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Hey Robby Mook, Remember When Donna Brazile Was Fired in 1988 For Lying?
Townhall.com ^ | November 4, 2017 | Timothy Meads

Posted on 11/05/2017 9:11:08 AM PST by Kaslin

Guy Benson wrote an extensive article a couple of days ago, detailing the corrupt allegations of primary rigging that former DNC Chair Donna Brazile makes in a new book.

“In her forthcoming book, former DNC chair Donna Brazile absolutely unloads on her party, blasting Barack Obama for decimating the DNC's finances, savaging the leadership of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and confirming that yes, Hillary Clinton's campaign had the party in its pocket long before she was its nominee. You'll likely recall Donald Trump's frequent play to Bernie supporters during the general election, claiming that the Democratic establishment "rigged" the nominating process against Sanders and for Clinton.  He probably didn't even realize how absolutely accurate that characterization was.  Politico has published an extended excerpt from Brazile's book, and oh my, is it explosive.”

But last night with Anderson Cooper, former Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign manager  Robby Mook categorically denied that the Clinton campaign was ever involved in any election rigging, urging the Democratic party and media to “move on” from 2016.

When asked about Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Clinton’s former primary opponent Bernie Sanders accusing the DNC and Clinton of election rigging, Robby Mook went on the defensive

MOOK: “Well, and Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are important part of our party. They're an important part of our politics. We can't make the case to working people in this country that we're going to be -- that we're going to stand up for them and we're going to fight for them, if we're fighting each other. We can't do that.

Hillary Clinton won this primary with almost 4 million votes. That's a bigger league that Barack Obama had over her when she lost and conceded in 2008. The idea that the DNC could rig a contest frankly is laughable.

And here's the thing I'll say. You know, the caucus contests within the larger primary are the contests that are run by the party. You know, the primary elections are run by secretaries of state. Those contests, the caucuses that were run by the party, Bernie Sanders won overwhelmingly. So, if we look at what the party actually in this process, Bernie Sanders won those contests. I think we only won three of them and we barely won Iowa.

So, there's just no evidence to back this up. I understand that it's convenient. Some people like -- you know, they want to be angry of what's going on. But we've got to focus our anger on Donald Trump and this outrageous tax plan that the Republicans are proposing.”

It is a rich irony that Robby Mook is encouraging the media and political opponents to move on from 2016. Hillary Clinton has spent the better part of the past year blaming everybody but herself for  her colossal 2016 loss.  She has offered a  wide variety of scapegoats, ranging everybody from white men to women afraid of their husbands to Russians to uneducated hillbillies. Clinton seems fixated on 2016 and makes a new comment just about every week.

But more heinous is that Mook is encouraging everybody to move on not only from the 2016 election, but from the fact that Donna Brazile gave Clinton a CNN question ahead of a primary debate.

Anderson Cooper, a long time CNN political news anchor and often times host of various primary debates, was noticeably angry at Mook for skirting that fact.

COOPER: So, is this just about Donna Brazile trying to peddle a book? I mean, because as Brianna mentioned, you know, through somebody who didn't work at CNN, she gained access to one town hall question and she gave that or at least attempted to or in an email give it to somebody in the Clinton campaign, which is completely unethical. She lost her job. You know, she -- I mean, I frankly view it as a huge betrayal of everybody who work at CNN, the fact that she did that.

I don't see her attempting to -- in any of those e-mails attempting to give information to the Sanders campaign. It seemed like she was more than happy to cozy up to the Clinton campaign. And now, she has a book to sell, she's now spinning this yarn.

MOOK: I feel like all this is water under the bridge. And Donna Brazile has served our party for 30 years. She's been a champion for Democrats. It was my honor and my privilege to work with her as chair of our party. I look forward to working with Donna --

COOPER: Do you think it was appropriate for her to do that about a town hall question?

MOOK: I don't honestly know the specifics of it. It sounds like CNN looked into it and took action as they saw fit.

But again, Anderson, I'm not just interested in these things in the past. This is why we got to move beyond 2016. We have a governor's election less than a week away in Virginia. We've got critical midterm elections.”

It’s ludicrous for Robby Mook to praise Brazile for her work over the past thirty years. It appears the Democrats “moved on”  from the fact that Brazile was fired from the Michael Dukakis 1988 presidential campaign against then Vice President George HW Bush.  Brazile lied about a made up affair that H.W. Bush was allegedly having.

From the NY Times in 1988:

“Donna Brazile, deputy national field director of the Dukakis campaign, resigned last night after telling reporters covering the campaign that they should pursue rumors, which she did not document, about Vice President Bush's personal life. In resigning, she said: ''Today I made certain comments which I deeply regret. I believe too strongly in the importance of electing Mike Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen to allow myself to become an issue in the campaign. Because the time is short, and the issues are so important, I have decided to leave the campaign. I wish Mike Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen the best in the final weeks of the campaign.''

But rather than be ostracized for her lies, Brazile simply moved around various Democratic campaigns throughout the 90s, working her way up the party. This put her in the position to assist in the rigging of the primary for Hillary Clinton by providing debate questions in 2016.

Last week, I wrote about Maxine Waters rebranding herself as a dedicated public servant fighting against corruption. It would appear Brazile is attempting to do the same in this new book.  Mook’s feckless response and interview with Anderson Cooper highlights the very real problem the Democrats have. Their party is so full of liars like Clinton, Brazile, and Waters that it is virtually impossible for anybody in Democrat leadership to say with a  straight face to the American public that they are acting nobly or honorably.

