Here's the transcript. Excerpt:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Passionate Democrats who say they feel betrayed by all this. Any regrets?She needs to tell her story, and she needs to get paid. And she will get paid. Her book — "Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House" — comes out tomorrow. I know I've pre-ordered it. And it's #4 at Amazon, beaten only by
BRAZILE: Do I regret taking on a job the second time in my life as chair of the party, cleaning up everyone's mess, taking all of the incoming, being unable to spend funds that I raised? Do I regret being on the road 100 percent of the time, being hacked by the Russians, being -- being harassed, getting death threats? Do I regret any of that? George, was worse than Hurricane Katrina in terms of the emotional toll. But do I regret stranding up for what is right, helping Hillary Clinton, helping the Democratic Party? And let me just say this, as somebody who went through the hacking experience, being able to tell the truth about what happened with the Russians, the attack on our government do I regret any of that? No. I wish I could have done more, George.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But do you think this helps for the book to come out?
BRAZILE: Well, George, I mean this is a lesson of 2016. If I released it next year, they would say, Donna, you're impacting our 2018. If I released it the following -- Donna, you're impacting. George, for those who are telling the me to shut up, they told Hillary that a couple of months ago. You know what I tell them, go to hell. I'm going to tell my story. I'm going the tell my story, George. Because this is a story of a young girl who started in American politics at the age of 9, who continues to fight each and every week of her life. I went down to Virginia last week, to kick off the canvassing campaign. Nobody paid me to do that. Nobody -- I'm not on the payroll, George. I care about my country. I care about our democracy. And I say go the hell because, why am I supposed to be the only person that is unable to tell my story?
a Wimpy Kid, Oprah, and Leonardo da Vinci (because those 3 characters never stop fascinating us).ADDED: As I was doing the tags for this post I wanted to use "Democratic Party in Trumpland" (which is my standard tag for the predicament of the Democratic Party after the 2016 elections), and I realized I wasn't sure if Brazile ever talked about Trump. She's doing a lot of blaming, but she's blaming Democrats. She's kind of messing up their game of blaming Trump for everything. I searched the transcript and found it devoid of mentions of Trump, except in this one passage, after Stephanopoulos asks her whether, during the campaign, she felt "under threat." She said:
Every day, especially when Donald Trump -- especially when Donald Trump would go out there and tweet. You know, look, I have worked on campaigns all my adult life. I have been called some of the the worst things in America. But when Donald Trump would go out there and attack me, I got the threats were just unbearable. My house right now is -- I got every different kind of security device. I had to get my home swept. I had to get the DNC swept twice. It was horrible.Then Stephanopoulos reminded her that Trump's tweeting now is promoting her book saying it's "the real story" that "Crooked Hillary" was the one doing the "collusion." Brazile said:
Well, Donald Trump likes to distract. I mean, what Donald Trump should be focusing on right now is protecting our country from being hacked again.... Donald Trump loves to distract us and divide us. I'm not playing his game.She's giving him material he can use in his game, so I guess "not playing his game" is doing what she sees fit within the Democratic Party and not listening to warnings from her own people that what she's saying will help Trump.
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Hillary was plotting for a 2020 run. Since the Russians cheated her out of 2016, it is only right and proper that she run in 2020 and rid us of Trump. But now Donna has blown the whistle on Crooked Hillary and 2020 is less likely. One thing for sure: Donna is fearless.
How does someone who claims to be on the "Board of Directors" of the DNC get blindsided by so much?
Is fiduciary duty for the little people?
"listening to warnings from her own people that what she's saying will help Trump. "
Because heaven forbid that the Democrats do anything that will help their president.
"But when Donald Trump would go out there and attack me, I got the threats were just unbearable. My house right now is -- I got every different kind of security device."
1) I sure would like to see the offending tweet.
2) Regarding her safety, it's not Donald Trump she needs to be worrying about.
Donna should be nervous. Snitches get stitches.
Donna has more to worry about from Hillary than she does with The Donald.
She's afraid that her book will not succeed in shifting blame for what happened to the Democratic Party onto others.
"It was a note posted by over 100 former Clinton aides Saturday disavowing Brazile’s portrayal of the campaign that sent the biggest shock waves through the party," according to Politico, the house organ of the Democratic Party.
The democrat party is aiming at some other audience entirely, is what I always notice.
Internal squabbles make no more sense to me than anything else they do.
