you mean her fucking record? like her horrific and highly destructive tenure as SoS?
i mean i know liberals don't care about the lives of the brown people we destroy in south america and the middle east, but still in fact they join hands with conservatives to help fuck up the rest of the world
The outrage stoked by Clintons 1992 comment about her decision, as the first lady of Arkansas, to not simply stay home and bake cookies and have teas, but to continue her work as an attorney, reflected the larger split on the subject of working women in America. Some heard her statement as a feminist cri de coeur, others as an attack on traditional motherhood. Most women do not wish to be liberated from their essential natures as women, the vice presidents wife, Marilyn Quayle, said at the 1992 Republican National Convention.
With remarkable alacrity, Hillary-hating, as historian Henry Louis Gates wrote in The New Yorker, became one of those national pastimes which unite both the elite and the lumpen. Writers like David Brock, then at the right-wing American Spectator which depicted Clinton as a witch on one of its most successful covers (and referred to her as the Lady Macbeth of Little Rock) and talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh coalesced into what Hillary would later call a vast right-wing conspiracy. The New York Times William Safire wrote that she was both a congenital liar and a vindictive political power player. Elsewhere she was derided as a selfish, untrustworthy, incompetent, ball-breaking bitch, a closet lesbian and a terrible mother. Brock, who underwent a liberal conversion in 1997 and is now a pro-Clinton strategist, recalls standing in the hallway at the American Spectator, looking at various cover stories with the magazines publisher, and he says something like, Can we find some more women to attack, because these Hillary covers are really working.
Also forgotten, notes former Texas state legislator Wendy Davis, is that Clintons decision to attend the 1995 U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing was radical at the time. The talk shows said she didnt have the right as first lady to get involved in diplomacy, says Davis. But she went, and she spoke in a very forceful way that womens rights are human rights, and human rights are womens rights. It was a deeply held commitment that shes exhibited throughout her public career.
These acts, which reflected Clintons pragmatic idealism, were cast as a symbol of either her incompetence or her supposed entitlement. This tactic of inverting a persons greatest strength until it becomes, somehow, their weakness, was perfected by men like Roger Ailes and Karl Rove in the Swift boating of John Kerry in 2004. Kerry is a legitimate war hero. So what did they attack him for?
That he wasnt a war hero, says Heather Booth, a progressive organizer who worked on the campaign for Clintons health care bill. Barack Obama, similarly, was a symbol of a new, more egalitarian America, and the so-called birther movement shed doubt on his even being American. Hillary Clinton, in my personal estimation, is a genuine, honest, warm, caring person, says Booth. So what was the strategy? To take it and slam her on it and say shes not warm, shes not caring, shes dishonest, shes inauthentic. And if you keep repeating it, finally what people learn and remember is the negative things that were said even though theres no factual basis for believing them.
it is well established, in general, that republican attack strategy involves presenting a complex issue as a soundbyte that is generally false, but easily repeated--and then to repeat it over and over and exhaust those seeking the truth
it was against hillary that they developed the experience needed with this strategy to use it on others.
they did so long before she had any elected power. they did it to fight her senate campaign. and of course they did it at great length over every perceived scandal during her tenure as SoS. the facts of the benghazi case, for example, have been so muddled by republican repeat lying that you're much more likely to know the GOP narrative than the truth.
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