Hillary Launches Her Latest "Charm" Campaign, while America Cringes and Her Benghazi and Email "Matters" Gather Steam

THE REAL NEWS TODAY IS THAT OUR GIRL HILLARY HAS LOST CONTACT WITH REALITY. If she ever had any actual contact with reality. • • • THE LATEST BOOK TOUR. It is beginning to look like book tours are Hillary Clinton's way of pretending that she is still a presidential candidate whose views matter -- at least to CNN and the rest of the Progressive lapdog media. But, what Our Girl Hillary says is so out of touch with reality that we have to wonder if she is still rational. Her book "What Happened" is a painful look at a neurotic wonderland laced with paranoia • WND gave us this HillaryRant on Tuesday : "We've got to figure out how we're going to break through...We're still at a disadvantage." WND's asks the right question : "Is Hillary Clinton always this out of touch, or is today just a very special occasion?" If the former Democratic Party presidential nominee actually believes most media coverage is biased against Democrats, she has obviously been watching a Martian TV channel with Little Green Men reading the daily news. Clinton made her argument Tuesday during a “Pod Save America” podcast put on by four former aides to President Obama : Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Jon Lovette and Tommy Vietor '' -- now we know who the Little Green Men are. She claimed Democrats are at a “disadvantage” when it comes to news reporting : “First, the other side has dedicated propaganda channels. That’s what I call Fox News. It has outlets like Breitbart and crazy Infowars and things like that. In this particular election, it was aided and abetted by the Russians and the role that Facebook and other platforms played. We are late to that. You know, we did not understand how a reality TV campaign would so dominate the media environment. And I confess, I was trying to do everything I could to build on the success of President Obama’s campaign. I had a lot of people you guys know involved in the campaign. We were really proud of it, but boy it was tough to break through. So I think the Democrats can do a lot, but they are still going to face a very difficult media environment. And we’ve got to figure out how we’re going to break through. I mean, obviously, more podcasts, more other ways of communicating so voices can be heard and real positions can be understood is part of it. But we’re still at a disadvantage.” • • • HILLARY RANTS ABOUT THE MEDIA. It is almost too easy to knock holes in these HillaryRants. Suffice it to say that even American sports media giant ESPN is flogging for Progressives while booting conservatives off the air. WND reported on Tuesday that while ESPN had terminated baseball legend Curt Schilling for sharing a Facebook post concerning the transgender bathroom issue in the news headlines in 2016, it now apparently will not punish Trump-hating host Jemele Hill, who fired off a tweet storm calling the President a bigot and white supremacist. ESPN SportCenter host Jemele Hill, a fan of former President Obama, unleashed a brutal series of anti-Trump tweets on September 11 : “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists."....“Trump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime. His rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period."....“[Trump] is unqualified and unfit to be President. He is not a leader. And if he were not white, he never would have been elected.”....“Donald Trump is a bigot. Glad you could live with voting for him. I couldn’t, because I cared about more than just myself.” AND, what was ESPN’s response? ESPN released the following statement Tuesday : “The comments on Twitter from Jemele Hill regarding the President do not represent the position of ESPN. We have addressed this with Jemele and she recognizes her actions were inappropriate.” In July, Hill made headlines when she compared police to “slave patrols” that used violence on plantations to impose discipline on black slaves before the Civil War. In June, ESPN conducted a survey intended to refute that it has a leftist bias. But ESPN’s own research showed respondents, by a 2-to-1 margin, said they detect this bias. On Wednesday, the White house press secretary said Jemele Hill should be fired for calling the President a racist. • Hillary made some startling claims on the podcast about media coverage of the left, and, of course, the MSM picked up the theme and ran with it, blazing away for Hillary, with headlines like "Hillary Clinton : I'm 'Convinced' Donald Trump associates helped Russia." And, when she wasn't blaming conservative media for her defeat, she was pouncing yet again on her own deflated Democrat Party leaders, accusing them of not being “more willing to invest in media that can be competitive. Cause what you’ve got is a right-wing advocacy propaganda, and you’ve got a kind of mainstream media that engages in false equivalency.” This gibberish makes Hillary Clinton the only American alive who thinks the MSM "engages in false equivalency" against