Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is catching flak again for using the phrase “vast right-wing conspiracy” again. Referring to an operation in 2002 in which the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s phones were jammed to keep from the Democrats from phoning voters, Clinton recently said to an assembled crowd:
To the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s credit, they sued and the trail led all the way to the Republican National Committee. So if anybody tells you there is no vast, right-wing conspiracy, tell them that New Hampshire has proven it in court.
Here’s a conservative’s response:
Yes Hillary has way too many screws loose in her head and as one of my more moderate friends once said, “Anyone who votes for Hillary has no screws left in their head” as in you should have your right to vote provoked plain and simple no passing go, and sure as hell no collecting 200 dollars or any of that hogwash.
Let’s see this is the same bitch that “stood” by her cheating lying slimebag of a husband because while he was getting his rocks off in the president oval office with his Lwinskey she was running the presidency for him so do you really think she stopped to get two shits than nope not at all.
For those of you that actually want to say Bill did some good job allow me to clean some of that shit out of your eyes because you must be blind as hell not to mention the fact that he fucking lied to the american people but of course so many blind people than said, ” Oh its his personal life” oh come on man let’s see if he was willing to lie under oath about that what else was he holding back
Wow Hillary would claim a vast right wing conspiracy what a nut job
Notice the lack of substance to the derision? That’s typical not only of right-wing bloggers but also of the right-wing news media outlets like FOX News:
Sean Hannity: No one can deny her husband is a masterful politician. He’s smooth. Whatever those gifts are, you know, everyone tells you that has met him, you’re the only person that exists when you meet him. She’s shrill. She’s angry. She’s reactive to Barack Obama. She can’t seem to get her footing. Why not?
Mary Matalin: Well, she’s not him, but that’s cool, OK? I’m not James. You’re not your wife. She has considerable political skills of her own, and they are mighty, believe me. Conservatives should not underestimate them.
What was odd about this burst was, it’s not politically smart. If we know something or anything about this political environment, it’s that people want —they don’t want that sort of political diatribe anymore, and they want to look forward. They want to turn the page. They want something fresh.
Her political liability right now is not that her skills are comparative to her husband’s necessarily, but that she’s not fresh. She’s not the fresh thing. She’s not the new thing. So by bringing up these old, ancient and the negative kind of politics that people eschew in this environment, it’s not smart politics. I don’t understand it.
So that’s the FOX News take: It’s a burst. It’s not politically smart. It’s a diatribe. But is it accurate? Yes, it’s accurate. There is a demonstrable vast right-wing conspiracy out there, and that one of the goals of that conspiracy is to manipulate Americans’ perception of reality through control of media presentation’s of reality. The New Hampshire incident has been documented in court. But there’s more than that. There’s the successful, open and ongoing effort by the Republican Party to place fraudulent letters in the nation’s newspapers. There’s the integration of someone operating under a false name into the White House Press Corps whose job seemed to be to toss planted questions Bush’s way. There was Boxgate, the media happening at which George W. Bush stood in front of boxes with “Made in the USA” labels that were stuck by a White House operative over the real “Made in China” labels, and an audience of “American workers” was really a dressed-down set of sympathetic business owners. There is the issue of the Bush administration distributing ready-made video news reports for gullible news outlets to stick on the air parroting Bush administration positions.
The Bush administration and the Republican Party are waist-deep in efforts to manipulate not only your vote but your very perception of reality, and they’re engaged in these efforts by trying to control the media. It’s a vast effort. It’s right-wing. A conspiracy? Well, I can’t tell you whether the conspiracy part is true, because secret shenanigans that are, um, secret. I don’t know about them. But just from what we all can see for ourselves, Hillary Clinton is accurate. Maybe she engaged in a “burst.” Maybe you can term it a “diatribe.” Maybe it’s “not politically smart.” But it’s accurate, and that’s what matters to me.
