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Clarice Feldman: Hillary, America's Miss Havisham
This week, the sorest loser since Dickens’ Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, Hillary Clinton, began peddling her latest book What Happened. (No question mark at the end because it’s didactic, not really an inquiry. She knows the answer and she’s going to instruct us out of her infinite wisdom and years-long expertise, including two such losses.)On Twitter, the actor James Wood offers a visual of the reasons she proffers, feigning regret that he was not included. If you think Woods was exaggerating, here’s an edited video of her interview with Diane Sawyer. It’s like watching a child explaining that it was Batman who smeared his mother’s lipstick over the mirror. The book is so bad that far-left Counterpunch asks whether she stiffed the ghostwriter out of the final payment (as she did to the ghostwriter of her previous overcompensated book). Apart from casting blame upon the waters far from herself, she makes a number of preposterous suggestions. One of my favorites is the notion that Orwell’s 1984 reminds us that we should trust those in positions of authority “our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence.” Not only is this a gross misreading of 1984, which, in fact, shows the horror of an authoritarian rule by “experts,” it comes at a time when any sentient person has developed good reason to be skeptical of “experts,” people who have for eight long years under Obama misled us on everything. Iowahawk, in a series of tweets, expresses that jaundiced view of the rule by experts suggestion. I trust experts. My dad's radiologist, master electricians, Ford flathead specialists. I object to the indiscriminate use of "expert." ”I might be inclined to trust experts more if "expert" wasn't the adult version of a band camp participation trophy. If the book weren’t stunningly risible enough, Hillary compounds it by saying things like this to interviewers, as she did to Rachel Maddow: “South Korea is literally within miles of the border with North Korea.” To be sure this viewpoint is not unanimous. The New Republic thinks her legacy is “huge and everlasting:” Read the rest at the link Posted by: badanov 2017-09-17 |
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