āWe are living through an all-out war on truth, facts and reason. When leaders deny things we can see with our own eyes, like the size of a crowd at the inauguration, when they refuse to accept settled science when it comes to urgent challenges like climate change ā¦ it is the beginning of the end of freedom, and that is not hyperbole. Itās what authoritarian regimes through history have done.ā
That canāt be said enough. Because itās true. It should be shouted from the rooftops.
I hope this resonates in the press and, ultimately, with the American people.
Undoubtely more will hear/read about the message in the aftermath/explanations in the media for the likely 2-3 day Trump tweet rampages that will target Clinton.
Just predicting another Trump twitter Striesand Effect - which in this case - might be a good thing. It is a very strong message.
āItās whaFt authoritarian regimes through history have done.ā
If that meant she dropped an F-bomb there, I would totally understand the sentiment.
She recalled thinking, āWhat do I do? Do I turn around and say, āBack up, you creep?āā But then, she said, āthe coverage would have been, āShe canāt take the pressure, she got angry.āā
Boy, did she nail that one.
The 2016 press wouldāve wet themselves rushing to bash her with a ācanāt take the pressureā narrative.
(And she perfectly describes the same no-win dilemma faced daily by working women in America.)
I hope someone will read her speech into the Congressional Record.
Yes, me too. But I fear they judge that it will not sell newspapers, magazines or subscriptions. Trumpās tweets are more their speed.
Anyway, I will get out my seismometer to see whether I can detect any reverberations in the MSM. I will probably need to turn it up to maximum sensitivity.
If āsovereign citizensā can claim a right to indiscriminately shoot people, then Mrs. Clinton sure as hell has a right to speak her mind.
Like during the campaign, sheās still right. Thatās why she got more votes than Trump.
Iām sorry. But Hilary needs to recede from the limelight. Her sentiments are accurate, all well and good. But she serves to remind Trumpers about why many of them were voting against her, not for Trump, necessarily. Thereās no coming back for her from her comments about a ābasket of deplorables.ā http://time.com/4486437/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-basket-of-deplorables/
Sheās not helping.
If the PEN America World Voices Festival were considered the limelight we would have a much smarter, healthier democracy.
Her sentiments may be accurate, but they are decidedly one-sided. The supreme irony is that the DNC is suing Wikileaks for publishing the DNC emails, and if they somehow win this ridiculous lawsuit it will amount to something far more chilling for Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press than anything the Bloviator in Chief or his wannabe dictator sycophants in waiting have done so farā¦
No media outlet can function, indeed journalism cannot function, if it becomes illegal to publish secret materials taken by a source without authorization or even illegally. The Obama DOJ ā which was not exactly a bastion of press freedom protection, and which despised Assange as much as anyone ā wisely recognized this fact, when it decided that it could not prosecute WikiLeaks for publishing stolen materials without severely endangering press freedoms.
The DNC, unfortunately, is not nearly as wise, nor nearly as worried about destroying press freedom in the U.S. The theory it embraced today to sue WikiLeaks for publishing documents is a far more serious menace than any of Donald Trumpās insulting tweets about Chuck Todd. It deserves condemnation and scorn by anyone who actually cares about press freedom.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Clintonās remarks.
But, a short while later, they issued this response: āLock her up!ā
Sighā¦ First, she was invited to this event; sheās not horning in anywhere. Second, thereās literally nowhere she could go where she wouldnāt be accused of trying to steal the limelight (IIRC, her comments that got picked up/picked at over the weekend were made in India). Sheās the first losing* (technically, not by the peopleās vote) candidate to be urged to shut up and go away that I can remember, and I remember a lot of them. Crap, Al Gore was mocked for disappearing after 2000. Sheās spent her adult life in public service, and has every right and reason not to abandon that life, especially when (again) sheās invited to participate. I swear, itās as if people just want her to find a funeral pyre somewhere to throw herself on.
Sheās not wrong.
Yourāe pitiful and trifling, too.
And youāre also 100% wrong.
I am laughing so hard I can hardly type.
Linking to a non-journalistic site like The Intercept doesnāt help your incredibly weak argument.
You win the interwebs today.
Iām curious, could you expand on this. At first glance it sounds similar to something a climate change contrarian would say to climatologist Dr. Michael Mann about his views on global climate change.
My God. Trump lies to us everyday and exhibits astonishing racism and cruelty. Yet far from receding from the limelight, the press has built an industry on covering his every tweet.
Yet, Hillary making a sane and intelligent statement brings forth calls for her to remain silent. She remains a citizen, who is free to speak her mind, and I for one think she should do more of it.
Euglena, if you are not a troll, you should be.
PP has on numerous occasions attacked black people, Latinos, Muslims, Jews, the disabled, Gold Star families, women, Democrats, liberals, etc. The only people he hasnāt gone after are Christian white males. But her ābasket of deplorablesā comment is a career ender? Thatās some Chuck Todd level bothsideserism.