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NBC Today Show’s Ann Curry recently took a trip to the South Pole. She was
on a fact-finding mission in search of the source who started the rumor that Hillary Clinton is a polarizing figure and can never be elected president.
It took Ms. Curry days to arrive at the Pole, and, alas, after all of her
efforts, she never found the source of the Polar-izing rumor.
The
intrepid reporter might have spared herself the trip to the SECOND coldest
place on earth. And, heck, she might have saved a lot of costly jet fuel, as
well, if only she’d looked in her own backyard. Well, not exactly her own
backyard, but, maybe Karl Rove’s. For surely this rumor now circulating as
COLD, hard fact sounds like a chapter out of the Rove Republican Rumor-mill,
and has been finessed with the skill typical of the Republican Party’s Rove-ing
Reporter.
Rove, by the way, just roved over to Newsweek as its newest
polarizing pundit just in time to build on the story that he and his buddies
so adeptly started from the igloo on
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
– THE coldest place on earth. The snow-White House is where the current
occupants and their little elves ruthlessly plotted to severely maim The
Children’s Health Insurance Program that Mrs. Clinton helped establish when
she was Arkansas’s First Lady, heartlessly under-funded the Veteran's
Administration, and turned their backs on the fuel crisis because it’s too
hot to handle.
‘Tis
not the season to be cold and calculating and fuel the myth that Hillary
Clinton is too polarizing a figure to be elected President of the
United States
-- a rumor that has snowballed with little if any reality behind it. The
reporter to coin the phrase was of all people, Todd Purdum, (married to
warm and fuzzy former Clinton operative Dee Dee Meyers) when in 1995, he
called Clinton “a complex and polarizing figure following the failure of her
health care reform initiative. To Karl Rove and his Republican Reindeer
(look,
the holidays are here)
the
fact that it was the issue that was polarizing and not Mrs. Clinton didn't
matter. The phrase was poetic. . .On Bushee! On Boehner! On! Cheney! On Coulter! With their sleigh full of the toys of rumor and innuendo they
dashed off to every evening snowball fight on CNN, MSNBC and
FOXX-redcoat-news. What’s the old story, if you say something enough times
it becomes the truth?
Look, Bush is polarizing, Cheney, too, but Hillary? I don’t think so. I
think she’s many things and not all of them good. But polarizing is not a
fair description. She’s a woman who is smart, and determined, powerful and
accomplished. And whether you agree with her politics or not, she has dared
to tackle some of the biggest issues our country has faced from health care
where she wasn’t successful, to Bill Clinton, to whom she’s still married,
but let’s not take a sleigh ride there.
So, let’s talk turkey. . .the problem with Mrs. Clinton isn’t at all
that’s she’s polarizing. The problem (only in terms of her ability to be
elected president) is that she is that bright, accomplished WOMAN
and the word polarizing is being used as a disguise for what SOME people
really want to call her.
But I won’t go there either. It’s almost Thanksgiving.
~ Halli
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