Clinton campaign "warns" media to tread carefully
Hat tip to MsGrin
The Clinton campaign is slowly looking outside its bubble to see that more and more natives are getting restless. Thus comes the inevitable health push-back.
A more correct title for this article would be "Clinton's campaign threatens media". To quote from it:
Campaign spokesman Nick Merrill took to task an NBC reporter who wrote about the coughing spell, posting on Twitter that the writer should “get a life.”
Not-so-cynically, I would rephrase that statement to "keep your life" else the Clinton wet-work team pays you a visit.
Jon Favreau, a former speechwriter for President Obama, asked via Twitter if “anyone on NBC, or anywhere else,” was willing to defend the piece.
"Over here Jon, over here!" as I jump up from my chair! Actually, I don't speculate on Medusa's expectoration, many of which possible causes are non-neurologic. But, hey, Jon, why don't you ask me me to defend my theses that Hillary has frontal lobe seizures or urinary dysfunction due to right frontal lobe damage? Nah, instead you challenge "journalists" (using that word with reservation) about their non-existent medical knowledge.
Clinton surrogate Jim Manley explained...The Drudge Report and other conservative media sites have largely driven the coverage of Clinton’s health, following the concussion she suffered in late 2012 and years before she announced her intention to run again for president. But Manley said the Democrat’s camp has seen the coverage “bleeding to the mainstream media” in recent weeks.
Hey, Jim, if the MSM weren't complicit in all things Hillary, she should have been exsanguinating (bleeding out) by this time. She's been given the three monkey treatment (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil) for far too long. Now even her toadies can't avoid the mounting stench posed by her health. That is one thing the corrupt Obama Department of Injustice, headed by Lyin' Loretta can't cover up.
More eminently disbelievable garbage from Hanley's mouth:
“They’re trying to stop it,” Manley continued. “I think they learned a long time ago that you can’t just ignore these things. There’s always a fine line between react or not, but in this day in age, to say nothing is often not the best way to go.”
Clinton aides and supporters see the healthcare stories as a bunch of baloney, and they want the media to cover it as such.
One former Clinton aide called it a “complete farce, and the only way to handle it is to say in no uncertain terms that Donald Trump is full of it.”
Whether Donald Trump is or is not an idiot has nothing to do with Medusa's health. You establishment Democritters better lay in a goodly supply of mustard and mayonnaise to go with all the baloney you're going to eating.
One former Clinton aide called it a “complete farce, and the only way to handle it is to say in no uncertain terms that Donald Trump is full of it.”
Okay, hiding-in-anonymity Clinton flunky, your idea of farce is misdirected. First of all this whole election is a farce. Secondly, whether Donald Trump is full of excrement has nothing to do with Hillary's health issues. Un-named toady: if you want to end the speculation--release all Medusa's medical records and have her re-examined by a team of independent medical experts.
This article would be downright hilarious if the issues weren't so serious:
Those around the Clinton campaign insist Clinton World isn’t worried that the health stories will damage her White House bid, though the latest pushback comes as polls of the race have tightened.
“The fact of the matter is there is no truth or factual evidence to debunk,” the former aide said. “She is perfectly healthy. The only way is to challenge him to a pushup contest at the first debate.”
Oh, the smell of horse dung emanates all over this article.
1. Hillary is downright petrified by these health stories, otherwise her minions would not be doing the push-back (i.e., outright denial) of her ever-more-so obvious deteriorating health.
2. The reason that "there is no factual evidence to debunk" is because Clinton suppresses her health records and refuses to provide the public with updated neurological assessment from the appropriate, independent medical professionals.
3. What do push-ups have to do with anything?
Another witty analysis from this article is spewed by Brad Brannon:
Allies, however, maintain that voters aren’t worried about the stories questioning her health.
“I think the media deserves to be beat up on this because I think it’s ridiculous. I really doubt that any American really cares about this,” said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon.
“This is as trivial as you can get. The media deserves pushback for giving so much coverage to this thing,” he added.
Mental competence is trivial, is it Brad? If you think so, then you are not mentally competent.
Beat up on the previously servile MSM? WTF, it's about time they started do some real reportage.
If you don't think Jane or Joe Citizen cares about these issues, Brad, then please poke your head out of the Beltway bubble and look around.
And here's the last quotable quote from an article devoid of critical thinking:
Both the Clinton and Trump campaigns have had a contentious relationship with the press.
You are kidding of course--or you don't think anyone has been paying attention, until recently, of MSM's kid-gloves protection of Medusa?
Edited to correct typos.
Comments
Related.
