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Hillary's Surrogates Told to Blame Media for 'Deplorables' Coverage
Newsmax ^ | September 10,2016 | Cathy Burke

Posted on 09/11/2016 5:46:41 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is urging her surrogates to blame the media for having a double standard if they're pressed about her derogatory dig at "half" of Donald Trump supporters being "deplorables," The Washington Post reports.

According to the Post, the advice is contained in a memo, "'Deplorable' Comment Talking Points," sent out Saturday afternoon to Democrats preparing for TV interviews or other appearances on Clinton's behalf.

Clinton on Saturday expressed "regret" for being “grossly generalistic" and using the characterization of "half" – even as she insisted Trump is amplifying bigoted views.

But the memo says Clinton has "apologized" – a word she didn't use – for saying "most" rather than "some" – and that "obviously not everyone supporting Trump is part of the alt right," the Post reports.

"If pushed," surrogates should shame the media, the memo advises, according to the Post.

"I think we can all agree that if Donald Trump said something controversial about Clinton supporters, it wouldn’t have been in his top 10 list of offensive statements in day," the advice reads, the Post reports.

"It’s well past time the press stopped grading Trump on a curve. So is the press going to cover this story in the right [context], or are they going to hold Hillary to a different standard again? Are they going to make more out of this story than they made out of the racist, misogynistic Trump comments that got us here in the first place

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; coverage; democrat; democrats; deplorable; deplorables; donaldtrump; hillary; hillaryclinton; media; memo; surrogates; trump
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To: Hojczyk
So is the press going to cover this story in the right [context], or are they going to hold Hillary to a different standard again?

And they said Nixon was paranoid...

21 posted on 09/11/2016 6:46:34 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Hojczyk

“I think we can all agree that if Donald Trump said something controversial about Clinton supporters, it wouldn’t have been in his top 10 list of offensive statements in day,”

If he had wheels, he would be a trolly. Wait until Trump badmouths Hillary supporters and see how the press handles it, before you complain about a phantom “double standard”.

Woooooooooooo! I am the double standard of possible future medias future. Wooooooooo!


22 posted on 09/11/2016 6:49:28 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: nikos1121

Her comments were 100% scripted. She was reading from a teleprompter. After she called Trump supporters every vile name in the book she saud to her adoring audience “right?”. They started laughing. Every bit of this was planned out. She has issued no apology. One of her surrogates was on Judge Jeanine last night and told the judge that Clinton has been saying these same things for months but apparently no one was listening so she thought she would emphasis them again and she has not apologized. Her follow-up statement was a doubling-down on her remarks. She makes it clear in her statement she meant to label ALL of Trump’s supporters as racists and bigots. The media of course is calling it an apology and trying to play down the entire thing. Then this morning the ridiculous WA Post poll comes and she’s doing great. Her three terrible weeks didn’t exist, didn’t hurt her a bit. She’s seen as “more honest and trustworthy” than Trump. She’s better at fixing the economy than he is. She’s perfect, Trump’s Hitler. That’s the media for you. They ignore any bad news about her and fabricate good news, as in these polls showing that most people think she’s Mother Teresa.


23 posted on 09/11/2016 6:56:13 AM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: miss marmelstein

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24 posted on 09/11/2016 6:56:13 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (FU Klintoons)
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To: Hojczyk

Over and over, the Clinton campaign has attacked Trump’s temperament as being unfit to be president. So, if that’s true, I guess the proper presidential temperament is to call Americans “lazy” and call approximately 25% of them “deplorable”.

One thing we have not seen from Donald Trump is a willingness to bash his own country.

The very fact that the Clintons issue “talking points” they expect the media to dutifully parrot tells you all you need to know about how incorrect the charge is that the media is being soft on Trump.


25 posted on 09/11/2016 7:06:48 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (With what can already be proved, how can you trust Hillary as POTUS?)
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To: Hojczyk

(Wink wink) get it? Not “Half”, All!


26 posted on 09/11/2016 7:08:57 AM PDT by uncitizen (Americanism NOT Globalism! - Trump)
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To: joshua c

I resemble that remark. It’s a term of endearment for the righteous good Americans.


27 posted on 09/11/2016 7:14:09 AM PDT by ncfool ( We are in the United Socialist State of aMeriKa. The USSA. Sheeple of aMeriKa follow hil-LIAR-ly)
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To: VRWC For Truth

I get your drift.


28 posted on 09/11/2016 7:16:46 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: VRWC For Truth

And hang her again.


29 posted on 09/11/2016 7:17:20 AM PDT by sport
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To: NKP_Vet

She had been making the same comments in her off the record fund raisers where they collect the cell phones at the door to prevent a Romney moment. She just decided to start using the term in her scripted comments.


30 posted on 09/11/2016 7:18:52 AM PDT by ncfool ( We are in the United Socialist State of aMeriKa. The USSA. Sheeple of aMeriKa follow hil-LIAR-ly)
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To: Hojczyk
The media won't do it, but it needs to be calmly and factually pointed out that Hillary is simply following Saul Alinksy's Rules for Radicals.

She has been, and always will be, an acolyte, disciple, and apostle of Alinsky, and it flops out in obvious ways on occasion.

Some call it a gaffe, but it is an accidental insight into the core of Hillary and her kind.

* RULE 12: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)


31 posted on 09/11/2016 7:39:25 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Hojczyk
Democrats are contemptuous of the press... they're like the High School top jock looking down on female conquest who are ‘too easy’ FOR him... We see the press as butt kissers... so do the dems. But they're using them... and badly.
32 posted on 09/11/2016 7:48:55 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Alinsky Rule #12 “Proud to be in the Basket of Deplorables”" freeper TexasTransplant)
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To: Hojczyk
"Are they going to make more out of this story than they made out of the racist, misogynistic Trump comments that got us here in the first place"

I just hope it gets even half the coverage of a Trump gaffe.

I can hope, right?

33 posted on 09/11/2016 7:52:02 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ncfool
"They always come up with these scripted comments. That is what that was. They were going to use that for a period of time. Somebody on her campaign will walk the plank for coming up with that term."

No, I don't think so. She is self-sabotaging her own campaign. It sounded exactly like something Cankles would say, and she said it with authenticity.

34 posted on 09/11/2016 7:57:07 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (PS - Vote Trump. Vote Coal.)
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To: Hojczyk
There's the ticket!!! Blame the very people and "news" organization propping you up!!! Can't get any more hiLIARious than this.
35 posted on 09/11/2016 7:57:45 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Hojczyk

Surrogates should shame the media.
LOL you can’t shame the media they are programed not to understand shame or truth.


36 posted on 09/11/2016 8:32:30 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: nikos1121
Will you deport illegal immigrants who have broken the laws, ie violating our immigration laws?
37 posted on 09/11/2016 10:54:38 AM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be defeated.)
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To: Hojczyk

38 posted on 09/13/2016 6:05:47 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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