{"id":34993,"date":"2016-06-04T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T07:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34993"},"modified":"2019-05-19T11:52:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T15:52:08","slug":"the-zombie-hillary-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/06\/04\/the-zombie-hillary-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The “zombie” Hillary campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camille Paglia<\/a> doesn’t like Hillary Clinton:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s zombie time at campaign Hillary. Behold the dead men walking! It was with strangely slow, narcotized numbness that the candidate and her phalanx of minions and mouthpieces responded to last week\u2019s punishing report by the State Department\u2019s Inspector General about her email security lapses. Do they truly believe, in the rosy alternate universe of Hillaryland, that they can lie their way out of this? Of course, they\u2019re relying as usual on the increasingly restive mainstream media to do their dirty work for them. If it were a Republican in the crosshairs, Hillary\u2019s shocking refusal to meet with the Inspector General (who interviewed all four of the other living Secretaries of State of the past two decades) would have been the lead item flagged in screaming headlines from coast to coast. Let\u2019s face it\u2014the genuinely innocent do not do pretzel twists like this to cover their asses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the other hand, she’s entertained by the showmanship of the Trump Experience:<\/p>\n

Over on the GOP side, Donald Trump continues to gain strength, despite the nonstop artillery barrage of Democratic operatives and their clone army in the mainstream media. Trump just rolls on and on, despite every foot-in-mouth gaffe that would stop a normal campaign cold. He\u2019s terrific on the radio, I must say. Even though I do like Elizabeth Warren (I even believe she has Native American ancestry, although certainly not enough to qualify her for affirmative action), I burst out laughing in my car last week when I heard Trump confidingly say (like a yenta at Zabar\u2019s deli), \u201cShe\u2019s a woman that has been very ineffective \u2014 except that she has a big mouth.\u201d His New York comic timing was spot on. I laughed out loud again this week when I heard Trump interrupt his press conference to tag an ABC reporter as \u201ca sleaze\u201d \u2014 at which I am sure thousands of other radio listeners heartily cheered. It\u2019s been a long time since any major politician had the chutzpah to tell the arrogant, double-dealing East Coast media what most of the country thinks about them.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an absurdist, almost Dadaist quality to Trump\u2019s candidacy, like Groucho Marx satirizing high society swells in A Night at the Opera<\/em> or the radical Yippies trying to levitate the Pentagon at their 1967 antiwar protest. Trump routinely deploys all the subversive transgressiveness that campus Leftists claim to value. […]<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s boisterous, uncensored id makes a riveting contrast to Hillary\u2019s plodding, joyless superego. Listening to her leaden attempts to tell rehearsed jokes is collective torture. Hillary is not now, nor has she ever been, a member of the Comedy Party. But we\u2019re talking about the presidency here, not an improv club. While I would love to see a Trump-style chief executive say \u201cYou\u2019re fired!\u201d to half the parasitic Washington bureaucracy, I have high anxiety about Trump\u2019s shoot-em-up attitude toward international affairs. Exactly how long would it be after a Trump inauguration before the nuke-horned bull would be crashing around the Red China shop?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camille Paglia doesn’t like Hillary Clinton: It\u2019s zombie time at campaign Hillary. Behold the dead men walking! It was with strangely slow, narcotized numbness that the candidate and her phalanx of minions and mouthpieces responded to last week\u2019s punishing report by the State Department\u2019s Inspector General about her email security lapses. Do they truly believe, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[1288,1037,188,670],"class_list":["post-34993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-camillepaglia","tag-donaldtrump","tag-electionwatch","tag-hillaryclinton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-96p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34994,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34993\/revisions\/34994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}