tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post5431054697014328358..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: How Hillary Lost?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57254135709964670442017-10-11T22:30:25.854-07:002017-10-11T22:30:25.854-07:00Gossip is a tricky thing. Apparently news media ca...Gossip is a tricky thing. Apparently news media can report anonymous sources as long as they also give the official statement as well, and let the public decide which version seems more credible. <br /><br />http://theweek.com/speedreads/730306/trump-reportedly-said-hate-everyone-white-house<br />--- VERSION 1<br /> In addition to Trump's unrestrained tweet storms and his alleged feuds with his own Cabinet, Trump reportedly vented to his security chief Keith Schiller: "I hate everyone in the White House! There are a few exceptions, but I hate them!"<br />--- VERSION 2<br />The White House offered a different version of the story: "The president's mood is good and his outlook on the agenda is very positive," an official reassured. <br />---<br /><br />Maybe Trump is right, and it is all "fake news", and at least we know because he told us pridefully that he invented the word "fake", seemingly because it helps him explain his cognitive dissonance.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-68394025931237578002017-10-10T17:39:13.449-07:002017-10-10T17:39:13.449-07:00There's nothing about the gossip is particular...There's nothing about the gossip is particularly unbelievable, but we should still consider the source. If you make your money digging up dirt, why bother with facts when you can just make things up? Even Hillary-hater Limbaugh questions Klein's gossip.<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Klein#Criticism<br />---<br />Klein received extensive criticism for his 2005 biography of Hillary Clinton, The Truth About Hillary. Politico criticized the book for "serious factual errors, truncated and distorted quotes and overall themes [that] don't gibe with any other serious accounts of Clinton's life." The conservative columnist John Podhoretz criticized the book in the New York Post, "Thirty pages into it, I wanted to take a shower. Sixty pages into it, I wanted to be decontaminated. And 200 pages into it, I wanted someone to drive stakes through my eyes so I wouldn't have to suffer through another word." In the National Review, conservative columnist James Geraghty wrote, “Folks, there are plenty of arguments against Hillary Clinton, her policies, her views, her proposals, and her philosophies. This stuff ain’t it. Nobody on the right, left, or center ought to stoop to this level.”<br /><br />Klein has also come under fire for his use of anonymous quotes, purported to be from the subjects of his books, which he claims he received from anonymous insiders. The credibility of such quotes has been questioned by writers such as Joe Conason, Salon's Simon Malloy and conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh and Peggy Noonan. "Some of the quotes strike me as odd, in the sense that I don't know people who speak this way," Limbaugh said of Klein's work, describing the sources as "grade school chatter."<br />---Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-79669543093000995122017-10-10T14:18:21.633-07:002017-10-10T14:18:21.633-07:00Hillary's problem is trust. Few may trust her...Hillary's problem is trust. Few may trust her, but everyone knows she's not trustworthy. That's the explanation. She can write books as much or as long as she wants, but the truth is that she is not trustworthy. When people don't believe you, they're not going to like you much, either. Hillary's negatives are sky high. Every time she opened her mouth with an implausible answer, explanation or narrative, it just fell flat. She is the walking embodiment of every negative female stereotype there is. That hurts.<br /><br />IACAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-20890712307616763102017-10-10T14:07:30.081-07:002017-10-10T14:07:30.081-07:00Who knew the flyoverlandia people did not trust th...Who knew the flyoverlandia people did not trust the media? And the pollsters? And dang near every talking head on TV? The media, pollsters, and talking heads didn't. Fat, dumb, and happy is no way to go thru life, folks.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-81285767791648624992017-10-10T10:22:42.706-07:002017-10-10T10:22:42.706-07:00She showed how to lose an eminently winnable elect...<i>She showed how to lose an eminently winnable election</i><br /><br />This estimation was actually part of her (and many others) hubris regarding Trump. Transfer of political capital or advice from one pol to another is tricky business at the Presidential level. In over a century since 1900 only three times have different people from the same party won three or more consecutive elections (Harding-Coolidge-Hoover, FDR-Truman, and Reagan-GHWB), and only the latter pair did it without a VP ascending to the Presidency first. Nixon couldn't repeat after Eisenhower, Johnson never got out the starting gate in 1968, and Gore failed (barely) in 2000. There was ample evidence from 2010 on that Obama's coalition would not vote for anybody but Obama, even when he was leading the ticket.<br /><br />GHWB was only able to repeat by being closely associated with a very popular President, in a time of peace and prosperity, full qualified to serve without VP experience, and running against one of the worst candidates nominated by the Democrats since McGovern and before Hillary.<br /><br />The election might have been closer of Hillary had followed her husband's advice but she had more of an uphill battle than many realize.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.com