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ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 09:04 AM Aug 2016

G.O.P.: Evil Mastermind Behind Benghazi Is Frail Old Woman With Brain Damage

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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is an evil genius capable of masterminding the most elaborate cover-up in U.S. history and is also a frail old woman with brain damage, leading Republicans charged on Sunday.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus led the attack while appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he said that the American people should be wary of electing a woman who is capable of orchestrating the complex conspiracy to whitewash Benghazi while, at the same time, being too old, feeble, and brain damaged to serve in the Oval Office.


“These two aspects of Secretary Clinton would have me very concerned,” he said.

Mr. Priebus said he saw “no contradiction” between the portrayals of Secretary Clinton as an evil mastermind and a brain-damaged crone, explaining, “The one part of Secretary Clinton’s brain that works perfectly well is the part that creates elaborate cover-ups, and that is the part of her brain that is currently covering up the fact that she is brain damaged.”



http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/g-o-p-evil-mastermind-behind-benghazi-is-frail-old-woman-with-brain-damage
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Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
2. Republicans does not have a presentable candidate, a candidate which does not present any
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 09:34 AM
Aug 2016

agenda, ergo, the dumb statements from Priebus like this. He should have spent more time getting a nominee who is better than Trump, seems like the GOP has a chairman who is not able to provide the Republicans a viable fit candidate.

anneboleyn

(5,611 posts)
3. Notice how they invoke archetypes like the "crone" or the "witch" to slander Hillary
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 10:07 AM
Aug 2016

I once thought that Priebus was a bumbling, wimpy buffoon who had no idea how to handle the crumbling Republican Party and the Trump disaster. Those comments though are seriously grotesque in terms of strategy -- laughably stupid (the one part of her brain that works is the evil mastermind "part?" Lmfao) but also creepy in terms of how he is invoking archetypes. Of course they did the same with the president and even more viciously with the First Lady -- she was the "angry black woman" (which is a stereotype rather than an archetype but it was one of the evil symbolic ways they used to criticize her and in turn the president).

Priebus's statements are so idiotic and blatantly inconsistent -- but they are relying on the dog whistle stuff like the image of the "crone" (old, sick, mentally unhinged, etc) or the "witch" who --with her apparently incredible magical powers -- managed to conjure up the entire Benghazi situation/cover-up, etc. It is pathetic.

Since their own candidate is such an utter disaster they aren't even pretending to criticize Hillary on policy points. It is just the invocation of misogynistic archetypes that they think may actually influence some voters (I think it only appeals to the most rabid part of their base).

FSogol

(45,480 posts)
6. Borowitz writes satire. It is funny because he often hits the nail right on the head of GOP
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 10:13 AM
Aug 2016

hypocrisy,

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JSup

(740 posts)
8. They've always done this...
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 02:33 PM
Aug 2016

...I know this article is 'satirey' but for years Obama has been an "effete elite mom-jean wearing liberal pansy atheist Muslim fundamentalist terrorist plotting the downfall of America and the takeover of the world that's also a total incompetent moron".

peggysue2

(10,828 posts)
9. Too, too funny
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 03:53 PM
Aug 2016

Ah yes, Hillary of the two brains. Which might beg the question: do her staunchest enemies even have a brain?

You can't make this stuff up. But fortunately we have people like Borowitz to make us laugh at the nonsense.

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