Hillary Clinton cited April Ryan's exchange with Spicer & O'Reilly's remarks about Maxine Waters

[kpete]

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[Cha]

1. Thank you, kpete!

Mahalo, Hillary

[joshdawg]

3. I second that mahalo, Cha.

[calimary]

13. I third it.

Thank you, Hillary. Still with you.

[Cha]

19. Good on ya, josh!

[Lucinda]

2. KNR

[ismnotwasm]

4. K&R

[Hekate]

5. Kick!

[ehrnst]

6. KnR!

[NBachers]

7. What could have been . . . what we still have.

[milestogo]

8. Thank you madam President.

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[brer cat]

10. K&R

[JTFrog]

11. K&R!! nt

[calimary]

12. April Ryan seems to be acquitting herself better now than during bush/cheney.

My problem with her remains - from the news conference dubya held as the Iraq War was starting up. She asked the single most LAME question I've ever heard by ANY reporter, ANYWHERE, particularly in view of the breakout of hostilities.

"Mr. President, how does your faith serve you?"

I heard that and almost fell on my ass. My jaw certainly went crashing down to the floor.

"How does your FAITH SERVE YOU?????" W.T.F.F. (What The F*cking F*ck???)????

I've never been able to look at her the same way since.




I'm gonna start using an asterisk for the F-word. Too profane sometimes. And besides, it's Lent.

[LisaM]

15. I guess I wouldn't hold it against her forever, but you're right!

I looked up this exchange, and it seems even worse than you're remembering; it was a scripted question and Bush actually called on her before she raised her hand to ask it.

https://www.democracynow.org/2007/4/25/legendary_broadcaster_bill_moyers_returns_to

BILL MOYERS: At least a dozen times during this press conference, he will invoke 9/11 and al-Qaeda to justify a pre-emptive attack on a country that has not attacked America. But the White House Press Corps will ask no hard questions tonight about those claims. Listen to what the president says.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: This is a scripted —

REPORTER: Thank you, Mr. President.

BILL MOYERS: "Scripted." Sure enough, the president’s staff has given him a list of reporters to call on.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Let’s see here. Elizabeth… Gregory… April, did you have a question, or did I call upon you cold?

APRIL RYAN: I have a question.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: OK. I’m sure you do have a question.

ERIC BOEHLERT: He sort of giggled and laughed, and the reporters sort of laughed. I don’t know if it was out of embarrassment for him or embarrassment for them, because they still continued to play along. After his question was done, they all shot up their hands and pretended they had a chance of being called on.

APRIL RYAN: Mr. President, how is your faith guiding you?


PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: My faith sustains me, because I pray daily. I pray for guidance.


ERIC BOEHLERT: And I think it just crystallized what was wrong with the press coverage during the run-up to war. I think they felt like the war was going to happen, and the best thing for them to do was to get out of the way.

[calimary]

16. It was the most lame, asinine question EVER. I'm still fuming about it.

I just can't look at April Ryan without thinking about it.

WHAT THE HELL does "faith guiding you" have to do with starting a completely godless WAR? What a simpering, stupid, idiotic and utterly shameful question. "How is your faith guiding you?"??????????????? What? He took us to war because Jesus? Because God? WTF???? I still remember wanting to throw up at that moment. Could NOT believe what I just heard. What? You're working for Pat Robertson or something, girlfriend? What the hell kind of question was that????

I'm sorry, but that moment made me ashamed to have been a journalist. Why didn't you just offer to get down on your knees and lick his shoes, mid-worship, 'eh, April?

She SEEMS to be acquitting herself better nowadays. But I'm not completely won over yet.

Mr. President, how is your faith guiding you...

[LisaM]

17. Bwa ha ha.

I don't blame you. In fact, it made me kind of remember the moment myself, though I wouldn't have been able to come up with the person who asked the question. I hang onto stuff like that, too.

[BainsBane]

14. Just as Hillary herself has been treated

Despite high levels on competence and knowledge.

[Cha]

18. Treated with Lies that too many brainwashed

bought.

[calimary]

20. No shit.

I read the comments with a lot of these reports. NYTimes, WaPo, Politico (OY is THAT place ever overrun by cretinous readers!), Raw Story, Kos, etc. MOST illuminating and educational. Shows you some of the idiot-"thinking" still rampaging unrestrained, like a metastasized cancer, out there.

I have seen the ongoing "Hillary lied! Benghazi! Child molestation! Murder!" crap they cling to, so very desperately.

ALL OF WHICH, mind you, ARE, AND HAVE BEEN PROVEN FALSE.

Hell, even Alex Jones had to eat his own shit the other day about the phony-ass "Pizzagate" embarrassment. But some of these rubes still choose to believe it anyway. UN-freakin'-BELIEVABLE.

Pathetic. And those know-nothings are allowed to vote.