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riversedge

(70,177 posts)
Mon May 9, 2016, 07:52 AM May 2016

Field guide to defending Hillary Clinton against every fake scandal

I am going to make a concerted effort to try to talk to one person every day or so.



LeChatNoir DemWhore ?@LeChatNoire4 2m2 minutes ago

Field guide to defending Hillary Clinton against every fake scandal http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/field-guide-to-defending-hillary-clinton-against-fake-scandals/24710/ A must read #ImWithHer


http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/field-guide-to-defending-hillary-clinton-against-fake-scandals/24710/


Field guide to defending Hillary Clinton against every fake scandal

By Thom Palmer | May 7, 2016 | 45
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The hard part in getting through to those who are convinced that the lies about Hillary Clinton are facts, is that they have a boatload of phony “facts” and right-wing web sites to draw from, but their main source of information is Fox News, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and/or their duped listeners. When you go into detailed evidence against their claims, the response is longer than they’re willing to read or hear. So, its either a shorter version which may not get the point across, or the long version which won’t be read. My recommendation is to answer one attack at a time in as much detail as you can to prove your case. These are short paragraphs along with a few links for support. Speak softly and don’t yell at them for being duped. Your goal should be to disarm them and get them to hear you, which can’t be done if they raise their shield.

Whitewater was the beginning of the Hillary Clinton witch hunt. Hardly anybody understands Whitewater. The claims of honesty and trustworthiness began here. The Clintons lost their investment in the Whitewater Development Company. Their business partner, Jim and Susan McDougal, had a separate investment in another company which also failed. The McDougals retained the law firm that Hillary worked for, Rose Law Firm to handle their legal dealings. The claim is that the McDougals hired Clinton to offset the Clintons’ losses on Whitewater, which they considered to be a conflict of interest. Ken Starr, the pioneer of the Hillary witch hunts hurled accusation after accusation at the Clintons over this. After wasting 8 years and millions of taxpayer dollars and several independent investigations, a final report was issued in 2000 that stated that there was no evidence that the Clintons had engaged in any criminal wrongdoing. It was BS from the start, but dishonest Republicans keep the story alive today.



Wal-Mart:
In 1986, Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart was under pressure, from his wife and his shareholders, to appoint a woman to his Board of Directors. Based in Arkansas, they hired Hillary Clinton, then 40 year old Hillary Clinton. According to fellow board members and company executives, Hillary used her position to champion more women in management and a comprehensive environmental program. Being the least experienced in business at the time, her voice was silenced on Wal-Mart’s anti-unionism stance, and minimum wage was not considered a huge national crisis at the time. Her years on the Wal-Mart board, from 1986 to 1992, gave her an unusual tutorial in the ways of American business a credential that could serve as an antidote to Republican efforts to portray her as an enemy of free markets and an advocate for big government. To say that Hillary doesn’t understand business is dead wrong. While she had huge success in creating management opportunities for women at Wal Mart, the main attack line is that she “supported low wages”, which is not at all true. Looking at her track record in the Senate and as Secretary of State, she has always pushed for equal pay, and is fighting hard for a 40% increase in minimum wage, and for all improvements to middle class life in America.

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Field guide to defending Hillary Clinton against every fake scandal (Original Post) riversedge May 2016 OP
Thanks so much for posting this, rivers! BlueMTexpat May 2016 #1
Thanks, I am bookmarking this, can use this in the future. Thinkingabout May 2016 #2
Good information - thanks for posting SharonClark May 2016 #3
I like your material very much rock May 2016 #4

BlueMTexpat

(15,366 posts)
1. Thanks so much for posting this, rivers!
Mon May 9, 2016, 07:59 AM
May 2016

As with everything else though, to those whose minds are made up based on 30+ years of RW TPs from Hillary's enemies, facts make absolutely NO difference.

They will continue to insist that they are correct and that WE don't know what we are talking about. They are blissful in their ignorance and wish to remain so.



Still, it never hurts to try!

rock

(13,218 posts)
4. I like your material very much
Mon May 9, 2016, 10:56 AM
May 2016

But you do realize you're talking facts and truth to people that, well, without being too harsh, don't do truth and facts. Nevertheless many of us do, so please continue for our sake.

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