September 14, 2017

"Clinton’s memoir radiates with fury at the forces and the figures ranged against her, but it is also salted with self-searching..."

"... grief, bitterness, and fitful attempts to channel and contain that fury. At one point, she writes, 'Breathe out. Scream later,'" writes David Remnick at The New Yorker, with just enough alliteration to make me think it's unintentional. Clinton did an interview with him, and there's even more about breathing:
How did she get from day to day? “Chardonnay helped,” she told me.... She also practiced a form of yoga that involves “alternate-nostril breathing.” That someone might leap on her prescription of white wine and yoga as a parody of blue-state self-care is, in her post-candidate life, irrelevant.
I'm amused both by alternate-nostril breathing and the way Remnick makes a joke about it (as if he's not the one making the joke).
In Clinton’s view, she could never win with people who had been trained to regard her as a high-minded phony.... Clinton has come to believe that there is an overriding reason that she has aroused such resentment: her gender.... Clinton said that she has learned... that “the more successful a man becomes, the more likable he becomes; the more professionally successful a woman becomes, the less likable she becomes.” Her situation, she said, “was Clinton-specific, plus sexism and misogyny.”...

She castigates Trump for inflaming and giving “permission” to misogynists and racists. “Those attitudes have never gone away,” she told me. “But we had successfully—and this is part of the role of civilization—we had rendered them unacceptable: being an overt racist, being an overt misogynist, saying the terrible things that Trump said about immigrants or Muslims. All of that was not political correctness. It was respect. It was tolerance. It was acceptance. But there was a growing resentment, anger, that came to full flower in this election. . . . The Internet has given voice to, and a home for, so many more people. And so with Trump to light the match, from the first day of his campaign to the last, there was a sense of acceptance, liberation, empowerment for these forces.”

87 comments:

tcrosse said...

Yawn.

AlbertAnonymous said...

Its all garbage. Absolute garbage. And does anyone think she wrote even a single word of it?

Good Lord, woman, go away!!!!!

Pianoman said...

"Chardonnay helped"?

Wow.

Kevin said...

Clinton has come to believe that there is an overriding reason that she has aroused such resentment: her gender.... Clinton said that she has learned... that “the more successful a man becomes, the more likable he becomes; the more professionally successful a woman becomes, the less likable she becomes.”

This is particularly self-serving. When the first woman is elected, either enough time will have gone by that Hillary can claim the nation has changed, or Hillary can soothe herself with the notion that this woman wasn't nearly as "successful" as she was and therefore didn't endure the same level of female-specific backlash due to her relative inexperience.

Gahrie said...

All of that was not political correctness.

yes it was.

It was respect.

Only for the Left and Leftist ideas.

It was tolerance.

Unless you were conservative or Republican.

It was acceptance.

Except for all of us Deplorables.

Kevin said...

There is still money left from blue-state women that Hillary can extract.

I think Hillary should roll out her own Chardonnay.

AlbertAnonymous said...

would it be called Hillary Shrilldonney (TM)?

Bay Area Guy said...

It's funny how the so-called journalists will chit-chat all day with Hillary about alternate nostril breathing, but not mention that her husband raped Juanita Broadrick.

In 2020, she will be 73. Not too old to run again, I reckon.

Anonymous said...

tcrosse: Yawn

Beat me to it. Hillary is not interesting. The only thing noteworthy about her is the fact that her ambition is completely out of proportion to the utter banality and conventionality of her mind and her character.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Memoirs of a sociopath

No - Hillary. We hate you because you are a money grubbing liar and you belong in jail.

David Begley said...

"Chardonnay helped,"

Laslo was right. Hillary lies about every thing. She says wine but it was vodka.

Tommy Duncan said...

I like the Hillary as a "blame thrower" meme.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

"The forces ranged against her."

On 9/11/16, one of those forces was gravity.

Wince said...

"...alternate-nostril breathing..."

Maybe that what Bill tried to convince Hillary he was doing when she walked in him doing lines of coke off a hooker's ass.

"She's my yoga instructor," he insisted.

There's a title for Hillary's book about life with Bill Clinton: He Insisted.

roesch/voltaire said...

