Hillary Clinton jokes 'they all look alike' after interviewer mixes up Cory Booker and Eric Holder
Hillary Clinton joked about how black men like Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and former Attorney General Eric Holder "all look alike."
During an interview on Friday, Clinton made the quip while correcting Recode's Kara Swisher about who recently goaded on Democratic voters by rhetorically encouraging them to "kick" Republicans when they "go low."
After Clinton noted how she adores Booker, Swisher asked the former secretary of state what she thought about this "kick them" remark.
"Well, that was Eric Holder," Clinton noted.
"Eric Holder, oh, Eric Holder, sorry," Swisher said.
"Yeah, I know they all look alike," Clinton quipped to a wave of laughter and applause in the room.
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Steyn with Tucker on Hillary's and Lester Holt's "Racist" Jokes
Tucker and Mark discuss how Hillary Clinton probably didn't mean to be racist, and we should give her the benefit of the doubt, but if the rolls were reversed she probably would not do the same.
There is an obvious double standard. If President Trump would have made a little racially charged joke it would be repeated as poof of his racism until the end of time.
Do you remember back when we were free?
We could go anywhere or say anything with out losing your job and all your friends. If you said something mean you could apologize and people would forgive you and forget.
There was a time that we weren't told what we should be mad about. We thought for ourselves and decided for ourselves what it is that makes us mad.
You only have the illusion of freedom.
You already know this, if you have ever thought about commenting on something, and then didn't, because you knew that 100 people on social media would have a conniption fit over it.
That is not freedom.
That is society punishing you for not thinking a certain way.
That is society restricting your speech.
We are told, if you don't agree with the official narrative that has been agreed on by the media and mainstream, then you are a terrible awful no good very bad person, and probably racist too. So you just avoid talking about it or commenting on social media, so that you don't have to subject yourself to the abuse.
You start to restrict your own feelings and thoughts in order to not upset anyone or lose your job. Many people start to change who they are, and what they think is acceptable, based on what the people around them say is ok.
That is not freedom.
You only have the illusion of freedom.
Hillary Clinton and Robert Byrd
How do you feel seeing Hillary Clinton exchange an obviously close greeting with a former member of the KKK?
Now, how would you feel if you saw President Trump chummy with the same?
If your answer is different then you might be bias and a hypocrite.
Secretary Clinton Comments on the Passing of Robert Byrd
He was a Democrat Senator from West Virginia and the longest-serving member of the U.S. Congress and Senate. He died at the age of 92. The above video is Hillary Clinton as Sec. of State gushing about how great Senator Byrd was and he was her mentor.
Reported by Historynet.com:
Byrd admitted he’d been a Klansman “from mid-1942 to early 1943” before quitting forever. But after he won the primary, his Republican opponent produced a letter that Byrd had written to the Klan’s Imperial Wizard in 1946, long after he claimed he’d quit: “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.”
Caught in a lie, Byrd was urged by Democratic officials, including the governor, to quit the race. He refused, won the election and began a career in Congress that would last 57 years. During the first dozen years, the former Klansman was, unsurprisingly, a vociferous opponent of civil rights. In 1964, he delivered a 14-hour filibuster against the Civil Rights Act that outlawed segregation. In 1965, he voted against the Voting Rights Act designed to ensure that black Americans could vote.
But as he aged, Byrd gradually evolved into a mainstream liberal Democrat. In 1977, Senate Democrats elected him majority leader. In 1989, he became chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and used that position to pump billions of dollars into West Virginia, which was poor and needed the money. By the new millennium, he’d become a beloved, white-haired elder statesman famous for quoting Shakespeare and Cicero from memory, even as his hands shook with palsy.
Bill Clinton Explains Robert Byrd's Membership In KKK
They gave Robert Byrd the benefit of the doubt, but most won't even give their neighbor who is a Republican the same curtesy.
Republicans and especially Trump supporters are automatically put in the racist category.
People lose their jobs for even associating with the Trump Administration in any way shape or form. But a KKK member was elected by democrats to be the longest serving member elected to Congress and Senate.
As Reported ByDML News:
EXCLUSIVE: Modeling agency reportedly cancels African American model’s contract for going to White House
An African American model was reportedly cut from her modeling contract after she attended an event at the White House in support of President Donald Trump.
Candace Owens of Turning Point USA posted an announcement on Twitter Saturday afternoon, with photos of herself and Zoe Bethel attending the Young Black Leadership Summit at the White House recently, along with a copy of a message Bethel had just received from her modeling agency.
“This is ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC,” Owens wrote. “A young woman who attended our #YBLS summit was released from her modeling contract when she got home for supporting @realDonaldTrump and this administration. Political bias is DISCRIMINATION. I am APPALLED at this circumstance. #BLEXIT @BLEXIT.”
This is ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) November 3, 2018
A young woman who attended our #YBLS summit was released from her modeling contract when she got home for supporting @realDonaldTrump and this administration.
Political bias is DISCRIMINATION. I am APPALLED at this circumstance. #BLEXIT @BLEXIT pic.twitter.com/wqlhD4Hv7A
We have to stop discriminating against our fellow American citizens, just because of what they believe and their politics.
Ms. Zoe Bethel is obviously not a racist. However, I know that many black American republicans havebeen called white suprematists and a whole array of other offensive names.
We have to stop this constant judging, condemning and group think. It's not the end of the world if someone is offended. It's ok if you say something that you do or don't later apologize for. We all find different things offensive.
Advertisers should stop punishing companies for comments made by employees on social media. (Within reason of course.) Especially if they later apologize for said comments and/or explain that they were interpreted negatively, but not meant that way.
We should be allowed to be anything we want to dress up for Halloween without being shunned on social media and fired from a job, because everyone just assumes the worst intentions.
We should be allowed to be imperfectly human!
We should be allowed to live free, because living isn't living if you aren't free.