September 05, 2016

Clinton Flies Into 737 Blue Skies 'Stronger Together' But With A Dour Press Onboard

September 05, 2016/ Anne Enke

Clinton Speaks Briefly with Press on Her New Plane Politico

Hillary kept her sense of humor this morning, as the press joined on on the maiden flight of her new campaign plane. Clinton greeted the 40 or so journalists traveling with her on the Boeing 737 emblazoned with the campaign's 'H' logo and campaign message 'Stronger Together' covering a large space of the aircraft.

The press corps -- having bitterly complained about her lack of press conferences -- didn't know how to respond when Hillary walked to the back of the plane to welcome them.

"I'm thrilled," our candidate said. "No really!f I wanted to welcome you onto the plane. I think it's pretty cool, don't you?"

Not knowing how to casually respond to Clinton, the plane was quiet. "You're supposed to say yes," Hillary smiled.

Hillary Clinton Gets Gored by Paul Krugman New York Times

With Hillary Clinton packing up her new jet plane today -- with press and herself together -- she and her aides should use the opportunity to educate and inquire of the press how they determine stories. The double standard in press coverage is becoming downright alarming.

Increasingly, it’s hard to escape the impression that Donald Trump is being graded on a curve. As Krugman points out, if the Republican blowhard manages to read from a TelePrompter without going off script, the press pronounces that Trump is being presidential. If he flips twice in one day, suddenly suggesting that he wouldn’t send a police force to round up all 11 million undocumented immigrants right away -- deciding to focus on the first 3 million - he’s now moving into the mainstream, even though new polls say over 70% of Americans believe in immigration reform and a legal path for the undocumented to come out of the shadows. The press cares little about what appear to be clear payoffs to state attorneys general to back off investigating Trump University.

Simultaneously, the press assumes that anything Hillary Clinton does must be corrupt, most spectacularly illustrated by the increasingly bizarre coverage of the Clinton Foundation, as AOC has noted.

"Step back for a moment, and think about what that foundation is about", writes Krugman. "When Bill Clinton left office, he was a popular, globally respected figure. What should he have done with that reputation? Raising large sums for a charity that saves the lives of poor children sounds like a pretty reasonable, virtuous course of action. And the Clinton Foundation is, by all accounts, a big force for good in the world. For example, Charity Watch, an independent watchdog, gives it an “A” rating — better than the American Red Cross."'

The situation is so bad that yesterday moderator of NBC's 'Meet the Press' Chuck Todd let a Trump spokesman allege the thoroughly debunked assertion that the Clinton Foundation only donates about 20% of its contributions to charity. The truth about anything Clinton has no place in a media that generally has disliked Hillary Clinton for decades. It's just her reality, and we the voters hear more lies than truth about Hillary Clinton from mainstream media.

Same Day | Two Realities

On Labor Day, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton begin Final Sprint New York Times

Some days, a picture is worth a thousand words. I give you the Hillary Clinton plane and Donald Trump's. Now Hillary is back with the press and Trump is speaking to a couple media embeds. Still, Trump is white boys club all the way in this shot Hillary is of the people. Huma was on board in the front, along with other members of the Clinton team -- judged the most diverse and balanced by skin color, gender and sexual identity than any campaign team in history. And they know her for years -- decades in some cases. Hillary doesn't have to shop for people to fill any quotas. She has staffed her organizations this way for decades.

Trump Says He Would Have Left G-20 Summit in China Over Obama Staircase Flap Washington Post

If you've traveled the world on business for decades with legendary business relations with people in other countries, this Trump comment reminds me of why the man would be an international embarrassment truly capable of launching WWIII. PS: I was considered to be very tough, too. But not stupid and not an ugly American who thinks he is the center of the universe -- the king. ~ Anne

Young Blacks Voice Skepticism on Hillary Clinton, Worrying Democrats New York Times

This is indeed a potentially very serious situation, one exacerbated by the ferocious Democratic primary campaign. I'm struggling that young African Americans really think there is no major difference between Hillary Clinton and Trump. There is absolutely NO comparison about the future of people of color in a Republican Supreme Court. The Black community really needs to have some serious dialogue between older and younger. This is a conversation that needs to happen outside of HWN. We are not qualified -- not having the direct life experience, although Anne did represent inmate interests at Attica prison in a post-riot world -- to attempt the dialogue on this topic. But young African Americans are being very short-sighted in equating Trump and Clinton.

