Hillary Bashes Trump, Moore Over Sexual Misconduct Allegations, Demands “Accountability”
“we have a man who is accused of sexual assault sitting in the Oval Office”
Earlier this week, Professor Jacobson noted that Hillary Clinton still very much wants to be president and thinks she was robbed last November. There is little doubt this is true. However, between her ridiculous book What Happened and bizarre pretense that allegations against her husband for sexual indiscretion, including rape, never happened, she highlights, even doubles down on, some of the main problems of her failed presidential campaign.
Many of us were dumbfounded in 2015 when Hillary tweeted the following:
"To every survivor of sexual assault…You have the right to be heard. You have the right to be believed. We're with you." —Hillary
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 14, 2015
Even the left was left cringing and puzzled: via Buzzfeed, “Juanita Broaddrick wants to be believed.” The backlash from her own party was so intense that the Hillary campaign took the statement off her campaign website.
That was two short years ago, and Hillary has apparently forgotten the incident, a remarkable feat in the current Harvey Weinstein atmosphere.
In a radio interview with WABC Radio’s Rita Cosby, Hillary says with seeming outrage, “we have a man who is accused of sexual assault sitting in the Oval Office.” She further notes that we need to see some “accountability” from both Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) and President Trump.
The former Secretary of State, who is on tour for her new book “What Happened,” blasted Alabama GOP Senate Nominee Roy Moore and President Trump, lumping them together, and saying there is a big difference between those two and allegations surrounding their sexual behavior versus Democratic Senator Al Franken. She says Franken’s apology for his inappropriate behavior and his willingness for a Congressional ethics investigation into that “is the kind of accountability I’m talking about. I don’t hear that from Roy Moore or Donald Trump… Look at the contrast between Al Franken, accepting responsibility, apologizing, and Roy Moore and Donald Trump who have done neither.”Secretary Clinton says President Trump “has disgraced the office.” When asked by host Rita Cosby if there is anything she admires about President Trump or what he’s accomplished while in office, she quickly answered, “No. The answer is absolutely no, Rita.. I didn’t think he’d be as bad as he turned out to be.“On Roy Moore she said, “Clearly he doesn’t appear to be someone who will bring respect and honor to the state of Alabama.” When asked about her own husband’s past behavior and if she should’ve been more supportive of his female accusers versus reports that she attacked their credibility, “Every situation has to be judged on its own merit.” She further said those allegations were investigated and recent comments by others about her husband are not relevant, “I don’t know that we can rewrite and revise history.“
Real Clear Politics has a partial transcript:
RITA COSBY, HOST: Do you think that given the fact that it’s been 9 women that have made various allegations against Roy Moore should he drop out of the race?
HILLARY CLINTON: Well I’m going to leave that to the Republican party because they’re the ones that have to deal with this. And, look, we have a man who is accused of sexual assault sitting in the Oval Office, don’t we? And the very credible accusations against him have not been taken seriously. So, I think that the Republicans have a big problem that they are going to have to address and it’s not just confined to what’s happening in Alabama…
People seemed to think he didn’t have to be held accountable for it. And now we’re seeing other accusations against other people but that doesn’t mean what we learned in the [2016] campaign and what we can see in terms of the women who are still speaking out about their experiences with [Donald Trump] should be overlooked or forgotten.
She goes on to explain that then-President Clinton was held accountable, a shaky assertion at best.
COSBY: But shouldn’t they then look at allegations against your husband and others because some feel that it’s a double standard.
CLINTON: I don’t think so, Rita. I mean everything was investigating. Everything. I think that’s the big difference. When somebody else is investigated to the tune of $70 million and a special prosecutor who wants to prosecute and a partisan Republican party that wants to impeach, that’s the parallel. And the people of the United States rejected it, the Senate rejected it, but he was held accountable and he paid a price for it as was appropriate.
COSBY: Do you regret not saying something in support of the women? Because you’ve always said that women should be believed and yet George Stephanopoulos and others said that you were part of the attacking the victims, the women who were making the allegations against your husband. Do you regret that?
