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Trump camp demands apology for Clinton's 'basket of deplorables' remark
[POLITICO] Donald Trump’s campaign is demanding an apology for comments Hillary Clinton
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 made at a fundraising event Friday in New York City, where she said half of his supporters belonged in a "basket of deplorables" -- "the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it."
That sounds like most of us, I guess. We turn racist, along with our candidates, every four years. We like looking at pretty girls. We're not convinced boys who dress up like girls should be allowed to infest girls' locker rooms, we prefer immigrants have visas and no tattoos on their faces, and we think most of the terrorism in the world stems from three particular sects of Islam.
Sunni, Shia, and ??
Deobandi.
The Republican nominee tweeted Saturday morning: "Wow, Hillary Clinton was SO INSULTING to my supporters, millions of amazing, hard working people. I think it will cost her at the Polls!"
They consider the fact that their party is anti-white and anti-Asian and anti-working class to be a selling point.
"Come to an event; talk to real people who aren't donors," Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway wrote in a Twitter exchange with Clinton front man Nick Merrill earlier Saturday morning. "Or better: have Hillary apologize."
Seppuku on national TV sounds appropriate.
Neera Tanden, head of the liberal Center for American Progress and a close Clinton ally, shot back at Conway: "let's make a deal: your campaign apologizes for calling Mexican immigrants colonists rapists and we'll talk."
He said the rapists were immigrants, not vice versa.
These are not the people who said,"Word order has meaning." That would require higher level thinking.
The event, a gala for the group LGBT for Hillary at Cipriani Wall Street that featured Barbara Streisand, was not the first time Clinton has used the term. But her extended riff this time drew swift and harsh condemnation from Republicans -- as well as comparisons to past presidential campaign gaffes.
Drag a dollar through a trailer park and you'll get us.
Clinton’s comments came as she urged the crowd of donors not to "get complacent" after seeing "the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment" from Trump and assume, "Well, he's done this time."
Neither should White, Hispanic, black, or Asian working people get complacent at the latest puddle of drool from Hillarity.
Trump has defined his campaign at times as a crusade against "political correctness" and offended minority groups with his comments about Moslems, Mexicans and African-Americans. His new campaign team -- led by Conway -- has sought to steer him in a more inclusive direction. Polls suggest he has made few inroads among minority voters, though he has recovered somewhat with the college-educated white voters who are crucial to any winning Republican coalition.
He's appealing to the law-abiding, regardless of education or color.
Clinton's campaign has hardly disguised its strategy of associating Trump with the far-right elements of his base and reminding voters of his most incendiary remarks, hoping to arrest any further improvement in his numbers.
Every election the Republican's a racist and an "extremist." Romney was a racist and an extremist. McCain was racist and extremist. Bush was racist and extremist. Dole was racist and extremist. You get the picture.
"You know," Clinton said at the LGBT event, "to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables."
Preferably just our heads, of course. But that's not extremist.
"Right?" Clinton said as the crowd laughed and applauded.
Sure. Put your head on the block, extremist!
"The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic -- you name it," Clinton continued. "And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people -- now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric."
The Times of Israel adds:
Hillary Clinton said Saturday that she was “grossly generalistic” in calling half of Donald Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables,” after the Republican nominee argued that her comments had smeared many Americans and would take a political toll.

Less than 24 hours after she made the statement at a private New York City fundraiser. Clinton said “I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong.” But she argued that the word “deplorable” was reasonable to describe much of Trump’s campaign.
Posted by: Fred 2016-09-11
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