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BootinUp

(47,141 posts)
Tue May 3, 2016, 04:54 PM May 2016

This may shock you: Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest | Jill Abramson - The Guardian

I’ve investigated Hillary and know she likes a ‘zone of privacy’ around her. This lack of transparency, rather than any actual corruption, is her greatest flaw


It’s impossible to miss the “Hillary for Prison” signs at Trump rallies. At one of the Democratic debates, the moderator asked Hillary Clinton whether she would drop out of the race if she were indicted over her private email server. “Oh for goodness – that is not going to happen,” she said. “I’m not even going to answer that question.”

Based on what I know about the emails, the idea of her being indicted or going to prison is nonsensical. Nonetheless, the belief that Clinton is dishonest and untrustworthy is pervasive. A recent New York Times-CBS poll found that 40% of Democrats say she cannot be trusted.

For decades she’s been portrayed as a Lady Macbeth involved in nefarious plots, branded as “a congenital liar” and accused of covering up her husband’s misconduct, from Arkansas to Monica Lewinsky. Some of this is sexist caricature. Some is stoked by the “Hillary is a liar” videos that flood Facebook feeds. Some of it she brings on herself by insisting on a perimeter or “zone of privacy” that she protects too fiercely. It’s a natural impulse, given the level of scrutiny she’s attracted, more than any male politician I can think of.

I would be “dead rich”, to adapt an infamous Clinton phrase, if I could bill for all the hours I’ve spent covering just about every “scandal” that has enveloped the Clintons. As an editor I’ve launched investigations into her business dealings, her fundraising, her foundation and her marriage. As a reporter my stories stretch back to Whitewater. I’m not a favorite in Hillaryland. That makes what I want to say next surprising.

Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest and trustworthy. (continued at the link below)

...Link to the fulll article at The Guardian


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This may shock you: Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest | Jill Abramson - The Guardian (Original Post) BootinUp May 2016 OP
This won't shock you: This article is fundamentally bullshit. bobbobbins01 May 2016 #1
Someone close to us became personally acquainted with Hillary Hortensis May 2016 #16
Also fundamentally rehashed. Posted here... dchill May 2016 #27
And much more. 840high May 2016 #30
Depends on what your deffinition of the word 'is' is Ferd Berfel May 2016 #2
Great read, thank you for posting. Firebrand Gary May 2016 #3
"Fundamentally Honest"... deathrind May 2016 #4
That word is a perfect hedge, really. Lizzie Poppet May 2016 #21
Depends of what the definition of fundamental is. Eom. Rebkeh May 2016 #5
Yes, that 'zone of privacy' TM99 May 2016 #6
The Bullshit Meter went off at ... ThePhilosopher04 May 2016 #7
Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest, in the same way.... 99Forever May 2016 #8
LOL farleftlib May 2016 #14
Except when her misstatements are taken out of context. lumberjack_jeff May 2016 #9
Cite the case. BootinUp May 2016 #11
. lumberjack_jeff May 2016 #12
Then please get your facts straight on what happened. Because you are way off on that one. nt BootinUp May 2016 #13
Really? Pretty weak. lumberjack_jeff May 2016 #18
First off both cases she was telling the same story, and her policy has not changed BootinUp May 2016 #19
Which is it? A misstatement, an out of context quote or that's her story and she's sticking with it? lumberjack_jeff May 2016 #33
Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahah LOL hahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahhaha insta8er May 2016 #10
Not a shock to me, but I do my homework! Lucinda May 2016 #15
If her lips are moving farleftlib May 2016 #17
The article comes off a little like damning with faint praise. Buns_of_Fire May 2016 #20
"But he's _fundamentally_ a good kid." Lizzie Poppet May 2016 #22
Shock? No, the media has been trying to gaslight reality itself for over a decade. Shandris May 2016 #23
The former editor of The New York Times will write anything to stay relevant. Octafish May 2016 #24
She's also fundamentally brave, having dodged sniper fire in Bosnia Doctor_J May 2016 #25
She's fundamentally "honest" in precisely the same way that a lawyer is "honest". w4rma May 2016 #26
K&R mcar May 2016 #28
The question here seems to be is Jill Abramson honest? bjo59 May 2016 #29
The truth is that there is no credible evidence supporting the BootinUp May 2016 #31
But then, if you enter the world of FACTS . . . . provably not so much. . . pdsimdars May 2016 #32

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
16. Someone close to us became personally acquainted with Hillary
Tue May 3, 2016, 06:31 PM
May 2016

and Bill while traveling with a film crew (i.e., he was not a member of the campaign) during one of Bill's presidential campaigns. He likes Hillary and says she's a nice woman and can be pretty funny when she's relaxed. She likes to laugh.

He is, of course, voting for her. For him, a no-brainer.






dchill

(38,472 posts)
27. Also fundamentally rehashed. Posted here...
Tue May 3, 2016, 08:52 PM
May 2016

numerous times. Still bullshit, though. Hard evidence says she's fundamentally DIS-honest.

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
21. That word is a perfect hedge, really.
Tue May 3, 2016, 07:01 PM
May 2016

Spoken: "Well, she's fundamentally honest..."

Unspoken: "...but circumstances sometimes call for a different approach."

 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
6. Yes, that 'zone of privacy'
Tue May 3, 2016, 05:05 PM
May 2016

explains Bosnian sniper fire, the Rose law firm documents suddenly reappearing, Chelsea jogging around the Trade Center on 9/11, and on and on and on.

This article is just more tired tripe that spans the gambit from poor victim Hillary to it is a sexist double standard to call her a liar to well Politifacts says she honest to the 'purity' bullshit.

Sorry no sale, I am not buying hers or your bullshit. I have seen the Clintons in action since the late 1980's in Arkansas. I don't need some bullshit media person to tell me what I have seen for myself to be true.

