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5/19/2015

Hillary Clinton Deigns To Take A Few Questions From The Press

Filed under: General — Dana @ 5:47 pm



[guest post by Dana]

Remember when Hillary promised a new relationship with the press and then went on to break that promise?

“I am all about new beginnings,” Hillary Clinton said at event honoring the late New York Times Robin Toner Monday night in Washington. “A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new e-mail account. The relationship with the press. So here goes: no more secrecy. No more zone of privacy. After all, what good did that do me?”

I know, funny, right? Especially the line about the new email address….

Well, after about a month (or as the WaPo notes: 40,150 minutes) of avoiding the press, Ed Henry of Fox News claims that Hillary was basically pressured (by reporters) today to break her silence:

Here is a summation:

On her relationship with Sidney Blumenthal: Clinton also answered a question about her relationship with Blumenthal, whom The New York Times reported sent her numerous memos about the security situation in Libya before the Benghazi attacks occurred. She defended her relationship with Blumenthal, saying, “I have many old friends. … I’m going to keep talking to my old friends no matter who they are.”

On the Clinton Foundation and questions about its donors: “I am so proud of the Foundation. I’m proud of the work that it has done and that it is doing,” she said, adding that she would “let the American people make their own judgments about that.”

On whether the invasion of Iraq was a mistake: Clinton has previously said her 2002 vote to authorize the Iraq war was a mistake, and she reiterated that Tuesday as the issue has come back into the headlines in recent days. “I’ve made it very clear that I made a mistake, plain and simple, and I have written about it in my book, talked about it in the past, and you know, what we now see is a different and very dangerous situation.”

On her personal wealth and whether regular Americans can “relate” to her: Clinton, asked about her wealth after personal financial-disclosure forms revealed that she and her husband made $25 million in speaking fees since 2014, said both of them remember their roots. “Obviously, Bill and I have been blessed and we’re very grateful for the opportunities that we had, but we’ve never forgotten where we came from and never forgotten the kind of country we want to see for our granddaughter,” she said. “And that means that we’re going to fight to make sure that everybody has the same chances to live up to his or her own God-given potential.”

According to Robert Costa of the Washington Post, in spite of reporters’ sustained efforts, Clinton took no follow-up questions. (Here’s a few they could have started with: Was Blumenthal paid and by whom in regard to Clinton and the Libya emails? What does she think about Mike Morrell’s (former Deputy Director of the CIA) response to whether or not foreign governments could have gotten information off of Clinton’s server and responding that “I think that foreign intelligence services, the good ones, have everything on any unclassified network that the government uses whether it’s a a private server or a public one. They are that good.” And, in keeping with the press meme this past week, if she knew then what she knows now (that her campaign would be so bogged down by one scandal after another and become stuck in the mire to the point of near non-existence), would she have chosen to put national security at risk with her private server, been utterly dishonest about Benghazi, and taken money from a number of sources under the guise of “donations” – some being paid directly to her without even being laundered through the foundation? Etc! Etc! Etc!)

(Note the strange, trance-like state Clinton seemed to be in when listening to the second reporter ask her a question. Was she stoned? Were her Spanx cutting off her circulation? Or was the automaton simply experiencing a momentary short-circuit? Not to go all Alec Baldwin, but this woman simply can’t become our next president!)

–Dana

75 Responses to “Hillary Clinton Deigns To Take A Few Questions From The Press”

  1. Hello.

    Dana (86e864)

  2. She is loathsome. Vomiting out nonsensical platitudes doesn’t count as actually answering a question, not that I would expect the MFM to confrontationally challenge her in the first place.

    JD (5072ba)

  3. Oh good. The cackle.

    elissa (298bfa)

  4. I’ve got a simple question for her… so simple one would think it would even occur to the media: she was elected to the U.S. Senate and appointed to the position of Secretary of State; What has she accomplished?

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  5. A Hillary bobblehead!

    elissa (298bfa)

  6. Yes, Col., that.

    Dana (86e864)

  7. Nixon was much better at this. Compare the Hilbot to Nixon’s “Checkers” speech and see who understands the common man better.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  8. Questions for Hillary:

    “What do you feel is your biggest personal accomplishment?”

    “Do you feel that American foreign policy would have been run better had you stayed on as Secretary of State?”

    “How would you rate Barack Obama as a President compared to your husband?”

