In a report that paradoxically validates concerns about Clinton\u2019s health raised by conservative media – which were readily dismissed as sexist and “alt-right fake news” by the unabashedly pro-Clinton mainstream media – the\u00a0Post\u00a0<\/a>reported that\u00a0Brazile contemplated removing Hillary as the party\u2019s candidate after Clinton\u00a0fainted during a ceremony at the 9\/11 Memorial<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and, as the WaPo adds, “Brazile blasts the campaign\u2019s initial efforts to shroud details of her health as \u201cshameful.”<\/p>\n Clinton later said she had pneumonia.<\/p>\n Brazile says she came close to replacing Clinton and Kaine with Vice President Joseph Biden and Sen. Corey Booker, but decided against it after she \u201cthought of Hillary, and all the women in the country who were so proud of and excited about her. I could not do this to them.\u201d Of course, Brazile\u2019s private concerns about her ally and friend\u2019s campaign didn\u2019t stop her from sharing debate questions and town hall topics with the Clinton campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n But that\u2019s hardly the only tantalizing insider detail revealed in the excerpts from Brazile\u2019s new book published by the post (the book hits shelves on Tuesday).<\/p>\n Just like the electorate at large, “the campaign was so lacking in passion for the candidate, she writes, that its New York headquarters felt like a sterile hospital ward where \u201csomeone had died<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n In another detail that was somehow overlooked by the mainstream media\u2019s panoptical scrutiny of the competing campaigns (remember all those stories about the Trump campaign being a shambolic, dysfunctional mess?), Brazile says she knew something was deeply wrong at Clinton\u00a0HQ when she came to the uncomfortable realization that the staffers weren\u2019t, well, fucking each other.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Brazile describes the 10th floor of Clinton\u2019s Brooklyn headquarters, where senior staff worked: \u201cCalm and antiseptic, like a hospital. It had that techno-hush, as if someone had died. I felt like I should whisper. Everybody\u2019s fingers were on their keyboards, and no one was looking at anyone else. You half-expected to see someone in a lab coat walk by.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n During one visit, she writes, she thought of a question former Democratic congressman Tony Coelho used to ask her about campaigns: \u201cAre the kids having sex? Are they having fun? If not, let\u2019s create something to get that going, or otherwise we\u2019re not going to win.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t sense much fun or [having sex] in Brooklyn,\u201d she deadpans.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Then there was this disturbing account of how party officials routinely demeaned and disrespected Brazile, going so far as accusing top Clinton operatives of being racist<\/p>\n As one of her party\u2019s most prominent black strategists, Brazile also recounts fiery disagreements with Clinton\u2019s staffers \u2014 including a conference call in which she told three senior campaign officials, Charlie Baker, Marlon Marshall and Dennis Cheng, that she was being treated like a slave.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not Patsey the slave,\u201d<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0Brazile recalls telling them, a reference to the character played by Lupita Nyong\u2019o in the film, \u201c12 Years a Slave.\u201d \u201cY\u2019all keep whipping me and whipping me and you never give me any money or any way to do my damn job. I am not going to be your whipping girl!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Brazile abruptly and – she says – reluctantly took over in July 2016 for chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The Florida congresswoman was ousted from the DNC on the eve of the party convention after WikiLeaks released stolen emails among her and her advisers that showed favoritism for Clinton during the competitive primaries.<\/p>\n Brazile describes her mounting anxiety about Russia\u2019s theft of emails and other data from DNC servers, the slow process of discovering the full extent of the cyberattacks and the personal fallout. She likens the feeling to having rats in your basement: \u201cYou take measures to get rid of them, but knowing they are there, or have been there, means you never feel truly at peace.\u201d<\/p>\n That fall, Brazile says she tried to persuade her Republican counterparts to agree to a joint statement condemning Russian interference but that they ignored her messages and calls.<\/p>\n\n
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