I think this article by ta-nehisi Coates give more insight than Clinton
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/

mccullough said...

"Radiates with fury" should be "fumes." Hillary is about as insightful as as a football interview.

Meade said...

Chardonnay helped and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.

rehajm said...

Substance abuse is not a good trait in a president

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

"How did she get from day to day? “Chardonnay helped,” she told me.... She also practiced a form of yoga that involves “alternate-nostril breathing.” That someone might leap on her prescription of white wine and yoga as a parody of blue-state self-care is, in her post-candidate life, irrelevant."

It's not irrelevant, it's absolutely hilarious. Alternate-nostril breathing?

YoungHegelian said...

Clinton said that she has learned... that “the more successful a man becomes, the more likable he becomes; the more professionally successful a woman becomes, the less likable she becomes.”

No, the more successful a man is, maybe he's more attractive to women. Maybe he's more of a useful contact to have in the rolodex (does anyone still keep a rolodex?). But, nobody, certainly no other man, assumes he's "more likable". Quite the opposite, matter of fact. Men assume that a very successful man will have drive, ambition, & intelligence, but "likability" will probably not be one of his gifts. Matter of fact, for many professions, the assumption will be that he's at least a bit of an asshole.

I think why it is that successful women think men don't like them is because women fins successful men sexually attractive, so they assume that men will find them attractive. But that not what floats most men's boats, & so the inter-gender disconnect. It's like the guy who sets up a Honey-Baked Ham stand across from the synagogue & wonders why business is slow. Wrong product, wrong audience.

HoodlumDoodlum said...

The Internet has given voice to, and a home for, so many more people.

If you think the Lefty techno-billionares aren't coming for your online life & spaces you're not paying attention. They could not be move obvious.

All of these complaints about the wrong kind of people being able to exert power using communication tools sure has a "something must be done about that pesky 1st Amendment" feel to it.

And what a perfect example of Leftist hypocrisy, self-delusion, and/or self-refutation!
"Good people like us believe in tolerance and respect. Also, people who hold attitudes Iand beliefs I dislike should have no place in our society and should find no "home" anywhere, even online."

etbass said...

It's not like women have never been elected. While we have never had a woman as president, we have many who have been in congress, elected by men and women.

David said...

Sarah Palin had no comment.

Wait a few years and watch Nikki Haley stuff those words down Hillary's throat.

Unknown said...

Liberal Women are too annoying to be elected president.

Michael said...

What a horrible person. There are a thousand women who could make good candidates and good presidents. The process is horrible but shouldn't be a deterrent to the right ambitious woman. It won't be Warren and it won't be Harris. My bet is that the first woman president will be a Republican.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

I hope Clinton is as miserable as she wanted to make us.

mccullough said...

Hillary deflagrated the deplorables with her own device. Turns out Trump just trusted her to trounce herself. Wasn't a wide white-wing conspiracy of ists and phobes searching for succor.

Sebastian said...

"Her situation, she said, was Clinton-specific" This is shocking: not every word is a lie.

hawkeyedjb said...

Hillary hates, loathes, detests a good portion of the American electorate. Yet she wonders whey they hate her.

Henry said...

I think we now know why the English burned Joan of Arc.

buwaya said...

"And so with Trump to light the match, from the first day of his campaign to the last, there was a sense of acceptance, liberation, empowerment for these forces.”

Also known as a preference cascade. Basically when most people realize that their feelings/perceptions are shared by most.

I saw one, face to face and in person, at Ninoy Aquino's funeral procession.
What were hundreds, at the start, drew bystanders from the sidewalk into the street, just a few in the first few blocks, and then hundreds and thousands, streams of people poured in from the side-streets, and it all turned into a miles-long march of millions.

Henry said...

If this isn't an argument for gin, I don't know what is.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

My bet is that the first woman president will be a Republican."

9/14/17, 6:34 PM

Well, I don't know about that. Once upon a time I thought that the first black president would be Republican, because a figure like Jesse Jackson would be too divisive. Then came Obama. After both Obama and Trump (I was angry as Chuck was when he won the nomination because I was positive he would lose to Hillary), I give up on predicting who the American people will and will not vote for. I have no idea any more.

