Introducing a new series for this blog…one that is inspired (if that\’s the right word) by Hillary Clinton and her people.
What does it mean? Well, let me show you by posting an exchange during yesterday\’s CBS show, “Face The Nation” between host John Dickerson and Clinton Campaign Manager Robby Mook:
DICKERSON: “The biggest problem for her is trust. The voters and the polls have shown this. Voters do not trust her. How does she overcome that?”
MOOK: “Well, first of all, no polls show that voters don\’t trust Hillary Clinton.”
DICKERSON: “They don\’t find her honest and trustworthy.”
MOOK: “Well, no polls, no poll says that.”
That so, Robby? Let\’s do a little checking.
From Aaron Blake\’s May 26th article for the Washington Post:
Two new polls on Tuesday show Hillary Clinton\’s favorable rating hitting a low not seen in years. CNN/ORC has it at its lowest since 2003 (46 percent), wile the new Washington Post-ABC News poll has it at its lowest since 2008 (45 percent).
A big reason? Honesty. The Post-ABC poll shows just 41 percent think she is honest and trustworthy — a number that has continued to fall amid her e-mail controversy and other issues. It was at 46 percent in late March. A majority of Americans (52 percent) now say she is not honest.
And from Jennifer Agiesta\’s June 2 article for CNN.com:
More people have an unfavorable view of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton now than at any time since 2001, according to a new CNN/ORC poll on the 2016 race.
While Clinton remains strikingly dominant in the Democratic field, the poll shows that her numbers have dropped significantly across several key indicators since she launched her campaign in April.
A growing number of people say she is not honest and trustworthy (57%, up from 49% in March)
Now, with these data in mind – which Mook (not only a name, a description as well) certainly is 100% aware of, what is he telling you?
He\’s telling you to ignore poll after poll, from source after source, all showing Hillary Clinton\’s honesty/trustworthiness is down the crapper, and blindly, dumbly accept the premise that these polls do not exist — not that they\’re wrong, mind you, but that they do not exist.
In other words, he\’s telling you that your job is to be an idiot…hence the title of this blog, and the beginning of a series.
Because campaign mooks like this Mook, who will lie to your face in the hope and expectation that you will just accept the lies word for word, are going to surface again. And again. And again.
They\’ll want you to be an idiot. My advice is……don\’t.
