Regardless of one’s feelings about the new accusations drummed up by People and The New York Times against Donald Trump, what’s irrefutable is the media’s infatuation with the Clintons and Obamas and CNN’s Wolf showcased that on Thursday in gushing over a speech by Michelle Obama as “one of the most powerful speeches I've ever heard by a woman talking about the power of women in politics.”
Host Wolf Blitzer kicked things off before going to his assembled panelists by admitting that we have “heard strong speeches for Hillary Clinton before” but the one by the First Lady lashing out at Trump was “clearly one of the most powerful.”
Chief political analyst Gloria Borger then unleashed about how she had just witnessed “one of the most powerful speeches I've ever heard by a woman talking about the power of women in politics” even though “it didn't come and probably couldn't have come from Hillary Clinton herself.”
Expressing the feelings of the First Lady that the deeds Trump has supposedly committed are “disgraceful” and “intolerable,” Borger concluded that we’ll be looking back on this date as the day that Mrs. Obama gave such a consequential speech: “I think when we look back on this speech, talking about the power of women to change an election, it's going to be a very important speech in American political history.”
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CNN’s senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson agreed that it was “one of the most powerful political speeches I've ever heard anyone deliver” even though “[i]t was partisan but it had a bipartisan feeling to it.”
Henderson touted her conversations with the Obama White House about the speech and how much Michelle wanted to give one like this before realizing “this is about Obamaism” and the President’s “legacy” that “we're an imperfect nation, always in the process of perfecting this union.”
“So, you know, this will be — I think you're right, remembered for years to come in terms of what it meant to this campaign, what it means to women in politics, what it meant to Hillary Clinton,” she concluded.
Of course, Blitzer, Borger, and Henderson ignored how Michelle told a Chicago audience the following about Hillary Clinton and her marriage to Bill during the 2008 campaign that was, needless to say, not exactly a ringing tribute:
MICHELLE OBAMA: One of the things — the important aspects of this race is role-modeling what good families should look like. And my view is that if you can’t run your own house, you certainly can’t run the White House. Can’t do it!
Taking a brief side dig at Politifact, the shameless liberals masquerading as non-partisan fact-checkers attempted to debunk this by claiming that what Mrs. Obama uttered were “somewhat oblique” and “might be about Hillary Clinton, but they also might be simple pro-family sentiments.”
The relevant portion of the transcript from CNN’s Wolf on October 13 can be found below.
CNN’s Wolf
October 13, 2016
1:01 p.m. Eastern
WOLF BLITZER: You’ve heard strong speeches for Hillary Clinton before. This is clearly one of the most powerful.
GLORIA BORGER: This is one of the most powerful speeches I've ever heard by a woman talking about the power of women in politics. Ironically, it didn't come and probably couldn't have come from Hillary Clinton herself.
NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON: Right.
BORGER: But came from Michelle Obama on behalf of Hillary Clinton. Expressing the outrage, as she put it, expressing that this is not normal behavior. This is disgraceful, intolerable, no woman deserves to be treated this way and in a very sort of personal way saying, I can't stop thinking about this. This has shaken me to my very core, talking to women voters out there, talking to their children, talking to their husbands and saying this political race comes down to an issue of character and comparing the character of Donald Trump obviously to Hillary Clinton and I think when we look back on this speech, talking about the power of women to change an election, it's going to be a very important speech in American political history.
HENDERSON: I think that's right. I think it's one of the most powerful political speeches I've ever heard anyone deliver. It was partisan but it had a bipartisan feeling to it. I talked to folks at the White House about it. This is a speech she wanted to deliver. She is — it was personal to her. She wanted to make it personal. She said she feels it personal. “The shameful comments and this belief you can do anything that you want to to a woman” and she said that it hurts. I thought what was interesting about it is this is about Obamaism, right? It’s Obama's legacy. It’s about Obama's view of the country. This idea we're an imperfect nation, always in the process of perfecting this union. So, you know, this will be — I think you're right, remembered for years to come in terms of what it meant to this campaign, what it means to women in politics, what it meant to Hillary Clinton and she turned at some point to Hillary Clinton, praising her, talking about her being a good mother, a good wife, she said, a good daughter who took care of her mother in a —
BORGER: A loyal one.
HENDERSON: — a loyal one, exactly, which was an important thing to add, I think, in that speech. So, you know, I mean this is why Michelle Obama has such a good reputation as the closer. Someone who can come in and make people change their minds in terms of who to vote for and also a really engaged with that base.