99Forever

(14,524 posts)
8. Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest, in the same way....
Tue May 3, 2016, 06:03 PM
May 2016

... Bill Clinton is a fundamentally faithful husband.

 

farleftlib

(2,125 posts)
14. LOL
Tue May 3, 2016, 06:21 PM
May 2016

He never lied. When he said "I did not have sex with that woman" what he was
actually saying was that woman had sex with him.

If we're too stupid to understand what he really meant, that's not his fault. How clear
does he have to make it before we all get it? Sheesh. Same thing with sniper fire in
Bosnia.

I speak fluent Clintonese.

 

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
9. Except when her misstatements are taken out of context.
Tue May 3, 2016, 06:06 PM
May 2016


If she says A... she reserves the right to later clarify that she meant Z. Our failure to understand that distinction is a result of taking her misstatements out of context.
 

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
18. Really? Pretty weak.
Tue May 3, 2016, 06:36 PM
May 2016

She claimed that her "misstatement" on putting coal miners out of work was taken out of the context of what she meant.

WTF?

BootinUp

(47,141 posts)
19. First off both cases she was telling the same story, and her policy has not changed
Tue May 3, 2016, 06:43 PM
May 2016

She was attempting in both cases to convey her intention to help the coal country which has been hit very hard. And she had and still has a 30 billion dollar program of aid and investment to help them. The first time they took her comments to mean she was going to shut them down (coal industry) when what she was meaning is it is already happening (disappearing) due to regs and economic reasons. She went one on one with a republican local man who had been laid off and listented to him and explained what she promises to do for his community whether they vote for her or not.

 

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
33. Which is it? A misstatement, an out of context quote or that's her story and she's sticking with it?
Wed May 4, 2016, 12:50 AM
May 2016
 

farleftlib

(2,125 posts)
17. If her lips are moving
Tue May 3, 2016, 06:33 PM
May 2016

she's lying. Or pandering. Then there's spin. Occasionally misstating.

Nuff said.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,175 posts)
20. The article comes off a little like damning with faint praise.
Tue May 3, 2016, 06:57 PM
May 2016

Like "Sure, the defendant killed his parents, ground them up, and fed them to the hedgehogs, but they refused to let him have a pony when he was six."

 

Shandris

(3,447 posts)
23. Shock? No, the media has been trying to gaslight reality itself for over a decade.
Tue May 3, 2016, 07:04 PM
May 2016

Sad how few of us have watched it and recognized it, but whatever. Only the most devout devotee to Scientism believes, well, almost anything coming from the Voice of the Narrative anymore.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
24. The former editor of The New York Times will write anything to stay relevant.
Tue May 3, 2016, 07:06 PM
May 2016

Like the time she did a major for CIA, ignoring war criminals and traitors and stuff:



Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA

Mark Mazzetti's emails with the CIA expose the degradation of journalism that has lost the imperative to be a check to power

Glenn Greenwald
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 August 2012 14.58 EDT

EXCERPT...

But what is news in this disclosure are the newly released emails between Mark Mazzetti, the New York Times's national security and intelligence reporter, and CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf. The CIA had evidently heard that Maureen Dowd was planning to write a column on the CIA's role in pumping the film-makers with information about the Bin Laden raid in order to boost Obama's re-election chances, and was apparently worried about how Dowd's column would reflect on them. On 5 August 2011 (a Friday night), Harf wrote an email to Mazzetti with the subject line: "Any word??", suggesting, obviously, that she and Mazzetti had already discussed Dowd's impending column and she was expecting an update from the NYT reporter.

SNIP...

Even more amazing is the reaction of the newspaper's managing editor, Dean Baquet, to these revelations, as reported by Politico's Dylan Byers:

"New York Times Managing Editor Dean Baquet called POLITICO to explain the situation, but provided little clarity, saying he could not go into detail on the issue because it was an intelligence matter.



CONTINUED with LINKS...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/correspondence-collusion-new-york-times-cia



I wonder what other important stories Ms. Abramson spiked or hawked as a "favor" to CIA and its controllers?
 

w4rma

(31,700 posts)
26. She's fundamentally "honest" in precisely the same way that a lawyer is "honest".
Tue May 3, 2016, 08:48 PM
May 2016

She speaks her literal truth, but lies by obfuscating her "literal truth". Usually.

But, when the truth doesn't help her, she outright, blatantly lies to your face.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/hillary-where-was-bernie-during-my-health-care-fight-sanders-camp-literally-behind-you/

bjo59

(1,166 posts)
29. The question here seems to be is Jill Abramson honest?
Tue May 3, 2016, 09:08 PM
May 2016

She was the former executive director at the New York Times, a deputy bureau chief at the Wall Street Journal, was ranked 5th on Forbes' list of most powerful women, and ranked one of the 500 most powerful people by Foreign Policy. Hmmm. Is there any question that she's a Hillary Clinton supporter and has every reason to write that Clinton is fundamentally honest in the Guardian during a primary season in which Hillary Clinton is a candidate? The mainstream media has been working in support of Hillary Clinton's campaign since its beginning and of course Abramson would claim that Clinton is fundamentally honest to counteract the widespread belief that she is not.

BootinUp

(47,141 posts)
31. The truth is that there is no credible evidence supporting the
Tue May 3, 2016, 09:17 PM
May 2016

Hillary is dis-honest GUT feel that is a result of all the baseless attacks on her over the years. People can be made to believe anything, they don't know who to get the TRUTHINESS from so they follow the crowd.

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
32. But then, if you enter the world of FACTS . . . . provably not so much. . .
Tue May 3, 2016, 09:20 PM
May 2016

And the VOTERS don't think so either




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