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Greenfield: Why the Democrats Really Turned on Bill Clinton
FrontPage ^ | 11/10/17 | Greenfield

Posted on 11/16/2017 5:05:46 AM PST by Louis Foxwell

Why the Democrats Really Turned on Bill Clinton It’s not about his victims, it’s about money and power. November 16, 2017 Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.

In the winter of ’56, Khrushchev told the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that Stalin may not have been a very nice guy. In the fall of ’17, the media began to concede that maybe Bill Clinton did abuse a whole bunch of women. And maybe those women weren’t really part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to make a bloated piggish progressive hero seem like he might not be a very nice guy.

Why are Democrats turning on the Clintons? Same reason Khrushchev turned on Stalin. They’re purging the Clintons for the same reasons that they defended them. They’re calling out Bill Clinton for his sexual assaults for the same reasons that they covered them up. It’s about power and money.

The Democrats smeared Bill Clinton’s accusers then. Now they’ll exploit them to throw the Clintons out.

The #MeToo campaign provided an opening. But if you really want to understand why the left is disavowing Bill Clinton, ignore the hashtags and look at the bigger picture.

Earlier this month, the rollout of Donna Brazile’s book raked Hillary Clinton and her campaign over the coals. The former interim DNC boss made the case that the Clinton campaign had rigged the primaries.

Brazile’s outrage at the rigging is laughable. Not only was she caught passing a debate question to Hillary, but the only reason she was allowed to replace Debbie Wasserman Schultz is that she was a Clintonista who had served as a Clinton adviser and was promoted to head Gore’s campaign.

After Hillary’s collapse, Brazile was left out in the cold. Like Schultz, she was one of Hillary’s fall girls. And unlike Schultz, she didn’t have a cozy congressional district to call her own. Her CNN contract was torn up after the debate question leak. (Though if you think CNN was actually surprised that a Clinton ally leaked it to the Clintons, you’re also shocked that there’s gambling going on at Rick's Cafe Americain. CNN had disavow Donna who then had to disavow Hillary. Now the Dems are disavowing the Clintons.)

Brazile’s book tour was Act 1 in purging the Clintons from the Dem establishment. Talking about Bill Clinton’s sexual harassment and abuses is Act 2. And the odds are very good that there’s an Act 3.

Why get rid of the Clintons? Let’s look at what the First Grifters have been doing to the Dems.

In May, Hillary rolled out Onward Together. The new SuperPAC was supposed to fundraise for lefty groups. But the groups don’t actually appear to be getting the cash.

Understandable. The flat broke Clintons always have lots of bills to pay and private jets to book. And good chardonnay doesn’t come cheap. A 1787 vintage Chateau d'Yquem runs to $100K a bottle.

Fresh from that success, a paid advisor to Hillary co-launched something being called Party Majority. This wonderful new organization would “act as a parallel structure to Democratic Party committees at the national and state levels”, vacuuming up a whole lot of cash while putting its boot on the DNC.

The Clintons were once again trying to displace the DNC. And that would let them skim a lot of cash from the DNC to fund their political operation and lifestyle. And, even once again, rig the process.

Who’s up for Hillary in 2020?

Party Majority rolled out in early November. Since then the Clintons are suddenly being hit from all sides by their own.

Funny how that works.

If President Hillary Clinton were in the White House, the First Gentleman could work his way through an entire nunnery and every media outlet in the country would praise him as our greatest feminist.

If the Clintons had done the decent thing (for the first time in their miserable grifter lives) and stepped away from politics, Bill could have been a bitter, bigoted and befuddled Democrat elder statesman.

Just like Jimmy Carter.

But the Clintons just wouldn’t stop. And so the circular firing squad has finally been convened. Its members are hypocritically pretending that they’re purging Bill because they suddenly care about the women he had sexually assaulted over the years.

It only took the Dems an entire generation to figure out that rape is wrong.

Hillary Clinton’s approval ratings are terrible. Every time she goes on television, more people are likely to vote Republican. Her entire existence is a reminder of why the Democrats lost so badly in ’16.