CLINTON: Look, I think every situation has to be judged on its own merits. And there were allegations that were disproved. There were allegations that were absolutely contradicted under sworn testimony. So, of course, you should give people who make such allegations the benefit of the doubt, that’s what our system does, but then you have to investigate them, and that fully happened in the late 90s.
And what we’ve got here is something very different. You know, there’s been no commitment to investigate the more than a dozen women who have made charges against President Trump and there’s been no effort to really go into and understand what he was talking about in his Hollywood Access tape. So I just say they are not parallel and I think it’s unfortunate that people are either misremembering or misinterpreting history. The country remembers it. The country went through it. And it was a painful period. The Republicans spent tens of millions of dollars looking at every part of our lives and we all know what they found. And that was based on those allegations that were provable and the many that were not and this is a distraction that we shouldn’t fall for. Because if you’re going to hold people to the same standard there’s a lot of parallels that are not being followed in recent times.
The recent flurry of accusations and the swift judgments against the accused (and the accusers, for that matter) are being compared on the left to the Clinton sex scandals. Indeed, as noted above, Hillary’s 2015 decision to enter a discussion of sexual predation back-fired on her in a big way. And in 2016, the New York Times, for example, noted that her husband’s ’90’s sex scandals were “eroding” her “strength with women.”
Given the fall-out from the Weinstein scandal, the left-wing Atlantic makes a case that the feminists of the ’90’s, whom they argue saved Bill Clinton’s presidency, were on the wrong side of history.
[L]et us not forget the sex crimes of which the younger, stronger Bill Clinton was very credibly accused in the 1990s. Juanita Broaddrick reported that when she was a volunteer on one of his gubernatorial campaigns, she had arranged to meet him in a hotel coffee shop. At the last minute, he had changed the location to her room in the hotel, where she says he very violently raped her. She said that she fought against Clinton throughout a rape that left her bloodied. At a different Arkansas hotel, he caught sight of a minor state employee named Paula Jones, and, Jones said, he sent a couple of state troopers to invite her to his suite, where he exposed his penis to her and told her to kiss it. Kathleen Willey said that she met him in the Oval Office for personal and professional advice and that he groped her, rubbed his erect penis on her, and pushed her hand to his crotch.
It was a pattern of behavior; it included an alleged violent assault; the women involved had far more credible evidence than many of the most notorious accusations that have come to light in the past five weeks. But Clinton was not left to the swift and pitiless justice that today’s accused men have experienced. Rather, he was rescued by a surprising force: machine feminism. The movement had by then ossified into a partisan operation, and it was willing—eager—to let this friend of the sisterhood enjoy a little droit de seigneur.
. . . . The Democratic Party needs to make its own reckoning of the way it protected Bill Clinton. The party needs to come to terms with the fact that it was so enraptured by their brilliant, Big Dog president and his stunning string of progressive accomplishments that it abandoned some of its central principles. The party was on the wrong side of history, and there are consequences for that.
Hillary’s comments in the WABC radio interview are mind-boggling in any context, but in light of even members of her own party stating that allegations of her husband’s sexual predation should have prompted him to step down, they almost need to be heard to be believed.
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Sure hope Jim Neighbors has that “stupid hick” look copyrighted, because Hillary has been stealing it a whole lot lately.
This is for Hillary – the ex, wife of some former president.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDwTZI58LiE
Traitors and Lunatics – Intellectual Froglegs
BREAKING!
“The Fibber is Caught – Gloria Allred Refuses To Release Yearbook for Independent Authentication…”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/11/18/the-fibber-is-caught-gloria-allred-refuses-to-release-yearbook-for-independent-authentication/comment-page-1/#comment-4630018
Conservative Nuthouse again?! Cite a real source or shut up. Nothing from that sewer (or from Hoft) has any credibility whatsoever.
Which includes that ridiculous fake picture with the two colors of ink, which as far as I can tell comes from Hoft. Unless you can produce such a picture from a reliable source, citing it as evidence of forgery only shows you up as either a fool or a deliberate liar.