Well, maybe not really related, but I love this scene:
'Clinton-Approved' health care coverage model
is clearly stated, right there in the middle of your fourth text-box quote above. Paraphrased, it is:
'Clinton and her campaign want the health-related reporting to be considered 'baloney' and expect the media to cover it as though it were; best-case treatment is to blame it on Trump, Drudge, or general 'right-wing sources'.'
What about the Russians? I thought Russia was the villain!
Make up your mind, Clinton campaign. Everyone is getting weary of the victimhood. Push up that.
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The Clinton Syndicate is on the defensive here
The Clinton crew most certainly doth protest too much, methinks.
Me, I smell smoke....
Ha! After what she said at a fundraiser tonight?
Don't know why there happened to be media there, but she said 'half of Trumps voters are deplorable."
CNN article has the video. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/09/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-bask...
Oh, goody
Hillary's 47% Moment!
You just knew it was coming....
This begs a question
Since I haven't been back to GOS in eons ... I wonder, what might Bob Johnson be writing about dear HRC, these days?
Is he his usual snarky self about her almost-supernatural ability to self-destruct ... or has he been force-fed the Kos Kool-Aid like a goose destined for foie-gras? Perhaps (in my dreams) he told Kos to fuck himself.
(Idle mind-wanderings on a Saturday evening).
She should change her name to Marie...
and shout "Let them eat cake."
What a tone deaf thing to say. She insults a huge segment of the voting public with her generalizations (when her electoral strategy depends on conservative votes) and acts smug about it in front of her donors. Genius. If she doesn't understand why people object to her so much that they're willing to vote for a lying, racist egomaniac, then she doesn't deserve to be president.
Does every member of the Clinton cartel lack the ability for introspection?
They might as well let Bill down from the attic. His mouth isn't
any less damaging than hers is.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
If anyone ever needed proof that Clinton is brain-damaged
There it is. While relatively stupid Rmoney said 47%, Hillary (Anything You can Do, I Can Do Better) Clinton raised him 3%, hoping, with reasonable expectation to win the Either-I'm Demented-Or-Just-Incredibly-Stupid Prize. The avalanche on this one is just beginning and her mouth (hack, wheeze) started it. She may just have handed Trump the election. Yay, Hillary!
Speaking of hack
wheeze. Word on the street is Hillary has a hairball. Hairball Hillary. I think you're way off on your diagnosis Ed. You might want to check it out...
Drudge leading with WashPost lead article
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-wonder-and-worry-why-i...
Also, http://www.drudgereport.com/ so you can smile at the picture!!!
Aay-yup, twasn't supposed to be this way, a billion dollars, and look where they are...forget the smell of brimstone in the air - I smell FIRE!
This was BEFORE her "basket of deplorables" speech.
#BasketOfDeplorables trending on Twitter
Hellery may have awoken the Deplorable Sleeping Giant. Who tells the voters OUT LOUD that they suck, even if that's the way you feel. I think she's gonna regret this one. Hahaha.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Her "Romney - 47%" moment
And she's supposed to be the smart one.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
The Last Thing We Need
I'm picturing Hellery proposing the 'Deplorables' idea at a meeting with her speech writers and all the Yes-Men in the room smiling nervously and nodding in agreement.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
I don't think she proposes anything.
I think she simply does what she's told. And naps a lot.
Thanks for the laugh Katchen,
I desperately needed that!
This episode
just made me sick. If it were me she was yelling at I would hope I would have the courage and presence of mind to grab her pointing finger and bend it back out of my face! (I probably wouldn't.) I wonder if you touched her like that if the Secret Service would grab you.
This was truly disgusting.
Only, she said this IN PUBLIC. This is an unforced error.
Romney was surprised he got busted. Dunno how that will shape how this plays out, but this is just more of the same. She's told progressives their votes aren't needed. She's dissed reg'lar white men. And now she's slapping in the face a large swath of the other party. She doesn't realize that that term she used to label them kinda takes the sting out of how those people label. If one is making the case for diversity and inclusion, one can't discard HALF, as she says, of the voters on the other side. It makes no sense. I think this was someone TRYING to be David Brock and missing. Or maybe he's just lost his game.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Gleeful smirking, chortles, guffaws
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/10/republicans-th...
WashPost is on it! Picked up by Google News now too...
And she did it for a laugh!
That is classic foot-in-mouth!
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She did it for a laugh? Why, that's deplorable! nt
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
There was one comment on Twitter
It showed Hillary hobnobbing with a couple of Saudi princes, and it said: You might have abhorrent views on women, but if you donate enough $$, you can buy your way out of the basket of deplorables.
