March 8, 2015

Hillary Clinton "is one of the most finest, most upstanding, most honorable people — always trying to do the right thing."

Said Chuck Schumer on "Face the Nation," doing damage control on the Hillary email story. And, yes, he did say "most finest." That was the tell.

ADDED: If you're wondering why I'm not blogging more this morning, it's because I got side-tracked into watching the Sunday shows. I've got notes on various things I want to say, but I need the transcript to do it properly, since transcribing everything is difficult. But that Schumer line set off my urge to transcribe. Schumer, by the way, has been the best defender of Hillary Clinton this morning. He is able to maintain emotional control and keep that smile he always has on his face.

By contrast, Lanny Davis (on "Fox News Sunday") was the definition of flop sweat. Far from smiling, Davis bared his huge, overwhite, fake-looking teeth so aggressively I feared he might take a bite out of Chris Wallace. Davis swung wildly, attacking Wallace for interrupting and for misreporting, and that brought out the fighting spirit in the usually mild-mannered Wallace. More about how that played out when I get the transcript.

42 comments:

Tarrou said...

Yeah, when I think of the Clintons, "Honor" is the word that springs to mind!

Anonymous said...

Senator Schumer:

How did HRC access classified email?
Did her staff forward them from their govt. accounts to her for work?

Clawmute said...

Further confirmation of my rock-bottom low opinion of Sen Schumer.

dbp said...

Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

Not sure why I said that.

Tom said...

I'm trying hard to think of an event in Hillary Clinton's life I can describe as honorable. Please help!

Tank said...

Sad days for a once great country.

Sebastian said...

"one of the most finest": good one!

joated said...

"He is able to maintain emotional control and keep that smile he always has on his face."

The signs of an excellent poker player...or liar.

Rusty said...

Oh. Schumer was serious?

SomeoneHasToSayIt said...

Here's another point of view: Balance

dreams said...

Lanny Davis is a swarmy looking guy with the yet again swarmy task of defending an unsavory Clinton.

dreams said...

"The Clintons are creeps and liars and scoundrels and misfits, always have been, always will be. They are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of American politics."

"Yet Barack Obama has provided a new context for our judgment. In a sense, we didn’t know how good we had it during the Clinton years. His accommodations with the Republican congressional majority that he helped to create in the historic midterm elections of 1994 contributed to the prosperity that helped him weather the disgrace of his office during his second term. His foreign policy was a mess, but he didn’t seek to align the United States with our enemies. It takes an Obama."

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/03/what-kevin-williamson-says.php

Michael K said...

"he didn’t seek to align the United States with our enemies."

He ignored them but that seems an improvement over the Muslim Brotherhood direction of our foreign policy.

Abedin also has some interesting family connections. Her father is said to be close with the Saudi government's Muslim World League, and her mother is said to be a member of the Muslim Sisterhood. World Trade Center bombing prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote in National Review: "The ties of Ms. Abedin's father, mother and brother to the Muslim Brotherhood are both specific and substantiated."
The Muslim Brotherhood took power in Egypt with the Obama administration's approval after it had all but abandoned the government of Hosni Mubarak, a long-time ally and friend. It was while Abedin was advising Hillary that State dropped its long-standing policy of having no dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood.


Hillary has a long history going back to her hug with Arafat's widow.

Roughcoat said...

dbp said "Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."

Do I recognize a "Manchurian Candidate" reference? :)

chickelit said...

Is just me or do the Democratic coaches and owners need a halftime distraction while they talk some sense into all of this year's "talent"?

The answer is simple: look at where your party has been for the last six years and just stop. Full stop.

Paco Wové said...

Hmmm... more Hillary "battlespace preparation"? After menopause, female killer whales help pod survive

Barry Dauphin said...

Schumer=Better Call Saul

Big Mike said...

The point that Schumer, et. al., are deliberately ignoring is that either there was nothing sensitive in the Email messages sent to and from the accounts in Hillary's domain (which include people besides her, remember), in which case she must have been a total empty suit as Secretary of State; or else foreign governments can be presumed to have read sensitive correspondence with the head of our State Department for four years, adding sensitive data from that source to information gathered from other sources in order to understand what was going on with our diplomatic planning.

Does this, among other things, explain why terrorists assumed (correctly, as it turned out) that there would be no retaliation for killing an American ambassador in Benghazi? Does this explain why Iran is able to take such a hard line in their one-sided "negotiations" with the US?

Folks, there's a reason why US agencies and corporations invest so much money in cyber security. For those of you interested in the security implications of Hillary's mail server, there is a very unbiased article by "Wired" you can read here.

