Friday, December 16, 2016

HILLARY TELLS FUMING DONORS: Putin and Comey to Blame for Loss, Not My Palsied, Veiny Cat Smell

By Tyler Durden

Hillary Clinton attempted to explain to a group of exasperated donors (in the words of a Midwestern fundraiser "I’m not putting another f***ing dime in until someone tells me what just happened") why she lost. Her reasoning, echoing John Podesta's whiney op-ed (and every mainstream media narrative) is simple - it wasn't her flaws, it was FBI Director Comey and Russian President Vladimir Putin that caused her defeat.

When Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine greeted the very top fundraisers and donors to their failed campaign at New York’s Plaza Hotel on Thursday evening, Politico reports that many of them had one simple question in mind: where’s the autopsy?

 The call for a deep and detailed accounting of how Clinton lost a race that she and her donors were absolutely certain she’d win didn’t begin immediately after the election — there was too much shock over her defeat by Donald Trump, and overwhelming grief. Her initial conference call with top backers, which came just days after the outcome, focused primarily on FBI Director Jim Comey’s late campaign-season intervention.

...But in the weeks since, the wealthy Democrats who helped pump over $1 billion into Clinton’s losing effort have been urging their local finance staffers, state party officials, and campaign aides to provide a more thorough explanation of what went wrong. With no dispassionate, centralized analysis of how Clinton failed so spectacularly, they insist, how can they be expected to keep contributing to the party?

...“A lot of the bundlers and donors still are in shock and disbelief by what happened. They’re looking for some introspection and analysis about what really happened, what worked and what didn’t,” said Ken Martin, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and a top campaign bundler himself. "It may take some time to do that, but people are still just scratching their heads."

...Or, in the words of a Midwestern fundraiser who’s kept in touch with fellow donors, “A lot of people are saying, ‘I’m not putting another fucking dime in until someone tells me what just happened.’”

And so, as The New York Times reports, Hillary attempted to explain why she lost...

Hillary Clinton on Thursday night attributed her defeat to a convergence of two “unprecedented” events: the release of a letter by James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, shortly before the election, and what she called an “attack against our country” by the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin.

Comey didn't help...

Mrs. Clinton said the letter Mr. Comey released disclosing new questions about emails handled by her private server had cost her close races in several battleground states.

...“Swing-state voters made their decisions in the final days breaking against me because of the F.B.I. letter from Director Comey,” she said.

But it was The Russians that were most responsible apparently...

The Russians, she said, sought to “undermine our democracy” through cyberattacks on Democratic targets.

 

She said the hacking into the Democratic National Committee and into the emails of her campaign chairman, John D. Podesta, were a result of Mr. Putin’s “personal beef” against her, pointing to her accusation that Russia’s 2011 parliamentary elections were rigged.

...“Putin publicly blamed me for the outpouring of outrage by his own people, and that is the direct line between what he said back then and what he did in this election,” Mrs. Clinton said.

And then, like Podesta (and Obama), she called for retribution...

“Make no mistake, as the press is finally catching up to the facts, which we desperately tried to present to them during the last months of the campaign,” Mrs. Clinton told the group, which collectively poured roughly $1 billion into her effort.

...“This is not just an attack on me and my campaign, although that may have added fuel to it. This is an attack against our country. We are well beyond normal political concerns here. This is about the integrity of our democracy and the security of our nation.”

Purple Reign continues...


Read more at Zero Hedge.
 

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

The drunken sociopath with neurological issues should have just blamed a YouTube video.

Anonymous said...

The fact that over a billion "had to be pumped" into a campaign and the paltry draw at any of her campaign stops should have been a YUGE red flag they were backing a loser.

Coffeequeen8 said...

She takes no responsibility. She had name recognition and "it was her turn" but her sleaziness made her a weak choice.A newcomer, Obama, beat her in 2008 and an old socialist, Sanders, nearly upset her in 2016. Democrats were desperately looking for anybody but Hillary but they have such a weak bench, she got nominated. Sure, Comey's letter shifted momentum and enhanced Trump supporters' enthusiasm at just the right time, but, her own decisions, to circumvent proper communication channels, which made her emails vulnerable to hacking, had placed her as the subject of an FBI investigation in the first place. Otherwise,there would have been no Comey letter.

Doom said...

If they couldn't tell the problem, on their own, then they are up for much more serious losses. May they go broke and still rot in hell. Amen.

Anonymous said...

What did we expect? HiLLary : It's all my fault. I am responsible for this defeat.
Yeah, Like that would ever happen. Let them stay deluded.
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RebeccaH said...

What if there had been no damaging emails to hack? What about that, huh? If these so-called genius Democrat donors buy Hillary Clinton's whining excuses, then they deserve to be bilked for millions.

RebeccaH said...

What if there had been no damaging emails to hack? What about that, huh? If these so-called genius Democrat donors buy Hillary Clinton's whining excuses, then they deserve to be bilked for millions.