No, the two colors of ink comes directly from CNN.
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/930205088299257859
I’m assuming you would consider CNN a reliable source. Or do you think CNN is faking the picture as well? Enlarge the picture and the difference in ink is easy to see.
They are at least as good a source as NRO.
The photo originally came from CNN as far as I know. That is where the original links pointed. There is no doubt at this point, the ink is different, the handwriting is different, the whole damn thing is fake.
If the source has the truth, it’s still the truth.
Milhouse, cite a real source or shut up.
“Fibber?”
Man, you’re being too kind.
Lying swine, is more like it. Tortious lying swine is even better.
Can somebody please get Hillary a new broom…one that gets good gas mileage.
Not to worry–HRC’s core releases an endless source of odoriferous methane when she speaks. She will never run out of gas, at least of that type.
Fortunately, most Americans are not Pro-Choice, so there is still an expectation of due process, implying a presumption of innocence. As for Trump, the first rule of liberalism, is you don’t talk about progressive liberalism or monotonic divergence. He will never again be welcome at their cocktail parties.
I wonder what she thinks about her husband’s adventures, and Franken who is on camera molesting an unconscious woman, for what was an act that may have been motivated by misogynistic spite. And liberalisms’ “friendship with benefits” that is an example of “casting couch” relationships, and a first-order forcing of the “rape culture”.
That said, the progress of social liberalism, including selective-child, and feminists’ Slut Walk, has served to blend the identify of women and girls. We should probably close Planned Parenthood, and raise the age of consent, until the progressive confusion clears.
if hypocrisy was painful, she’d be dead from shock.
Clinton’s impeachment was not for rape or assault, it was for lying. Contrary to what the MSM is babbling.
True. And the sexual assault allegations began before he even left the governor’s mansion in Arkansas. Remember Carville’s crass summation of the accusers? Something about dragging a dollar bill through a trailer park will attract all kinds of lowlifes? In other words, they all knew what Clinton did, but were protecting him by slut and white trash shaming the accusers, as did the feminists of the day and the Democratic Party.
The left would like us to forget about Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, and Kathleen Willey, but they were credible at the time and they are still credible now. It’s not like they waited half a century to make the allegations or to try to report the assaults. And it’s not like there weren’t swarms of women claiming to have been threatened into silence by Hillary and assorted Clinton goons. http://observer.com/1998/08/the-women-cant-escape-tricky-bills-sticky-web/
The Monica Lewinsky thing was consensual. Immoral and potentially dangerous in national security terms, but at least it wasn’t a crime. The perjury was a crime, of course, and for that he did pay via the impeachment.
If I remember correctly there is an excellent documentation in the autobiography of Bill Blass of how Bill’s security guards would “canvas” a night club for “women” for Bill……
https://www.amazon.com/Blass-Author-Cathy-Horyn-Edited/dp/B000C4SQL4/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511044321&sr=1-2&keywords=%22bill+blass%22
He’s so gross!
I watched that interview on 60 Minutes where she defended candidate Clinton against the Jennifer flowers claims. t was never adjudicated, it was resisted. That was the birth of the “Bimbo Eruption Unit” of the Clinton campaign. Hillary! was in it up to her ears. she knew that if this didn’t get strangled in the crib her chance to be first lady, actually what she considered “co-President”, would evaporate before her eyes.
I recall that she insisted on having her photo on the wall of federal facilities right next to Bubba’s; that didn’t last long.
Bill’s predatory activity probably started long before he was ever AG of Arkansas, and what woman would be crazy enough to make a claim of sexual assault against a guy who could dispatch state troopers to round up victims for him…
She sold her soul, or what passed for one in her world, to ride his coat tails to the top. In most states she could have been prosecuted as an accessory-after-the-fact in conjunction with his sexual assaults.
In my opinion.
” And the sexual assault allegations began before he even left the governor’s mansion in Arkansas.”
Yes, but even further back than you know. BJ Clinton was accused of rape on multiple occasions, starting when he was at Oxford.
He has been accused of rape multiple times.