her. All-of-America-Minus-One knows that the MSM is still fighting the 2016 campaign as propagandists for Hillary, hoping she will win in the Time Warp they are trying to create. So, for Hillary, it didn't matter that on Tuesday while she was ranting about some fanstasy MSM that favors conservatives -- boy is that a laugh -- the real world was hearing about a new study by the Media Research Center showing that broadcast evening newscasts have been extremely hostile in their coverage of President Trump. Since his inauguration, Trump has received more media coverage than President Obama received in his last two years as President. But, says MRC : “Analyzing the networks’ spin makes it clear that the goal of all of this heavy coverage is not to promote the President, but to punish him. In June, July and August, broadcast evening news coverage of Trump was 91% negative -- worse than the astounding 89% negative spin we calculated during the first three months of the Trump administration, usually a traditional honeymoon period for new Presidents.” The MRC study found that evening news coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC was aggressively anti-Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign and throughout 2017. • But, as WND recently reported, that doesn't stop Hillary from blaming the media for her 2016 election loss, attacking the media in general and the New York Times in particular for covering her email scandal : “The use of my email account was turned into the biggest scandal since lord knows when. And you know, in [the] book I’m just using everything that anybody else said about it besides me to basically say this was the biggest nothing-burger ever.” In her new book -- dare we hope it is her last? -- Clinton also says she was “ticked off” and “almost physically sick” because NBC “Today Show” host Matt Lauer focused on her email scandal during an interview : “Lauer had turned what should have been a serious discussion into a pointless ambush." • We all remember the first HillaryRant about the "vast right-wing conspiracy" -- it was in 1998 when hubby Bill got broadsided for his sexual misconduct with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Hillary lashed out then at Internet alternative media because the Drudge Report broke the Monica story. Hillary blamed a “vast right-wing conspiracy” for the scandal before evidence emerged that led to her husband’s impeachment and his infamous wiggle words : “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” • • • THE WOMAN CARD. Hillary also blamed her loss on “sexism and misogyny, which are endemic to our society.” What Hillary and other Progressive females do not seem to get is that being a successful woman in any undertaking requires preparation, hard work, above-average skills and the ability to forget that there may be a certain bias against women. That bias was rampant 50 years ago -- I know because it was my generation -- I was there -- who broke through the bias and showed the world that women are competent, whatever the job. The bias is less and less an issue and young professional women think it's unimportant. Whatever bias remains is chiefly in the blue-collar job world. Hillary rants about being female go on, but she doesn't speak to the majority of women because her world has never been in the heartland of America where most women compete for jobs and equal pay -- how could she when her door-opening ticket as the wife of Bill Clinton allows her to demand $600,000 for a single speech. • Hillary told a WNYC interviewer on Tuesday that if she had won the 2016 election, the American people would have seen her as a “genius" : "Well, I thought it was pretty revolutionary that I was the first woman to have a realistic chance of becoming President. So I don’t know how any woman who is not familiar to people, since we have so many hurdles to overcome, could have even been in that position that I found myself. So if I won, you know, I would have been seen as a genius, my campaign would have been seen as perfect. I understand all of that.” BUT, does Hillary Clinton understand that her filling the space for a quarter of a century has prevented other actually qualified women from seeking the presidency?? • WND reported that during a book-signing event on Tuesday, Hillary was hit with a barrage of questions from conservative commentator Laura Loomer. Here is WND's account. Loomer : “So the American people would like to know: What happened to your 33,000 emails? What happened in Benghazi?” Hillary laughed and replied, “Go read the book.” But Loomer kept going : “What happened to the millions of dollars that was supposed to go to the people in Haiti?” Hillary then replied: “You know what? I’m so sorry you believe things that are untrue.” Before security began hauling her off, Loomer asked : “What happened to Seth Rich? What happened to your health, Hillary?” That’s when Loomer noticed Huma Abedin at the event, so she asked : “When are you gonna divorce your husband for texting underage girls?” • In the book, Hillary talks about the Women’s March