On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, liberal co-host Mika Brzezinski had an interesting reaction to a correspondent’s report regarding the ongoing war of words between President Trump and Hillary Clinton. The NBC News reporter played audio of Mrs. Clinton attacking Trump as a sexual predator, then quoted from the president’s tweet firing back at his defeated opponent’s conspiratorial sore-loserdom. Brzezinski marveled at Clinton’s self-unawareness, apologizing — then instantly withdrawing the apology — as she urged the former first lady to “stop talking about this topic unless Bill Clinton wants to come forward and apologize.” Watch:
“I think the hold that the Clintons had on the Democratic is over,” she said. “I think people are feeling like they finally can speak their minds about it all, but they didn’t for a long time.” Well yeah, but the idea is that they only feel free to ‘speak their minds’ now because the Clinton era is over, and there’s very little to lose at this point. Brzezinski also went after New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, one of the elected Democrats who have abruptly decided — years after the fact, and long after she needed to feel “honored” by his support — that Bill Clinton’s multiple accusers deserve to be believed: “One of the reasons why we, and I mean me and Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrats, lost is because Bill Clinton’s behavior was accepted. It was pushed under the rug and even women defended him…I know but he continues to flourish today and his wife ran for president even though these women who accused him were attacked in the media, were maligned or settled. That’s a different standard than we’re holding other people who were accused of the same behavior or less today. And this is why we have Trump. It’s all connected.”
I somehow doubt a mere apology would suffice for someone like Juanita Broaddrick, but an acknowledgement that Bill’s rampant predations were not fever dream hallucinations of the “vast right-wing conspiracy” would be a constructive step toward rooting out normalized sexual harassment and endless partisan hypocrisy (which, of course, is not confined to the Left). I do, however, want to revisit a point I made yesterday about the Left’s adulation of Ted Kennedy, despite his indefensible act and cover-up at Chappaquiddick — and in spite of well-known rumors and reports of his extraordinary mistreatment of women. I tweeted an except from a 1990 GQstory, which described the time that Kennedy and fellow Senate Democrat Chris Dodd brazenly assaulted a waitress at a DC restaurant:
The details in this piece are surreal; hadn’t read it in a few years. Ted Kennedy’s legacy was celebrated during the 2012 DNC, which also relentlessly attacked GOP’s supposed “war on women.” #Flashback #LionOfTheSenate #WaitressSandwich pic.twitter.com/nfHMnvjIqh
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) November 20, 2017
There were many other anecdotes and vignettes in that piece…
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