2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAnyone see DWS with Chris Wallace today?
Sunday afternoons I watch FOX because I like to see the Media Buzz hour. I happened to catch DWS interviewed by Chris Wallace.
She lied her ass off. I sure hope to find video of this. Her body language was rather peculiar. When she lied about the private server Wallace called her on it.
There's something very deceitful about her; she can't talk without spinning hard.
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)She's the worst.
CentralCoaster
(1,163 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)What in the fuck have I been a Democrat for all this time for if this is the best we've got!?
I am dismayed at this point. Is DWS taking one for the team, or is she just that damn incompetent?
Please don't answer that question.
I'm not sure which answer would be better.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)skin suit just doesn't fit quite right.
tex-wyo-dem
(3,190 posts)Lying through her teeth.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)It's clear they don't care what she does.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... have a strong track record of talking about what's important
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Isn't that convenient...
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Libya has oil.
By Tom Hall
World Socialist Web Site, 7 March 2016
EXCERPT...
A review of even a small sampling of the emails, which are available on the State Departments web site, reveals the reason why: the emails are a damning indictment of the criminal activities of not only Hillary Clinton herself, but the entire imperialist state apparatus, with the corporate-controlled media in tow. The emails could easily serve as evidence in future war crimes trials of Clinton and other top US officials.
SNIP...
Hundreds more emails deal with the US-led proxy war in Libya, in which Clinton played a leading role. As a recent series of articles in the New York Times confirmed, Clinton was the leading advocate in the White House for the clandestine arming of rebel militias comprised largely of Islamic fundamentalists, which comprised the main fighting force against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
One email from February 2011, written by a veteran diplomat before the launching of the US-NATO war that ended with the murder of Gaddafi, lays out proposals for the construction of a future post-Gaddafi political order in Libya. The memo recommends the use of the United Nations to lend political legitimacy to the imperialist carve-up of the country.
A UN hat for multinational/international assistance efforts could be effective, the author states bluntly. However, the extensive involvement of Italy, whose participation in the war marked a return to the scene of its bloody colonial occupation, should, the author recommends, be kept relatively low-profile. Another email chain discusses how to disburse the tens of billions of dollars of frozen Libyan assets stolen by the imperialist powers during the regime-change operation.
SNIP...
Dozens of emails document the collusion between the corporate-controlled media and the State Department in containing the fallout from the release of US diplomatic cables by Wikileaks. In one 2010 exchange, Washington Post writer Craig Whitlock reaches out to the State Department to request a mechanism to receive [the] State [Department's] input before running a series of articles based on cables revealing the existence of a secret US drone base in the Seychelles Islands, off the coast of Somalia.
CONTINUED...
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/03/07/clin-m07.html
Lots of oil.
"Libya has some of the biggest and most proven oil reserves 43.6 billion barrels outside Saudi Arabia, and some of the best drilling prospects."
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/component/acymailing/archive/view/listid-3-alerts-precis/mailid-74-three-little-words-wikileaks-libya-oil.html
Mohammad Gaddafi shared the oil wealth with the Libyan people, not just the one-percent Wall Street types.
For over four decades, Gaddafi promoted economic democracy and used the nationalized oil wealth to sustain progressive social welfare programs for all Libyans. Under Gaddafis rule, Libyans enjoyed not only free health-care and free education, but also free electricity and interest-free loans. Now thanks to NATOs intervention the health-care sector is on the verge of collapse as thousands of Filipino health workers flee the country, institutions of higher education across the East of the country are shut down, and black outs are a common occurrence in once thriving Tripoli.
-- http://www.globalresearch.ca/libya-from-africas-wealthiest-democracy-under-gaddafi-to-us-nato-sponsored-terrorist-haven/5482974
While little reported in the USA, Libya's former leader also used the wealth to better life throughout the poorest nations of Africa.
In 2010 Gaddafi offered to invest $97 billion in Africa to free it from Western influence, on condition that African states rid themselves of corruption and nepotism. Gaddafi always dreamed of a Developed, United Africa and was about to make that dream come true - and nothing is more terrifying to the West than a Developed, United Africa.
-- http://www.reunionblackfamily.com/apps/blog/show/7869956-war-on-libya-is-war-on-entire-africa-
And that is why you should care about the emails, too. They show Wall Street-on-the-Potomac prefers to do business with those it can relate to: greedy types.
SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)To make an african union in the image of the european union was what made him a death target.
Until he began working on independent african unity we could work with him.
We meani g earths monied interests
Octafish
(55,745 posts)They might even control the nation's intelligence apparatus, were they inherit the fascist loot from the wealthiest times in human history, their privilege as the ideological descendants of the Dulles Brothers.
insightdeluxe
(32 posts)get real. do you really think this will be a non issue in the ge? all u hill heads are in for a rude surpris come the fall.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Just a minor thing the FBI is investigating.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I cannot believe that the Democratic party can do no better than this.
I mean, seriously. Watch that shit. Body language displaying dishonesty all over the place and off the charts.
What on earth.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)FourScore
(9,704 posts)Who doesn't care? Clinton supporters who refuse to see what's going on.
That's what's sad.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)oasis
(49,393 posts)to get a dig in on Bernie, but she wouldn't bite. Good for her. There would be umpteen OPs on DU about how much Debbie and the DNC was in the tank for Hillary.....oh wait.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Because there was nothing said about Bernie Sanders.
DWS just sat there and (badly) lied her ass off.
I guess not even being able to comment on the actual content of a damn post is normal these days.
Sad.
FourScore
(9,704 posts)It's a body language/lying thing.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Absolutely pitiful that this individual is what is leading the party.
Bread and Circus
(9,454 posts)kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)Bread and Circus
(9,454 posts)kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)Bread and Circus
(9,454 posts)CK_John
(10,005 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Criminy, she's a complete dolt.
How she got where she is makes a game of Clue look like genius.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)tex-wyo-dem
(3,190 posts)It's all in who you know...and if you're willing to put any sense of decency aside and CYA for the most powerful (like the Cluntons) on national teevee, then your good as gold.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)weird expressions
tabasco
(22,974 posts)I've voted Democratic in every election since Jimmy Carter, but all bets are off after this general election. I will vote for H. Clinton, if I must, to hopefully prevent a megalomaniac republican from being elected. But that's it with the Democrats until some serious changes are made.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Fucked up is a bit closer, but my word.
THIS?
Aerows
(39,961 posts)fucking insane.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)Her demeanor was more than awkward. It was absolutely fake. Did you notice the quick smile at the beginning. I'm sorry, I cannot stand the woman. Wallace is good. I watch his program every week. Don't ever apologize for watching the enemy. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Otherwise, you are uninformed. MSNBC is every bit as fraudelent in its programming as fox. And Fox has changed.
Both are opinion, not fact.
antigop
(12,778 posts)insta8er
(960 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)desmiller
(747 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)support someone for their skin color or their gender and you get Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch and Hillary Clinton.
desmiller
(747 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Or go tense. That is not good body language.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)antigop
(12,778 posts)She didn't stammer in the part of the interview before the emails were brought up.
I found it rather odd -- you would think she would have had prepared answers about the emails, but she didn't. She really struggled.
hmmm...
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)Puglover
(16,380 posts)of a line from "Death Becomes Her"
"Can't you at least lie quickly?"
Pitiful.
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
is applicable with this one.