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  9. “Given what what we know now with recent FOIA disclosures, disclosed facts that you knew on 9/12/12, do you feel foolish and ashamed of your actions and obfuscations when standing in front of the coffins returning from Benghazi?”

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  10. LOVE the question behind door number three, Kevin M.

    elissa (4322e2)

  11. Questions for Hillary!

    If elected, how will you break your continuous record of incompetence, malfeasance, unethical behavior, and lack of achievement since you don’t have any experience at anything else?

    How does it feel, knowing the only reason you are in a position to be a presidential candidate is that you married a better politician than you’ll ever be and rode his coattails to Washington?

    Steve57 (fb1453)

  12. Were her Spanx cutting off her circulation?

    Too funny. You’re killing me, Dana!

    norcal (8bcc59)

  13. She had to ride his coattails, his zipper was taken.

    Hoagie (f4eb27)

  14. May I interject here an update on mattress girl? She’s graduating tomorrow and says she is going to the ceremony without her “accessory”. But she’s still giving photo ops in her cap and gown and says she’d like to sell her mattress to a museum.

    “If some sort of museum wants to buy it, then I’m open to that,” Sulkowicz told The New York Times, which reported that Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger, turned away as she crossed in front of him on Tuesday. “But I’m not going to just throw it away.”

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/columbia-u-anti-rape-activist-graduates-mattress-tow-article-1.2228061

    elissa (4322e2)

  15. LOVE the question behind door number three, Kevin M.

    The one behind door number two is pretty terrible, too.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  16. “Mrs. Clinton… as a thoroughly mendacious c*nt, do you feel comfortable having the equally mendacious twat Sidney Blumenthal working for you?”

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  17. The four key themes to drive home to beat Hillary (truthful or not)

    1 She is corrupt
    2 She does not really care about people
    3 She is going to get even with Obama once elected President
    4 She is going to give us 4 more years of Obamanomics malaise

    Rodney King's Spirit (b31520)

  18. 1 She is corrupt
    2 She does not really care about people
    3 She is going to get even with Obama once elected President
    4 She is going to give us 4 more years of Obamanomics malaise

    1. The most corrupt politician I’ve ever seen.
    2. She doesn’t care about anybody or anything but herself.
    3. That’s like watching Godzilla and Mothra go at it. Who cares? I hope they both die.
    4. She’ll make Obamanomics look like it was invented by Adam Smith.

    Hoagie (f4eb27)

  19. The illegals will elect a democrat no matter who it is. Americans have been taken over by pussification. I am ashamed of my fellow chickenshit americans, for allowing the clintons to lie for their lives. In a fair and balanced America – they would be hanging from the same tree.

    mg (31009b)

  20. Wesley Pruden:

    David Ignatius of The Washington Post says her silence on the trade debate in the Congress is “deeply troubling,” which is softspeak for “bad.” Jonathan Martin of The New York Times says her silence is “deafening,” and Robert Gates, the former secretary of defense and before that director of the CIA, says the silence is “a concern” and “a risky way to do business.” Those rebukes are about as soft as a rebuke can get, but they’re on the record with remarks that would have required smelling salts to revive them from such manly exertions only a month ago.

    Some of Hillary’s friends are saying — out loud — that she’s making the same mistakes she made in 2008. Her sole strength has been the illusion that she was unstoppable, and it’s on this illusion that her campaign is based — just as it was four years ago. Illusions are the stuff of dreams, not hard reality.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/18/editorial-hillary-clinton-takes-a-beating-from-all/

    elissa (4322e2)

  21. Oh my, she’s feeling the pressure! She answered a question. What next?

    I noticed her making her Big Crazy Eyes towards the end. Like Dana wonders, is she stoned? I think it’s probably her response to gurus telling her to open her eyes and look interested in the questioner.

    Patricia (5fc097)

  22. Maybe the reality is that she has no real qualification for the presidency and is betting on making history by being the first female president and having the name Clinton,
    after all, it worked for another person who had no qualifications other than making history as the “first president who was…” and had an interesting name.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  23. “Mrs. Clinton… Do you see any humor or perhaps cynicism in your support for a faster release of emails that you could have released on your own several months ago?”

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  24. What’s with the incessant nodding of her head, and crazy bug eyes?

