Shocker: Hillary’s Apology Motivated by Focus Groups
It takes a while for this New York Times piece to get to the good stuff — nine paragraphs, in fact — but it finally gets to it:
Last week, Mrs. Clinton’s aides showed a video of that news conference to a New Hampshire focus group of independents and Democrats, according to a Democrat briefed on the focus group whose account was confirmed by a person in her campaign. Participants said they wanted to hear more from Mrs. Clinton about the issue.
The focus group also showed that the email issue was drowning out nearly everything else that Mrs. Clinton was hoping to communicate to voters — something Mrs. Clinton and her husband have complained about to friends.
Privately, some of Mrs. Clinton’s allies have drawn comparisons between her resistance to using the word “mistake” over the email server and her similar reluctance to say she had erred in voting as a senator to support the invasion of Iraq. That vote dogged her in the 2008 presidential primary, but Mrs. Clinton resisted calling it a mistake, despite entreaties from many liberals and some of her own aides.
Wondering why she wasn’t apologizing last week, but is apologizing this week? Wonder no more.
P.S. After Hillary apologized for not separating her work and personal email — and putting the classified email on a private server vulnerable to hacking — Whoopi Goldberg defends Hillary, saying she doesn’t blame Hillary for splitting her work email and personal email. What with all those hackers out there.
She has “empathetically” insisted for months she has nothing to apologize for.
Patterico (3cc0c1) — 9/9/2015 @ 7:12 pmNixon should have used focus groups. And they called HIM “tricky”!
Kevin M (25bbee) — 9/9/2015 @ 7:18 pmwell, Ms. “Rape Rape” would be an SME on “hacks”…
and if hackers were an issue of concern, why not use a government system, which is supposed to be more robust, than a private one, especially since, if *it* got hacked, you would be immune for blame, since you’re not responsible for securing it.
this is just moar bovine excreta to try and shield Grandmonster Cankles from her illegal acts.
redc1c4 (b340a6) — 9/9/2015 @ 7:28 pmWell, that certainly explains why she apologized on the Ellen Show and followed it up with a little, I dunno, dancing with the crowd. Because nothing says straight-up, law-abiding candidate like a hip-hop Hillary.
Dana (86e864) — 9/9/2015 @ 7:33 pmNo, red, Whoopie is telling an outright lie. L-i-e. She’s telling MSNBC’s viewers, all three of them, that Hillary split her personal email and work email when in fact she did the opposite. She put her work email in her personal server. It’s standard MO for the MFM — its’ how the corksoakers put out lie after lie after lie till the LIVs don’t know what to believe and don’t care either.
nk (dbc370) — 9/9/2015 @ 7:37 pmIf Whoopi doesn’t blame Hillary, whom does she blame for causing the national security threat posed by classified information on Hillary’s personal email account?
aunursa (be35b6) — 9/9/2015 @ 7:47 pmFrom my post yesterday:
Always trust content from — nah, just kidding.
And as for Whoopi, isn’t it a relief that only vital national security intel was hacked instead of something super important like the financing schemes of the Clinton Foundation or her top secret yoga routine?
JVW (ba78f9) — 9/9/2015 @ 7:56 pmEarlier she was sorry for causing confusion.
AZ Bob (34bb80) — 9/9/2015 @ 8:22 pmThe focus group didn’t buy it.
AZ Bob (34bb80) — 9/9/2015 @ 8:23 pmI’m looking forward to the soon to be released hacked naked pics from Whoopi’s private account.
Well. Sort of.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 9/9/2015 @ 8:38 pmLooks like papertiger’s account has been hacked.
Gazzer (46b071) — 9/9/2015 @ 8:47 pmHillary just isn’t likeable, and likeability is the key to winning the presidency. Sure, she’ll get the ideological and identity vote (in the general election–she appears to be losing the ideological vote to Sanders in the primary), but how is she going to win the swing voters?
norcal (0655fc) — 9/9/2015 @ 8:51 pmIf Whoopi doesn’t blame Hillary, whom does she blame for causing the national security threat posed by classified information on Hillary’s personal email account?
Going by what I hear on NPR, the national security issues don’t exist.
Not quite off topic, but…http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html
Of course, the Great Leader will get only the information he wants to hear.
kishnevi (31ba4e) — 9/9/2015 @ 8:59 pmGood God, who gives two sh*ts what that nitwit Whoopi Goldberg thinks!?!?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 9/9/2015 @ 9:15 pmHaiku, she actually has a large fan base of LIVs. And that’s the problem.
John Hitchcock (81341d) — 9/9/2015 @ 9:31 pmWho is the real Hillary!?
The one who keeps getting focus grouped.
Steve57 (210fd1) — 9/9/2015 @ 9:41 pmno… really? well douse me in lye water and call me lutfisk.
😎
redc1c4 (a6e73d) — 9/9/2015 @ 9:43 pmLet me guess. Norwegian.