Not only won’t Hillary Clinton retire to bake cookies and send anonymous threatening letters to her neighbors because their kids occasionally throw a ball over her mansion’s iron gates, but she insists on sabotaging the 2020 candidates who are her party’s best hope to succeed where she miserably failed.

Hillary Clinton’s book, What Happened, took numerous shots at Bernie Sanders. And her entire book tour appeared designed to sabotage his book tour. Then she began attacking Joe Biden.

Both Bernie and Joe, unlike her, are viable 2020 candidates. (Which says nothing good about the Dems.)

The media doesn’t suddenly “believe Juanita”. Or rather it always knew that Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones and the other women were telling the truth. It didn’t silence them because it thought they were lying. It silenced them because they were telling the truth about its guy.

Now Bill Clinton isn’t the media’s guy anymore. He’s a problem.

And what the media does “believe” is that the Clintons will continue to be a liability that might cost them victories in 2018 and 2020. The DNC badly needs money. The Clintons are once again posing a threat to the DNC’s financial viability. And the Dems have become less willing to lose House and Senate seats to sate the insatiable greed of the grifters from Hope.

Then there’s 2020. The Dems don’t want to risk their nominee facing passive aggressive attacks by Hillary Clinton. Nor do they even want to see Hillary Clinton on the air for the entire election.

The Clintons could have had a nice retirement. Seats on boards and foundations. Occasional smaller scale speaking gigs. Bill would have been a featured speaker at the next DNC convention.

And maybe even Hillary in a lesser role.

But they wouldn’t go quietly. And now the left is making it a mandatory retirement.

Act 1 blames Hillary for rigging the primaries. Act 2 calls out Bill’s abuse of women. Acts 3, 4 and 5 will delve into some other Clinton scandals that Democrats have been denying for over a generation. If the Clintons don’t get the message, the final act will plant a big red boot in their behinds.

And this won’t even be the first time that the Dems tried to get rid of the Clintons.

After Bill’s time was up, the Dems and the media tried to head off a Hillary political career at the pass. Let’s flip through the pages of the New York Times in 2001 that describes Hillary's “calamitous Senate debut” and cautions that “talk about her presidential prospects has ground to a halt.”

“The man is so thoroughly corrupt it's frightening,” a Times column reads. “The Clintons may or may not be led away in handcuffs someday.”

In AmSoc, history is constantly being rewritten. A few years later, no criticism of the Clintons could be allowed. And everyone forgot that Carter’s chief-of-staff had called them, “The First Grifters.”

Or at least they pretended to forget.

It’s not the first time that the Dems have tried to get rid of the Clintons. But it might be the last.

Like Stalin’s Communist successors, Democrats should not be allowed to pretend that they knew nothing or that their purge of the Clintons is motivated by a sudden attack of integrity.

They’re purging the Clintons for the same reason that they covered up for them.

They’re calling out Bill Clinton for his sexual assaults for the same reason that they covered them up.

They did it out of political self-interest then. And they’re doing it out of political self-interest now. There’s nothing clean or honest about what they’re doing. There’s no moral reckoning here. Only a political reckoning. It’s not about the women Bill abused. It’s about DNC cash and the 2020 election.

That’s the dirty, ugly truth. And it’s as dirty and ugly as the Clintons and the Democrats.


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1 posted on 11/16/2017 5:05:46 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
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2 posted on 11/16/2017 5:06:37 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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3 posted on 11/16/2017 5:10:52 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800><p><h1>NYC 9-11 Memorial 09/11/2016</h1>)
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To: Louis Foxwell

DG is THE best...even if “Sundance” doesn’t agree!

Thanks for posting his columns!


4 posted on 11/16/2017 5:17:12 AM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Sorry—I seriously doubt the Rats have turned on either Clinton.

Republicans aren’t the only people they have dirt on.


5 posted on 11/16/2017 5:17:56 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

AmSoc? Like IngSoc?