in DC as a “bittersweet” contrast between the enthusiasm of activists and the lack of enthusiasm expressed during her campaign. While she called the event “awe-inspiring" on Twitter, she says she : “couldn’t help but ask where those feelings of solidarity, outrage, and passion had been during the election. Since November, more than two dozen women -- of all ages, but mostly in their twenties -- had approached me in restaurants, theaters, and stores to apologize for not voting or not doing more to help my campaign. I responded with forced smiles and tight nods.” Clinton then recounts a moment when a mother dragged her daughter by the arm to apologize to the former Secretary of State for not voting. She notes that the girl had her head “bowed in contrition.” But instead of feeling sorry for the girl being humiliated before her, Clinton says she wanted to pile on : “I wanted to stare right in her eyes and say, ‘You didn’t vote? How could you not vote?! You abdicated your responsibility as a citizen at the worst possible time! And now you want me to make you feel better?’ Of course I didn’t say any of that.” The truth is that while a majority of women voted for Clinton, she failed to win a majority of white women -- they voted instead for Trump. It is clear from the book that Clinton was stung by this particular voter data point. She wrote : “These people were looking for absolution that I just couldn’t give. We all have to live with the consequences of our decisions.” • As we said about Trump when his campaign bluntness overwhelmed the Political Correctness of the Left, America votes for a President and Commander-in-Chief, not a Pastor-in-Chief. We don't want "absolution" from Hillary. But, since she lost, Hillary has suggested that she may become a preacher. And, if she does preach, it could be in the Voodoo sect, because she wrote in her book that she was so frustrated about the infamous scandal surrounding her use of a private email server that she was “tempted” to construct voodoo dolls in the images of “certain members” of the news media and Congress, and then “stick them full of pins.” In the book, Clinton complained that “attacks” against her use of the private email server “were untrue or wildly overstated, and motivated by partisan politics.” Does Hillary even understand that running for President is the apex of "partisan politics"? She calls the email server "a dumb mistake," describing it as quicksand : the more you struggle, the deeper you sink : "At times, I thought I must be going crazy. Other times, I was sure it was the world that had gone nuts. Sometimes I snapped at my staff. I was tempted to make voodoo dolls of certain members of the press and Congress and stick them full of pins. Mostly, I was furious at myself." In her previous memoir, Hard Choices, Clinton described attending a voodoo spirit ceremony with a 'voodoo priest' during her honeymoon with Bill in Haiti in 1975. She related in Hard Choices : 'One of the most memorable experiences of our trip was meeting a local voodoo priest named Max Beauvoir. He invited us to attend one of his ceremonies. We saw Haitians 'seized with spirits' walk on hot coals, bite the heads off live chickens, and chew glass, spit out the shards, and not bleed. At the end of the ceremony, the people claimed the dark spirits had departed.' " • Spare us, Dear Lord !!! • • • THE HILLARY BLAME GAME. Breitbart's Adam Shaw wrote on Monday : "An angry Hillary Clinton was quick Sunday to blame a host of factors for why she lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump." In a Sunday interview with CBS News, Hillary laid out the many reasons -- "focusing primarily on the letter from FBI Director James Comey announcing in October the reopening of the investigation into her use of a private email server as Secretary of State." Hillary told CBS : “I watched how analysts who I have a great deal of respect for, like Nate Silver, burrowed into all the data and said that ‘but for that Comey letter, she would have won.' ” Hillary and her team have pointed to the so-called “Comey letter,” as well as alleged interference by the Russian government, and the release by WikiLeaks of John Podesta’s emails, as the key reasons for her defeat. However, Clinton has pointed to a wide range of other reasons for her loss. • Breitbart said that last week Hillary "appeared to blame angry voters in front of an audience in New York City : “I think the kind of leadership I was offering was not satisfying enough for certain people, and it wasn’t enough for me to say, ‘Look, I understand, and here’s what I want to do to help’ if I didn’t display more anger so that they could feel I got their anger." Hillary also blamed Facebook -- the site that has always seemed to be a Hillary supporter judging by its sorting and presentation of political news. But, in the CBS News interview, Hillary said : “We now know Facebook was taking money from Russian companies to run negative stories about me. If you look at all of this, yes it affected me and my campaign. But I am more concerned now going forward