It was becoming apparent that Hillary was planning to run again in 2020, and in light of her book and comments, it was also apparent that she learned nothing from 2008 and 2016. At least in Democratic circles (which is all that matters in the primaries), Hillary made progress on her theory that she lost for every reason under the sun except for her being a weak candidate with a bad campaign. No reason to believe that she would be any more effective in 2020.
Brazile is the Luca Brasi of the Democratic Party.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But do you think this helps for the book to come out?
So the news person doesn't want what happened to be news.
Remember that the next time they go on and on about how necessary the media is to having an "informed" public.
@EarnestProle
That statement from Clinton aides sums up why they lost. One of their principal claims was that issues of Hillary's health were Russian propaganda, even after the world saw her collapse into a van. Maybe some made too big a deal out of it but it did happen. The fact that they went straight to Russia conspiracy theories tells you everything about her campaign.
The more heat Donna Brazile takes the better. In May of 2008, the steering committee of the DNC held a meeting that was supposed to be "transparent" to decide what to do about the delegates won, mostly by Hillary, in the states that had moved their primaries without permission. With no decision made, the committee broke for an extended private lunch. When they returned, they announced they were taking delegates that were uncommitted as well as many of the ones won by Hillary and giving them to Obama. There was no reasoning behind the "formula" they used other than they could so they did. When Hillary believed it was OK for her to rig the primaries against Bernie Sanders, Donna Brazile had provided the precedent. She made the bed she's currently occupying, and she's not sleeping alone.
Comparing her relations with the Clinton campaign to slavery is a pretty bad joke.
“I’m not Patsey the slave,” Brazile recalls telling them, a reference to the character played by Lupita Nyong’o in the film, “12 Years a Slave.” “Y’all keep whipping me and whipping me and you never give me any money or any way to do my damn job. I am not going to be your whipping girl!!”
Bizarre that she would say that, and doubly bizarre that she would put that account in her book.
Former Clinton campaign officials strongly disputed some details in Brazile's account as well as her overall characterization of the campaign, and they disparaged her memoir as an effort to sell books and manufacture drama.
I mean, she's veering from replacing Hillary Clinton to "I'm not Patsey the slave!" to "you never give me any money" to closing the blinds to ward off the sniper attacks.
Here is what the book and the reaction to it are really revealing: the party is for the party insiders, the people who support it have no claim.
The Democratic Party looks out for the average citizen like a class action attorney looks out for its class members. The lawyers and consultants get all the power and the money, while the voters who opt-in get a coupon for 10% off their next purchase.
Comparing her relations with the Clinton campaign to slavery is a pretty bad joke.
Why? Isn't that exactly what progressives have taught her to do in such situations?
Dear Donna:
Not only did Hillary treat you like a slave, so does the Democrat party. Wake up.
Words that have recently lost all meaning:
Racism
Gender
Authoritarian
Collusion
Slavery
Why? Isn't that exactly what progressives have taught her to do in such situations?
I take your meaning to be that crying victim is a way to manipulate, particularly on the left. But it's still not serious, regardless of whether it works. Upper class rich people should not use atrocities committed against the helpless as a metaphor for their travails. And any success people have with that strategy is surely fleeting.
And, how many of the bugs that might have been found were planted by the very paranoid HRC campaign?
How did she not know the game was rigged when she was putting her own thumb on the scale for Clinton?
Maybe Donna's ordeal will allow more people to realize why it's so difficult to rely on or trust a press that has been captured by/become a talking point tool for one of the parties. https://theintercept.com/2017/11/05/four-viral-claims-spread-by-journalists-on-twitter-in-the-last-week-alone-that-are-false/
I don't think she has all those security devices because she's afraid of Trump supporters.
Upper class rich people should not use atrocities committed against the helpless as a metaphor for their travails. And any success people have with that strategy is surely fleeting.
Did you not just live through eight years of any criticism of the most powerful man on earth reflexively being labeled "racist"?
It worked out just fine for him.
Hope she doesn’t mow her own lawn.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But do you think this helps for the book to come out?
But do you think this helps for these facts to come out?
Ah Donna---as it was true in ancient Roman times, it's true in today's Democrat party. Lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. You'll be itching for a long long time.
George, [it] was worse than Hurricane Katrina in terms of the emotional toll.
Left wing privilege means never being asked why she considers professional difficulties worse than deaths and many thousands of people losing their livelihoods. If she were a libertarian or conservative this would already be trumpeted across the nightly news as proof she's indifferent to people losing their lives and representative of all Democrats.
‘Russia’ is the term invoked to attack Trump. She is doing the bidding of the left wafting ‘Russia’ into the meta clould where the meaning is a direct attack to Trump.
Blue on blue engagement. So sad!
