Bill Clinton actually had the nerve to call Bernie Sanders’s supporters sexist, which makes me worry that there may be something wrong with his brain.
“She [Hillary Clinton] and other people who have gone online to defend Hillary and explain — just explain — why they supported her have been subject to vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane often — not to mention sexist — to repeat,” Clinton said in New Hampshire on Sunday.
Um. Is he actually insane? Is his brain not working? Sure, online harassment is definitely disrespectful to women. But you know what else is? Cheating on them. Sexually assaulting them, as he’s been accused of doing multiple times. Oh, and of course, preying on a young, impressionable intern, something that is not merely an accusation but an actual proven fact.
Even if you personally think that Monica Lewinsky shares equal responsibility for the affair, you cannot deny that the beliefs of the liberal voters he’s trying to convince dictate that she should have been supported. After all, you cannot talk about power relationships and rape culture complicating consent and not believe that what Bill did was wrong.
This is a guy who has become famous for being repeatedly accused of predatory behavior. This is a guy who has a long history of disrespecting his own wife and all of the women he disrespected her with. Why on Earth does he think he can insinuate that Bernie’s supporters are sexist when he, the Hillary supporter, is so sexist himself?
#share#Now, perhaps he is mentally incapable. Perhaps he has some sort of amnesia and doesn’t remember his past, and/or no longer has the mental capacity to do a little research to discover it. What he said was so absolutely insane that I really cannot think of any other reason.
Well, actually, there could be one other one: His brain is totally fine, but he thinks there’s something wrong with yours. He thinks that you don’t remember, that you’re not capable of research, and that you’re just too stupid to grasp even the most obvious of truths.
The truth, of course, is that he’s being hypocritical. Bill “Slick Willy” Clinton slamming other people for sexism is as ridiculous as Hillary would be were she to try to paint herself as being anti–Wall Street despite the fact that she’s gotten tons of money from them throughout her career.
Oh, wait . . . she did.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is a disgrace. She’s been engaging in glaring hypocrisy, claiming to support currently popular positions on everything from gay rights to criminal-justice reform to sexual assault despite the fact that her record shows her emphatically supporting the opposite ones when it was convenient to do so. She thinks you’re stupid, and the fact that her husband — who is supposed to be her “secret weapon” — is now doing the same just makes her look worse.
I’m disgusted, and you should be, too. Almost every word that comes out of her and her husband’s mouth also does so with the subtext that they think you’re an idiot, and it’s gotten to the point where you shouldn’t just not want to vote for her — you should be personally insulted.
And if not? Well then, at least in your case, I guess that they are right.
— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.






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