that we haven’t come to grips with what it means for future elections.” • Not satisfied with blaming Russian the media, women, Democrats, and Facebook for her loss, Hillary pointed to alleged “voter suppression that we now know had been in the works and really put into effect in a lot of states like Wisconsin and North Carolina, etc.” Wrong again -- the November recounts unanimously produced more votes for Trump and fewer votes for Hillary. And, the presidential voting fraud commission is finding that voter fraud favors Democrats. • • • BACK TO THE REAL WORLD. • BENGHAZI. Fox News reported on Tuesday that : "Security at the State Department's Benghazi compound was so dire that another contractor was brought in to clean up the mess just two weeks before the 2012 terror attack -- and was later pressured to keep quiet by a government bureaucrat under then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to two men from the American security company. Brad Owens and Jerry Torres, of Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions, say they faced pressure to stay silent and get on the same page with the State Department with regard to the security lapses that led to the deaths of four Americans." The two menn who spoke exclusively to Fox News, revealed information that "undermines the State Department's account of the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, where Islamic militants launched a 13-hour assault from September 11-12 that killed US Ambassador Chris Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith and former Navy SEALS Ty Woods and Glenn Doherty." • Torres, a former Green Beret, is CEO of Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions, which provides security for US embassy and consulate personnel around the world in some of the most dangerous locations spanning Africa, the Middle East and South America, according to the firm. Fox reported that "Jerry Torres remains haunted by the fact specific bureaucrats and policies remain in the State Department after the Benghazi attack despite the change in administrations." Torres says : "A US ambassador is dead and nobody is held accountable for it. And three guys...all died trying to defend him." Asked if there was a specific effort by a senior State Department contracting officer to silence them, Torres said, "Absolutely, absolutely." • Brad Owens is a former Army intelligence officer. He agrees with Torres, saying those “who made the poor choices that actually, I would say, were more responsible for the Benghazi attacks than anyone else, they're still in the same positions, making security choices for our embassies overseas now." In 2012, Owens was the American company’s point man in Libya with extensive experience in the region. After the death of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi in the fall of 2011, Owens stressed to Fox News, it was well-known that Islamic radicals including Al Qaida-tied militias were pouring into the region and security “had deteriorated considerably.” • Fox News says it has reviewed bid documents of Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions bid on the Benghazi compound security contract in the spring of 2012. The State Department awarded the job to a UK-based operation called The Blue Mountain Group. Owens was shocked : "Blue Mountain UK is a teeny, tiny, little security company registered in Wales that had never had a diplomatic security contract, had never done any high threat contracts anywhere else in the world that we've been able to find, much less in high threat areas for the US government. They had a few guys on the ground." According to Torres' account, Blue Mountain Group came in 4% lower than their bid -- and they challenged the decision, claiming the American company should have been preferred over the foreign one. Torres told Fox that State Department contracting officer Jan Visintainer responded that the State Department had the “latitude to apply” that preference or not. And there was more, according to Owen -- Blue Mountain Group hired guards through another company who were not armed. Problems arose. One month before the attack -- in August 2012, with The Blue Mountain Group still in charge of compound security -- Ambassador Stevens and his team alerted the State Department via a classified diplomatic cable that radical Islamic groups were everywhere and that the temporary mission compound could not withstand a "coordinated attack." By August 31, 2012, the situation had deteriorated to the point that Owens and Torres said the State Department asked them to intervene...They came back to us and said, ‘Can you guys come in and take over security?’ Owens said. 