Big Mike said...

At a certain point one has to wonder just how much of this crap Hillary herself actually believes and much is meant for the consumption of her small block of adoring liberal female fans.

readering said...

Hillary nuggets not for this board. For the plurality of voters who went with her over The Donald and the others.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

Henry said...
I think we now know why the English burned Joan of Arc."

At least Joan of Arc actually fought and didn't have to make up stories about braving heavy fire from enemy archers.

Darrell said...

She also practiced a form of yoga that involves “alternate-nostril breathing

How is that yoga? Huma is doing a headstand in the corner. (attribution:Stilton Jarlsberg) Sans knickers, would be my guess.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

Darrell said...
She also practiced a form of yoga that involves “alternate-nostril breathing

How is that yoga?"

She's giving her schnozz a heck of a workout (her liver too). Glutes not so much, but what man doesn't appreciate fit and well-toned nostrils?

buwaya said...

Ta Nehisi Coates is, of course an idiot.

"Land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump’s forefathers and barred others from it. "

This all comes of winning battles and wars. Vae victis.

Ken B said...

Piers Morgan had a good piece. He just basically listed everyone she blamed, with a blaming quotation from the book. Devastating.

I like how forces range, and against. Al Gore had dark forces, she has ranging forces. Was there anyone against Trump, or do forces range only against her?

gspencer said...

This Democrat actually stated that she thought the MSM was partly to blame for her loss.

If she truly believes that then I would suggest that she head for Boston. The area has some of the best mental health facilitates in the country.

Alex said...

So she's an admitted alcoholic!

Ken B said...

Gspencer
She said they didn't do their job. She has a point. The emails weren't completely covered up. As Iowahawk says the job of the media is to cover important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

...but it is also salted with self-searching...

To the extent that her election loss is still an open wound, I wish her self-searching involved more salt.

IgnatzEsq said...

I couldn't get through more than a paragraph of Coates' latest screed. It's all so boring and predictable, and I have little use for people that only see and define other humans by the color of their skin. But seriously, this quote? "Land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump’s forefathers and barred others from it."

Change the word Trump to *any* name and this literally describes every single human on earth, if you go far enough back. Human history isn't really that benevolent.

RigelDog said...

I'm just elated to find that our Gracious Host has a separate tag for "nostrils."

Earnest Prole said...

An editor of the New Yorker oblivious to alliteration would be like a professional boxer oblivious to jabs.

MikeR said...

Self-searching? Shouldn't that be soul-searching?
Self-searching sounds like what you do to find fleas. A problem, but not your fault.

tim in vermont said...

Well ticks anyway.

Unknown said...


Entitled Woman from Uncanny Valley delivers fiction for members of thinning Long Tail fan club.

An apt title would have been "The Worst".

The worst candidate, the worst liar, the worst campaigner, the worst speaker, the worst boss

She is simply The Worst.

She's pretty angry for someone so "successful".

With Algore, the candidate who lost his home state,
Bill Clinton's coattails sport the unhappiest winners.

Don't the hundreds of $millions in bribes to her "charity" foundation salve? Truly she didn't earn that.

Ralph L said...

maybe a little blow when you could afford it

Unlike O, Bill went into politics for free (and lazy) sex.

buwaya said...

"Land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump’s forefathers"

Thinking about this, it is indeed true.

Some of Trumps ancestors at least were from the Rhineland, ancient parts of the Roman Empire. Parts of Germany and Austria were Roman. Conquered territory of course, Celtic lands taken by Caesar and his successors. A Roman road runs through the country near by the ancestral village, Kallstadt, which is also near the ancient limes, the fortified frontier.

The village was apparently named after a Frankish (German) chieftain, no doubt the local conqueror of the area, once they broke through into the Empire and took it.

And then it was a part of the territory conquered by Charlemagne, and became the most ancient part of the Holy Roman Empire.

And that bit, the Rhineland-Palatinate, of course, was conquered and reconquered by Bourbon and Habsburg and Wittelsbach and Bonaparte. It was on the "Spanish Road" as well, in the 16th-17th centuries. Spinola and Maurice of Nassau, Tilly, Gonzalo de Cordoba, Turenne and Eugene and Moreau and Archduke Charles, and, of course, Napoleon, most of the great captains of European history campaigned over it.

