September 17, 2024

"And, sadly, the press is still not able to cover Trump the way that they should. They careen from one outrage to the next...."

"What was outrageous three days ago is no longer on the front pages, even though it threatens the physical safety of so many people, particularly... immigrants that he and Vance have decided to demonize. And I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is. The late, great journalist Harry Evans one time said that journalists should really try to achieve objectivity. And by that, he said, I mean, they should cover the object. Well, the object in this case is Donald Trump, his demagoguery, his danger to our country and the world, and stick with it.... The second thing, though, is that part of what Trump is counting on is for people to get desensitized. I mean, oh, my gosh, did you hear what he said yesterday? Did you hear who he attacked? Did you hear the viciousness? And it's just, like with a shrug, OK, fine we're moving on...."

From "Hillary Clinton: I Don't Get 'Why It's So Difficult For The Press To Have A Consistent Narrative About How Dangerous Trump Is'" (Real Clear Politics, with video from the Rachel Maddow show).

104 comments:

RideSpaceMountain said...

"I Don't Get 'Why It's So Difficult For The Press To Have A Consistent Narrative About How Dangerous Trump Is'"

Because they were so used to having an easy time carrying your water for you. They learned it by watching you mom. They learned it by watching you.

RideSpaceMountain said...

America's ex-wife is screeching again.

n.n said...

[Baby] Trump is a "burden". We get it. Abort.

CJinPA said...

This almost deserves a Civility Bullshit tag. Whatever Media Category version of that would be.

Yes, we get desensitized to Trump's rhetoric. Just like we got desensitize to Clinton's.

ga6 said...

does she still use pagers? Bubba wants to know.

stlcdr said...

All the leftist totalitarians (but I repeat myself), agree: "I know, right?!"

MartyH said...

Hillary also called for civil and criminal charges for spreading disinformation. That is totalitarian, anti first amendment talk. Further, since her campaign funded and distributed the debunked Steele dossier, she should be going to jail under this standard. She won’t, because the Deep State only applies the law to its enemies.

tim maguire said...

I don't get why the press tries to have a narrative at all.

Every time that tinpot dictator opens her mouth, I am renewed in my gratitude to Trump for keeping her out of the White House.

Mr. Majestyk said...

Umm, the proper role of the press is to report the facts, not to push a "narrative."

Wa St Blogger said...

mean, oh, my gosh, did you hear what he said yesterday? Did you hear who he attacked? Did you hear the viciousness?

No. I didn't. What did I miss?

RideSpaceMountain said...

People who know Bill when he was younger say he was a charmer with a grin a mile wide. Then as in the 90s Bill never had a problem beguiling women. What the fuck he ever saw in this hateful, egotistical, insipid and frigid little social climber is known but to him alone.

Jesus Bill, you're supposed to avoid Tracey Flick, not marry her.

Michael K said...

Yes, although it wouldn't blow off her testicles.

Roger Sweeny said...

Gee, with talk like that from a former Secretary of State and presidential candidate, why would anyone try to kill Trump?

I Shouldn’t Have Left the White House said...

It's not the end of the world if Trump or Harris become President, both sides should tone done the noise, chillax a moment and be thankful for all the positive things we have in our lives.

Health, a few dollars in the bank, family, opportunities.

Lilly, a dog said...

"While the fate of Ungoliant is not told in any tale, some have said that she eventually let her ever growing hunger overcome her and, in her uttermost famine, devoured herself at last."

Kate said...

Okay, Boomer.

PM said...

Hillary, the Category 5 Harridan.

RideSpaceMountain said...

Haha apt. Very apt.

tcrosse said...

Hillary should be grateful to Trump for no locking her up when he had the chance.

Michael said...
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Beth B said...

Is there a reason we should be receiving wisdom from the one candidate whose campaign was so godawful, she's the reason Trump came to power in the first place? Perhaps we should apply the George Costanza rule here and simply do the opposite of everything Hillary Clinton ever says. That's gotta work out better in the end, right?

Leland said...

Can we talk about the dangers Hillary and her husband are to other countries that causes their populations to become refugees fleeing to other nations?

