We've used the metaphor before: this wasn't softball--it was T-ball. In the course of a lengthy interview that aired on Morning Joe today, a sympathetic Joe Scarborough asked Hillary Clinton: "the question is why doesn't anything stick to [Trump] whereas everything seems to stick to Hillary Clinton? It's got to be frustrating for you to see sort of the double standard."
Double-standard. Got to be frustrating. Kleenex: STAT! Mika Brzezinski seconded Scarborough's shoulder-to-cry-on: "if you said something in 1994 someone would hold up a sign and take it out of context in front of a speech you're doing." Aww.
Some of us would say that if things really stuck to Hillary, she'd be under indictment by now.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: I want to ask you about something else we talked about on the show yesterday or the day before. Bob Woodward came with a big folder that said "Trump" on it --
HILLARY CLINTON: -- oh my goodness --
JOE: -- and he said "we're going to go after this guy. He is going to be the next nominee and nobody's gone after him." And I said, Bob, actually they've written all the articles. Nothing seems to stick to him. And I said the bigger question is not why the press hasn't investigated him -- because they have -- the question is why doesn't anything stick to him, whereas everything seems to stick to Hillary Clinton? It's got to be frustrating first of all for you to see sort of the double standard not necessarily among the press but among the voters. But why do you think that is, that nothing sticks to Donald Trump but if you wrote something in 1973, the press would be chewing on it for two weeks?
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Or if you said something in 1994 someone would hold up a sign and take it out of context, right in front of a speech you're doing.
HILLARY: Yeah, I know, I know.
JOE: Which we saw today, which is absolutely ridiculous.
HILLARY: I have a couple responses to this. I think part of the reason why I'm going to be the nominee and I'm going to be the next president is because I have withstood all this. I have been vetted. I mean, I've been at this for decades now and despite all the incoming, I'm still here, I'm still forging ahead because I think in most cases most people kind of see through it and we go on together. The vetting on these other candidates has not even begun. And, it will.