Ugh. He’s disgusting and vile. What I don’t get is why the Dems, the party of women and women’s rights supposedly, gave him a pass and protected him (and Hillary) all along, all the while excoriating Bill’s victims.
If the GOP were smart, they’d be making hay of their vindication of this double-standard that has destroyed many a man, family, and career over the years as Dems held us to our own standards (Alinsky perfect).
The Dems have so over-played their identity politics/victim-centered hand when it comes to sexual assault that the right is, almost by accident and certainly by circumstance, holding them to their own standards.
Meanwhile, Congressional Republicans trip over themselves to parrot and support Democrats, while condemning Republicans accused, arguably, of lesser infractions. It beggars belief.
“What I don’t get…”
I know that is just rhetorical.
– they don’t really care about anyone. Power, just power for a communist paradise, and they believe they will be the more equal pigs.
Big Dog president and his stunning string of progressive accomplishments
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” in the military? Is that what they mean by “progressive accomplishments”? As I recall, Billy Jeff spent eight years telling us all what a great President he was going to be, but somehow never quite got around to doing much of it.
I suppose Ruby Ridge and Waco were accomplishments, at least as seen from the progressive bleachers. What else?
IIRC, after vetoing two bills, Billy Jeff finally withheld his veto on the welfare reform legislation that Newt Gingrich had promised in the Contract with America.
Um, Ruby Ridge was Bush.
“Little doubt” that she was robbed last election?
What nonsense.
I wrote: “Earlier this week, Professor Jacobson noted that Hillary Clinton still very much wants to be president and thinks she was robbed last November. There is little doubt this is true.”
Perhaps I should have been more clear, but the antecedents for “this” in the latter sentence is “wants” and “thinks” in the former, not the modifying clauses that follow (“to be president” and “[that] she was robbed”).
I usually try to avoid hanging a “this” as I did in that sentence, though, and for this very reason! 🙂
No … she’s never going to be President.
Trying to claim that Trump is some sort of Rapist-in-Chief while simultaneously denying that her husband actually was one is too much dissonance for even the most rabidly partisan Democrat.
But she will certainly try again.
“Bizarre pretense that allegations against her husband for sexual indiscretion, including rape, never happened, she highlights, even doubles down on, some of the main problems of her failed presidential campaign.”
Actually, I saw the interview with the French guy who asked her about willie’s “Indiscretions” and her answer, as stupid as it was, was that those claims had been adjudicated and therefore are no longer something to talk about! I almost trashed my TV I was shouting so loud. This is how the crooked mind of this witch works. Broderick’s claim was never adjudicated. Kathleen Wiley’s claim was never adjudicated and neither were many others. Al Franken is a babe compared to the sexual predator known as bill clinton.
Ross Douthat in the NYTimes:
In the longstanding liberal narrative about Bill Clinton and his scandals, the one pushed by Clinton courtiers and ratified in media coverage of his post-presidency, our 42nd president was only guilty of being a horndog, his affairs were nobody’s business but his family’s, and oral sex with Monica Lewinsky was a small thing that should never have put his presidency in peril.
That narrative could not survive the current wave of outrage over male sexual misconduct.
So now a new one may be forming for the age of Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump. In this story, Kenneth Starr and the Republicans are still dismissed as partisan witch hunters. But liberals might be willing to concede that the Lewinsky affair was a pretty big deal morally, a clear abuse of sexual power, for which Clinton probably should have been pressured to resign.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/opinion/sunday/what-if-ken-starr-was-right.html?src=twr&_r=0
But liberals might be willing to concede that the Lewinsky affair was a pretty big deal morally, a clear abuse of sexual power
Not being a liberal, I don’t really care about that. Lewinsky was old enough to make her own mistakes. What I think really marked Billy Jeff as one of the biggest turds in American history was when he looked into the TV cameras, wagged his finger at us—the Great American Public (i.e., his employers)—and chided us for daring to believe that he’d done what he had, in fact, done.
That finger-wag will have the same unenviable place in history as the piece of paper Chamberlain waved when he returned from Munich. The perpetual emblem of a fool.