6 posted on 11/16/2017 5:20:48 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Islam delenda est.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

I totally agree. This is an attempt to rebrand their wretched party and lose the Clintons. They intend to pack the Clinton bags with all the RAT corruption so they can pretend to have a clean house.

But we know the RATS leave a whole lot of little turds behind in corners ans crannies. This is all for show.


7 posted on 11/16/2017 5:22:02 AM PST by dforest
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To: Louis Foxwell

Brilliant. I would only add that the Obama wing of the party is behind the purge and that the Dems have inside information that the Clinton Foundation is under investigation along with Hillary’s pay to play role in Uranium One. The sh*t is about to hit the fan.


8 posted on 11/16/2017 5:28:02 AM PST by kabar
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To: kabar

Yes. Daniel Greenfield is brilliant.


9 posted on 11/16/2017 5:41:53 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

“It only took the Dems an entire generation to figure out that rape is wrong.”

My only quibble with the article.

The dems have always known rape is wrong. They have just realised they can use the very real allegations of sexual misconduct to rid themselves of the Clinton thorn in their sides, collateral damage be damned.

Once Slick Willy and Granny Pickles are dealt with they will return to protecting their own regardless of actual crimes committed.
In the meantime anyone not named Clinton will just have to take one for the team because the regressive party knows the Clinton tumor must be removed.


10 posted on 11/16/2017 5:46:54 AM PST by oldvirginian (The older i get the less i care what people think of me, therefore the more i enjoy life.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

“Hillary Clinton’s approval ratings are terrible. Every time she goes on television, more people are likely to vote Republican.”

Actually this is why I think she avoided the Midwest (especially Wisconsin) at the end - and instead ran ad after ad attacking Trump. No one will convince me that The Beast’s billion dollar campaign didn’t have anyone noticing that Trump was connecting with Working Class people. The problem for them was there was no easy way to respond, other than with attack ads.

But, of course, they can never admit as much, since even the IDIOT REPUBLICANS would realize what a gold mine of voters are possible if they actually trying fighting for the Working Class.


11 posted on 11/16/2017 5:52:06 AM PST by BobL ( I beat up McDonald's and Walmart because it makes me feel like a man.)
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To: newfreep

Sundance does some really interesting commentary but I cringe at his distaste for both DG and Bannon.
It’s got to be the wretched lyin obama’s behind this fake purge.


12 posted on 11/16/2017 6:09:33 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: Louis Foxwell

Daniel Greenfield is brilliant. Please add me to your ping list.


13 posted on 11/16/2017 6:15:59 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

14 posted on 11/16/2017 6:21:49 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Truth lesson: Liberals in a way can’t be hypocrites... as to them hypocrisy is just another tool in their toolbox to advance their agenda of tyranny. They also know the media will cover up for them. Same is with “truth”... to misnamed) “progressives” ANYTHING that advances the agenda is “truth”. So Hillary/Bernie/Obama and all (misnamed)”Progressives” can say one thing one minute and the EXACT OPPOSITE the next minute and if their agenda is advanced BOTH statements are “true”!


15 posted on 11/16/2017 6:22:48 AM PST by FiddlePig (Who needs Truth & facts when you have narrative?)
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

“It’s got to be the wretched lyin obama’s behind this fake purge.”

It is. Of that you can be sure.

L


16 posted on 11/16/2017 6:26:43 AM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

Sundance was also a YUUUUGE supporter of RyanCare, too...and most/all of the East Coast Leftists in the WH.

I did a google search and “Sundance” (aka “Mark __” ) was a Hillary supporter in 2008.

Even Jeffrey Lord describes Sundance as an idiot.


17 posted on 11/16/2017 6:27:22 AM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The Dems are in a civil war right now.


18 posted on 11/16/2017 6:31:40 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Vince Fostor and Ron Brown.


19 posted on 11/16/2017 6:31:48 AM PST by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: Arm_Bears

Sorry—I seriously doubt the Rats have turned on either Clinton.

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I agree. The turn on Bill Clinton is all about getting Roy Moore. In a few weeks it will all be forgotten.


20 posted on 11/16/2017 6:34:55 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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