Rory said...

""Hillary Clinton: I Don't Get 'Why It's So Difficult For The Press To Have A Consistent Narrative About How Dangerous Trump Is'"

If you're not telling the truth, you have to keep referring back to your previous lies. It's hard to keep them all straight after a while

Sebastian said...

"the press is still not able to cover Trump the way that they should" Oh, and the press has been able to cover senile Joe and flip-flopping Kamala they way it should, has it? Even by Clintonian standards the sheer shamelessness is amazing, isn't it? This after the press has been vilifying Trump 24/7 for 8 years. The woman who triggered the Russia collusion hoax against a sitting president, denied an election, and wants to impose censorship calls Trump dangerous.

Michael said...

In some ways I feel sorry for her. What a lifelong lust for the Oval Office!

Early on she hitched herself to the charismatic Bill, even though that required moving to Hicksville, Arkansas. Then she had to Stand By Her Man while he dipped his willie in anything with a pulse.

But finally, the White House! A chance to prove her policy chops. Handed the portfolio on health care reform she proceeded to screw the pooch and set the cause back 20 years. Soon after the world found out that Bill pestered an intern in order to get a decent blowie.

But she Stood By Her Man and after the White House headed for the US Senate. Finally out on her own and ready to walk towards her ultimate.destiny.

And 2008 was her year. This was until that upstart little smooth talking negro swept in to take a nomination that was rightfully hers. The dream once more deferred.

Swallowing her pride she joined Mr Smooth Talking Negro's cabinet. Being a good little girl and a team player in exchange for another shot at the brass ring.

Then in 2016, the nomination! Even though she had her team do some dirty pool to fend off that pesky Jew from Vermont, she had endured decades of disappointment and humiliation. Just one more hurdle to jump, and against that orange freak. Even the New York Times called her chances of winning at 99%. Polish up that victory speech!

We know what came next.

I have a lot of empathy for Hillary. To work so hard and sacrifice so much just to be denied the thing she most lusted after, the only thing that mattered. Psychological torture.

That bitterness comes through. Yes, they roll her out in the media, but she's not an elder statesman of the party, but a dried up old loser. No one calls her for advice. No one donates to her foundation. She's worth nothing.

Life can be like that. Tragic

Gusty Winds said...

Wait. The liberal media doesn't have a consistent regurgitated message about how the "dangers" of Donald Trump?

NorthOfTheOneOhOne aka Doug Emhoff's Pimp Hand said...

Because they, like Hillary!, want to keep their images all bright and shiny and clean. There's only so much outright making up lies from whole cloth that they can do before they start feeling icky and unhappy. Of course, Hillary! expects them to sacrifice their images and what little self-respect they may have to bolster her image. What a load of rotten turds these people are!

Gusty Winds said...

Doggy paddling for relevancy. She should stay away from the Haitians.

Gusty Winds said...

Hillary has that feel of an old time Disney witch. The Wicked Queen (Snow White), Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty), Cruella de Vil (101 Dalmatians), and of course the Wicked Step Mother from Cinderella. Tell me Chelsea is a spitting image of Drizella and Anastasia.

They will always hate women like Ivanka Trump...Tulsi Gabbard...Megyn Kelly.

Disney didn't invent these profiles. Art imitates life.

Michael K said...

Well, at least Bill got Webb Hubble to f**K her.

JIM said...

If your intention was to open the immigration doors to more people, then part of that policy should entail strict screening of those you desire to import. Little of any of that appears to have been a priority. That has resulted in a threat to the wellbeing of citizens of this Country, because there have absolutely been criminals and possibly terrorists who have entered unscreened.
Trump has exposed that. The Ruling class want him silenced. Hillary is their spokesperson. I pray for the safety of Trump.

tim in vermont said...

It's funny that the promulgator of the Russiagate lie, known to be a lie out of her campaign by the CIA before the Mueller investigation even started, according to a hand-written note by its director, is lecturing us on "disinformation." That bit of disinformation tied up the presidency of Donald Trump for two years, all for a lie from Hillary to cover the fact that Ukraine interfered in the election on behalf of her campaign.