The interview can be viewed below. 

ROBBY MOOK FULL INTERVIEW WITH ANDERSON COOPER


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: brazile; demlies; mook
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To: Political Junkie Too
Are you talking about this? Brazile Turns on Clintons, Exposes the Democrats

Or maybe this?

Democrat Primary Rigged for Crooked Hillary: Drive-Bys Act Shocked, Democrats Turn on the Clintons — and Trump Demands Investigations

21 posted on 11/05/2017 9:57:05 AM PST by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero)
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To: Karliner

Neither will I.


22 posted on 11/05/2017 9:58:06 AM PST by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero)
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To: Kaslin

Actually even without the super delegates she got way more votes than Sanders.

She trounced him.


23 posted on 11/05/2017 10:07:41 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

“Actually even without the super delegates she got way more votes than Sanders.”

Irrelevant. Without the super delegates, it would have gone to a brokered convention. Hillary couldn’t hit the number.


24 posted on 11/05/2017 10:19:35 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
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To: Kaslin
Yes, I was thinking about the caller in the first transcript.

-PJ

25 posted on 11/05/2017 10:24:00 AM PST 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: Kaslin

Later


26 posted on 11/05/2017 10:31:42 AM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: Kaslin

Bernie Sanders never intended to win, and I think he was embarrassed that his candidacy came so close. He was brought in as a pro-forma opponent, sufficiently absurd to be a plausible honorable loser.

The corruption here runs much deeper than whats being discussed.


27 posted on 11/05/2017 10:37:20 AM PST by buwaya
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To: Kaslin
BOGUS from the 1st excerpt!......>>> I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested. I’d had my suspicions from the moment I walked in the door of the DNC a month or so earlier, based on the leaked emails. But who knew if some of them might have been forged? I needed to have solid proof, and so did Bernie.<<<

Bernie had already rolled over for Hillary and both He and Donna knew it BEFORE the convention!!!

28 posted on 11/05/2017 10:40:11 AM PST by M-cubed
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To: Kaslin

She is going to wake up dead if she keeps this up.


29 posted on 11/05/2017 10:42:17 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
This book is Brazile’s retirement fund. She could care less about the truth, the more sensational, the more readers...

And, from the article (emphasis supplied)...

But more heinous is that Mook is encouraging everybody to move on not only from the 2016 election, but from the fact that Donna Brazile gave Clinton a CNN question ahead of a primary debate.

Yes, one suspects that Ms Brazile is doing a major Crazy Ivan in order to cause some noisy pot-banging so she can arouse interest in her alleged book. And, inescapable in all this is that she was caught using her CNN position to help Crooked Hillary conspire w CNN to cheat in a primary. (Sorta takes away that moral high ground thingy that one needs to do a tell-all, does it not?)

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30 posted on 11/05/2017 10:42:31 AM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Kaslin

Mooks’ name was on that agreement giving Hillary total DNC control before being nominated. He was the point person for the corruption. Brazile reporting that the resulting actions were consistent with the party-destroying agreement is just fact. Seems like Bernie people could sue Mook and DWS as signatories to a fraud.


31 posted on 11/05/2017 10:46:04 AM PST by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: buwaya

Yep


32 posted on 11/05/2017 10:47:51 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: MarvinStinson
Brazile condemned the leaks, which intelligence officials said came from Russia,[33] were to “manipulate an election, disrupt or discredit or destroy our democracy” and ultimately try to “produce an outcome more favorable to them and their interests,” <<

lol...What a slap in the face to Russia!...Russia didn't want to manipulate the election...They had Clinton in the bag!...Seth Rich leaked the emails and ruined the whole scam...and Russia has to take the blame for the DNC couruption!

Russia...Lose-Lose!!

33 posted on 11/05/2017 11:00:46 AM PST by M-cubed
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To: Kaslin

Brazille has gotten inumerable passes because of her skin color.


34 posted on 11/05/2017 11:10:35 AM PST by matt1234 (Jan. 20, 2017: the national nightmare ended.)
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To: Kaslin

Donna Brazille has always been sleazy lying bottom dwelling scum. Listening to her complain about Hillary is tantamount to one bottom dweller complain that the other bottom dweller
is kicking up too much sand in the pond.


35 posted on 11/05/2017 11:25:58 AM PST by chuckee
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To: Kaslin

Bush had an affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald that went on for something like two decades. It was an open secret in Washington.


36 posted on 11/05/2017 11:47:51 AM PST by .45 Long Colt
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To: Kaslin

Anderson Cooper is a sodomite.


37 posted on 11/05/2017 11:53:53 AM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Kaslin

“Anderson Cooper, a long time CNN political news anchor and often times host of various primary debates..”

Right after DJT announce his candidacy, Anderson Cooper pulled out a fake poll to ambush DJT. DJT called him on it, called the sodomite a liar, and said that this is why no one believes him.

Anderson Cooper is a sodomite.

Sometimes his butt plug shifts during an live interview causing him to have an eye-roll.


38 posted on 11/05/2017 11:56:58 AM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Kaslin; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; White Bear; Salvation; ...

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39 posted on 11/05/2017 12:12:41 PM PST by bitt (press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally)
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To: proust
Dumb title. Mook was 9 years old in 1988.

It's seared...seared in his memory...

40 posted on 11/05/2017 2:14:22 PM PST by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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