For all of Donald Trumps character issues, including his loose grasp of literal and specific accuracy – holy crap, did we dodge a bullet by not electing Hillary Clinton as president.
In a CBS interview talking about her 2016 election autopsy book “What Happened” (to which the joke responses all varying degrees of “YOU happened”), Hillary Clinton reminded voters not only of the levels of her delusions but the level of whopping Pants-on-fire lies she’s willing to tell herself and others to fit her worldviews.
These are dangerous lies. As I’ve explained in detail before: Trumps “lies” are 99% braggadocios machismo New York bullsh*ting. Hillary Clintons lies are oppressive divisive slanders.
“THE PRESIDENT OF ALL AMERICANS” vs “THE WHITE NATIONALIST GUT”
In the interview, Clinton talks about the inauguration day of President Trumps swearing in. Typically, defeated candidates don’t necessarily attend this event, but former presidents and First Ladies do, and she is the latter, so she attended. Good for her for showing up. But that doesn’t mean you had to lie about it…
Ruining the sympathetic upswing she was describing (about showing unity with the nation and putting behind her the heartbreak of not being the one up on that podium taking the oath) she calls President-Elect Trumps inauguration speech “A cry from the white nationalist gut”, which is an insane lie.
Clinton said the speech was an opportunity for Trump to have said “okay. I’m proud of my supporters, but I’m the president of all Americans. That’s not what we heard at all”.
In fact, that’s almost literally 100% verbatim precisely to a “T” what we heard exactly… The speech literally contains the line “The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.”
Which is more likely?: that Hillary Clinton is that woefully ignorant of White Nationalism that she thinks it includes resources and service to “all Americans”? Or that she knows that’s not the case and is just a lying because she thinks she can get away with it? The sad part is that she basically has, as I could find no pundits or fact-checkers who took up this egregious ugly bold faced jewel of dishonesty.
THIS AMERICAN CARNAGE STOPS NOW…
Imagine if CBS cut to that part of the speech after showing Clinton falsely claim that in her opinion it would have been a good time to say exactly what Trump said, followed by “that’s not what we heard at all”. That wouldn’t happen of course, not only because of CBS’s potential bias politically, but because the What Happened book is published by a CBS publisher – but that’s fine. No obligation for CBS to call her out on this if they don’t want to – but this audaciously opposite-of-reality statement did put their video editors in an awkward position since they had to directly avoid showing the part of the speech that proves she’s lying and try to find something that illustrates what she’s talking about. Typically in a piece like this you’ll hear a person say something like “her speech was very divisive” and then the next shot will be a clip of some divisive line that the person in questions stated. In this case, Hillary’s claim doesn’t exist, so instead they had to find the most incendiary quote of Trumps from the inaugural speech in where they clip out the context and show video of him saying “This American carnage stops right here, right now”. Accepting that Clinton completely fabricated the “white nationalist gut” smear – this line about American carnage at *least* must have *some* innuendo hinting to the scourge of ethnic minority crime rates or some other impropriety by American ethnicities that are in poverty or other disenfranchised groups? Nope. The exact opposite… The “American Carnage” that Trump firmly vowed an end to is a list of traditionally minority-affected disenfranchisements including inner city poverty, lower and middle class blue collar jobs, failing schools, and crime fueled by drugs and gangs. Look at the context of when this line was delivered in Trumps speech compared to that line being chopped from that context and followed after Clinton falsely claiming that his speech embodied the very heart of “White Nationalism”, and then try to not scrunch your face like you just bit into a dirty lemon:
But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge; and the crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.
This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
We are one nation – and their pain is our pain. Their dreams are our dreams; and their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.
The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.
THE NONSENSE THAT ARE CALLED “LIES” VS “LIES THAT MATTER
Trumps critics in the media jumped all over the supposed “lie” that his inauguration crowd was bigger than Obama’s when photos of the crowds appear to clearly show that not being the case. This suggests that Trumps off the cuff exaggerated bragging is a calculated or careless effort to deceive the American people – over something that couldn’t matter less. Compare that then with the non-reaction to this whopper by the person who was almost the one delivering that speech and the fact that it absolutely IS a calculated or careless (although even the most charitable excuse-making for Hillary leave’s little excuse for such a falsehood to be an act of unintentional carelessness) and the fact that it is of major consequence to the people who hear that lie. Trump says “I got a historically big crowd at my speech” and whether that’s true or not means nothing to anyone, but Clinton says “our president gave a speech that said he was not the President of all Americans but rather only concerned with Whites” and sh*t poisons the minds of millions, feeding them a lie from a source they find credible that makes them feel powerless, disconnected, and adversarial to a Presidential Administration literally going out of its way to include, connect, and unite. Just disgusting.