Well, sure Hillary, let's put you in jail for disinformation.

How do we decide what is true and what is false? Let me guess, Hillary thinks that we need a "Ministry of Truth" to sort things out, MiniTru for short, and we can send the thought criminals to her "fun camps," (google it) they were called Joy Camps in 1984, BTW.

Michael K said...

"Rich " pretends that Harris doesn't equal national bankruptcy.

RideSpaceMountain said...

Hillary's story is an all too common one for women: ride my husband's coattails to fame and fortune. She believed herself to be special. A savant. Sophisticated and wise...but without the confidence to get her there. I know! This charismatic guy I can manipulate is a Rhoades Scholar and seems to be going places! His success shall henceforth become OUR success!

Hillary's greatest achievement was marrying Bill. That's it. She'd be some Wall Street investment banker's 5th Avenue wife with 3 kids, an allowance, and a hugely exaggerated sense of her influence in Manhattan's local politics without him. In many ways she would've ended up a lot like her daughter Chelsea. Peas in a pod.

tim in vermont said...

The funny thing to is that those lawyers for those Russians she mentioned actually showed up in court, and as soon as they demanded discovery, Mueller dropped the charges.

https://www.businessinsider.com/doj-moves-to-drop-charges-ira-russians-indicted-mueller-2020-3

tim in vermont said...

Maybe Hillary should go to jail for that bit of disinformation.

Bill, Republic of Texas said...

As guess Althouse is shrugging off the tyrannical suggestions that Americans should be imprisoned for speech Hillary! doesn't like.

Michael K said...

She refers to "immigrants" ignoring the legal part.

tim in vermont said...

My question is what are thousands of people crossing in from Canada seeking asylum. Is Canada that bad? Are they unsafe in Canada? Or is the policy deliberately designed to changed the electorate in the Democrats' favor.

Here is an interesting video about the NY-Quebec border.

https://youtu.be/mXdu8gkNLTk?si=x7QfYo8PTw8w7cAe

Dixcus said...

If Hillary is whining, that's how you know Kamala is losing.

Dixcus said...

Hillary knew where all the bodies were buried in Washington DC because she put most of them in there.

Dixcus said...

It's the end of the Republic if Harris gets installed through cheating. That will be the end. You've been told what will happen.

Kai Akker said...


[stamps foot]

Dixcus said...

If Trump looks back on his life as it's passing before him again and again with every sniper shot, I sure hope he sees that mistake as the one he'd correct if he ever gets back in the White House. Hillary can still be made to pay for her crimes.

Dixcus said...

Notice how casually she just says there's a story she wants the press to repeat, regardless of its veracity, and she's whining that they can't even do that right? Hillary is telling you how the world works and how the press has functioned for her entire life.

Dixcus said...

The "press" can't cover Trump the way Hillary wants primarily because of Community Notes on X. And so they're trying to kill the wrong guy. For their plan to work, they would have to murder Elon Musk first.

Real American said...

so demonizing immigrants is dangerous, but demonizing Trump isn't the reason Democrats keep trying to assassinate him? These people are idiots and liars.

Skeptical Voter said...

Hillary Clinton is one sick puppy. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned by the electoral college. The old girl should take a chill pill.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

That Democrat Party cunt needs to be shot to death.

RideSpaceMountain said...

Kamala is herself a great example of another social-climbing feminista but nowhere near as intelligent as Hillary, Kamala just has a "big mouth". Deep down in places Hillary doesn't talk about at the Party you just know Harris makes her seethe with hatred. She despises Harris to her core.

Some people say you hate what you resemble. Hmm.

BG said...

Objectivity - I don’t think it means what Hillary thinks it means.

Iman said...

I don’t want to hear another word from these shitbird democrats or their media operatives!

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1835513015094911021

ga6 said...

"Kamala is herself a great example of another social-climbing feminista "

No, she went down ; many many times.

Iman said...

Get out of that Section 8 housing and eat teh gato, rich.

tcrosse said...

All her life people told Hillary how smart she was, and she was stupid enough to believe them.

Democratic Paychecks for Perks/ Dems for Demolition of Democracy/ fake-cares 4-U said...

