{"id":99428,"date":"2018-05-21T10:58:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=99428"},"modified":"2018-05-21T10:59:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:59:31","slug":"how-the-ivy-league-schools-have-utterly-destroyed-their-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=99428","title":{"rendered":"How the Ivy League schools have utterly destroyed their brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Harvard To Give Hillary Medal For &#8220;Transformative Impact On Society&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gty_hillary_clinton_sk_140418_16x9_608_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99430\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gty_hillary_clinton_sk_140418_16x9_608_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gty_hillary_clinton_sk_140418_16x9_608_3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gty_hillary_clinton_sk_140418_16x9_608_3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton, who paid for an opposition research dossier which was\u00a0used by the Obama administration to justify surveiling\u00a0her political opponent, Donald Trump, and later to\u00a0smear him as the\u00a0sitting President,\u00a0<strong>will receive Harvard&#8217;s prestigious Radcliffe Medal on Friday\u00a0for having a &#8220;transformative impact on society,&#8221; according to the Ivy League university.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clinton will receive the award as part of the school&#8217;s graduation-week activities, because she&#8217;s a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2011-10-24\/gaddafi-sodomized-video-shows-abuse-frame-frame-graphic\">champion for human rights<\/a>,&#8221; and a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/how-hillary-clinton-missed-the-power-of-the-black-vote_us_582e8496e4b08c963e343d3d\">skilled legislator<\/a>,&#8221; as well as an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/medium.com\/@petercoffin\/how-hillary-clinton-undercut-haitian-workers-1963ee9b9ace\">advocate for American leadership<\/a>&#8221; on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>Former Secretary of State and 2001\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=omnskeu-puE\">Radcliffe Medalist Madeline Albright<\/a>\u00a0will give Clinton a personal tribute, while Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey will join Hillary in a keynote conversation at the Friday affair.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton, who the DNC just\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/30857\/hillary-clinton-democrats-youre-never-getting-rid-emily-zanotti?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=051717-news&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter\">can&#8217;t seem to part ways with<\/a>, lost the 2016 US election due to an immeasurable number of factors &#8211; none of which were her fault. Chief among them, according to Clinton, was\u00a0James Comey&#8217;s\u00a0reopening of the FBI&#8217;s\u00a0email investigation during the summer of 2016\u00a0damaged her bid for the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>Also responsible for Hillary&#8217;s loss, according to Hillary; Vladimir Putin, WikiLeaks,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-03-12\/hillary-trump-voters-didnt-black-people-getting-rights-or-women-getting-jobs\">racist and mysoginist Trump voters<\/a>\u00a0who &#8220;don&#8217;t like black people getting rights&#8221; or &#8220;women getting jobs,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/9\/12\/16295260\/hillary-clinton-white-women-sexism-what-happened\">browbeaten white women<\/a>, polling companies, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-05-02\/hillary-clinton-now-blaming-socialist-democrats-historic-election-loss\">Socialist Democrats<\/a>,\u00a0Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, Benghazi investigators, whoever forced her to set up an illegal server, whoever forced Huma Abedin to forward Anthony Weiner classified documents which were found on his laptop after he was busted sexting an underage teen &#8211; for which he is now in prison,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theduran.com\/hillary-clinton-now-blames-macedonia-for-election-loss-in-bizarre-onstage-interview\/\">Macedonians<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5492301\/Girls-trip-Hillary-Clinton-plays-tourist-India-aide-Huma.html\">and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As one can clearly see, Harvard isn&#8217;t awarding the Radcliffe to a woman who participated in perhaps the largest political scandal in US history. They&#8217;re actually giving the prestigious Medal to the victim of a terrible series of unfortunate events which converged to deny\u00a0her a seat at the Resolute Desk &#8211; presumably with Secretary of State John Podesta\u00a0and Chief of Staff Huma Abedin at her side, giving the Saudis (allies of the other crown prince who was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/GsRJD\">kicked to the curb<\/a>\u00a0last June)\u00a0a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-06-13\/saudi-arabia-has-funded-20-hillarys-presidential-campaign-saudi-crown-prince-claims\">nice return on their investment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previous recipients of the very prestigious medal include Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\" xml:lang=\"fr\">Participation trophy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/bHewbxjQl0\">http:\/\/t.co\/bHewbxjQl0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Posobiec?? (@JackPosobiec)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/998371074898317312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-05-20\/harvard-give-hillary-medal-transformative-impact-society\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-05-20\/harvard-give-hillary-medal-transformative-impact-society<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>Speech of spite: Clinton takes jab at Russia during Yale graduation ceremony (VIDEO)<\/h1>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;If you can&#039;t beat them, join them&#039;: Clinton pulls out Russian hat during Yale speech\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FZWv_COByEU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One-and-a-half years after Hillary Clinton lost the election, she&#8217;s taken her baseless claims of Russian collusion to her alma mater, pulling out a Russian hat while speaking at Yale&#8217;s graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The former secretary of state, who has hardly taken a breath in her campaign against Moscow and claims that it colluded with Donald Trump, wasted no time before jumping straight into the topic of Russia on Sunday. After a few obligatory\u00a0<em>\u201cthank yous\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to students and the faculty, she got stuck in.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI see you are following the tradition of over-the-top hats [at graduation], so I brought a hat too \u2013 a Russian hat,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she said.\u00a0<em>\u201cI mean, if you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, join &#8217;em.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It should perhaps come as no surprise that she changed the subject after that quip, failing to note that there remains zero evidence that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign or took part in any malicious activity.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton also couldn&#8217;t pass up the chance to get in a few jabs about a number of other topics, from WikiLeaks to emails sent from her private server.\u00a0<em>\u201cIf you thought my emails were scandalous, you should hear my singing voice,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she said.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/427277-clinton-yale-russia-speech\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/427277-clinton-yale-russia-speech\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard To Give Hillary Medal For &#8220;Transformative Impact On Society&#8221;<\/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-99428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99428","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=99428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}