Are the Dems in the process of pushing Hillary out on an ice flow?
She won't go quietly. They'll have drag her cursing and kicking.
There'll be fingernail claw marks on the inside of the igloo tunnel.
"But do you think this helps" As if proof were needed that MSM flacks are Dem operatives.
To them, it's the only thing that matters.
Are there any heroes in this movie script.
Several times during the course of the ABC Stephanopoulos interview Brazile mentioned the fact that she was not paid during her tenure as DNC Chairperson. That may be why she refers to herself as Patsey the slave—that and the fact that Hillary’s people in Brooklyn were calling the shots.
Yeah, former Clinton operative George accuses her of the worst crime in their boik, being "unhelpful."
I feel a 2020 Democratic Party theme coming on:
"Who will be the Black candidate, Corey Booker or Kamela Harris?"
At least they're both young.
"Are there any heroes in this movie script"
Think of Convoy, and Trump as Rubber Duck.
If you know any black ladies, you know that you are not going to shut her up George.
Anybody interested in a patient, data driven look at the "hack" should go to climateaudit.org.
I would rather be ruled by black and Hispanic identity politicians than the white left. Not even kidding.
With no decision made, the committee broke for an extended private lunch. When they returned, they announced they were taking delegates that were uncommitted as well as many of the ones won by Hillary and giving them to Obama.
Democracy dies in darkness.
Donna is giving Hillary a Brazile wax.
I am Laslo.
How soon will she be shot in a robbery where nothing is stolen?
She obviously believes that Trump or the Russians killed Rich.
Did you not just live through eight years of any criticism of the most powerful man on earth reflexively being labeled "racist"?
It worked out just fine for him.
I can't think of a time when Obama played the victim. Maybe he did it once or twice, but it was hardly his m.o. The vibe I always got from him was that he felt superior.
"Ya'll are treating me like a slave! I need more money to do my damn job!"
I can't imagine Obama saying that. It's a pathetic thing for the head of the DNC to say.
George Clintonopolis - Clinton HACK to the bitter end.
It is easy to be "slowed down, calm, and slightly jolly" when you are gently questioned by a fellow Democrat following the prepared script. Here George actually dares to challenge her slightly, impugning her motives and judgement - unprecedented.
"How soon will she be shot in a robbery where nothing is stolen?"
She's golden in this regard. Even Hillary realizes that killing Brazile now would be one toke over the line. I think.
Donna B waived hard copies of the DNC-Clinton agreements. I imagine these pages were from the infamous DNC server that was never turned over to the FBI, and these documents were likely one reason why it wasn't.
"Laslo Spatula said...
Donna is giving Hillary a Brazile wax.
I am Laslo."
Dude, some thing can't be unthunk. This is one of them. Ugh.
"Convoy", come to think of it, is maybe the ultimate Trump "deplorable" movie.
It is a Sam Peckinpah film, so maybe no surprise.
Winners win. Losers write books explaining why they lost [it's always someone else's fault].
OK, I was refreshing myself on the origin of "one toke over the line" (thanks pacwest!) and found this word was trending:
Igelschnäuzchen
Really small breasts, but with perky nipples. German - translates to "(little) hedgehog snouts". More a cute, compassionate way to point to the fact a girl isn't overly well endoved than a downright derogatory term.
Ohje.... hast du die mit den Igelschnäuzchen gesehen? - Trotzdem ganz niedlich.
When you find a word as glorious as that, you have to leave it someplace Laslo can find it.
As smart and as honest as Hillary. Lucky Democrats!
The Democratic Party looks out for the average citizen like a class action attorney looks out for its class members. The lawyers and consultants get all the power and the money, while the voters who opt-in get a coupon for 10% off their next purchase.
Aptly said, Kevin.
You can’t describe a black woman as “angry”... damn racists.
Like Sir Mixalot said, silicone parts are made for toys, you want to leave the small breasted girls, I will be happy to pick them up, and not out of "compassion" either.
It was becoming apparent that Hillary was planning to run again in 2020
And the radicals that are taking over the DNC do not want that to happen. As far as their concerned, Hillary and her husband might as well be wearing Klan hoods. Old, white establishmentarians who put lots of black youths into prison and cooperated with the Republicans who are white supremacists by definition.
Still not tired of the winning. That may be the only prediction Trump made that doesn't come true.
Dear Donna
There is no official proof that the DNC servers were hacked, only the word of CrowdStike. Crowdstrike being a DNC contractor run by democrats. The FBI never looked at the DNC servers.
