Posted on 10/21/2016 6:20:03 AM PDT by NYer
Donald Trump was booed by diners during a Catholic fundraising event last night.
The Alfred E Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, an annual white-tie gala in New York, is often the last time the two presidential nominees share a stage before Election Day and is traditionally a time when campaign hostilities are set aside. The event raises money for impoverished children throughout New York
The speakers usually poke fun at themselves and each other. But the audience seemed to think Trump had crossed a line with his caustic language about Clinton.
Trump referred to his opponent as “corrupt” during a lengthy riff on the FBI’s investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
“Hillary is so corrupt she got kicked off the Watergate Commission. How corrupt do you have to be to get kicked off the Watergate Commission? Pretty corrupt,” he said to loud boos and at least one call demanding he get off the stage.
Trump went on, to growing jeers: “Hillary believes that it’s vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private. Here she is tonight, in public, pretending not to hate Catholics.”
It comes after the controversy over the “Catholic Spring” emails, in which Wikileaks revealed that Clinton’s campaign chief, John Podesta, claimed to have helped “create” organisations in order to start a “revolution” within the Church.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan said yesterday that comments made about Catholics in these and other Wikileaks emails were “insulting and patronising.” He told ABC: “If it had been said about the Jewish community, if it had been said about the Islamic community, within 10 minutes there would have been an apology and a complete distancing from those remarks.” Cardinal Dolan said that he hoped Clinton would disassociate herself from the remarks.
At last night’s dinner, Trump and Clinton sat on either side of Cardinal Dolan. When they entered and took their seats, they did not greet each other or make eye contact, though they did shake hands at the conclusion of the roast.
Dolan later called his seat “the iciest place on the planet.”
Most eyes were on Trump, who famously glowered through President Barack Obama’s jokes at his expense during the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner.
The speeches largely exhibited the gently mocking humour which is traditional at the event. Trump’s biggest laughs came as he talked about claims Melania Trump had copied parts of a speech from Michelle Obama. “They think [Michelle Obama’s] absolutely great. My wife Melania gives the exact same speech, and people get on her case,” he said to whoops and laughs.
Clinton was the first one to laugh when Trump joked that she had bumped into him earlier in the night “and she very civilly said ‘Pardon me'” — a reference to the Republican nominee’s frequent declarations that his opponent should go to jail.
Clinton, meanwhile, joked that she had taken a break from her “usual nap schedule” to attend and suggested that the audience should be pleased she’s not charging her usual fee for speaking in front of potential donors.
But she also got in some digs at Trump, a few of which drew scattered jeers. Clinton said she understood why Trump disliked teleprompters, because they can be difficult to follow and “I’m sure it’s even harder when you’re translating from the original Russian.”
She also joked about Trump’s attitude to women. Most Americans see the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of freedom, Clinton said; but “Donald looks at the Statue of Liberty and sees a ‘4’. Maybe a ‘5’ if she loses the torch and tablet and changes her hair.”
The dinner is named after the former New York governor Al Smith, a Democrat who in 1928 became the first Catholic to receive a major party nomination for president.
First, it is not a roast. That’s the Friars Club domain. Whatever Clinton deserves and that is a lot, this was neither the time or place. Wednesday night would have been a better time. Why not then?
Thank you, Captain, for your beautifully expressed summary!
No he wasn’t.
Good analysis.
The urban nature of Catholics in the northeast is going to lend itself to this
Urban govt defendant bee hive culture lends itself to this plus just all sorts of other crap
What probably disturbs me most is how can the church tolerate abortion proponents like they do?
That single issue bugs me more than any
If you toot abortion especially late term you’re ostracized where I go
Even in an urban church where they were admittedly more moderate
The Catholic Church should walk the walk and kick them out
And kick out so much trash in the clergy especially those running their universities
To be honest the issues flow from higher than the congregants
Just my two cents
Tell me I’m wrong
I don’t know enough about the dogma to care...we all gravitate to what makes sense to us or we were born to
Would Catholics in 1950 tolerate all this?
Had any of the Catholics there seen the Wikileaks between Podesta and colleagues about their plans for and comments about Catholics, do you think? I doubt it. But I could be wrong?
Herr’s what one priest says:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlenviZKuBw&feature=youtu.be&t=18m23s
Great video about voting!
Ill bet Trump is actually gaining respect with world leaders for having a backbone. Unfortunately for them the US will no longer be pawns if he wins.
Whiners boo feelings hurt snow flakes pout stomp feet....
The guy in your picture reminds me of actor Elisha Cook Jr who was in the Maltese Falcon.
He was also applauded but I imagine this provocative opening statement gets more eyeballs.
Another disappointment from my church.....
Fwiw, almost all of the people in that room are part of the “elite,” or are democrats/progressives/Marxists/liberals.
More boos, the more I like Trump.
5.56mm
Trump has all the right enemies.
Hilarious - I thought that guy was going to have a heart attack, clutching his pearls while dropping to the floor!!
I watched it, Trump rocked the joint.
I really enjoyed watching those snooties squirm, it was brutal.
Hypocrites, tons of hypocrites supporting ‘Abortion Hillary’.
A snake fest it was.
No more.........
Do we know if he’ll even BE at the Pearly Gates? Getting all chummy with Satan in a pink dress may not be something God believes is acceptable.
“But what is acceptable and entertaining at those events was not appropriate in last evening’s setting.”
BS. All’s fair in love and war, and this is a war for the survival of America. If Trump can’t speak at a debate without being stifled by the moderator(s), then he has to seize every opportunity offered to him to get out the truth.
I’m hoping his jokes will make the uninformed do some research about Haiti, her opinion of Catholics and evangelicals, etc.
I think you’re correct. Do you think it started with the JFK election? (Or some other reason?)
The Catholics I know blindly go Dem, similar to the Jews. I’ll never figure it out.
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