Hagar said...

Hillary! had a number of different e-mail accounts for different correspondents and subjects, and her server presumably had several harddrives.
Was it possible to program the server so that different addresses - in and outgoing mail - were stored on different drives?
If so, I expect the drive(s) with the "sensitive" stuff is long gone by now.

Curious George said...

"dbp said...
Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."

I think you meant to say Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest, mostest wonderfulest human being you've ever known in your life.

Right?

Mark Caplan said...

As Steven Pinker among others have noted, you shouldn't praise someone with modifiers like "very honest" or "most honorable." "Honest" is interpreted as completely honest, whereas "very honest" introduces a relative degree of honesty, a graduated scale of truthfulness.

jr565 said...

"HIllary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."
Put down the Queen of Diamonds and I'll do anything you want.

jr565 said...

argh, some people beat me to it. But it does sound like the canned praise someone who was brainwashed would say doesn't it.

Sebastian said...

"or else foreign governments can be presumed to have read sensitive correspondence with the head of our State Department for four years, adding sensitive data from that source to information gathered from other sources in order to understand what was going on with our diplomatic planning.

Does this, among other things, explain why terrorists assumed (correctly, as it turned out) that there would be no retaliation for killing an American ambassador in Benghazi? Does this explain why Iran is able to take such a hard line in their one-sided "negotiations" with the US?"

Yes, Hillary!'s actions are inexcusable, but of course foreigners, like Americans, could "understand what was going on" in any case and didn't need secret information to "assume that there would be no retaliation" etc. etc.

Obama and Hillary! have been very transparent and consistent in trying to take the U.S. down a peg, sound the retreat, and aid our adversaries.

Hillary!'s maneuver confirms that liberals are more concerned about winning domestic political battles than thwarting foreign adversaries.

Quayle said...

Next thing Schumer will be saying that the Clintons are going to fight back hard back.

Like the pigs and the ponies.

Gahrie said...

How can Hillary possibly face an honest reporter or a debate opponent?

Wince said...

Let's hope this is a long, slow bleed.

traditionalguy said...

Elizabeth Warren is up and throwing in the Bull Pen.

Guimo said...

Keep fucking that chicken, Chuck.

Skeptical Voter said...

Chuck Schumer must have smoking wacky tabacky before he made that statement. However it's usually easy to tell when Schumer is lying--just see if his lips are moving. That won't stop until his breath can't fog a mirror.

Anonymous said...

Any information that is taken off SIPRNET (the Federal Government's SECRET level email system) and put on an unclassified system, is a felony, for each occurrence.

Anonymous said...

Any information that is taken off SIPRNET (the Federal Government's SECRET level email system) and put on an unclassified system, is a felony, for each occurrence.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

Schumer is one of the slimiest, most unctuos phonies of a notorious aggregation. His words are lies, every one of them, including "is", no matter how you define it.

Brando said...

Schumer is a craven hack anyway, and too chicken to show anything but unthinking loyalty to the First Creep and First Creepette. His opinion on the matter is worthless. It'd be like asking Chelsea what she thinks.

Paul said...

Well 'try' and 'do' are two distinctly different things to Hillary.

She is as crooked as a snake in the bush, and twice as dangerous.

To vote for her is to vote for Obama II.

averagejoe said...

traditionalguy said...
Elizabeth Warren is up and throwing in the Bull Pen.

3/8/15, 12:53 PM

LOL! Love spring training.

Scott said...

Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life. --The Manchurian Candidate

Drago said...

traditionalguy: "Elizabeth Warren is up and throwing in the Bull Pen."

I'll bet she throws alot better than "li'l kid throwin' technique" barack obama.

No doubt due to her skill with the tomahawk.

robother said...

"One of the most finest...." Ann doesn't explain why she finds this to be the tell. Is it the obviously bad grammar, the over the top praise, or the subtle pullback of the "one of" (not only is Hillary the "most finest" but apparently the USA has many "most finest" people, of which she is only one example)?

dbp said...

It's not that Hillary Clinton is hard to like. She's IMPOSSIBLE to like!

Michael The Magnificent said...
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Michael The Magnificent said...

"It's okay charlie, I've got an angle."

"I know Hillary, and never did there ever live a more generous woman. She's an overflowing cup filled with the very cream of human goodness. In all the time I've know her, she's never done anything immoral, unless maybe you count lying about Benghazi. And she's never done anything illegal, unless you count her involvement in Whitewater. She's always been a good law abiding citizen. Aw, give me a break!"