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MAN am I sick of the âmediaâ. She gave herself wiggle roomâŚif she DIDNâT the NEXT thing is âOH HAPPY CRAP SHE LIEDâŚTWICE!â There is no âwinâ with any of you. You donât report news you make up garbage for clicks. JHC.
Thatâs about the most honest answer an honest person could give.
This is a gotcha question at its worst. She gave a strong answer that was careful not to get her caught in a trap this asshole was setting. The DC press corps is the absolute worst.
Another new chapter in âThe Clinton Rulesâ book. The ink was barely dry in last monthâs chapter, âShow Us The Transcripts from Every Speech Youâve Ever Madeâ.
âI donât believe I ever have.â Oh, so then you DID com under fire when you and Sinbad landed in Bosnia. Interesting. And then you DID help resolve the N. Ireland conflict. And Chelsea was at the World Trade Center on 9/11 (even though she didnt realize it). And you didnt know your law firm records were in your closet. And you were named after Sir Edmund Hilary even though nobody ever heard of him when you were born. And on and on and on. So good to know that all these things are now true.
Seriously. That would have been my answer as well. Conversely, Iâd take it a huge grain of salt if someone around me says âI have never lied, have never hid anything, have always told the whole truth, ALL through my life.â Or something like that.
I would have asked back at him: âHave you ever asked a really stupid loaded question, Pelley?â
I so agree. The media are shameful
I would not be a bit surprised if there was an actual fucking lie detector machine next to her podium at the next debate. This is just insulting now.
Epic logic fail there, sport, between quoting âI donât believe I ever haveâ and saying âSo good to know that all these things are now trueâ. You have a preconceived notion and nothing anyone tells you will change it. Very poor critical thinking skills evident. Thanks for showing everyone.
âWhen Pelley pressed her to say if she had âalways told the truth,â Clinton said sheâd tried.â
So we all know Pelley and the rest of the media will now ask the same question to all the GOPer candidates and Bernie for that matter, right?
Oh, silly me, questions like that are only aimed to dis Clintons. Never ask them to other candidates.
The truth is that EVERYONE lies. We lie by omission and we lie by equivocation. We lie out of kindness, and we lie to dodge questions and circumstances. Hell, we tell some of the biggest lies to ourselves. Admitting youâve TRIED to be honest is as close to honesty as one can get, especially coming from a former FLOTUS, Senator, and SoS. I imagine sheâs had to lie in the interest of national security.
And look how the MSM gives a free pass to all those blatant lies from the Republican side. The level of bias we are seeing is beyond obscene. Iâd like to think we as Democrats all agree âwe arenât treated fairlyâ whether you are supporting Hillary or Bernie.
Yes, silly you. Theyâll only ask Bernie serious questions the day after he clinches the nomination.
This. âMillions and millionsâ times of this.
Every four years, everyone gets on their high horse and demands a candidate who is perfect and odor free. And every four years, people zero in on one thing but insist theyâre âwilling to listenâ to a candidate, which is absolutely false because these endless âdebatesâ and âtown hallsâ are there for amusement purposes so pundits can hawk âwho won.â
Itâs like wanting a car mechanic who wonât get dirty, wonât use foul language if he hurts himself, and always smells freshly showered. Iâd rather have a candidate who can sit through an 11-hour inquisition without skipping a beat because this ainât her first time at the rodeo. But, nope: Democrats and liberals are insisting that the Obama 2.0 reboot is going to be the real deal.
Clintonâs been in the public eye since the early Nineties, and she has spoken on a million issues and spoken to millions of people. How could anyone remember what was said in the course of those years? Sheâs a lot more honesty than dubya who we knew was lying because he was talking, and sheâs a lot more honest than any of the R contestants, and no one challenges them. This is only the beginning of the double standard treatment she will receive.
And as long as Iâm griping, I also detest the current phrasing of the question which goes, you said such and such then, âHow can we trust you on this issue now?â Toad did it last night, and he did it at the debate in NH he and Maddow moderated. Maybe I just detest Toad and what comes out of his mouth.
Ironically, a habitual liar (or a pathological liar like Trump) would have no problem whatsoever answering this question very clearly â they would simply say, unequivocally, âI have never lied, will never lie.â They would, of course, be lying.
By the way, a reporter asked Bernie the same question recently (or basically the same question), and he answered similarly â something about being proud of his record of telling the truth even when the truth is inconvenient, and saying that he âhopedâ he would never have to lie as President. Both of them left a little wiggle room for hypothetical scenarios. Which, again, is something a habitual liar wouldnât bother to do.
So good to know that you are incapable of ratiocination.