Heh. I'm kind of enjoying an election where, for the first time ever, I don't have a horse in the race.
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." --Noam Chomsky
I bet you all can tell which website thinks this was
a great statement Hillary made about Trump's supporters. One person has a diary up and thinks she should double down on it.
LOL!
Could we get that lucky, do ya think?
OMG, thank you, I needed that thought, it makes me laugh
They love to be pawns
They love to be pawns in the ongoing war between House of Clinton and House of Trump. They don't care if they get nothing in return. That's not the point. The point is to fly the banner for the rightful queen, to suppress their own needs in favor of those of one of the most powerful people on earth.
And to hate the other side's pawns with an abiding passion.
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." --Noam Chomsky
Luntz, an accomplished propagandist for the Oligarchs
makes this observation:
https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/774635026357055488
Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.
Exactly right!!!
A candidate can attack what his opponent stands for, but when he or she attacks any voter, in effect he or she is attacking all voters. Just look at how most of us here reacted to the Clinton's campaign total disregard and downright hostility toward the left. No way are most of us going to support a candidate who does nothing in trying to reach out and ultimately represent the people.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
This WaPo quote:
Not useful to the people they represent.
Not useful to the nation as a whole.
Useful to CLINTON.
And they don't get that that statement is a very large part of WHY she doesn't have a definitive lead over Trump.
I want to throw things.
Wondering and worrying
Er, perhaps it's because of HRC's historic weakness as a national party candidate.
Pardon the language, but: Fuck you, DNC. You have no one but yourselves to blame. You had a choice and you blew it. Now you get to live with the consequences.
This cycle has opened a lot of eyes of a LOT of Democrats
who see now that the national party hasn't given a flying fuck about them for years. This is their denouement moment, this DNC. It's all downhill from here. They're done. Stick them--and their crooked-ass, lying-ass, criminal candidate--with a fork, if you don't believe me....
Money quote:
Good luck with that!
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
The DNC (who ARE they?) are now in the Biggest Losers Club
and their preferred candidate is pissing off voters of some category every time she opens her mouth. Have they noticed the ship is sinking? Is it okay to be waist deep in bilge? Noticed yet?
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They backed the only person
That couldn't beat Trump. If the GOP sweeps WH, Senate and House, we are in for a big hurt. They will destroy us, the Clintons, Democratic Party, and by the time they are done, the GOP.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Gridlock: The Only Thing That Has Saved Us
from either party. If not for that, we would already be at banana republic status. Either of these two whackjobs should complete the Bananafication.
Edit: meant as reply to dkmich
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Don't be fooled
gridlock is where the money is at. K street and pols love gridloock.
Solidarity forever
This made me laugh........from the WAPO link above
This would be Clinton Reinvention/Reintroduction No.? .......... I forget, there have been so many.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Like the Humans of New York "profile"
that's making the rounds on social media?
Barf.
What are we up to now?
Clinton 10.0???
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Guaranteed she would not recall what version.
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I think we are at Clinton 666.0 now
Been here for a while.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Awesome!
Sadly, I only one thumb up to give you for it.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Can the Clintons be THAT dumb???
Her Heiniousness has been running for POTUS for decades, DECADES, and now, 2 months before the election, her absolutely last chance, no more possibilities of running again, NONE, she is now relaunching, AGAIN, cuz for some strange reason the people just don't "get" who she really is.
WTF?? This is so far past the Windsock level. W-a-a-ay past desperation. With approx a BILLION dollars to piss away, and this is what they come up with, 2 months before the election.
Still makes me cry to think we could have been working to elect Bernie Sanders. Worse than a waste. A sin.
A crime, in fact,
called Election Fraud.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Except for the "deplorable" voters.
It wasn't a gaffe. She said it before on Israeli tv, and that video is out on you tube.
Talking to foreign viewers
about a large bloc of your fellow citizens in such an insulting manner, doesn't seem very wise.
No wonder they hide her.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Haven't the last 5 reintroductions been to do exactly that?
Eighth time's the charm?
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Very hard to walk back that statement!
She is stuck with it.
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Don't worry.
She'll have a "press conference" with 6 "reporters" in front of a screeching plane to explain herself ...
Definitely. This hole must be dug deeper. :-) n/t
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Which half?
Did she define which half are deplorable? Is it those living under the poverty line, or above it?
Here,
Judge for yourself. https://www.facebook.com/FFWeekend/videos/1448684915158452/
OMG, the woman has a steering committee that steers!
To and fro. Does she have an idea in her head that is new? One not recycled from 1980?
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I dropped a few comments in their cesspool section
not that it will help.
