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I was worried that Hillary would suffer because BS was getting the last word. Instead the contrast was stunning, on style, on content, on character. And without confrontational interviewing, Rachel gets these amazing answers:
BS admits he is actively lobbying super delegates. He admits what Devine told Greg Sargent at WaPo -- that they will lobby super delegates at the convention based on hypothetical head-to-head match-ups with Reeps even if he is behind in both pledged delegates and the popular vote. (I have rotten sox over those numbers, so unvetted by the press, so untouched by the Reeps who want him to win, so little touched by Hill who needs his voters.) When Rachel put up her now famous graphic of early and massive efforts in the south, BS under-the-bused Devine on the we-didn't-win-because-we-didn't-try meme by offering yet a third version of the story: Devine must have meant they didn't spend much on TV. (Let's see that FEC report.) And the 50-state plan he beat Hill up about earlier? Well, sometimes you have to be practical with your resources. On Trump's abortion abortion, BS answers Rachel by saying any stupid remark made by Trump becomes the story of the week, but "maybe, just maybe, we might want to have a serious discussion about the serious issues facing America." Like not women's health care, and the huge economic issues control over our bodies implies. And, finally, after boasting about the zillions he's raised he admits he hasn't given anything to the down ticket. Does he foresee a time when he will, asks Rachel, mentioning that Hill has been fund-raising both for the nomination and for the Democratic Party. We'll see, sez BS. A more brilliant understated mantrap interview I have rarely seen.
And to those Bros bemoaning the probable loss of their dream candidate, a pretty ordinary lefty, risking nothing, accomplishing little, living in grumbling comfort for 25 years in the very system he decries, now shown to be compromising his uncompromising values in his desperation to shove his pointy finger down our throats, I have this to say. I wish you could get a brain unpolluted by RW and BS poop your candidate knows damn well is poop. Just for long enough to listen to Hill's part of the evening. Thoughtful, focused, real, brilliant, wildly well-informed, complex, warm. Honest. And you want radical change? She's the most extremely politically radical candidate in the history of this country -- a woman. A woman president.
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