Yet Another Round of Clinton Smears

Two-time presidential loser Hillary Clinton has dusted off her time-worn excuses and leveled another round of attacks on the Left. Someone should remind her she’s in a glass house.

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Hillary Clinton speaks with Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times on November 6 in New York City. (Mike Cohen / Getty Images for the New York Times)


It’s Tuesday, so you know what that means: time to debunk the latest litany of smears from Hillary Clinton.

In last week’s interview with Howard Stern, Clinton took part in her trademark combination of score-settling and excuse-making over her inept 2016 presidential campaign that brought the world President Donald Trump. Clinton’s scorn was directed, as it has tended to be these last three years, at former Democratic challenger and current contender for the nomination Bernie Sanders, who she charged “could have” endorsed her earlier and “hurt” her campaign by not doing so. (Sanders endorsed her around a month after the contest was over.) Clinton also mentioned that the Russian troll farms who were working to get Trump elected “also said Bernie Sanders, but you know, that’s for another day.”

These are well-worn Clinton talking points by now, but let’s deal with them briefly. Firstly, while it’s true Sanders took longer to endorse Clinton than she did to endorse Obama in 2008 (by less than a week), chalking up Clinton’s loss to this fact is a stretch. John McCain took two months to tepidly endorse George W. Bush in 2000, who won that election. Howard Dean took about the same time as Sanders to endorse John Kerry in 2004, who lost that campaign despite the enthusiastic backing of a number of other former rivals. Funnily enough, no one seems to bring this up about Dean, probably because they recognize that other factors — including Kerry’s lifeless campaign — played a bigger role in the loss.

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