Bavaria was defeated and subjugated by the Hohenzollerns in 1866, and it all became Germany. Upon which old Trump apparently decided America was a better bet than Kallstadt.

He missed having the place temporarily re-occupied by the French, and later overrun by Patton.

Thats an awful lot of conquering. It is actually one of the more-conquered bits of Europe, outdone only, perhaps, by Belgium and Northern Italy.

Michael K said...

Anyone who has not read "Unlimited Access, has no idea what she is like.

It's amusing that R/V after posing as a professor reads Te Nehsi, the epitome of BLM insanity.

All I can say about the one nostril breathing is that it is well known with a small line of blow and a straw.

"Good Morning, Ma'am."

"Fuck You !"

That;s on a day when she is not particularly pissed.

"For the plurality of voters who went with her over The Donald and the others"

Yes, it may well sell well in California.

FullMoon said...
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JackWayne said...

To say that Coates offers more insight than Hillary is to damn him with the faintest of praise. He's insufferably ignorant due to his racism.

cf said...

Clinton on those ideas that argue against Progressive Supremacy: "we had rendered them unnacceptable"

Oof. This permanent queen-in-waiting gives me the heebie-jeebies.


MikeR said...

"we had rendered them unnacceptable" No, that's true. Democrats pretty much stamped out racism in America.
Well, somebody did.

Known Unknown said...

GO. AWAY.

Known Unknown said...

"On 9/11/16, one of those forces was gravity."

I can't believe how much that episode has been glossed over.

That is what finished her chances, not the October Comey maneuver.

Ralph L said...

At JOM, she is known as CurbDive.

Jon Burack said...

“But we had successfully—and this is part of the role of civilization—we had rendered them unacceptable."

I think this is the most revealing thing she said (I only got through half of Remnick's interminable babble, so maybe she said something else).

What is revealing is her bizarre notion that civilization is moved by the force of some cloyingly "respectable" group pressure, as imposed (clearly in this case) by the right sorts. Actually, I'd say group pressure to stop what is "unacceptable" has been the norm of all of human society. Civilization seems to be something that arises when the unacceptable is actually allowed to flower, perhaps even encouraged.

William said...

I've enjoyed reading these comments. She's an inspiration to us all, albeit in a negative way. I hope she quotes some of them in her next book about how unfairly her book was received by the trogs .......I don't think alternate nostril breathing is a panacea for the far reaches of rage and grief and, in any event, I doubt if that's her go to move even in moments of mild stress. This certainly doesn't add to her credibility.

JAORE said...

What are you doing?

Looking for my car keys.

Did you lose them here?

No, I lost them on 3rd and Union.

Then why are you looking here?

The light is better.

Old joke that only needs a few words changed to describe the efficacy of Hillary's self-searching.

glenn said...

If I had the money this leech has skimmed and she had a feather up her nose we'd both be tickled

Big Mike said...

@roesch, you understand that if your skin is any color other than black that Coates blames you for everything down to his son's hangnail. If your skin is brown or yellow or white, it's all your fault. Nothing wrong with him, it's all on you.

Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...

Too bad she didn't opt for screaming first and breathing later...

traditionalguy said...
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traditionalguy said...

She has grown into a shell of evil incarnate. Other than that, she is really a neat person whose life in service to evil has nearly worn her out.

Jim said...

Serenity NOW!

Freeman Hunt said...

Her book sounds like it was written by someone in his/her early to mid twenties. That is my suspicion.

Freeman Hunt said...

"Breathe out. Scream later."

No way she wrote that. Same with the 1984 thing.

Steven said...

Since when is only getting a good job at a law firm known for political connections after your husband is elected the state's Attorney General "professional success"?

Since when is botching a policy initiative so badly that the opposing party takes control of Congress for the first time in four decades "professional success"?

Since when is keeping quiet and supporting your husband through exposure of his tawdry affair with someone young enough to be your daughter "professional success"?

Since when is being parachuted into a Senate seat as a favor to your powerful husband "professional success"?

Since when is getting your clock cleaned by a political neophyte when running for office "professional success"?

