'...the reigning Queen of Turbo-Charged Casino Neoliberalism...the evidence insists to suggest that her actions do not exactly match her rhetoric.'
It seems then few presidential aspirants have campaigned for office schlepping so much obvious baggage with them. In fact it is a testament to the Clintons' formidable, perpetual motion political machine that much of HRC's "baggage" is either hidden from public view or is rarely subjected to the rigorous scrutiny that should accompany any candidate aspiring to the highest office in the land. Paradoxically, this applies even moreso now despite now more informed folks ostensibly at least, having the Clintons' political and personal measure.
But as indicated, the MSM have dutifully shoved her dirty linen down the laundry chute and welded the doors shut both ends so the pong doesn't offend the nostrils of the voting public. And in at least one case it would appear, so have some in alternative, independent media (AIM) circles been pulling their punches.
As veteran Australian filmmaker and journalist John Pilger noted recently, in reference to an article he published on Counterpunch about Clinton's fitness for the presidency, another well known and generally respected AIM outlet Truthout, refused to publish it in full until he excised some of what they viewed as his more contentious statements regarding the Woman who Would be President.
Tellingly and to his dismay, Pilger admitted that this was the first time he'd ever been asked to undertake such self-censorship. He was, as might be expected, less than impressed, as much it seems by what he was asked to censor as by whom. In this case it was a news outlet positioning itself as a credible, authentic alternative to the glorified stenographers and perception managers populating the newsrooms and editorial boards within and across the NYT/Washington Post/LAT axis.
After noting that, "like all censorship, this was unacceptable", he had this to say in response:
'[Truthout said] "my unwillingness" to submit my work to a "process of revision" meant [they] had to take it off their "publication docket". Such is the gatekeeper's way with words. At the root of this is an enduring unsayable. This is the need, the compulsion, of many liberals to embrace a leader from within a system that is demonstrably imperial and violent. Like Obama's "hope", Clinton's gender is no more than a suitable facade.'
For Pilger and other like-mined observers, the broader challenge for those wishing to expose the leading Democratic candidate's "dirty linen" to greater scrutiny when it is needed is made more difficult as a result of her status as the anointed Establishment candidate within and amongst the Washington power elites. Now that Clinton has fashioned herself as the "women's candidate" and "champion of American liberalism" in its "heroic struggle" with those mostly unelected folks who dictate U.S. economic, foreign, military, and national security policy, it is increasingly difficult given the existing political climate to counter this cockamamie narrative.
Pilger's withering, 'blowtorch to the belly' assessment of this fiction peddling and increasingly infectious meme leaves no room for ambiguity:
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