December 5, 2018
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
Size matters. Or so they say.
But apparently not when it comes to crowds.
President Trump's crowds are huge. But the mainstream media doesn't report it.
Bill and Hillary's are tiny, and the press doesn't report that, either.
But The New York Times writer Maureen Dowd did report on the latest leg of the "Hill and Bill 13-Stop Pay Us Speaking Tour." In Canada. And the 3,000 people who attended.
Dowd said the felt sorry for the Clintons. Huge chunks of the 14,000-capacity Scotiabank Hockey Arena had to be cordoned off to hide the anemic attendance.
And she admitted she was peeved that the ticket she bought weeks ago for $177, was, by show time, a Buy-One-Get-One, with prices in the single digits.
Like $6-and-a-half dollar single digits.
Dowd may be feeling sorry for the Clintons, but the Clintons have only themselves to blame.
They thought tens of thousands would wait on line for 24 hours, in rain, or snow, or dark of night to see them.
The way they did for Trump.
But they were wrong, because they still don't understand. Why Hillary lost, and why Trump won.
It could be, as Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) of "Kavanaugh-Men-Should-Shut-Up" fame said, because Democrats are so much smarter than voters...
Nah. It's because Elitists never learn from their mistakes.
The Clintons thought they could fill arenas by bashing Trump. And so did Elitists Murphy Brown (a.k.a. Candace Bergen), and Diane English (Murphy Brown's creator), who thought they could do the same thing on their TV reboot.
When it didn't work, they didn't admit why it didn't. (It wasn't funny.) In fact, English said the show wasn't really cancelled.)
As an Elitist herself, Maureen Dowd thought she could explain.
Dowd did admit about the Clintons' money-grubbing, the $240 million they stockpiled from Pay for Play speeches, paid for by "shady special interests and foreign countries buying influence."
And she did blame the Clintons for their greediness. But then she couldn't resist. She had to blame Trump, whom she called "An orange puffer clown fish who will go down as one of the most destructive forces in American history."
She blamed the Clintons' greed on him! She said, "In the era of Trump, greed is not only good. It's grand. The stock market is our highest value. Mammonism rules."
Blaming Trump. It's all the vogue.
If you watched the fallacious "Murphy Brown" Episode Ten, which showed TV footage of Trump supporters, adding Murphy watching the crowd beating the bejesus out of reporter Frank Fontana, English says it was just an example of "finding the funny in any situation.
"We did have a conversation about the difference between the people who go to these rallies all fired up," she said, "versus the people who voted for Trump who had real, legitimate reasons.
"It's a different animal, the rally crowd, and we all have been very horrified at the level of hostility, and our feeling was, at some point, if the flames are continued to be fanned, somebody is going to get hurt."
Maybe she was thinking of Antifa.
But English isn't worried about details. Every storyline they take on, she says, has been well-researched first, as well as vetted by CBS' lawyers.
Except for the violence that didn't occur, at the hand of any Trump supporters, at any Trump rally. I guess CBS lawyers missed that one.
"I don't care if he comes after us," English boasted, referring to the president. Once again, an Elitist thinking she occupies real estate in Donald Trump's mind.
It all comes down to the Elitist Mentality.
CNN's "Reliable Sources" host, Brian Stelter also argued that the press is being targeted as part of a "hate movement" spearheaded by the president. Much to his surprise, former "Nightline" anchor, Ted Koppel, disagreed.
"You can't do without Donald Trump," Koppel laughed, when appearing at a National Press Club event in October. "CNN's ratings would be in the toilet without Donald Trump."
And Murphy Brown would be without a storyline.
The Clintons would have no one to blame for their failures.
And if any of them looked at the Man in the Mirror, they would know who was really to blame.
Hold the line, America.
Where We Go One, We Go All