EXCLUSIVE: We have discovered that migrants are, in fact, eating cats in Ohio. We have verified, with multiple witnesses and visual cross-references, that African migrants in Dayton, the next city over from Springfield, barbecued these cats last summer.https://t.co/8QveTJy4Vp pic.twitter.com/PxuJQ7fJc9
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 14, 2024

Democratic Paychecks for Perks/ Dems for Demolition of Democracy/ fake-cares 4-U said...

Cash flow happens when democrats hold power.

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

rehajm said...

thats a bingo...

tim in vermont said...

Thank you internet rando whose motivations cannot be known.

tim in vermont said...

Putin topped up her slush fund so that she could make the appropriate bribes to get the deal done.

Dixcus said...

But she knows, of course, that this is a naive way of expected the media to operate.

Krumhorn said...

Hillary has that feel of an old time Disney witch. The Wicked Queen (Snow White), Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty), Cruella de Vil (101 Dalmatians), and of course the Wicked Step Mother from Cinderella. Tell me Chelsea is a spitting image of Drizella and Anastasia.

I see her as the face of a massive invading pack of snarling vicious Orcs.

- Krumhorn

Valentine Smith said...

Vicious drunk are the only words needed to describe Hillary. I just can’t make up my mind whether she is a psychopath or a sociopath. Poor Bill has been living his entire adult life in hell.

Prof. M. Drout said...

Most of the specific pathologies of our national politics are Hilary Clinton's fault (and by extension, Bill Clinton's fault for enabling her). It's obvious that in the Lewinsky scandal she extracted a promise from Bill to make her President in exchange for not walking out after having been publicly humiliated by her horndog husband. Fulfilling that promise has deformed the politics at the top of the Democratic party for two decades. Because here's the thing: nobody really wanted Hilary Clinton as President. Even her supporters just wanted "the first woman president." That's why an unknown 1-term senator for Chicago who had given one big speech beat her to the nomination. Obama was running for VP until it suddenly became obvious that NOBODY WANTED HILARY. But in my view the premature victory ruined Obama. If he'd had a term or two as VP (or back in the Senate) he might have actually developed some political experience and therefore wouldn't have been such a petulant bitch when people--shockingly--didn't do what he wanted them to do. He would have figured out how to convince rather than just giving executive orders. Hilary and her grift Clinton Foundation help f-up Obama's foreign policy. Her being gifted the 2016 nomination eliminated the last vestiges of actual democracy in the Democratic primaries, thus preventing any actual talent from rising to the top. I don't actually mind Trump, but the reason we got Trump and all the associated chaos caused by the Deep State freakout, and not some "normal" (whatever the hell that might mean) politician was because NOBODY WANTED HER, so they voted for the Orange Man even though he was the Orange Man. Then she and her people-of-hench created the obviously bullshit Russia Col-LOOOOO-sion hoax and f-ed up the entire government for years . . .
Isn't that enough? Why do we still have to hear this selfish, self-righteous, box-wine-addled failure? GO AWAY for God's sake: NOBODY WANTS YOU.

tim in vermont said...

Better link. Don't look at it if you don't want to see an image of maybe three cats on a grill.

https://christopherrufo.com/p/the-cat-eaters-of-ohio

Iman said...

^^^ 2.5 minutes of Democrats calling for the use of political violence. ^^^

RideSpaceMountain said...

Hillary is the embodiment of the Virgil's famous quote:

Flectere Si Nequeo Superos, Acheronta Movebo - "If I cannot move Heaven, I shall move Hell."

Hell hath no fury indeed...

Quaestor said...

Why is the Hildabeast being so mouthy and visible lately? Is it because she knows Harris is bound to lose, and lose big? Such a humiliation will leave the Democrats leaderless once again. And Hillary see that as her last hope for that hideous strength she craves. Consequently, the positioning.

Jamie said...

Wait. The liberal media doesn't have a consistent regurgitated message about how the "dangers" of Donald Trump?

That's what I was thinking. Who's the outlier? What are the competing or confounding narratives?

Michael Fitzgerald said...

