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The Misanthropic Mrs. Clinton ("Clinton hates everyone")
National Review ^ | 4/25/2018 | Kyle Smith

Posted on 04/25/2018 5:37:54 AM PDT by simpson96

A curious dualism emerges in New York Times reporter Amy Chozick’s book Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling. As I noted yesterday, Chozick makes it clear that she was rooting for Clinton. But she also thinks Clinton hates her.

Chozick shouldn’t take things so personally: Clinton hates everyone. You can’t relate to people you despise. Her inability to master the basics of being a politician inspired one of the great underreported witticisms of the 2016 campaign, when Donald Trump was asked about his comparatively loose debate preparations. “I don’t need to rehearse being human,” he said.

As a college sophomore, Clinton once described herself as a “misanthrope.” Her inability to hide that made her an amazingly poor candidate, one who would have had difficulty capturing a seat on any city council on her own. Dealing with the populace standing between her and power was never anything but a chore.

Chozick and the other reporters covering Clinton in 2015–16 were pulling for her. You could hear it in the questions they asked. Chozick makes it obvious in her new book. Yet Clinton was convinced this gaggle of liberal women was somehow out to take her down, and she barricaded herself off from them. She was a glum loner, not a happy warrior.

After the election defeat, Chozick met with a Democratic-party stalwart who was a major Clinton supporter in an apartment with a panoramic view of Manhattan and walls covered with Monets. (Chozick doesn’t identify this person.) “Look around,” the big shot told the reporter. “I’m not a loser. Hillary is a L-O-S-E-R.” Then the person made an L sign with one hand.

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KEYWORDS: 2008election; 2016election; amychozick; chasinghillary; election2008; election2016; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; sycophant; whiner
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"Chozick got little access to Clinton during either the 2016 campaign or the 2008 one (which Chozick covered for the Wall Street Journal). At one point she says the only real interaction she had with Clinton was when the latter barged in on her in an airplane lavatory."

Barged in by "accident', I'm sure...

1 posted on 04/25/2018 5:37:54 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Great column.
She’s *almost* more horrible than I thought she was. What a hideous, arrogant human being.
It’s nearly enough to make me read the book, but it would be like watching a train wreck.


2 posted on 04/25/2018 5:48:26 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: simpson96

For all its humanistic humbug,the Left is actually anti-human. It has slaughtered millions throughout its history and continues to do so now, abortion being an example.


3 posted on 04/25/2018 5:52:39 AM PDT by liberalism is suicide
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To: simpson96
Clinton hates everyone. You can’t relate to people you despise. Her inability to master the basics of being a politician inspired one of the great underreported witticisms of the 2016 campaign, when Donald Trump was asked about his comparatively loose debate preparations. “I don’t need to rehearse being human,” he said.”

LOL! I hadn’t heard that one before. That was a very fun read. What a humorless awkward shrew she is. Now, without power, nobody will even want to know her. It’s full Nora Desmond stage from here on out.

4 posted on 04/25/2018 5:53:07 AM PDT by dead
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Reporters felt so abused by the Big She during the 2008 campaign that when Clinton made an 88-second visit to the press bus proffering bagels and coffee, there were no takers. This is a bit like throwing raw filet mignon into a tank full of piranhas and watching it descend slowly to the bottom untouched.

I'm thinking of all the interviews Trump gave, and how gracious he always was, even thought the press corps were rude to him.

5 posted on 04/25/2018 5:53:36 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: simpson96

I’m meeeeeelting!


6 posted on 04/25/2018 5:58:26 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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[when Donald Trump was asked about his comparatively loose debate preparations. “I don’t need to rehearse being human,” he said.]

LOL BOOM.


7 posted on 04/25/2018 5:59:22 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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[For all its humanistic humbug,the Left is actually anti-human. It has slaughtered millions throughout its history and continues to do so now, abortion being an example.]

Man, have you hit on something.

The left’s policies routinely get people killed on a daily basis.


8 posted on 04/25/2018 6:01:03 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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I’m thinking of all the interviews Trump gave, and how gracious he always was, even thought the press corps were rude to him.

...

However, the press did everything to destroy Trump and to Boost Mrs. Clinton. And they are still at it.


9 posted on 04/25/2018 6:01:52 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: simpson96

A lot of people have claimed Hillary is a narcissist. She isn’t. She has Antisocial Personality Disorder.


10 posted on 04/25/2018 6:03:40 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: simpson96

For decades, people have been silent about the Clintons because of their power, their wealth, and their tendency to Arkancide people.

When the dam breaks, and they and their cabal are indicted, and their money frozen, and the public begins to see who these people really are ...

... a whole lot of people are going to rush to a microphone and offer to give evidence against them. They have no friends. This will cost them.


11 posted on 04/25/2018 6:05:28 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: liberalism is suicide
For all its humanistic humbug,the Left is actually anti-human. It has slaughtered millions throughout its history and continues to do so now, abortion being an example.

Lefties, Progressives, Dymboceaps are still transitioning......on the cusp of human evolution. Still not recognizable......or acceptable.....as distinctly human.

12 posted on 04/25/2018 6:07:37 AM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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..Clinton excoriates the journos for having big egos and little brains.


13 posted on 04/25/2018 6:08:21 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: simpson96

Boy did this country dodge a bullet.
I thank the Lord almost every day.


14 posted on 04/25/2018 6:10:45 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: Moonman62

Actually, you may recall that Hillary’s camp wanted Trump to be the candidate. They were worried the most with Rubio. So, the word went out to give Trump as much air time as he wanted, and of course dig him each time he said something controversial.

After he won the nomination, they turned on him, and every single article on his was negative.

I watched again last night before going to bed, the Highlights of election night. Just about every single poll had him down big, I mean big.

They were predicting Hillary getting over 340 EVs.

The casualties from this are many. George Will, Megyn Kelly, CNN, MSNBC etc.

The man is amazing. Truly amazing...


15 posted on 04/25/2018 6:14:22 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: GnuThere

Get it from a library so you don’t fill the reporter’s pockets.


16 posted on 04/25/2018 6:27:10 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: mowowie
Boy did this country dodge a bullet. I thank the Lord almost every day.

Everyday that goes by more and more people are coming to that conclusion - probably for numerous reasons but two seem obvious:

  1. President Trump is doing a good job
  2. Hillary won't shutup as she keep falling down stairs

As more people come to this obvious recognition of our current situation it can only help President Trumps popularity - our "I told you so s" are going drive the Hate America First crowd over the edge

With approx 320 million American's watching common sense in action a lesson might just be absorbed by enough of the nation. I wonder if progressive/leftists/democrats/socialists subconsciously know this - somehow realizing major goals (destroying America) have been set back decades - after being so sure it was a lock with HRC's election.

Now several generations of Americans get to see what real leadership looks through the prism of a presidency like no other.

17 posted on 04/25/2018 6:31:14 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: simpson96

LOSER!

18 posted on 04/25/2018 6:34:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: datricker
Now several generations of Americans get to see what real leadership looks through the prism of a presidency like no other.

Yep, the reality of success will shine thru even the media distortions.

19 posted on 04/25/2018 6:36:03 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: simpson96
When Donald Trump calls her in the fall of 2016, she tells him that Clinton has never called her in the nine years Chozick has been covering her.

That inability to schmooze was a noxious gas, the flammable hydrogen that doomed Clinton’s two Hindenburg-like presidential campaigns.

20 posted on 04/25/2018 6:36:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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