Forensic evidence on data transfer rates suggest that according to the time stamps on DNC revealed data could only have been accomplished by an on location storage device. The "hack" was an inside job, a DNC staff member did it, not the Russians.
Much of what we've been told about this topic is apparently false. The press has been covering for Hillary. (this is my shocked face.)
Igelschnäuzchen: Really small breasts, but with perky nipples. German - translates to "(little) hedgehog snouts". More a cute, compassionate way to point to the fact a girl isn't overly well endoved than a downright derogatory term.
When you find a word as glorious as that, you have to leave it someplace Laslo can find it.
I agree. Here's my contribution: "Bärenschliffe — polished rock surfaces in caves worn smooth by the passage of bears."
Meanwhile, the DNC chair wants you to know that anyone who drives a pickup truck is a racist. But we all knew already, didn't we.
It was so important to her to get Hillary elected. This would be the Hillary that forced the DNC to knuckle under to her control nine months before she got the nomination. The same Hillary that treated her like Patsey the slave. The same Hillary that directed the previous chair to hide all the shenanigans from the DNC board, including Donna.
Sounds like a really healthy relationship.
Original Mike, thank you for that link at 9:15. Good stuff.
My pleasure, S.C. I heard the Clinton mouthpieces making those claims and I figured Brazile was being dishonest. I should have known where the dishonesty really resided.
Someone here said Brazile is Luca Brasi, but she’s really Sal Tessio, the Godfather’s Judas character, played by Abe Vigoda. Brazile’s attempted takedown of the Clintons is the first by an insider in more than twenty-five years of national politics. Until this week the Clintons have enforced a discipline and loyalty worthy of a crime family at the top of its game.
I have been called some of the the worst things in America.
"in America?" What does that mean? She's been called some of the worst things why she was in America? There's some list of the things to call people in America and she's been called some of the worst of them? Unclear!
It's hilarious how much tap dancing all these people have to do to avoid admitting that these "hacks" happened under Obama's watch and should be blamed on Obama. The fact that Obama's admin went easy on Russia (most likely to avoid Russia giving us any problems with the Obama-craved Iran deals) is clear but also MUST NOT BE SAID OUT LOUD. It really is a "don't mention the war"/Fawlty Towers-type of comedy!
I watched that yesterday. It again confirms to me that Clinton is definitely running again.
I think Brazile's book is the first real attempt by some in the party to chuck Shelob under the bus, but Shelob still has strong supporters in the news media that were given their marching orders Saturday night by the Clintons. It wouldn't surprise me one little bit if Brazile isn't charged with a white collar crime of some sort within the next month.
Someone above mentioned it, but it bears repeating- if what Brazile wrote about how Clinton controlled the DNC's money long before she was the official nominee, then this would also explain precisely why the DNC didn't allow the FBI to examine its servers- someone might have realized that Clinton violated the campaign finance laws.
"this would also explain precisely why the DNC didn't allow the FBI to examine its servers"
Ah! Well you knew (if you aren't an in-the-tank democrat) that they were hiding something.
Someone here said Brazile is Luca Brasi, but she’s really Sal Tessio, the Godfather’s Judas character, played by Abe Vigoda.
Michael: "Fredo, you’re my older brother, and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever."
someone might have realized that Clinton violated the campaign finance laws.
I'm sure no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case...
I'm sure no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case...
Otherwise he could be made to see reason....
I wonder who bankrolled and green-lighted Brazile's book ? Cui bono ?
tcrosse,
Obama.
"this would also explain precisely why the DNC didn't allow the FBI to examine its servers"
It was Hillary's lawyer, Marc Elias, who was responsible for both Hillary's contract with the DNC and bringing in Crowdstrike (in lieu of the FBI) to inspect the server. The first is natural, but the second seemed odd to me. Not anymore.
Blogger Yancey Ward said..."Someone above mentioned it, but it bears repeating- if what Brazile wrote about how Clinton controlled the DNC's money long before she was the official nominee, then this would also explain precisely why the DNC didn't allow the FBI to examine its servers- someone might have realized that Clinton violated the campaign finance laws."
Breezy gets the credit for this insight.
It was Hillary's lawyer, Marc Elias, who was responsible for both Hillary's contract with the DNC and bringing in Crowdstrike (in lieu of the FBI) to inspect the server. The first is natural, but the second seemed odd to me.
Wait until we get to that chapter!
Mike, you are correct- it was Breezy.
It did bear repeating, Yancey. I had skimmed this thread and missed it. Thanks!
