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It must stop now: The media can’t allow Trump to make this election about Bill Clinton
SALON ^ | May 24, 2016 | Sean Illing

Posted on 05/24/2016 9:25:53 AM PDT by McGruff

Donald Trump has fired his first shots of the general election campaign. Predictably, they have nothing to do with anything that matters. In a new video released on Instagram, Trump features audio interviews with women who’ve accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault. Against the backdrop of shadowy audio clips, the accompanying text asks if Hillary Clinton is “really protecting women.”

We hear the voices of Monica Lewinsky, Kathleen Wiley, and a clip from a 1999 Dateline interview with Juanita Broaddrick. Near the end, as the sound of Hillary Clinton’s cackle fades, the words “Here we go again” flash on the screen.

I’m no great defender of Bill Clinton. He was a competent president and did a lot of things well, but he’s also received a pass from Democrats on a number of fronts. The triangulating, the serial lying, the capitulations to white Southerners – it was all transparent and nauseating. But here’s the thing: Bill Clinton isn’t running for president, and what he did with his penis 30 years ago is irrelevant.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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To: McGruff

If Hillary can make this election about women, Trump can make the election about women who should not stand by their man; and countries who line their pockets while abusing women. I think the American electorate can understand the distinction.


121 posted on 05/24/2016 11:36:45 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: MichaelCorleone

“Don’t worry Salon, Mr. Trump is just getting warmed up”
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No, I think Mr. Trump, upon hearing of this advice from Salon, will drop all attacks on Bill Clinton.

Eh? No? Seriously, what drives these maroons to give such ridiculous advice? To the press? All of which is what? In DT’s camp?

I’m with you. The best is yet to come. Because these dopes telegraph everything.


122 posted on 05/24/2016 11:39:29 AM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The hatred is big with this one ...


123 posted on 05/24/2016 11:46:40 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: McGruff

Waaaaahh! Mommy, make the bad man stop denigrating the POS that Hillary hangs her campaign on - if he keeps it up h’es gonna beat the Clintons......


124 posted on 05/24/2016 11:50:15 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: McGruff

In the Clintons own words: “Two for the price of one!”


125 posted on 05/24/2016 11:53:55 AM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: McGruff
The ones who squeal are the ones you hit.

“what he did with his penis 30 years ago is irrelevant.”

What she did about it is, especially since she is attempting to make the War On Women an accusation of misogyny against her opposition. Trump has every right, and morally every obligation, not to let her get away with that blatant hypocrisy that up to now she has taken for granted.

Yes, the author is squealing about a failed attempt to frame the issue and is attempting to do some framing himself. It's all about that rascal Bill, you see, and Bill is in the past. Sorry, son, that dawg won't hunt. And the rest of the article is filled with the now-obligatory "Trump is a bully" garbage that is entirely irrelevant to the question of media framing anyway. The author is doing propaganda, he knows he's doing propaganda, and he's sniveling because it isn't working, and that is all there is to this article.

126 posted on 05/24/2016 11:55:44 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Finalapproach29er
How about 4 for the price of 1 ?

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127 posted on 05/24/2016 12:03:53 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: McGruff

Dear Sean:

Too late.

5.56mm


128 posted on 05/24/2016 12:10:44 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: McGruff

Is what Bill Cosby did with his penis 30 years ago irrelevant? Because he’s going to trial now.


129 posted on 05/24/2016 12:12:26 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: McGruff

I’m sure Trump will back off now that Salon has told him so...

ever get the feeling the media has let their past ability to push around Republicans go to their head? They are not happy one bit about this Trump fella... no sir... if he keeps it up, they might start investigating his past!


130 posted on 05/24/2016 12:41:14 PM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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To: tet68

Rape is never irrelevant.

People who dismiss it aren’t either.


131 posted on 05/24/2016 12:41:30 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Exactly, and Hillary is running on the “two fer” meme.

A rapist in the white house IS fair game.


132 posted on 05/24/2016 12:42:38 PM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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To: McGruff

You mean is ISN’T about Billy Boy back in the WH?


133 posted on 05/24/2016 12:42:41 PM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: McGruff
But here’s the thing: Bill Clinton isn’t running for president, and what he did with his penis 30 years ago is irrelevant.

Actually it's quite relevant. Her actions and enabling during this time speaks volumes about her lack of character and intense need for power at any cost. If anything, it's Hillary who is dangerous, not Donald.

134 posted on 05/24/2016 12:44:18 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
“Also, forget about Vince Foster. It’s a dead issue IMO...”

That's what I thought, until this morning, when I spent a couple of hours rereading William Safire’s NYTimes columns about Vince Foster's suicide. Yes, Foster did commit suicide, and yes, Foster was depressed. But within a couple of years of Foster's death, it had come out that Foster had been worried to death about Travelgate and Whitewater, and that immediately after Foster's death, HRC’s staff went into Foster's office to remove Whitewater files. Foster's suicide is what led to the appointment of Ken Starr, which led to Bill Clinton's lying under oath, and to HRC’s claiming 58 times that she didn't recall various details about Whitewater. Safire, who died in 2009, was about as faraway from the National Enquirer as you could get. Trump is a genius to be bringing up Vince Foster's suicide because the media, in the course of dismissing conspiracy theories about Foster's death, will inadvertently remind/educate the voting populace about Travelgate, Whitewater, etc, etc,

135 posted on 05/24/2016 12:44:47 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: McGruff

Bill Clinton was and is nothing but a horn dog. We all know and understand that. BUT what’s immeasurably worse is the way Hillary Clinton led the White House team that sought to destroy the women who came forward truthfully to speak of her husband’s affairs and/or assaults. Then she has the audacity to put herself out to the public as a feminist icon who knows that all women’s voices need to be heard. It’s just mind-boggling. And today’s younger generation, male and female need to know about it.


136 posted on 05/24/2016 12:46:46 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All
Maybe we should start a list of what the media says we cannot mention about the Clintons:

Libya

Syria

Sniper fire

200,000 new jobs for upper state NY

Dead Broke

Sir Edmund Hillary

The Marines

Secret E-Mails

Benghazi

Fast and Furious

Gun running to Syria

Hillary Care

Travel Gate

Craig Livingstone

IRS audits

White House furnishings

Huma Abedin's mother

Loral Space

law firm billing records

Marc Rich

cattle futures

Saul Alinsky

child-rape suspect

Hassan Nemazee

Clinton Foundation

Peter Paul

Watergate

cocaine

Mena airport

Charlie Trie

Jim McDougal

Contaminated blood

Arkansas Development Finance Authority

bimbo

Waco

Ron Brown

Sandy Berger

Wagging the dog

137 posted on 05/24/2016 12:49:10 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: Finalapproach29er

She lies so much that you never know when she’s telling the truth.


138 posted on 05/24/2016 1:11:07 PM PDT by ArmyTeach ( Videteco eos prius (See 'em first) Sculpin 191)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
The dumb shill at Salon (one of many) brings it back up, and that's going to help? What a maroon. Or, maybe, he's working for the Bern'.

139 posted on 05/24/2016 1:36:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: utahagen

“Foster did commit suicide”

Why would you think that? And how did he manage to dump his own body in the park? Because that is not where he was killed.


140 posted on 05/24/2016 1:39:07 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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