    JD (3b5483)

  25. “I want those e-mails out.” Of course you do, because all the e-mails you kept on your own server have been deleted.

    norcal (8bcc59)

  26. “Mrs. Clinton… Do you see any humor or perhaps cynicism in your support for a faster release of emails that you have previously deleted several months ago?” FTFY

    If the State Dept owns the emails, why did you delete them?

    JD (3b5483)

  27. I wanted to address something in her comments that also doesn’t ring true (I meant to in the post and forgot): Hillary emphatically states that she wants State to release her emails asap – claiming she has wanted that all along. Except that she could have done the months ago, but chose not to. These are the kinds of comments that need an immediate follow-up, even if it’s just inappropriately shouting the question to her form the gallery because at least it would be “out there”. And sooner or later, someone will squeak it by and she’ll have to explain her decision not to.

    Dana (86e864)

  28. Exactly, norcal. The emails they returned to State had already been scrubbed.

    JD (3b5483)

  29. JD,

    That’s what I was talking about in the parens at the end of post. Creepy, right?

    And she could have released the emails before she deleted them.

    Dana (86e864)

  30. 23.What’s with the incessant nodding of her head, and crazy bug eyes?

    Prozac.

    Hoagie (f4eb27)

  31. She is known to drink. Prolly she needed to be fortified by a little emergency likker before she faced the press. That’s what her eyes look like to me.

    elissa (4322e2)

  32. fortified by a little emergency likker

    Isn’t that Huma’s job? (Runs and hides)

    Gazzer (c1d25a)

  33. She was against the emails before she was for them.

    navyvet (c33501)

  34. 25. “Mrs. Clinton… Do you see any humor or perhaps cynicism in your support for a faster release of emails that you have previously deleted several months ago?” FTFY

    If the State Dept owns the emails, why did you delete them?

    JD (3b5483) — 5/19/2015 @ 7:32 pm

    Since the State Department owns those emails because they are official government records, why didn’t you use their email system? If you really want those emails out it would have happened a lot faster.

    If you really want those emails out, why didn’t you turn them over immediately upon leaving office?

    Why did you wait over a year to turn them over to the State Dept. if you really wanted to expedite making them public?

    I can see why she only wants to take questions like, “How do you like Iowa?

    “What’s your favorite food?”

    “Can I have your autograph?”

    You know, the kind of questions she usually gets from the LHMFM.

    Steve57 (fb1453)

  35. We are doomed if she becomes President.

    http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/05/why-snoop-dogg-is-voting-for-hillary/comment-page-1/#comment-589741

    “I like to be politically correct, but sometimes I’m politically incorrect,” a shaded Snoop responded.

    “I would love to see a woman in office because I feel like we’re at that stage in life to where we need a perspective other than the male’s train of thought, and just to have a woman speaking from a global perspective as far representing America — I would love to see that. So I’ll be voting for Mrs. Clinton.”

    Believe it or not that unintelligible word salad is actually more intelligent than the reasons why most of her supporters will be voting for her.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0SnIgOwZ3A

    Hillary Clinton Supporters Actually Don’t Support Hillary

    Steve57 (fb1453)

  36. …we’re at that stage in life…

    Yes, Snoop. We’re at that stage called near death.

    Steve57 (fb1453)

  37. 23. What’s with the incessant nodding of her head, and crazy bug eyes?

    JD (3b5483) — 5/19/2015 @ 7:30 pm

    She just realized that her “body woman” Huma Abedin forgot to remove the sex toy.

    Steve57 (fb1453)

  38. Ed Henry asked Clinton if she would answer questions, and she replied, dripping with sarcasm, ” Yeah, maybe when I finish talking to the people here. How’s that? I might. I have to ponder it, but I will put it on my list for due consideration.” And then she added, “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too! ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.”

    AZ Bob (34bb80)

  39. The “Democratic” party’s mask slips further:

    http://www.trust.org/item/20150519210323-1qb50/?source=search

    U.S. signals it could change pro-democracy programs in Cuba

    Because of course to get agreements with countries like Iran and Cuba we need to surrender absolutely. Concede to all their demands and get nothing in return. Because Amerikkka is eeeeevil.

    WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) – A top U.S. official said on Tuesday that Washington could change pro-democracy programs in Cuba that Havana objects to, possibly removing one of the biggest impediments to restoring diplomatic ties.

    The senior State Department official, speaking to reporters before talks with Cuban representatives on Thursday, also said the sides had narrowed differences over reopening embassies following December’s announcement on restoring diplomatic ties.