On the question posed earlier: is this a violation of campaign finance law? http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/11/cleta-mitchell-brazile-describes-a-massive-violation-of-federal-law-that-triggers-criminal-penalties.php
"is this a violation of campaign finance law?"
Andrew Napolitano was arguing this morning that it is.
Earnest Prole said...
Someone here said Brazile is Luca Brasi, but she’s really Sal Tessio, the Godfather’s Judas character, played by Abe Vigoda. Brazile’s attempted takedown of the Clintons is the first by an insider in more than twenty-five years of national politics. Until this week the Clintons have enforced a discipline and loyalty worthy of a crime family at the top of its game.
11/6/17, 10:37 AM
Like I said days ago, the thing is to break the omerta. Let Donna be merely the first crack in the dyke...
Chuck will tell you that you are stupid to even ask whether it was a violation of campaign laws because that would be a distraction from his personal animus toward Trump.
Her suicide will be the first, gunshot to the head, followed by dismemberment, in history.
I haven't seen any reference to this incident in any comments or articles about this book but I remember in one of the accounts of the DNC, "hack," Hillary turned to Brazile and told her to stop looking like a buffalo and do something or words to that affect. That must have been the moment Brazile started formulating this book.
So many fine people and institutions have sacrificed their honor and integrity on the altar of Hillary's personal sense of entitlement. Sad.
Brazile is the Luca Brasi of the Democratic Party.
If she ends up 'sleeping with the fishes' we'll know who is responsible.
If she ends up 'sleeping with the fishes' we'll know who is responsible
The Russians
I respected Brazile's patriotism for revealing how Hillary rigged the nomination. I had hoped that people would finally realize Hillary's loss was the best outcome and get over the election and past Hillary's continual campaign. But instead, Democrats are attacking Brazile and she is retreating. No wonder she is pissed off. The Bernie people are pissed also, but not at Brazile.
I'm not sure if Donna is Luca Brasi, Sal Tessio, or Fredo:
1. Confidante/capo turned traitor = Sal.
2. Enforcer who got caught behind enemy lines = Luca.
3. Long-suffering loyalist who betrays to get his share of glory and riches = Fredo.
She's soooo Fredo! 😲😲
I think Brazile is writing this book for more than just money and revenge. She may be saying, in effect, "If anything happens to me, well, there are precedents..." A kind of life insurance policy, maybe.
"In the sixth chapter of her new book, Hacks, former interim Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile says Hillary Clinton’s top male aides engaged in sexist behavior toward her. Brazile says it prompted her to tell the group during a contentious conference call, “Gentlemen, let’s just put our dicks out on the table and see who’s got the bigger one, because I know mine is bigger than all of yours.”"
Wait a minute. Isn't that sexual harassment?
Brazile says it prompted her to tell the group during a contentious conference call, “Gentlemen, let’s just put our dicks out on the table and see who’s got the bigger one, because I know mine is bigger than all of yours.”
For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of Donna Brazile.
Jeff Gee,
Bears? Nevermind.
If it were worn smooth by *beavers* then I'm sure Laslo would be interested.
"Despite reforms, the Democratic primary system still has flaws. Nevertheless, its primary season has been conducted in the sunshine, in full view of the people and the press, the rules were known up front and beforehand, with after-election rules allowing for challenges and recounts."
- Donna Brazile 5-19-2016
Kevin said...
Words that have recently lost all meaning:
Racism
Gender
Authoritarian
Collusion
Slavery
You forgot 'Rape', which now can mean an insufficiently satisfying date.
maybe she's nervous about something else. dedication to her book:
“In loving memory of my father, Lionel Brazile Sr.; my beloved sister, Sheila Brazile; my fearless uncles Nat, Floyd, and Douglas; Harlem’s finest, my aunt Lucille; my friend and mentor, David Kaufmann; my DNC colleague and patriot, Seth Rich; and my beloved Pomeranian, Chip Joshua Marvin Brazile (Booty Wipes). I miss y’all.”
She said the murder of Seth Rich led to her fearing for her life. Gee, why would she think that Rich's 'random killing' had anything to do with her? /sarc.
One more time how exactly was "our country hacked"?
The DNC allowed their email to get phished. A nerdy middle schooler could have done that. The DNC is NOT our government.
A few stories by Russians were planted on Facebook. The stories/photos were to sow divisiveness, which was the Democrat platform. Granted, Jesus and Hillary boxing is a classic, but it had exactly zero effect on the election.
Collusion, (which isn't a crime) was performed by the media and Donna herself by fawning and presenting Hillary in a positive light, giving her town hall questions and running stories by her team.
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