February 27, 2016

Bill Clinton is brutally confronted over the VA and Benghazi — "Your wife lied over 4 coffins!" — and all we see is his mild demand to be allowed to respond...

... escalating into a politely stated request to "shut up"...



... and we never hear his actual answer, because the camera goes out the door with the ejected questioner. Maybe there were other cameras, and we'll see the rest, but this was brutal. It's easy to create this kind of disruption and hard to know what the speaker can do... other than support a candidate who has not inspired that kind of anger.

Drudge presents it like this:

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buwaya said...

And if you want a worse case than California, which after all, has the benefit of good weather and Asians, and still has huge stored up social capital, consider upstate New York, deliberately impoverished by the powers that be in NYC. At one time upstate had numerous towns that bid fair to be like the German Mittelstand cities - consider Wetzlar, Kreutznach, Traunreut, etc. New York had these, in Ithaca, Buffalo, Rochester, etc. Not now, it's a wasteland. My little median income trick works even better in NY.

Howard said...

Buwaya: You make the Valley sound like the wild wild west. That's capitalism and competition. Outside the bubble within Cali are all the red counties. How do you explain that? Texas is doing well because it is a second-hand economy. They innovate little and get the advantage of low cost relocation because it is a crappy place to live.

buwaya said...

No it isn't "Capitalism and competition" now. It's a playpen.
No, outside the valley and the city aren't just the "red" counties. Most of the suffering population is "blue" - poor, black and Hispanic. How do you think the common man is doing, in Contra Costa, Alameda, San Joaquin ?

Big Mike said...

Amanda did a fine job of hijacking the thread, did she not? Can we get back to discussing voter anger and civility bullshit?

buwaya said...

As for LA, ditto, in spades. At one time it was the machine tool capital of the US, the core market and supplier of robotics, CNC, etc. I used to run a booth every year at the world largest manufacturing convention there, Westec, where one could visit with dozens of light industrial firms. The up and comers, many of them, were run by Hispanics BTW.
A shadow, now, of what it was. Not because there isn't a market for precision manufacturing, it's that its such a huge PITB to do it there. That's the fault of the excremental Democrats.

Michael K said...

"Your labeling of a highly successful doctor as a pedophile is revealing of your character."

The pedophile is Bill Clinton whose tastes seem to decline with age. The lolita flight is what he seems most interested these days.

Howard does not know the history of the tech industry and I understand that the DNC doesn't know either.

Left wingers have a lot of trouble with cause and effect. Amanda is another one.

chickelit said...
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chickelit said...

@buwaya puti: It's interesting to look even further back in history. William Shockley (arch conservative) started his first chip making enterprise in the Bay area because it was close to his beloved mother. It really could have been anywhere and it might well have been in Southern California because Shockley was a Caltech grad and he was funded by Arnold Beckman very early on. Beckman was of course Pasadena based.

Once silicon chipmaking is completely factored out of the Silicon Valley business model, there is very little physical reason beyond inertia for the hub to remain there. It's rather like Detroit: once steel making left the region (for environmental reasons) there was much less incentive for the auto industry to remain located there.

buwaya said...

True, Shockley was the founder, inadvertently, of what would be Fairchild, which was the root and core of hundreds of others.
Still, HP was there over a decade before, and it was itself already spinning off companies.
Interesting to note - no HP, no Apple. Wozniak designed and built the first Apple product, Jobs not being a sufficient techie to do it. Wozniak learned his trade at HP.
Some excellent books full of all sorts of info on the early days of both Silicon and software -
"Fire in the Valley" Freiberger and Swaine
"Making Silicon Valley" Lecuyer
"Accidental Empires" Cringeley

Etienne said...

I watched the video. I don't believe he's a Marine. Especially a drill sergeant. He has no command voice. He's talking to himself at the end.

The woman reminds me of the professor "can we get some muscle?"

Nope, not from that looser. I don't even think he passed cub scouts.

Stolen Valor is rampant (and like sodomy and numbers rackets, it's legal now).

chickelit said...

I recommend the following biography of Shockley Broken Genius.

Lewis Wetzel said...

Micharl K wrote:
Left wingers have a lot of trouble with cause and effect. Amanda is another one.
many on the left (and some on the right) don't understand that corellation is not causation, or they reason from morality: "Doing A is the right thing, therefore doing A can only have positive results" (and its opposite).
So if the evil Koch brothers are destroying the planet, they simply cannot be providing Americans with cheap fossils and decent wages for their 100,000 employees. If they are spending money on anything -- including philanthropy -- it can't be for the love of man, it must be being spent to further their goal of destroying the planet.
And yet they consider themselves more open-minded than conservatives, more able to see things in terms of shades of gray rather than black and white.

Largo said...

Ignore the troll.

And if it's difficult to ignore the troll when it's up, ignore it now when it's down.

Humperdink said...

Humperdink responded to Howard: "Your labeling of a highly successful doctor as a pedophile is revealing of your character."

Michael K said: "The pedophile is Bill Clinton whose tastes seem to decline with age. The lolita flight is what he seems most interested these days."

Isn't it interesting how liberals perceive something that's not there, yet totally overlook reality. Bill Clinton, the cigar stuffing former president, who is now copilot on the pedophile express.

Look at racism. Liberals see racism under every conservative rock, but view minorities as helpless individuals who need their hand held to get through life. No racism there. Nope.

Rusty said...

Venezuela,Amanda. Toilet paper is money because the currency has the value of toilet paper. Another triumph of socialism.

grackle said...

People all over are going insane because they believe the media spin, and are calling to kill him. Others post gleefully about how they're smashing car windows with Trump stickers.

I’ve been having fun this AM watching pundits on Meet the Press accuse Trump of damaging the GOP because Trump was assailed by Rubio and Cruz during the debate, which they also see as indicating a “split” in the GOP. They all agree that it was most unseemly of Trump to be attacked with such a lack of civility. And here I was thinking trading insults during a political campaign was as common as tap water. Silly me.

Matt Sablan said...

Eh, Fair is Fair. People disrupt Trump events routinely, often with staged, phased team tactics. I like neither Clinton or Trump, but if one is going to get gored, and no one does anything to stop the organized disruption, how can people expect the other side to just decide "Well, let's not use this incredibly effective club we've been provided?"

Joe said...

From a purely political standpoint, the man's rudeness and grandstanding undercut the effectiveness of his actions. Had he shut up, he wouldn't have been kicked out, Bill would have answered and he would have had opportunity for a follow up. So, was the soldier's point to challenge Billary or to get kicked out?

McCackie said...

Is he moving away from supporting her by a faint defence?

Rusty said...

Matthew Sablan said...
Eh, Fair is Fair. People disrupt Trump events routinely, often with staged, phased team tactics. I like neither Clinton or Trump, but if one is going to get gored, and no one does anything to stop the organized disruption, how can people expect the other side to just decide "Well, let's not use this incredibly effective club we've been provided?"


The point was to not let the public forget that Hillary was responsible for Benghazi. He succeeded.

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