Say Anything Blog

By Noel Sheppard

In light of the brouhaha surrounding Barack Obama’s comments about high unemployment in small towns making Americans “cling to guns, or religion,” one has to wonder whether press outlets are going to go gaga over derogatory statements Hillary Clinton made in 1995 about working-class white southerners.

This is especially the case given how media ignored revelations about Bill Clinton’s 1991 and 1992 campaign remarks about “economically insecure white people.”

As reported by the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein Wednesday (emphasis added, picture courtesy AP):
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In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach.

“Screw ‘em,” she told her husband. “You don’t owe them a thing, Bill. They’re doing nothing for you; you don’t have to do anything for them.”

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Politics, leftie style.

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