I love it, though. Tread carefully or else? Or else WHAT? They gonna pull another Michael Hastings on one of them?
I dropped a comment there at FB too
Here is what I posted:
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
It's deplorable
That more people aren't supporting Jill.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Well, here's the thing about that
we have no idea how many really support her. Long as people actually vote for her, instead of resigning themselves to LOTE voting again, that's all that really matters--well, assuming the votes actually count for her, anyway....
Which half?
Did she define which half are deplorable? Is it those living under the poverty line, or above it?
I guess anyone not supporting
her she considers deplorable.
To be a fly on the wall
In the Clinton Campaigns strategy sessions these days. If only to hear their laments on why she's losing to a racist imbecile. God, what a delightful dish of schadenfreude.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
And now her walkback (stolen from an Hillarian I know)
email missive:
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AAAnd at TOP they are calling the walkback "brilliant"!
What have they been drinking? I would smile more at my septic tank pumpout.
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I thought someone above said that Dead State
thought the original HRC comment was brilliant?
But this is brilliant too?
HRC is a very brilliant person indeed.
I imagine her turds come out sufficiently brilliant and polished.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
A Brilliant Walkback, Eh? Like "Overruled"... "Withdrawn".
Clever lawyer...
One of the reasons that Americans don't like lawyers.
And let's not forget that earning a vote is not the same burden of proof as escaping prosecution.
Go Hillary.
All that said, I think she should double down on it given the current situation.
They are running an Authoritarian play to scoop up some of Drumpf's authoritarian followers. Not sure if it will work, but it's not going to change things. Kind of par for the course in 21st century American politics.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Yet she and her family have been good friends with the
deplorable bigot and his family for years, why?
Oh that's right, they're not really friends, she was just taking his money and using him. That's much better!
Yikes it's dark outside. Stay safe indoors, RL!
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Didn't know that Ari Fleischer backes Hillary!
Remember when Ari threatened Americans for something Bill Maher said?
Since Democrats aren't as bold as Republicans, such a threat issued at this time would have to have come from a Republican backer of Hillary.
These last two links are from Greg Palast. While the videos feature Republican figures, it isn't much of a stretch to me to substitute the Democrats for them - especially as the next fraudulently won election is in the brewing stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDodWOCFxeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRX-PQmLMQ
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
The list of Republican Elites/Officials/Former Officials,
and Former Lawmakers supporting FSC is at least as long as both of my arms and legs. (I hear the additions almost daily on a political program on XM Radio.)
And worse than that, many if them--especially the Republican political operatives/strategists/PR folks--are enthusiastically campaigning for her, mostly by giving interviews as to 'why' they are voting for her, over Trump (on the corporatist- and Dem-friendly radio and Cable TV networks/programs).
Before so many Republicans came out in her support, I didn't believe she had a prayer (to win). Now, I'm not so sure.
If does she prevail, she may as well be considered the Republican nominee--since I suspect that it will be their votes that put her over the top.
The Dallas Morning News endorsed her--it's been about 75 years since that periodical endorsed a Democrat. Resulted in major blowback, though--folks dropping subscriptions, etc.
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Update: Misty May has been adopted. Yeah!
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Hillary proves herself--to be a dim bulb
Please let me enjoy the schadenfreude of our blind and deaf Medusa. Did she forget about the Rmoney moment that help sink him? So in response to his 47% bet, she raised him 3%--in public. This reflected her Anything-You-Can-Do-I Can-Do-Better egotism. It also marks her political demise. She has started an avalanche which will not be stopped by walking-back or even sprinting away from that statement. From her her "inartful" expression of anti-Trumpvitriol, she has demonstrated one of two things:
1. Dementia because she didn't remember when Rmoney did the same thing how much int cost him
2. Stupidity, silver star class, for insulting millions of Americans who either support Trump or are undecided Independents.
My vote is for dementia.
Also Tim I-ain't-so-smart Kaine's ridiculous defense of the indefensible shows what a wonderful campaigner he is proving to be.
Tim Kaine
Did you see his reaction, in the video of one of HRC's coughing fits, in which she blamed allergies to Trump?
He laughed and clapped and bounced in his seat like a 2nd grader who'd just wet his pants. Brilliant choice of a running mate.
Tim Kain't help himself
The thought of all that power if that cough gets worse.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
You know, I am really
beginning to think that it's not Trump that's the plant in the general...I think Hillary is because she is doing such a fine job, with little or no help at all, handing the election to Trump
Whoa.
My world, turned upside down.
And this theory is at least as plausible as its opposite.
Holy shit, can this "election" just be over already?
(Edited for too many "as"s. I think).