Hillary Clinton Headlines September 5, 2016

Trump Denies He Talked With Florida Attorney General About Donation Washington Post

African Americans worry Trump has awoken a resentment that won't go away Washington Post

The Cowardice of Donald Trump The Atlantic

14 excerpts from the FBI's report on Hillary Clinton Mother Jones

August 19, 2016

Donald Trump Embraces Breitbart & Steve Bannon As Campaign Reboots Yet Again

August 19, 2016/ Anne Enke

Alt Right Rejoices At Trump's Steve Bannon Hire The Daily Beast

"As Breitbart’s chief Steve Bannon did a lot to normalize the racist, anti-semitic world of the Alt-Right, they couldn’t be happier he has now joined the campaign of their king, Donald Trump.

Donald Trump’s campaign is under new management—and his white nationalist fanboys love it.

The campaign’s new chief executive, Stephen Bannon, joins from Breitbart News —where he helped mainstream the ideas of white nationalists and resuscitate the reputations of anti-immigrant fear-mongers.

White nationalists today invest a lot of energy worrying about growing Hispanic and Muslim populations in the U.S. Turns out, Breitbart News spends a lot of time worrying about those things, too. And in Bannon, they see a media-friendly, ethno-nationalist fellow traveler.

“Latterly, Breitbart emerged as a nationalist site and done great stuff on immigration in particular,” VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow told The Daily Beast.

VDare is a white supremacist site. It’s named after Virginia Dare, the first white child born to British colonists in North America. Brimelow said he and Bannon met briefly last month and exchanged pleasantries about each other’s work."

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The Era of 'The Bitch' Is Coming by Michelle Cottle The Atlantic

As a woman whose mindset has taken a real bashing over the last 15 months -- being told by Bernie-loving FB friends that they now loathe me for supporting Hillary, being asked why I am promoting Aryan values with my blonde hair, or worse yet, being called a murder by a so-called feminist for having concerns about Bernie's health care plan -- I have finally embraced being a 'bitch'.

As Michelle Cottle writes, we might as well fasten our psychological seat belts because we are about to see an unleashing of misogyny against competent, intelligent women that is only paralleled by the assault on President Obama as a super smart, compassionate, humanist black man.

If you're a black woman supporting Obama and Clinton, you get special seating at the top of the angst ladder -- except you probably learned to be a bitch to survive long ago.

I am hardened after this campaign in a way that I never was in my life. So the asshat called Donald Trump and his Breitbart News posse will NOT get under my skin. My stilettos are ready to kick some serious butt targeting me . . . because it IS OUR TURN and we are marching to the White House.

Also, if you've been in police protection for a year over some crazy, right-wing, right-to-lifer determined to kill you, the orange mop head is only frightening if we give him the right to run America's highways. I don't know about you, but this bitch will lie down on I-95 -- if not to stop the Trump jet overhead -- at least to fight all his narrow-minded minions traveling to DC, determined to take us back to the land of Ozzie & Harriett. ~ Anne

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A Clinton victory also promises to usher in four-to-eight years of the kind of down-and-dirty public misogyny you might expect from a stag party at Roger Ailes’s house.

You know it’s coming. As hyperpartisanship, grievance politics, and garden-variety rage shift from America’s first black commander-in-chief onto its first female one, so too will the focus of political bigotry. Some of it will be driven by genuine gender grievance or discomfort among some at being led by a woman. But in plenty of other cases, slamming Hillary as a bitch, a c**t (Thanks, Scott Baio!), or a menopausal nut-job (an enduringly popular theme on Twitter) will simply be an easy-peasy shortcut for dismissing her and delegitimizing her presidency.

Either way, it’ll be best to brace for some in-your-face sexist drivel in the coming years. Despite progress in the business world, women as top executives still prompt an extra shot of public scrutiny. (Just ask Marissa Mayer or Sheryl Sandberg or Carly Fiorina.) And just as Barack Obama’s election did not herald a shiny, new post-racial America, Clinton’s would not deliver one of gender equality and enlightenment. So goes progress: Two steps forward, one step back(lash). As the culture changes, people resent that change and start freaking out, others look to exploit their fear, and things can turn really, really nasty on their way to getting better."

Related: Trump and Clinton wreck Facebook friendships Politico

Clinton Could Have Cut Her Tax in Half Under Trump's Plan Bloomberg Politics

Under Hillary Clinton's tax plan, she would have increased her 2015 federal taxes by $224,000 or more. Under Donald Trump's tax plan, the Clintons would have saved about $1.7 million. Sweet!