Steve57 (210fd1) — 9/9/2015 @ 10:05 pmThe email is not drowning out her message; she has no message. She is simply blathering inanities!
Patricia (5fc097) — 9/9/2015 @ 10:53 pmIf you stick to the truth it’s a lot easier to keep your story straight.
Pro tip.
Steve57 (210fd1) — 9/9/2015 @ 11:02 pmAlso, it takes a 13 foot Hamilton Standard propeller to convert 2,000 horsepower into airspeed.
Steve57 (210fd1) — 9/9/2015 @ 11:08 pm#18: that’s Resident 3V1L…i just live with her.
and i don’t eat lutfisk…
😎
redc1c4 (2b3c9e) — 9/9/2015 @ 11:15 pmI lied about the prop. There have been serious advances in propeller
technology.
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=11296
Well, OK, I didn’t really lie.
Steve57 (210fd1) — 9/9/2015 @ 11:25 pmBig horsepower. Big prop.
Steve57 (210fd1) — 9/9/2015 @ 11:37 pmgoldberg could use a facelift, try john [horseface] kerry’s dr.
mg (31009b) — 9/9/2015 @ 11:40 pmWere Luntzes dunces the focus group?
OT: CA State Assembly votes to legalize assisted suicide, during National Suicide Prevention Week.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 9/9/2015 @ 11:58 pmRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton’s apologizing for her use of a private email server is insufficient for her to wipe the slate clean with voters, suggesting she may have to drop out of the race.
“She broke the law. If you shoot somebody, you can’t just say you are sorry,” the New York real estate mogul told ABC News today just before addressing a crowd of anti-Iran deal and Tea Party activists on Capitol Hill.
happyfeet (831175) — 9/10/2015 @ 1:22 amGee, you’d think the focus groups would’ve said “don’t lie your butt off for months on end and then offer a faux apology.”
“Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton’s apologizing for her use of a private email server is insufficient for her to wipe the slate clean with voters, suggesting she may have to drop out of the race.”
Even the slowest turtle eventually crosses the finish line. ‘Course, saying “she may have to drop out” is pretty lightweight for a guy who insists he tells it like it is, but then, Hillary is a close personal friend of his.
tops116 (d094f8) — 9/10/2015 @ 2:22 ami think it seems like a substantial enough criticism but yeah it seems like it just came out of the blue
happyfeet (831175) — 9/10/2015 @ 2:32 amre #26: did they time this on purpose?
seeRpea (29f8a9) — 9/10/2015 @ 4:17 amour politicians here in #Failifornia aren’t smart enough to time anything.
they just stumble along doing stupid 5hit all day, every day. it was just the luck of the draw.
redc1c4 (b340a6) — 9/10/2015 @ 6:06 amKali has more than it’s share of luck, red.
That’s why I left.
And Texas, I didn’t bring Kali voting habits with me.
Steve57 (a36142) — 9/10/2015 @ 6:19 amI never had Kali voting habits.
Steve57 (a36142) — 9/10/2015 @ 6:19 amred, you really need to get out of that place.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/09/09/san-francisco-mission-district-rentals-bunkbeds-vinyasa-homes-project/
I remember when you could get a studio apartment for $2500 a month.
And wouldn’t pay that.
This will probably turn out not to be true. Not as a general rule. But still. It rings true.
Steve57 (a36142) — 9/10/2015 @ 7:07 amFunny thing is, I don’t recall any great outcry for Granny McPantSuit to apologize. What I do hear is the insistence that Herself! come clean and tell us straight up exactly why she put the public record and national security secrets on he private email. Until she does that, this “apology” crap is just unwanted noise.
champ (56cd04) — 9/10/2015 @ 7:11 amFocus groups, that’s just so spontaneous.
Tanny O'Haley (c674c7) — 9/10/2015 @ 9:02 amSchindler explains:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-federalist-radio-hour/id983782306?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/2697/cromwell-john-philip.php
Men and women have died for the information Hillary! put out on the internet.
Steve57 (a36142) — 9/10/2015 @ 9:32 amhttp://thefederalist.com/2015/09/09/intelligence-community-wont-buying-hillary-clintons-email-excuses/
Try that link. The other one may not work.
Steve57 (a36142) — 9/10/2015 @ 9:43 amWhen Bill asked Hillary for her hand in marriage, she ran it by a focus group first, to see if it was a good move.
Really, does this woman (?) have any independent thoughts?
The snarky Dana (f6a568) — 9/10/2015 @ 9:58 amObviously nobody’s picking out her clothes for her or they’d be fired. #PantSuitLady dresses like a blind dyke.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie (f4eb27) — 9/10/2015 @ 10:30 amSomebody is on the case.
I raised this issue before. I certainly hope lawyer Kendall is in legal jeopardy.
Had I tried to convert my UNCLAS emails to personal use, as did Hillary!, I know for a fact that at the very least the DoJ would have said I was unfit for any further
Steve57 (a36142) — 9/10/2015 @ 9:03 pmgovernment employment.