    How could our differences not narrow as we agree to become more like them?

    The United States sees the courses as normal diplomatic functions, but Cuban President Raul Castro said last week that they were “illegal” training for government opponents.

    Obama feels the same way about government opponents as Hillary! feels about people who think they have the freedom of speech to criticize her or question her.

    Steve57 (fb1453)

  40. There clintons should be hanging from the same tree.
    all 3 of em.

    mg (31009b)

  41. Hillary is running a campaign based on the good economy the Republican Congress forced upon her husband, the fact that a generation have been poorly educated and indoctrinated to leftist ideology, and her vagina. Well, alleged vagina.

    She has no need to answer questions. Her potential voters are in two categories: those so ideologically disposed to vote Democrat they cannot imagine NOT voting for her, those so ignorant as to think electing her is a blow for women’s rights, and those so utterly stupid they can barely remember which name to vote for. None of these potential voters gives a rat’s rear end about her stance on issues. If they cared about honesty, she wouldn’t even be running. So what would be the point of answering questions?

    Estragon (ada867)

  42. Well, I guess that is actually three categories of Hillary voters, for those who count such things.

    Nixon was much better at this. Compare the Hilbot to Nixon’s “Checkers” speech and see who understands the common man better.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 5/19/2015 @ 6:12 pm

    That is classic. What some don’t realize is Eisenhower was hoping Nixon would resign from the ticket and was fully prepared to kick him off if he didn’t, but that speech was so powerful, and the response so positive, Ike changed his mind – and surely American history.

    Estragon (ada867)

  43. I deign, you deign… we done deigned.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  44. The apple did not fall far from the Hanging Tree…

    “Chelsea Clinton is so unpleasant to colleagues, she’s causing high turnover at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, sources say.
    Several top staffers have left the foundation since Chelsea came on board as vice chairman in 2011.

    “A lot of people left because she was there. A lot of people left because she didn’t want them there,” an insider told me. “She is very difficult.”

    Onetime CEO Bruce Lindsey was pushed upstairs to the position of chairman of the board two years ago, so that Chelsea could bring in her McKinsey colleague Eric Braverman.

    …Chelsea has embraced all the trappings of a corporate CEO, with a personal staff almost as big as her father’s. “He has six. She has five,” said my source.”

    http://pagesix.com/2015/05/18/chelsea-sends-clinton-foundation-staff-running/

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  45. I think she does the wide eyed thing because someone told her blinking, looking down and away may indicate lying. So, she is trying to not blink at all.

    Janetoo (0c6e40)

  46. Hillary!

    Uh, I just threw up a little in my mouth…

    in_awe (7c859a)

  47. “A Hillary bobblehead!”

    I was thinking about Parkinson’s as I watched that video. It doesn’t look normal.

    Mike K (90dfdc)

  48. “Mrs. Clinton… as a thoroughly mendacious c*nt, do you feel comfortable having the equally mendacious twat Sidney Blumenthal working for you?”

    – Colonel Haiku

    If this was a comment about Sarah Palin, it would have prompted a sh*tstorm of chivalrous outrage. But it’s not, so it didn’t.

    Leviticus (f9a067)

  49. Sarah’s a big stupid butt-face

    but she’s not even a thing anymore

    speaking of stupid 2 broke girls is getting a season FIVE

    how is that not pitiful

    happyfeet (831175)

  50. That’s not why it didn’t. Did you ever think it’s because it’s true? One should not be outraged about the truth. At the risk of causing you the vapors Leviticus, Hillary! is a crap load more than just a mendacious c*nt. The second reason it didn’t prompt a sh*tstorm of chivalrous outrage is because the are no chivalrous leftists to be outraged. Chivalry requires honor. Once a human brain makes that fateful left turn the first thing to go is God. The second, patriotism and honor.

    Hoagie (f4eb27)

  51. If this was a comment about Sarah Palin, it would have prompted a sh*tstorm of chivalrous outrage. But it’s not, so it didn’t.

    Would you mind explaining what Sarah Palin has done that is anywhere near Hillary’s record ?

