debate, even Hillary-leaners trusted Trump’s economic talk more than your pitches, Madame secretary. You didn’t talk about the issues voters cared about; Trump did. He talked about trade, manufacturing, and job creation. You harped on a video of some locker room talk. It wasn’t the magic bullet. It was just a waste of your most valuable resource in all of politics: time.
Amy Chozick, a reporter for The New York Times who’s writing a memoir on the 2016 campaign, spoke to CNN’s Brian Stelter about Clinton’s remarks concerning the media. She agreed that the media doesn’t like to look inward and say that they’re wrong. Then again, she added “the way she [Clinton] presents it in the book is a little bit like it was our job to get Hillary Clinton elected.” Chozick added that it was the media's job to inform voters about the candidates and how their agenda will impact their lives. She admits that the press could’ve done better.
Over at CNBC, John Harwood agreed with Clinton’s assessment on the media’s obsession with her emails, tweeting “there is no doubt media coverage exaggerated the significance of Clinton's e-mails in a way that was not just dumb but obviously ridiculous.”
there is no doubt media coverage exaggerated the significance of Clinton's e-mails in a way that was not just dumb but obviously ridiculous https://t.co/uNlLrwAkqr— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 17, 2017
No, Hillary was a presidential candidate. She skirted federal regulations on preserving these communications while she was secretary of state by having a private email server, and it is a story when a presidential candidate might have mishandled classified information due to security protocols not being followed. Thousands of emails on that server were retroactively classified, or up-classified, upon review by the FBI. At least three were classified at the time they were sent or received, but the Bureau said that they weren’t properly marked, though Hillary, as secretary of state, is an original classifying authority. She didn’t know what information could be considered sensitive? Moreover, maybe Clinton could have got in front of this fiasco, but her inability to come clean only increased scrutiny. Story after story that she doled out to explain why she had a private server fell apart within days due to contrary evidence. For example, she said she went to the State Department to say this private system was allowed, and that she got permission. The truth is that she didn’t ask and if she had, State Department officials would not have allowed it. It all relates to her judgment, which in this case, was incredibly poor. That matters.
Admitting that you suck is the first step to recovery. For Hillary, she’s afflicted with this notion that people like her. It’s a terrible addiction made all the more tragic that no one can really stand her and they hope she just goes away. For Democrats, they’re hoping she vanishes before she does more damage to the party.
Chozick is right; it’s not the media’s job to elect Hillary. That was her job and she failed. She was a terrible candidate, an atrocious campaigner, and the results were very much in line with those qualities.
Oh, and she did call her email server as her "most important" error, but whatever.
“BS, the press tried harder than the DNC.”
So true. Have people forgotten already? They bashed Trump and made excuses for Hillary. They still do.
They were in the Dunk Tank being ‘With Her’.
Is there any doubt?
100%
That woman is sick, sick, sick.
IMO the real shortcoming in Hillary's election failure was the Dim's overconfidence in Hillary's election and the subsequent letup in their cheating efforts.
Then the fallback plan of Russian collusion fell as flat as the candidate.
Expect a full fledged illegal vote effort in 2020 and attacks on the electoral college (to make up for shortcomings in the red states.)
The fact that CNBC has not fired Harwood after he was obviously (as emails showed) in bed with H and Podesta while being an overtly biased debate moderator at the GOP candidates' debate is "obviously ridiculous."
She needs to be put in a straight jacket and in a mental institution.
You spelled IGNORED wrong.
Has anyone ever heard of anything being "retroactively classified" before they manufactured this silly excuse to let Clinton off the hook?
How do you reclassify something as being secret or top-secret ONCE IT'S OUT IN THE PUBLIC??? Do you ask everyone to forget it?
Why do I have this feeling that Hillary will wind up as Norma Desmond with Bill as her butler writing her fan letters?
CNBC sucks.
The media believed it was their job to elect Hillary, they both failed.
No one cared about that last year, and no one cares about it now. The issues you felt were important, minimum wage hikes and a partial push for tuition-free college, all register miserably with voters. In fact, in the last debate, even Hillary-leaners trusted Trump’s economic talk more than your pitches, Madame secretary.
You didn’t talk about the issues voters cared about; Trump did. He talked about trade, manufacturing, and job creation. You harped on a video of some locker room talk. It wasn’t the magic bullet. It was just a waste of your most valuable resource in all of politics: time.
Matt Vespa 'gets it'....
It was their job. With a neutral media, Hillary didn’t stand a chance.
Let's face it, the media were so partisan that they considered Trump's election to be a personal affront and have acted that way since. They snapped at every lure and were played like fish. Competent journalists would have known better. There weren't very many of those around, and the same goes for their editors, who absolutely did consider it their job to get Hillary elected. They failed and both they and she are taking it hard.
No, it wasn’t your job but you sure worked overtime trying to make it come about, didn’t you, New York Slimes?
“IMO the real shortcoming in Hillary’s election failure was the Dims’ overconfidence in Hillary’s election and the subsequent letup in their cheating efforts.”
Pretty much the whole story. They underestimated the number of fraudulent votes they needed by a considerable margin.
What baffled me was their sincere belief that they were winning, which, I am led to believe, persisted until about 2130 on the night of the election. How could they have been so disinformed?
Then there’s this, by Oswald Spengler:
“What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears. A forlorn little drop may settle somewhere and collect grounds on which to determine “The Truth”—but what it obtains is just its truth. The other, the public truth of the moment, which alone matters for effects and successes in the fact-world, is today a product of the press. What the press wills, is true. Its commanders evoke, transform, interchange truths. Three weeks of press work, and the truth is acknowledged by everybody....A more appalling caricature of freedom of thought cannot be imagined. Formerly a man did not dare to think freely. Now, he dares, but cannot; his will to think is only a willingness to think to order, and this is what he feels is his liberty.” (Decline of the West, Volume II, authorized translation, 1928)
Of course, we need to substitute “media” for “press.”
One thing that is necessary to the success of leftardism is that the leftards must be conditioned to close their minds *tight* against contrary information and opinion.
As a result of this conditioning, during the campaign—as always—their minds were open only to their own media. The information that told me Trump was winning simply did not exist in their world.
Despite the crushing blow of Trump’s victory, delivered by an unimpeachable source—reality—it seems that most of them remain in their status quo ante state of denial.
It’s a lot easier to deceive people than to convince them that they have been deceived. How many people have the moral courage to admit that they were taken in by scoundrels of mediocre intelligence?
She didn’t get the message from the coroner office either.
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