“Hillary Clinton needs to stop. She needs to stop talking about this topic unless Bill Clinton wants to come forward and apologize for being a sexual harasser.” — MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski
No, Mika. Hillary Clinton just needs to stop talking. Period.
Like the “Morning Joe” co-host, I was also taken aback when Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of having “disgraced the office.” Really, Hillary, you’re going to go there?
You, the die-hard defender of the president who put the “D” in “disgrace,” “deceive” and most embarrassingly “DNA on the Oval Office carpet” — you are going to talk about disgrace? I don’t think so.
There’s been a lot of buzz from liberals lately about revisiting the Clinton years. My guess is this is coming entirely from liberals too young to remember just how awful the Clintons’ behavior was. And still is, apparently.
Longtime Clinton muckracker Ed Klein reports that at least four more women are accusing Bill of bad behavior since he left office. (According to Klein, “A member of Clinton’s legal team has confirmed the existence of these new allegations.”)
Talk about an old dog and new tricks. Even after the pain and humiliation he caused, Bill Clinton allegedly couldn’t resist his old ways.
Best line from Klein’s story? “The source added that Hillary Clinton is furious with her husband for getting entangled in yet another sexual scandal.”
Sure she is. Just as “furious” as she was when the Troopergate story broke (and just to refresh your recollection, that involved allegations from his former Arkansas state troopers about arranging the governor’s liaisons), then the Gennifer Flowers story, then the Paula Jones story, then Monica, etc. etc. If Hillary were furious every time Bill got caught (ahem) “polling a constituent,” she’d be the Hulk by now.
Instead, Hillary and Bill were on stage together just this weekend, celebrating their political triumph of 25 years ago. When voters overlooked extramarital excursions, questionable finances and an uneasy relationship with the truth to elect an exciting, TV-savvy outsider over an establishment politician.
Sound familiar?
It should, because without Bill Clinton, there would be no Donald Trump. Or more specifically: Without hard-core partisans willing to abandon all principle and shamelessly defend their candidate at any cost.
And speaking of Hillary Clinton …
This is why it’s so galling when Hillary “Bimbo Eruptions” Clinton goes on the attack over the sex issue. Did she really complain to Rita Cosby on WABC that “We have a man who’s accused of sexual assault sitting in the Oval Office. … The very credible accusations against him have not been taken seriously.” Did she really say that? Out loud?
This is the real reason liberals should avoid going on walkabout through the Clinton years: You’ll have to take the Clintons with you. And the Clintons only operate at one speed — nonstop lying.
Hillary bragged this weekend that her problem-solving husband “never tweeted” about what he was doing as president. She’s right, because he left office in 2001 and Twitter wasn’t invented until five years later. I guess Bill was too busy Snapchatting from his Uber while watching “Stranger Things” on his iPad.
She’s also defending her participation in organized attacks on Bill Clinton’s female victims by claiming, “There were allegations that were disproved, allegations that were absolutely contradicted under sworn testimony.”
Really? What allegations against Bill were “disproved”? If anything, the evidence that Clinton committed at a minimum harassment and very probably sexual assault if not rape is stronger than ever.
As for the “contradicted by sworn testimony” part, Hillary’s right. It’s called “perjury” and Bill Clinton lost his law license over it.
Hillary Clinton helped create the “pervs before principles” partisanship that would eventually lead to evangelicals like Franklin Graham standing with slimeballs like Judge Roy Moore. That made Donald Trump the “values voters” candidate and the GOP’s eventual nominee.
In short, it was Clintonian politics that came back to bite Hillary in her presidential aspirations.
Michael Graham writes regularly for the Boston Herald. His daily podcast is available at MichaelGraham.com.