It was all about Pennsylvania. While Pope Francis was spending his last day in Philadelphia, Chuck Todd took us all to Punxsutawney. Groundhog Day is a movie you either love or hate. It gets on my last nerve. If you missed Hillary on Meet the Press, you really did not miss anything except that she looked great in fuschia and laughed a lot in her musical way because what else can one do?
At the end of a week wherein she rolled out a plan for reducing out-of-pocket prescription costs and could no longer hold her silence on the Keystone XL issue, it was all about the server and the emails. Again! There are video clips here, and the transcript is here.
If revisiting these email and server questions are insufficient blasts from the past, Hillary was followed by Carly Fiorina who doubled down on the videos she and the GOP claim are evidence of Planned Parenthood marketing fetal tissue. Not only is this chorus repeated endlessly every time Fiorina faces a camera miked up, the strategy is reminiscent of the video campaign against ACORN that brought that association down in 2010. ACORN was cleared of all wrongdoing too late. If you have always wanted to build profitable affiliate sites but could not find a guide that explained the whole process to you, this is the answer you have been looking for — here at Udemy.com.
On CNN meanwhile, Bill Clinton, who is kicking off CGI 2015, had to spend a good portion of his time with Fareed Zakaria on GPS reminding the host that Hillary was subjected to false allegations in the nineties and every time in every instance was cleared of all wrongdoing. He also mentioned that she probably has more policies and funding plans out there than all of the other candidates rolled into one. None of this deters the server and email queries.
Later in the day, Pope Francis, during his last mass in the U.S. delivered a homily that warned against inciting scandal and encouraged honest cooperation. He urged peace in the home, and I do not think he was talking only about nuclear families in our individual homes. Certainly he knows what John Boehner did the day after his visit to D.C. and why.
I think we were all hoping that this visit and his messages might clear the air and allow some honest and substantive discussion of issues. Will there ever be peace in this house?
Meet the Press will continue weekdays at 5 p.m. now, so a second part of Hillary’s interview will air tomorrow. Todd said that will be the foreign policy portion. Let me guess: Benghazi.
Still, I think the MTP interview was actually a Saturday Night Live sketch. And Hillary was very funny. As Todd probed her motive for having a personal server, she asked, deadpan, “Another conspiracy theory?” He was momentarily taken aback but plowed ahead over already well-plowed ground.
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That is probably the only way to look at it and not break out in hives as I did every time I ever had to watch Groundhog Day.
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It just better have a better ending than that last movie she starred in.
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Actually, I found Chuck more measured than he usually is re: all things Hillary. Must’ve been because the Pope was in town. 🙂 In fact ,last week I was so angry after watching MTP I e-mailed them and asked if there had been a recent merger w/NBC and FOX that none of us had heard about. I also mentioned to Chuck that he had said when he took over MTP that he really wanted to be like Tim Russert; I suggested he had gone a long way toward filling those shoes as Russert had also been a rabid Hillary Hater.
I guess the Media Overlords must’ve realized that some of Hillary’s message was actually getting through;so they had to double down on the e-mail questions. I CAN’T WAIT for the Democratic Debates..it’ll be really hard for them to make the whole time about e-mails and Benghazi. Maybe they’ll ask her what her favorite color is;yeh, that’ll stop her. ..we know her mind and compassion will shine through. Can’t keep a good woman down.
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Still, I’m hoping that after Hillary testifies in front of Congress in October, she declares that she won’t answer any more questions about the goddamn emails.
Pardon the profanity.
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It really pretty much tells you that media has ZILCH to point at and complain in relation to Hillary and her campaign that they have to keep beating such dead hogs.
Honestly, i am so tired of both email and benghazi topics that I promptly switch off any channel that begins that topic. barf.
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