Donna Brazile's Tell-All Is Troubling For the Wrong Reasons (David Litt, the Atlantic)

[swag]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/what-did-donna-brazile-really-explain-in-her-tell-all-book/546272/

excerpt:

"You might think not knowing doesn’t matter. But not knowing snowballs. Wrapping up her convention speech, she sums her newfound responsibility: “Work as hard as I could to bring my friend Hillary to victory.” Yet two chapters later, she writes that Obama, Hillary, and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz had crippled the DNC. “They had leeched it of its vitality, and were continuing to do so. In my three months I was going to do what I could to bring that life back.” So did she spend three months supporting Clinton, or defending the DNC from her? Those are different books.

Or take the thing Brazile was best-known for during the 2016 campaign—leaking a debate question to the Clinton campaign during the primary. This one should be easy to pin down. After all, Brazile apologized for the leak months ago. But in her book, she goes on exhaustive search for evidence, and then says she can’t find any. She doesn’t deny having sent the email to the Clinton camp. Yet she also doesn’t retract her earlier apology. Shouldn’t this, at least, be something she can take a position on?

Not in the world of Hacks. “It’s impossible to know” is Brazile’s answer to nearly everything. Consider the most explosive charge—that the DNC had rigged the primary to make it impossible for Bernie Sanders to prevail. Page 95: “I would get to the bottom of whether or not Hillary’s team had rigged the party process in her favor.” Page 96: “I had found my proof, and it broke my heart.” Page 159: “Overall the game was not rigged against him.”

Okay then. Glad we got to the bottom of that."

[LisaM]

1. Sounds as if she didn't waste any $$ on an editor or fact checker.

I still can't get over her putting on gospel music and lighting a candle to call Bernie Sanders. That would put me more in a mood to phone up Aretha Franklin. Bernie must have been very confused.

[bettyellen]

2. KICK It?

yes, I can.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. I'll give you a kick.

[Nitram]

4. I suspect the woman has some emotional issues.

She is neither coherent nor consistent. Makes wild claims and then appears to contradict them. Seems to want to be the center of attention. Well, she got her 15 minutes.