    Mike K (90dfdc)

  52. Because the razor back borgia’s are corrupt and evil, and the Huntress is honest and right, yet there are hordes that flack for the former and the latter is dismissed in spite of the fact she is correct.

    narciso (de99b8)

  53. Because the razor back borgia’s are corrupt and evil, and the Huntress is honest and right, yet there are hordes that flack for the former and the latter is dismissed in spite of the fact she has been correct.

    narciso (de99b8)

  54. Last time they sold missile technology to the chinese, this time they gave the Russians a stake in our uranium stockpile and they aren’t even in office yet.

    narciso (de99b8)

  55. On Tuesday, Washington Post’s Janell Ross spotlighted a Twitter post attacking Sarah Palin, as she forwarded the left’s narrative about a supposed double standard between coverage of black violence and the recent shootings involving biker gangs in Waco, Texas. The Tweet included a photo of Palin at the 2011 Rolling Thunder event in Washington, DC, which honors America’s fallen members of the military, and bemoaned how “radical white politicians coddle these thugs.” Washington Post’s Twitter account included the picture when they promoted Ross’s item. – See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2015/05/20/washpost-boosts-radical-white-attack-sarah-palin-waco-coverage#sthash.nZEpzUvT.dpuf

    Now perhaps Leviticus , you’ll understand the “chivalrous outrage”. They used a photo of Palin honoring fallen hero’s to promote a LIE! We don’t need to lie about Hillary! or take her quotes or photos out of context because she proves to the world she’s a mendacious c*nt daily!

    Hoagie (f4eb27)

  56. narcisco, they “gave” nothing to the Russians. The quid pro quo has been deposited in the off shore account of the Clinton Criminal Foundation. You can believe it. These pigs wouldn’t give spit to a dying man in a dessert.

    Hoagie (f4eb27)

  57. It’s shorthand, but you know what I meant, sadly it isn’t explained that way. Sid vicious like one character we’re aware ran a dragnet through every center right pundit in order to silence them

    narciso (de99b8)

  58. This how media matters and think regress play everything, on full flamethrower, and it works.

    narciso (de99b8)

  59. The one thing that Hillary Clinton has on almost every other Democrat on the National scene is that she isn’t a Contemptible Prick.

    But that isn’t much, because she IS a Despicable Twunt.

    C. S. P. Schofield (a196fd)

  60. Sarah Palin and her motorcycle cult of death needs to skedaddle.

    My goodness she’s completely out of control.

    happyfeet (831175)

  61. hey, now that you mention it, someone hacked the Huntress’ emails and made them public, and nothing was very embarrassing, let alone scandalous-
    and Hillary’s emails?
    if someone hacked them, I bet they’re holding them for an opportune time.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  62. “razorback borgias”… that’s a keeper, narciso!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  63. the Huntress celebrates the military, the Borgias give pardons to Weatherman and FALN terrorists note the diffference,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  64. The greatest thing ever out of Arkansas. If your into music it’s a good read.
    http://windsofchangekc.com/index_1.html

    mg (31009b)

  65. Today’s disclosures make it clear that other than the bombshell OBL offered his jihadis a 401K program and OsamaCare®, it’s obvious that they operated in Iran w/full mullah knowledge and approval.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  66. President hillary clinton wins in 2016 because a poor person or minority who votes republican is like a jew voting for hitler! And every day there are more of them and less of you.

    hillary wins in 2016 (afc382)

  67. yes, but how much was the deductible, on the policy

    narciso (ee1f88)

  68. they leave out the khorasan group, which was based out of there,

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/20/new-documents-reveal-bin-laden-wanted-to-recruit-in-iran.html

    narciso (ee1f88)

  69. The MFM needs to get subversive and ask Hillary! open-ended followup question. “”What important work does the Clinton FOundation do? Elaborate. ” But really we KNOW the Dems are going to whine and mewl and then fall into line behind her.We need a nominee who gets after it, understands limited conservative governance and will show some fire.

    Jeb Bush cannot even get his wife to speak English. Not happening.

    Bugg (bd9445)

  70. I think she was cutting off the circulation to the Spanx. Those poor things never had a chance.
    Does anyone out there think there is a chance that Huma’s husband Weiner has ever asked Hillary to send him her Spanx photos?
    I was appalled and concerned about how easily people were able to grab US emails and texts and then release them to embarrass us… now I find myself hoping someone dishes them on her next October

    steveg (fed1c9)

  71. I found this peculiar item, considering past is prologue,

    http://www.judicialwatch.org/bulletins/teneo-the-clinton-machine/

    narciso (ee1f88)

  72. with that caveat, there are two connection of the clinton foundation, one additional to the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and one to Ireland,

    narciso (ee1f88)


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