Opinion: 'Hillary Clinton Derangement Syndrome' is worse than ever

CNN ^ | Feb 21, 2022 | Dean Obeidallah

[where's_the_Outrage?]

There's something infecting right-wing circles, and it's showing no sign of letting up: a fixation on Hillary Clinton that I'm calling"Hillary Clinton Derangement Syndrome," or "HDS" for short.

The symptoms of this persistent ailment include an unhealthy obsession with the former secretary of state -- from spreading lies about her past actions to blaming her for events with which she has no connection -- combined with an insatiable longing to see her run for president again in 2024.

A new HDS variant apparently emerged last week when special counsel John Durham, who has been investigating the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia probe, filed a motion involving Michael Sussmann, a lawyer with ties to Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign who has been charged with lying to the FBI. (Sussmann has pleaded not guilty, and his case is headed for trial later this year.)

Durham's 13-page motion addressed a possible conflict of interest regarding Sussmann's legal counsel, but some on the right interpreted the document as revealing something more sinister about Clinton.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Who to believe, CNN or your lying eyes?

[skeeter]

These leftists can’t help but tell a lie even when the truth would suffice just fine.

Why waste time on them.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

She's running again.

[Scarlett156]

“HDS” - WOW, THAT’S SO ORIGINAL!!!!!

[EQAndyBuzz]

They just won’t quit. Maybe a conservative attack on their sponsors would finish them off as a network.

[Deo volente]

CNN: The Clinton News Network

Go Hillary! We’re behind you! You deserve to be president and crush those insolent right-wingers!

[rdl6989]

You beat me to it.

[BobL]

“Hillary Clinton Derangement Syndrome”

Rush came up with that term (TDS) to describe people who simply lose it over Trump.

So he’s using the term invented to describe the Trump haters. So just who has the obsession here?

[\/\/ayne]

If there are nine copycats on a rocket and one jumps off, how many are left, CNN?

[freespirit2012]

LOL.. the right wing could not be more for Hillary running. Of course, she is a criminal and should be prosecuted. But, please let her run again... the most disliked politician in history...

[PghBaldy]

Dean Obeidallah is one of the idjiots who made fun of the severely conservative’s adopted black grandson.

[Widget Jr]

This is using the "memory hole" technique in real time. Durham's revelations was the news last week. Ignoring it was last week's official narrative. That is a cause.

Republican anger over confirmation of what we have known for years is the effect. Pretending there is no cause for this effect is this week's narrative.

When the news plays games with cause and effect to deny and attempt to control perception of what the public already knows, that shows how scared they are.

[piasa]

Interesting name, “Obeidallah.”

[Deo volente]

Are we sure she's only 74? Looks more like 90. The Democrats don't have anyone better than this??

[TakebackGOP]

Why post this?

[beethovenfan]

Well, Hillary IS deranged.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I wonder how much adrenochrome she’s had today?

[Beowulf9]

Ya gotta have SOME fun…

I guess they don’t like all the bad press on her, you know, like when they did it to Trump.

[P.O.E.]

Insane in the membrane

Was never more apropos to libs.

[Fuzz]

Actually goes back to Bush W.