Posted on 03/11/2020 6:01:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Most conservatives who lived through the Clinton years would not want to stomach all 253 minutes of the new "Hillary" documentary streaming on Hulu, a platform now owned and controlled by Disney. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was asked if he would do an interview for it, and apparently, he told the filmmakers he would "rather stick needles in (his) eye than do the interview."
I sat through all of it. There's only one Republican in this thing -- former Sen. Bill Frist -- and he was quoted as saying that it "was easy to demonize her."
Gingrich knew instinctively that the film would not be an objective take in any way. This is Hillary Clinton's take ... for hours and hours. She dominates the entire spectacle. It's a 253-minute therapy session, and she still fails to come to grips with the fact that she narrowly lost in 2016.
Anyone who recalls the positive Rodham Robot coverage of 1992 will just see yet another stale rerun. This spin is exactly the same Clinton campaign claptrap from 1992, with the same childhood and college pals, and the same gush about how brilliant and promising she always was. It's like a 28-year-old microwaved Hot Pocket. No one needs to consume that. It was a gummy, cheesy, oily mixture the first time.
The tone was set from the beginning, when Clinton is asked from off camera, "Do you feel frustrated that you've been in public life for 30 years, yet people feel that they don't know who you are, that you seem inauthentic?" She replies: "I do! I feel like what -- what -- what is this about?" She acts perpetually amazed that people believe the "myth" that she's cold and calculating.
Aides are seen expressing frustration at focus groups results that show people didn't like how Clinton decided to stay with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, after he lied for months about having sex with an intern inside the White House. Also shown was a clip of the 1992 "60 Minutes" interview in which the Clintons fiercely denied there was an "arrangement." It has looked like an arrangement ever since then. Most people do not buy that Hillary never figured out Bill had cheated on her again.
The documentary is stuffed with adoring campaign aides and supportive "mainstream" reporters, especially New York Times correspondent Amy Chozick, who sounds exactly like one of the campaign staffers. NBC's Andrea Mitchell laments that Clinton "looked like a trapped animal" during the Lewinsky affair.
Every Clinton scandal is dismissed, if it's even mentioned. Whitewater was "ridiculous." Filegate and Travelgate are mentioned once in passing. The $100,000 she made in cattle futures in Little Rock, Arkansas, is never mentioned, even though the filmmakers show the 1994 press conference she put on to "explain" it. Benghazi? There was "nothing there." There was no time for The Clinton Foundation or Uranium One. Her private email server? Why bother?
Paula Jones was a story "nobody wanted to touch"; it was "icky." Juanita Broaddrick's allegations of rape against Bill Clinton? Never mentioned. A picture of then-candidate Donald Trump's press conference with Jones, Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey in 2016 was shown, but their names were not mentioned. It was simply referenced as "Trump pulled his stunt."
At the end of four hours of whining and victimhood, Hillary Clinton's last words are: "I have no regrets. I am a very grateful person." That's also false. Clinton sat for 35 hours of interviews, so there was even more venting than what's been unloaded here.
Why this epic rehash? Let's guess that Clinton thinks she should be running for reelection right now, and she wants all eyes back on her. Just like her nemesis former President Richard Nixon, she's always seeking to rehabilitate her image. Just like Nixon, she never will.
Biden’s big showing should be a sign to Hillary. She is a terrible person who lacks total self awareness who should just fade away.
It would be a shame if the democrat nominee had to deal with bitter Bernie thugs who feel shafted and bitter Hillary loyalists who feel that she was cheated again - at the same time.
Fired from Watergate Commission
Cattle futures deal (re: investing $1,000…turns into >$100,000, in period of months)
White Water (Huge sordid list of scandals)
— Hillary Clinton is mentioned 36 times in a fraud indictment against Webster Hubbell (Castle Grande)
— Secretive, oppressive “HillaryHealthCare”
— Vince Foster / taking files from his WH office
— WACO and Janet Reno lovefest
— Ron Brown (was Hillary’s 1st Chris Stevens)
— Number of times Hillary Clinton says “I don’t recall” or its equivalent in a statement to a House investigating committee: 50.
Number of paragraphs in this statement: 42
— more than 900 FBI files held
— Who hired Craig Livingston (WH Security)
— ‘Vast Right-wing conspiracy’
— Subpoenaed Rose Law Firm billing records (Castle Grande development scam) FOUND in WH living quarters, AFTER ‘Statue of Limitations expired
— Travel gate
— Created BJ Clinton ‘Bimbo Eruptions’
— Left the White House with WH furniture/silverware
— Left the White House stating they were “dead broke” in 2001...yet are ‘worth’ >$200M by 2015 and ‘own’ four houses, total appraised > $13M
— Billy BJ being a rapist
— 2000 Senate campaign, Hillary falsified statements to the Federal Election Commission about a large donation to her (from Peter Paul)
— 8 years as Senator (DEM – NY) what Senate Bill did she sponsor? How did NY State and/or its citizens benefit from Hillary being their Senator? AGAIN, what were her accomplishments as Senator?
— 2008 Presidential campaign (Hillary Clinton fundraisers...Norman Hsu, Hassan Nemazee , Sant Singh Chatwal, all jailed)
— frequently stated (2008 Campaign) in early 1960’s she wrote NASA about becoming an astronaut
— 4 years as Secretary of State. What policies did she advocate for our country’s betterment? What allies still support our foreign policies? What foreign coalition(s) did she create? What USA enemies are encouraged, empowered by her actions/inactions? AGAIN, what were accomplishments as Secretary of State?
— Huma Abedin -(AND her family’s) ties to Muslim Brotherhood
— Hillary Paid Men more than Women on Her Own Staff!
— ‘Reset Button’ Russia
— Lied about being shot at in Bosnia
— Hillary Clinton’s Syria/Libya/ Israel /Egypt / Iraq/Iran/Palestine/ Ukraine / Poland/ Czech Republic / Baltic states / Al Qaeda /ISIS / Boko Haram/ incompetence dereliction of duty messes
— BENGHAZI (situations TOO numerous to compile)
— $6 Billion missing at State Dept
— Hillary Clinton Broke all Federal Ethic Rules with a $500,000.00 Gift from Algeria
— Bill, Hillary, Chelsea Clinton Foundation receiving massive $ foreign contributions
— E-mail gate (private server/classified emails/deleted emails) all prohibited by Federal Law
— Hillary Clinton’s health, thyroid condition, alcoholism, blood clots (right transverse venous thrombosis), heart rhythm and heart valves conditions, fainting,
Hillary stupidly fell into the political “please love me” trap.
Pols will say or do anything to get the electorate to like them.
But Hillary and the rest of the losers fail to perceive that the voters’ want to be assured that the candidate likes THEM.
When Hillary called Trump supporters “irredeemable deplorables” she publicly announced her dislike of 63 million voters.
Dumb broad with issues.
Well what do you expect from Hillary Rotten Clinton?
I’m kind of surprised Newt took a pass, he seemed to enjoy his time on the couch with Pelosi.
I think it’s important for our leaders to earn their positions. We want some sight of competence. No one wants to follow a phony.
“Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was asked if he would do an interview for it...”
If I were Newt, I most certainly would have gotten my two cents (and then some) worth in. I’d have totally called her out on a number of things.
Why should her and her fellow leftists get the frame this documentary of her as a “victim”?
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