Tea at Trianon: Hillary Clinton, Enemy of Womankind

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, October 11, 2019

Hillary Clinton, Enemy of Womankind

From The Washington Examiner:

NBC ultimately got rid of Farrow, compromising actual investigative journalism and bending the knee to a producer of literal fiction. That is an outright scandal on its own, but Clinton's own obeisance, shockingly enough, presents a new twist in her narrative of villainy nearly half a century into her public life: Hillary didn't just harm women when it was absolutely necessary to save her husband. She was willing to do it for anyone with a modicum of power, and even after her own pursuit of the top office seemed finished.

Note that at this point Weinstein was already desperate. His threats were futile, so there's no excuse for those who complied with his demands. Woody Allen — Farrow's own estranged father and a fellow credibly accused of his own sexual predations — flatly refused to assist Weinstein in his pursuit to silence Farrow.

While we don't have all the details thus far, what we know is this: In 2017, Hillary knew (hopefully) that she would never, ever be president. She, a millionaire celebrity beloved by our sycophantic media, had presumably nothing but extra plaudits and dinner party invitations from Weinstein, whose star was already on the wane. And yet, with a single ask, she got her publicist to attempt to silence Farrow's story, which had nothing to do with the Clintons. Some months later, Hillary likely allowed Weinstein to use a documentary starring her as bait to cajole a news organization to shut down the most groundbreaking news story of the year. (Read more.)