I'm not an internet rando, guy who uses a pseudonym to comment with. I put my name on my opinions. My blood is fucking boiling, and fuck all you anesthetized eunuchs who just equivocate and shrug your slumped shoulders. If you aren't ready to fight right now, you need TRT.

Lazarus said...

The late, great journalist Harry Evans one time said that journalists should really try to achieve objectivity. And by that, he said, I mean, they should cover the object. Well, the object in this case is Donald Trump, his demagoguery, his danger to our country and the world, and stick with it....

Sophistry. Who decides what the "object" is? Why is it Trump and not Clinton, or Harris, or the economy, or the state of the nation or the world? The "object" looks a lot like the target, and Clinton and her friends in the media want to be the ones choosing the target.

Bob Boyd said...

If I cannot move Heaven, I shall move Hell.
And if I cannot move Hell, I shall move my bowels.
And if I cannot move my bowels, I shall beseech Heavan once again.
And if that doesn't work, you can bet your ass Bill will hear about it.
We've been through this before, believe me.

RideSpaceMountain said...

Lol. There's a famous legend about what went down at the White House the night the Lewinsky scandal became more than just speculation. The legend is that Hillary and Bill had it out in the antechamber of their bedroom. Hillary's volume went to 11 and she supposedly started throwing things...sounds that were very audible to the Secret Service but they were unable to enter because Hillary had locked the doors. This supposedly went on for more than an hour, with the SS being super anxious about whether the President was or wasn't being attacked by his wife, but also being bound by some level of decorum to let a husband and wife be a husband and wife. After the door opened and she left the SS found broken shit everywhere and a large lamp that had clearly been thrown at the wall on the ground.

Now I'm not one to say such anger and venom wasn't justified, but that is one hell of a bowel movement!

Original Mike said...

Calling for someone to be murdered is beyond the pale.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

"Beyond the pale" LO-FUCKING-L! Straight to the fainting couch with you. All you hothouse flowers who can only endure Democrat Party members calling for violence against Trump/Republicans, but feel unclean and disapproving if a conservative engages in similar rhetoric against despicable Democrat Party members, you better just skip all my comments going forward, because all I want to see is dead Democrat Party members, and lots of their blood.

Democratic Paychecks for Perks/ Dems for Demolition of Democracy/ fake-cares 4-U said...

I hear the J-6 prisoners are treated to all sorts of Fun re-programming that is heavy on the Trump-Hate.

Original Mike said...

Fuck you. Better?

Bob Boyd said...

Which is why Bill said to James Carville, "Hillary is gonna shit."

tcrosse said...

What a story. Hillary, the fallen queen with a faithless husband, deprived of her birthright by the vile usurper. Now raving in the wilderness. Too bad Billy Wilder isn't around to make a film of it. "I AM big. The politics got small!"

mccullough said...

Hillary Lost

Dave64 said...

The Bunt is Evil personified.

John henry said...

It's been a dozen years now has Hilary ever fully recovered from her stroke?

Mutaman said...

Trump was too incompetent to find the Courthouse.

Bob Boyd said...

In the same interview, the woman behind. Russiagate calls for criminal charges and civil penalties against Americans "engaged" in spreading "propaganda."

https://x.com/i/status/1835886288995586318

KellyM said...

To this day, I cannot fathom the appeal Bill had among some women. From the very beginning, he just screamed snake oil salesman to me.

Mikey NTH said...

Queen Lear, but without the trahedy.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

She's not the reason Trump came to power. Republican voters are the reason Trump came to power. Clinton is a symptom of the disease infecting the American Experiment that republican voters chose Trump to fight.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

"There's only so much outright making up lies from whole cloth that they can do before they start feeling icky and unhappy"...
You cannot be serious. You think lying for the democrat Party makes these operatives feel uncomfortable? Where do you see that? Can you name one single media-scum that has shown any remorse or confliction at all? How long were they lying about Biden, years? They kept it up right until the moment when he dropped a deuce on himself, and the next morning was there a single democrat Party operative who apologized for lying for years, or who was willing to reveal the conspiracy, or even showed the least regret? Did you catch the exchange between Peter Doocy and Latrine-Pissoir? He asked when Harris, Biden, and she would stop calling Trump a threat to democracy and an existential threat to America. She replied indignantly, accused him of lying, and declared that his question was "dangerous". These people are not normal, good people. They are evil, communistic democrat Party cultists.