I don’t even care about that. He wasn’t under oath, and a person’s sex life is not his employer’s business; he did not owe us the truth. But when he was asked about it under oath, and the judge ruled it was material and ordered him to answer, and provided him with an exact definition of “sex” to use for the purpose of his answer, and he deliberately lied, that was something other people go to prison for.
In fact the NY Times dug up eight cases of people who were at that moment serving federal sentences for perjury about their sex lives in civil cases; if he really thought it was not a serious offense he should have pardoned them.
he did not owe us the truth
Which is the point. He didn’t have to make any statement at all. If he did, he had numerous options to confront/excuse/justify/belittle/dodge the issue. He could even have said something silly, like “Gentlemen don’t discuss those sorts of things,” and I’d have considered it a dodge, but at least a relatively classy one. But he didn’t do that. Of all the possible tactics, he chose the blatant lie. There’s no legal penalty for that particular lie, and nobody’s claimed that there is, or even should be. But it makes him a turd, and an obvious one.
This slimy woman is the gift that keeps on giving.
When is Trump going to fire AG Sessions for dereliction of duty for allowing our justice system to fully collapse into a two-tier system akin to a banana republic?
Any legal move against Hillary will have to be a good one. Nothing quick or half-assed will do; that would instead make the problem worse. Whatever’s done will have to shoot her with a silver bullet, cut off her head, cauterize her neck so more heads don’t sprout, drive a stake through her heart, and hose her down with holy water. Else she’ll claim that she was “exonerated,” and will be able to pop up again, like the body politic’s persistent rectal itch.
Simply appoint special counsel.
What a disgusting woman! I can not call her a lady because she is not.
The Clintons are toast, as far as having any power within the Democrat Party or the Progressive movement goes. However, having been the bagmen for politicians and power brokers for decades, no prosecution can be attempted, by the national power structure. However, it might be a good idea if the Clintons did not travel together, especially in airplanes.
The current use of claims of inappropriate sexual actions was not a strategy of the leadership of the liberal/progressive movement. It was almost certainly introduced by radical “conservative” operatives and directed against Liberal/Progressives. The initial target was the Democrat whale, Harvey Weinstein. He was a high visibility, easy target who was a huge Democrat donor. And, it was a masterful use of the philosophical women are victims of male oppression propaganda of the Libs. The Dems/Libs/Progressives were quick to react, initially keeping it confined to Hollywood. But, it has now spread, as their opponents are introducing it against Dems and the liberal zombie hoards are following it like a scene from the apocalypse. It has gotten so out of control, that the Dems are sacrificing their own to head off further damage. This is a classic example of the dangers of biological warfare. A virus, in this case allegations of sexual impropriety, is released to target a specific group and it eventually rages out of control. At this point no heterosexual man, and even some homosexual men and some women, are not safe. Virtually everyone is fair game.
You’ve gotta love it, when a plan comes together.
“I don’t hear that from Roy Moore or Donald Trump… Look at the contrast between Al Franken, accepting responsibility, apologizing, and Roy Moore and Donald Trump who have done neither.”
She may have stumbled into the truth: Trump and Moore have not been proven to do any crimes. Conveniently timed accusations are more proof of an October surprise than fact. It didn’t work on Trump, and it shouldn’t work on Moore, especially after almost 40 years! Franken and Clinton have evidence, real evidence, against them, and admitted their guilt, well, in Franken’s case anyway. All Hillary proved is that she doesn’t think Dems do any wrong. She is a disgrace to women everywhere.
Anytime this harridan wants to sit down and reconcile the charges Comey listed (and subsequently ignored) with the actual statute, and they explain why she should not be indicted (or arrested outright), I am all ears. No liberal I have asked to do this has accepted the challenge, which is tacit admission that they know what she did and what she got away with.
She doesn’t know the meaning of the word “accountability” (or confidential or legal, for that matter).
She needs to be thrown on the dung heap of history, for once and for all.
“She needs to be thrown on the dung heap of history…”
I’ll settle for a literal dung heap.