'So we were ready.' ” But Torres emphasized that time was against them, saying it would have taken two-to-three weeks to get set up. Twelve days later, the Ambassador was killed....He called the circumstances leading up to the tragedy "bad decision-making from top to bottom. Owens said "there was nothing we could've done about it. If we'd had one month warning...who knows what might've happened.” • Fox revisited the Benghazi aftermath : "In the chaotic days following that attack, the Obama White House blamed the attacks on an anti-Islam video and demonstration which was not accurate. Torres says the attack was a coordinated terrorist assault which included a precision mortar strike on the CIA post in Benghazi. But as the Obama administration and Clinton’s team struggled to answer questions about the attacks, Visintainer apparently took it one step further -- summoning Jerry Torres from overseas to attend a meeting at her government office in Rosslyn, Va., in early 2013. Torres took Fox News back to the Virginia office building where he recalled that day's events : '[Visintainer] said that I and people from Torres should not speak to the media, should not speak to any officials with respect to the Benghazi program,' he said. Torres said he was afraid for his company -- and hasn’t spoken publicly until now. 'We had about 8,000 employees at the time. You know, we just didn't need that level of damage because these guys, their livelihood relies on the company,' he said. Torres also said that Visintainer told him “in her opinion, that guards should not be armed at US embassies. She just made that blanket statement....And she said that they weren't required in Benghazi....And she said that she would like my support in saying that if that came up. And I looked at her. I just didn't respond." • Fox News says the State Department declined its request to make Visintainer available for an interview, or have her answer written email questions. The Blue Mountain Group did not respond to questions from Fox News. • Torres and Owens said repercussions against their company continue -- of the 20 security force contracts they’ve bid on since that conversation, they’ve lost 18. They are concerned another attack like the one in Benghazi could happen again because the same State Department employees responsible for the Benghazi contract remain in place and the contracting rules are outdated. The two men say they are hopeful that changes will come with the Trump administration’s promise to drain the Swamp. That should mean that Hillary Clinton is finally brought to the public square to truthfully explain Benghazi and to pay the price. • HILLARY RECORDS RELEASE. The Daily Caller reported on August 30 that the FBI was guarding records on Hillary Clinton, rejecting a Freedom of Information Act request by attorney Ty Clevenger, citing a “lack of public interest” as basis for denial. FBI records section chief David M. Hardy told investigator Clevenger that he did sufficiently demonstrate that the public’s interest in disclosing [Hillary’s FBI records relating to her personal secret server email investigation] outweighed her personal privacy interests. Hillary was shielded by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey -- and to be honest, by President Obama who was Lynch's and Comey's boss -- during the email “investigation.” In response to the FBI's refusal to release the records, Clevenger accused the FBI of “protecting” Clinton, suggesting that the agency may as well still be under the oversight of the Obama administration : “I’m just stunned. This is exactly what I would have expected had Mrs. Clinton won the election, but she didn’t. It looks like the Obama administration is still running the FBI." Clevenger asked the Washington Times : “How can a story receive national news coverage and not be a matter of public interest? If this is the new standard, then there’s no such thing as a public interest exception.” • BUT, the very same day, US District Judge James E. Boasberg said court papers describing the grand jury subpoenas the FBI obtained to compel information from Mrs. Clinton’s internet service providers can be made public, overruling objections by the "Trump administration" that had insisted making the information public would violate grand jury secrecy rules. Judge Boasberg said : “After reviewing the document in camera, the court concludes that it largely rehashes information already made public, thus obviating any need for secrecy.” • Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, doesn’t understand why the Trump administration is still backing the Obama administration’s fight against transparency in this case : “President Trump ought to be outraged his appointees are protecting Hillary Clinton. The State Department should initiate action with the Justice Department -- and both agencies should finally take the necessary steps to recover all the government emails Hillary Clinton unlawfully removed.” • HILLARY'S ATTORNEYS TO BE INVESTIGATED. When Clinton’s secret server was disclosed, the trove of emails she belatedly turned over to the State Department was only half of those on the server. Hillary said she turned over all of her work-related emails to the Department, then wiped the server -- which she had kept at her home in New York -- clean after her lawyers scoured the server for work-related emails. Later, the FBI managed to obtain some emails that were clearly work-related, but which Hillary hadn’t turned over, raising questions about what else may be out there. Clinton’s critics have said the FBI needs to make a more robust effort to try to recover those messages. A Maryland judge agrees and on Monday ordered the Maryland state Bar to open an investigation into the three lawyers who helped former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delete her private emails. Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Paul F. Harris Jr. said the complaints lodged against David E. Kendall, Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson were egregious and the state bar couldn’t dismiss them as frivolous. “There are allegations of destroying evidence,” Judge Harris said at a hearing Monday morning. He said the state’s rules require the bar to conduct investigations no matter who raises the complaint and can’t brush aside accusations. The Maryland bar complaint was brought by Clevenger. State Bars in Arkansas and the District of Columbia, as well as federal courts, have brushed aside requests from Clevenger, who is seeking to have Mrs. Clinton and her attorneys suspended or disbarred. Judge Harris said Clevenger’s request appears to have merit and that Maryland will have to at least launch an investigation and demand a response from the lawyers. The Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission refused Clevenger's request last year, because he had “no personal knowledge of the allegations.” On Monday, Alexis Rohde, a lawyer for the grievance commission, said she was bound by confidentiality rules that prevented her from explaining why the panel had determined the complaint was frivolous. Judge Harris rejected that explanation, saying it was the first time the commission had used the term “frivolous” to explain a decision. He also said the rules were clear that the commission needed to investigate : “I just think this is a rather easy decision at this point. The court is ordering bar counsel to investigate.” • • • DEAR READERS, David Prentice of American Thinker wrote that President Trump broke the code of political correctness : "Plain-spoken, he didn't give a damn whether he upset the modern-day Pharisees' tables. He didn't give a damn about current sacred cows. He pointed them out, and the world still can't believe it." The Democrat Party acquiesced in Obama's election. Prentice sees it clearly : "A greater con job may never have happened. A hapless, Bush-McCain-led GOP blew off its party's principles, and the GOP base simply stayed home. An ever leftward surge by the Democrat Party set them up with two of the most extreme leaders ever, Pelosi and Reid, coupled with their most extreme (and unqualified) presidential candidate ever....Democrats had sixty votes in the Senate and a huge majority in the House along with the presidency. They seemed invincible. While they thought they were, they weren't. We had the most virulent, radical, fraudulent Leftists ever in positions of power....they governed against the will of America....allowing the corruption and the terrible things Obama put in place....Who could have predicted the insanity that happened to the left after Trump won? It's a huge bonus in unintended consequences. Therapy dogs? Crying rooms? Free teddy bears? Safe spaces? The Russians? Really? Leftists had gone mad. Their 'rights' to lord it over the government had been stolen from them. How dare Trump win? There just had to be an explanation why the country chose him." • Hillary has provided the explanation. It was the Democrat Party's own fault -- and women's fault -- and the media's fault -- and Russia's fault -- and Comey's fault. It was not Hillary's fault. Her 25 years of lying, her accusing the conservative media of being a right-wing conspiracy, her enabling a sexual predator husband, her many shady financial deals, her failure to protect Benghazi, her email scandal, her lies to Congress and the FBI, her pay-for-play Clinton Foundation crimes as Secretary of State, her calling half of America "Deplorables" -- all that had nothing to do with her loss. • Donald Trump understood. He saw that the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton could be taken down. And, he did it, with precious little help from his own GOP. Trump is blunt, anti-PC, and a non-politician. But, he is reasonable. He loves America. He is even trying to help the Democrats come back into the arena where American politics is played out. But, Hillary and the Democrat Party -- extremist, racist, gender-and -LGBT-driven, socialist, fascist, anti-religion, anti-Constitution -- seem content to inhabit an arena of petty tyrants. Hillary's "What Happened" explanation of their existential dilemma lays it all out there for America to see. She is the poster child of the Antifa-loving, fractured, corrupt, and terrifying force that believes America "owes" it political power and cannot accept that anyone could deny it that power. Hillary Clinton is a fraud in a Democrat Party full of frauds. America has had enough of her and of her Progressive Democrat Party. "Get Thee Behind Me, Satan."