Since when is reversing your immediate predecessor's policy in an area of that predecessor's particular expertise, and predictably failing miserably, "professional success"?

Hillary, you don't have any discernible "professional success" for anyone to dislike you over. What you actually have is a long record of privilege and entitlement with no actual accomplishments (other than your wedding ring) to justify them.

YoungHegelian said...

@Freeman,

Her book sounds like it was written by someone in his/her early to mid twenties. That is my suspicion.

An interesting idea, that! Explains the phenomena.

Clearly, she had no quality control in her campaign. Why should she start now?

Mark Jones said...

In my defense, I never thought of Hilary as a high-minded phony. I thought of her a petty, vindictive, power-hungry phony. I remember when Bill Clinton first came on the national scene; I couldn't understand how anyone could vote for that guy--he was the epitome of the oily, insincere, glad-handing politician. How could people not see that? In retrospect, I can see that he was able to connect with people on an emotional level, and that makes a huge difference.

Hilary never had that. Only the willfully blind *can't* see her for the petty, vindictive, power-hungry phony she is--and always has been.

Ralph L said...

It boggles the mind that she got into and out of Yale Law.

Sometime around 2000, she said that everyday Bill was pres they'd wake up angry. Makes you wonder why they kept at it.

Mark, you may remember in 1992, the Party went into the convention knowing they had damaged goods. You could almost see them swallow their pride and principles, and then get behind the sleazeball and cheer themselves silly. Despite all the damage he did to their power and brand for 8 years, they stuck by him.

Churchy LaFemme: said...


‘TERENCE, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can’t be much amiss, ’tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
But oh, good Lord, the verse you make,
It gives a chap the belly-ache.
The cow, the old cow, she is dead;
It sleeps well, the horned head:
We poor lads, ’tis our turn now
To hear such tunes as killed the cow.
Pretty friendship ’tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping melancholy mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.’

Why, if ’tis dancing you would be,
There’s brisker pipes than poetry.
Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.
Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think:
Look into the pewter pot
To see the world as the world’s not.

jg said...

I wonder what Remnick thinks "high-minded" means.

Paul said...

Clinton who?

Valentine Smith said...

Just because everyone calls you a cunt doesn't mean it's all about gender.

J Severs said...

" Clinton said that she has learned... that “the more successful a man becomes, the more likable he becomes; the more professionally successful a woman becomes, the less likable she becomes.” Her situation, she said, “was Clinton-specific, plus sexism and misogyny."

I would like an interviewer to ask Ms. Clinton how much these ideas apply to Sarah Palin.

tim in vermont said...

I wonder if it was about gender when every Democrat with a penis was pressuredto step aside.

AllenS said...

Hillary needs to get back into dodging sniper fire, because this alternate-nostril breathing ain't cuttin' it.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

"The forces ranged against her."

On 9/11/16, one of those forces was gravity.


And this is such an interesting example of the media so willing to turn away and show NO curiosity about a major candidate's health. NONE! Did any news agency ever determine what small metal device clanged out of her pant leg during that episode? Did any pundits opine on how utterly idiotic she'd have to be to really be "dehydrated" to the point of fainting? (Not to mention, again, what was that small metal thing that rolled away from her during her stiffening fit? Really?)

So every time one of these nodding nincompoops pretending to interview her in their pre-scripted encounter avoids asking about her secret server, her mystery collapse and how lousy she was at keeping secure communications private in a very dangerous world, just ask yourself why the Dowager Empress from Chappaqua deserves such deference from the DNC-Media complex.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Hmmm. Even Snopes can't even get to the er bottom of what the Hildebeast was shedding on that fateful 9/11 last year.

Martin said...

Poor, sad little flower, Hillary; we all have to put down our efforts at trying to survive and help our families and our friends, and hear about how she copes with losing a Presidential election, after rising to the penultimate height based on no known accomplishments, personal qualities, or innate abilities other than ruthless perseverance in self-advancement.

Nauseating.

Skippy Tisdale said...

STFU, bitch.

cornroaster said...

I could welcome the thought of Hillary doing alternate nostril breathing if it required that she keep her mouth shut to do so.