{"id":107083,"date":"2018-10-30T16:51:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T20:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=107083"},"modified":"2018-10-30T16:52:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T20:52:39","slug":"the-queen-of-political-correctness-completely-leaves-the-pc-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=107083","title":{"rendered":"The Queen of Political Correctness Completely Leaves the PC Reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u2018They all look alike\u2019: Hillary Clinton corrects moderator who mixed up black Democrats<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->RT.com<\/p>\n<p>Conservative commentators are outraged that former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made a racist joke, saying African-Americans \u201call look alike\u201d while correcting her interviewer who mixed up two Democrat politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Video of the exchange first began making the rounds on Monday. It shows Clinton getting interviewed on Friday on a stage in New York, by Kara Swisher of the tech news site Recode.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat do you think of Cory Booker,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Swisher asked,\u00a0<em>\u201csaying \u2018kick them in the shins,\u2019 essentially?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWell that was Eric Holder,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Clinton shot back, deadpanning a beat later,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>Yeah, I know they all look alike.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MattBatzel\/status\/1057017326653054977\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1057017326653054977\" data-twitter-event-id=\"2\">\n<article class=\"MediaCard MediaCard--mediaForward cards-multimedia customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\" data-publisher-id=\"1511018348\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-media\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-widthConstraint js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 56.2500%\">\n<div class=\"NaturalImage-ctaOverlay PlayButton PlayButton--centered\" data-scribe=\"element:play_button\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow. Hillary tries to crack joke after Moderator confuses Eric Holder and Cory Booker: \u201cI know they all look alike\u201d  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K1BpdShf8k\">pic.twitter.com\/K1BpdShf8k<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/maga?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#maga<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Batzel (@MattBatzel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattBatzel\/status\/1057017326653054977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Clinton would, of course, know it was Holder who said that. The former attorney general in the Obama administration\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/440934-holder-kick-democrats-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argued<\/a>\u00a0that Democrats should\u00a0<em>\u201ckick\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Republicans who take the low moral ground mere days after Clinton herself told CNN that one\u00a0<em>\u201ccannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hillary Clinton corrects interviewer who mixed-up black politicians Eric Holder and Cory Booker by saying, &quot;I know they all look alike&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously. <\/p>\n<p>No, seriously. <\/p>\n<p>Watch. <\/p>\n<p>Then Hillary Clinton laughs hysterically at her own racist comment.<\/p>\n<p>No joke.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FnNh4tLOcP\">https:\/\/t.co\/FnNh4tLOcP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8DlJpK3bhc\">pic.twitter.com\/8DlJpK3bhc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1057036299193012225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Holder\u2019s short-cropped grey hair and dark mustache set him apart from the bald-headed, clean-shaven senator from New Jersey, even though they are both African-American.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative Twitterati were quick to point the accusing finger at Clinton for being racist and claim that a Republican politician would get crucified for the comment, even if they conceded the quip may have been a joke aimed at Swisher\u2019s obvious mistake. Conservatives from President Donald Trump himself to Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis have been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/437188-desantis-florida-monkey-racist-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accused of racism<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<em>\u201cdog whistles\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>\u201ccode words\u201d<\/em>\u00a0somehow only Democrats hear.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton had just finished arguing that what some call\u00a0<em>\u201cpolitical correctness\u201d<\/em>\u00a0was\u00a0<em>\u201cjust politeness&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0that Democrats valued because they were all about diversity.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t want to go around insulting people. I don\u2019t want to paint with a broad brush every immigrant is this, every African-American is that, every, you know, other person with different religious beliefs or whatever \u2014 that\u2019s childish,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she had just told Swisher before the Booker-Holder mix-up.<\/p>\n<p>Caught by Clinton\u2019s remark, Swisher merely responded with\u00a0<em>\u201cOh, well done,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0as the former secretary of state smiled at her own wit. And why not &#8211; the racially loaded quip was unscripted and seemed far more genuine than Clinton\u2019s previous attempts at humor, from reacting to the murder of Libya\u2019s ruler with\u00a0<em>\u201cWe came, we saw, he died!\u201d<\/em>in 2011 to the cringe-worthy\u00a0<em>\u201cHow about Pokemon Go-to-the-polls?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0during the 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/442585-hillary-clinton-racist-joke\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/442585-hillary-clinton-racist-joke\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018They all look alike\u2019: Hillary Clinton corrects moderator who mixed up black Democrats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}