I don’t know why I am always blown away by how much information Hillary Clinton can pack into a few minutes, but I am. Hillary was on for 55 minutes. She had spoken uninterrupted and said so much at the beginning that I thought she had used up half the show. Then I looked at the clock. She had been speaking for only 14 minutes.
Rachel noted, at the end, that Hillary made some very strong comments regarding Facebook, Fake Americans, and the influence they held over our election. This is, as Rachel notes, a national security issue. I keep saying, it does not really matter which side a Fake American pretends to be on. A Fake American “Hillary supporter” is just as capable of impugning Hillary and/or other Democrats and Americans in general with untrue or alarmist statements as a Fake American on the right.
During the 2015-2016 election cycle, I applied a bit less scrutiny than normal in accepting Facebook friends. My intention was an expansion of an audience for Hillary’s words, plans, and voter base and to drum up donations. I succeeded in doubling the number of Facebook friends tied to Hillary from the post-2008 number.
In the aftermath, I discovered that I had indeed accepted friend requests from some questionable entities who were less than forthcoming vis-à-vis their nationality/citizenship and location. My bad! I intend to be more assiduous in vetting friends in the future and to do my small part in depriving duplicitous and noxious trolls a platform on my news feeds for their fictional news. If there is a single divergence between these folks and the woman they claim to love and hold as a role model, it is on the role of honesty and transparency in trust.
During the campaign, there were detractors who questioned Hillary’s honesty. She is among the most painfully honest people in the public eye. So it is ironic that these impostors resist transparency. That can only raise questions about their trustworthiness.
That said, I think we all can appreciate the honest foreign nationals who admire Hillary and provide truthful coverage of her initiatives.
This community here contributed impressively in many ways to Hillary’s campaign: phone banking, pounding the pavement and knocking on doors, registering voters, providing primary day information, and making donations.
Hillary has made it clear that she will not appear on another ballot, but she is not leaving the arena. We will all be here to boost her efforts going forward.
Here is the full interview in case you missed it. Probably tomorrow Rachel will have the complete one-on-one posted at her website. It will play again at midnight EDT.
http://player.theplatform.com/p/7wvmTC/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_a1state_170914
Rachel has been paying attention, so she knew what questions to ask and which issues to bring up. Theirs was an intelligent, thoughtful discussion, which is rare on TV these days.
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Not only was it an informative interview with substance but it was good to hear sensible, coherent answers, no bigly’s etc. I don’t know if this is the right place but I would like to ask everyone to stop fighting the Berners, the trolls etc. I have this theory if we just stop engaging maybe they will fade away. I may be dreaming but feel this might help some of them to go away, besides it gets my BP up. LOL Seriously if everyone would ignore them, block them and ask others to do the same it might work. Thanks for considering.
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I just finished reading Hillary’s chapter on trolls. They are not going away. They are heavily financed and are part of the landscape now.
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It was an amazing interview and contrasted starkly what could have been with what is. What a huge, stupid mistake this country made on Election Day. It really is mind boggling.
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You know what? Reading Hillary’s book, and seeing her on TV this week, it occurred to me that there was probably a two-week period during which she tumbled in the polls. Unfortunately that period was Oct. 28, 2016 – through Nov. 8, 2016. ANY OTHER TIME INCLUDING NOW she would have been elected.
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Although I have had issues with Maddow in the past, her coverage of Russian interference (meddling is what your in-laws do) has been so impressive, and even outraged, that I suspected her interview would stand out from the rest! I rearranged my schedule to watch, and she did not disappoint. Of course, neither did Hillary! This was like a Master Class in modern American politics, foreign policy, and current events taught by two brilliant women. One of whom should definitely be POTUS right now.
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Brassy Rebel, I couldn’t agree more. Intelligence exuded from MSNBC last night.
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As someone on Twitter said, “It was a brain ballet.” That’s perfection!
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