And that’s what grinds my gears about this: the severity of it. The depths of this Clinton lie is what freaks me out however because of the willingness to revise history we all experienced and with a straight face claim the opposite of what was either seen or is easy to see for yourself and see that the claim she’s making has no basis whatsoever and is instead just a categorical slander.
CLINTONS CHARACTERIZATION WAS AS “OPPOSITE FROM THE TRUTH” AS IT GETS
Sorry/Not Sorry for doing a double-pass on the same point, but the details of exactly how from-the-pages-of-1984 this Clinton Lie was are excruciatingly important.
Trumps speech included gracious thank-you’s to the Obama’s, emphasized solidarity as Americans across the things that divide us, and stated that prejudice will not be tolerated.
A few lines from the speech Hillary Clinton claims was not “at all” a statement of being the President of ALL Americans and instead a “cry from the white nationalist gut” (emphasis, mine):
- ‘We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore its promise for all of our people.”
- “Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for years to come.”
- We are one nation — and their pain is our pain. Their dreams are our dreams; and their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.
Hillary Clinton literally said that not only did Donald Trump not say anything like “I’m the president of all Americans” in a speech where he said exactly that almost word for word, and she said his speech was from the gut of white nationalism when it actually stated that nationalism can’t possibly have anything to do with race and that patriotism and prejudice cannot coexist.
HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?
This is where, even knowing Clintons history with truth telling, I am strained to find an explanation for how this could have happened. How could Clinton utter such a blatant lie on something so easily verifiable and so recent? It was reported beforehand that uniting all Americans would be the highlight of the speech, and as the NY Times reported, that’s exactly what he did. Donald Trump refers to that paper as “the failing New York Times” because it is an openly Leftist/Democrat slanted publication that is highly critical of him and his presidency and his political party, yet that didn’t stop the paper from reporting the truth that the speech’s theme was Unity – so what is so unique about Clinton that she can’t do the same?
You didn’t need to have read the NY Times to know this about Trumps speech – I also know this to be true because I watched the speech (and you can too. does Hillary Clinton know they record these things??). Hillary Clinton not only claims she watched the speech but there is video evidence that she did… and yet there she is a few months later, claiming the opposite of reality is what she observed. That is so nuts – so dangerous in a person with power – so terrifying that neither Jane Pauley interviewing her nor anyone else in the media afterward corrected this crazy falsehood – that this moment alone is enough to fall to ones knees in gratitude that Clinton lost the election.
BUT WAIT… THERE’S MORE…
While that smear was the worst in the interview, Clintons divisiveness continued onto other but similar points that were extensions of her “basket of Deplorables” remark that was designed to explain away her failures as a Politician by impugning morals and motives of the supporters of her opponent.
She blames anti-woman sentiment of course. The truth is that “We really don’t want a woman commander in chief” was not a popular opinion anywhere.
She compounds the racism charge in such a ham-fisted way, sating that Trump supporters were angry about “Gains that were made by others” to where Jane Pauly had to help her out and just say what she was dancing around: “millions of white people”. Which again, is false that a prominent sentiment of Trump support was “non-whites have made gains in this country and we need to undo that”. That is yet another ugly smear that has such a non-resemblance to anything in reality that the derangement going on in Clintons mind becomes more and more alarming.
On the fact that she was proved to be completely “careless” in the words of FBI Director James Comey, Clinton baselessly accuses the non-partisan and arguably more-anti-Trump-than-Anti-Hillary Comey to have made those findings for an “audience” of whom she doesn’t know but suggests maybe “right wing commentators, right wing members of congress, whatever”. This echoes her much-mocked claim in the 1990’s of a “vast right wing conspiracy” to take down her husband, referring to the multiple sexual misconduct accusations non-political and Democrat women were making against him.
WATCH FOR YOURSELF…
Here is the un-edited interview with all the garbage laid out above.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6085db