Dr Weevil said...

"I put my name on my opinions"! Wow, you're really brave. How many "Michael Fitzgerald"s are there in the world? I'm pretty sure the total is at least 3 figures, which may or may not be more than the number of "tim"s living in Vermont. Knowing your name tells us nothing. And we only have your word for it that those are your names, as we only have tim's word for it that he's actually named Tim and lives in Vermont.

I strongly suspect that you're only pretending to be a conservative to defame actual conservatives, and also that your name isn't Michael or Fitzgerald. You're definitely an asshole.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

Better for you, I guess. I'm sure you are preening inside about what a swell, superior fella you are because you told that guy who wants to annihilate his enemies to Fuck Off. I know you're one of the douches who thinks Trump is beneath you and you don't approve of him, but... so you're condescension is expected. You just keep lying there with your pinky lifted. Nothing I say is going to penetrate anyway. Meanwhile I will spit back the exact kind of hatred, threats, promises of violence, and smears that conservatives and Trump supporters have been hearing from Party members for years. You can cry about it, I DGAF.

Joanne Jacobs said...

The major media has given Trump such incredibly negative coverage that they destroyed their credibility. It's hard to get back.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

I've been commenting at Althouse for over 20 years, shithead. My politics are well-known if you care to look at my comments history. You on the other hand are the Jew-baiter who just started running his cocksucker here when that Ukraine war started. In any case, you're wrong. I state my true name and that's more than you deserve, Doctor. I state my honest feelings and opinions and express my anger too, and I'm as angry as I have ever been these days, and I'm not the only one feeling like this.

RideSpaceMountain said...

You'd be shocked at how easy it is to sell snake oil to some women.

tim in vermont said...

I would love to have a crack at those de-programmers. I mean I really would.

tim in vermont said...

Not like Joe Biden, who can sniff out a war to pour gasoline on clear the other side of the globe. I had a Labrador once who could smell bacon frying in the next county, but Joe Biden is a freak of nature.

dreams said...

I think they're trying to get Trump killed.

Dr Weevil said...

More lies from "Michael Fitzgerald", if that's really his name. I notice his profile doesn't give a middle initial, home town, profession, age, or any other clue as to which of the several hundred Michael Fitzgeralds in the world he is, so knowing his "true name" is absolutely worthless.

MF (appropriate initials) is simply lying when he calls me a "Jew-baiter" (where the fuck could he have gotten that idea?), and when he says that I started posting here "when that Ukraine war started". I've been commenting here on a wide range of subjects for 15 or 20 years, so maybe he should "look at my comments history". And his "honest feelings" skirt pretty close to the line separating opinion from criminal threats, which was the point of the first reply from 'tim in vermont', not someone I often agree with.

Dr Weevil said...

Here's a comment of mine from more than 14 years ago: link. I'm pretty sure it was not my first, though DuckDuckGo can't find any earlier. Will MF correct his stupid lie?

boatbuilder said...

What was outrageous three days ago is no longer on the front pages...

When I first read that, I thought someone was talking about the assassination attempt on Trump.

Funny how that doesn't seem to bother Hillary at all.

Dr Weevil said...

And here's the earliest "Michael Fitzgerald" comment DuckDuckGo can find: link. More than three years later than my earliest and a whole lot less than 20 years ago. Is DuckDuckGo's search function unreliable on BlogSpot blogs? Quite likely. Or is "Michael Fitzgerald" lying again when he says he's been commenting here for 20 years? Quit possible: he really likes telling lies, the grosser the better.

Amadeus 48 said...

To listen to Hillary, you would think that Trump is the one persecuting his opponents and assassinating people.

mikee said...

Could be worse. That person, Hillary, could have become president.

Rusty said...

Dangerous to who?

Skipper said...

Projection, projection, projection. Call a shrink, Hillary.