Hillary Clinton, What Happened Book Analysis
Hillary Clinton released her memoir What Happened, detailing her perspective on the 2016 presidential election. The text includes a critique of her interpretation of George Orwell's 1984, where she compares Donald Trump's rhetoric to authoritarian reality-bending. Further analysis covers her descriptions of the Clinton Foundation's global work and an anecdote regarding Bill Clinton's depression following his 1980 gubernatorial loss in Arkansas.
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00:00 Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. At Sunday September 17th 2017 this is your award-winning Getmo Nation Media assassination episode 9 or 6 5 This is no agenda From juggalos to giant noise systems we cover it all Coming to you from the darkest corners of the internet in downtown Austin Tejas, Capital of the Drone Star State In The Cluedio. In The Morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where I'll betcha Hillary shows up...I'm John C. DeVore Ivory It's Crack Bomb and Buzzkill! In The Mornin'! Unavoidable since i have started reading the book. The uh
00:41 If Hillary had gotten as much coverage as she's getting with this one book, she'd have been president. Possibly! It was a lot of good exposure for sure I mean i don't know if it's all good exposure but that's a lot of exposure yeah Have you started reading it? No, I didn't get yet Oh, I did. I started reading it Why don't we read on the show Well, yeah I can read some things. Starting with page the preface please! Well here's what's interesting and it wasn't all that surprise you remember i did a book show years ago when I was in Los Angeles called The Big Book Show and there was an app and my interviewed authors about their books and you know I'd get all the free books and I'd read the books and talk to these people who is it was okay It was fun. And you have free books? Yeah there was no way to make any money but it was lot of fun doing
01:30 You get free books. Free books, yes and I met some interesting people So when you start reading this book you realize very quickly the complaint that I always heard from authors because I interviewed them And they'd say wow you actually read the book like yeah doesn't everybody says no No, so how about Book TV? No, no They barely read the book and usually if we go with Larry King's approach he decides never to read the book Yes So everything you've seen on television so far is in the first chapter of the book. If you just, quick let's read it! Oh yeah okay man! Everything... every little bit that you've heard about is uh Is in the first chapter and what is very annoying Uh It's- she obviously didn't write this book herself I mean I don't think she uh Can write Yeah can writ- Don't think she can- I don't think she can write
02:29 You know, they'll be just like oh and I remember this quote from this author. It's like there are ten of them in the first chapter alone! Yes, I remember it so well... This quote from this author from this book and Bill and I even during the campaign we went back and re-read some other books to understand exactly how this works in historical context. Maybe she should have been campaigning more reading less books? Yeah possibly Possibly. I mean, for instance so the you know this is what is this page? Yeah, that doesn't say what page You know the howl straight from the white nationalist gut its most memorable line was about American carnage a startling phrase more suited to A slasher film than an inaugural dress address Trump painted a picture of a bitter broken country. I didn't recognize oh Here's the George Orwell thing you were curious about
03:26 Because I wanted to know that as well. How did she really interpret 1984 by George Orwell? Oh, right yeah... That thing's been floating around on Twitter Yeah so again this is in the first chapter As Yale history professor Timothy Snyder writes in his book On Tyranny 20 Lessons from the Twentieth Century So there's a quote from a book she read Attempting to define reality is a core feature of authoritarianism. This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos, this is what happens in George Orwell's classic novel 1984 when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner sees five fingers as ordered
04:19 The goal is to make you question logic and reason, and to sow mistrust towards exactly the people we need to rely on. Our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence ourselves. For Trump as with so much he does it's about simple dominance." So what she's saying is that only the Trump government is like 1984 That other governments are good because you should trust the leaders in your press and your experts. Yes, that's not the message of the book Not hardly at all Actually that particular part of the book is kind of dubious because in fact a public if they knew about the Shock therapy in that particular situation where you were told to see five fingers Yeah when they held up four
05:18 I don't care who it is, in a modern society especially. You would go in there and they say how many fingers do you see? And you'd say five. You wouldn't take the shock. You know they're going to keep electrocuting you until you say five, just say five! Yeah but you're supposed to say five... So what difference does it make? Who cares?! What difference does it make when you say you're supposed to see 5 and then hold up for 4? Okay, 5 now what I'm out of here For Trump if everyone's down in the mud with him then he is no dirtier than anyone else He doesn't have to do better if everyone else does worse. I think that's why he seems to relish humiliating people around him, and it is why he must have been delighted when Marco Rubio tried to match him in slinging crude personal insults during the primaries. Of course it hurt Rubio much more than Trump as Bill likes to say never wrestle a pig in the mud!
06:12 They have clove and hooves which give them super traction, and they love getting dirty. Sadly Trump's strategy worked when people started believing that all politicians are liars and crooks the truly corrupt escape scrutiny and cynicism grows Hold on a second Yeah, they call these little adages like never wrestle a pit pig in the mud yeah That's where you stop Yeah, but you don't go into a long explanation of the clove and hoves. It's better by the way cloven hooves kettle pot hello Hillary we heard you clipity-clop with your cloven hooves every single time on the State Department floor We know who's got the hooves yeah it's almost I'm almost imagining her being with the writer who and when she does the pig thing And they get right sit down and then she says I think we'd better explain what that means
07:04 I don't think we need to. Not really, no. No, no, I think we should let's start with them they get better traction because they got these cloven horns and there is another thing they cool off in the mud so actually their environment is very mud if given a choice and yeah some more and the guy said I don't think we need all of these details. And lets listen to the uh also something that she does consistently Every little thing that was odd that she did, she has an explanation for in the book. And I'm looking around at my bookmarks here as if I can find a good example So it's always you know well something weird happened and this is the obvious explanation for why that happened But here she talks about The Clinton Foundation She's very proud of the work of The Foundation The foundation...I didn't know this Is also fighting the opioid epidemic in the United States
07:53 helping more than 150,000 small farmers in Africa increase their incomes bringing clean energy to island nations in the Caribbean Pacific. I had to read that four times because they're semicolon so I guess what she's saying is they're fighting the opioid epidemic in United States They're using semicolons for this particular... Yeah, for this list. From a professional writer's perspective? It's bad right? Yeah! It is considered bad form to use the semicolon ever. I do it maybe once a year I use one.
08:32 Among Clinton Global Initiative's greatest hits were sending 500 tons of medical supplies and equipment to West Africa for those fighting the Ebola epidemic, and helping raise $500 million dollars to support small businesses farms schools and health care in Haiti. Yeah! Sadly, only a couple million went to Haiti. But you sure raised $500 million dollars! Is that what she said? 500 million? Yeah, to support small business help helping raise five hundred million to support small business farms and schools and health care in Haiti. Wow. Yeah. Tone deaf I think she's oblivious to her own reality must be
09:18 Must be let's play a couple of Hillary just what does one more thing? Just one more thing I want just you know we talk about the feud between Hill and bill yeah, hi Even if this is true. I probably would have not put it in my book in this manner about my spouse Losing as hard for everyone but losing a race You thought you would win is devastating I remember when Bill lost his re-election as governor of Arkansas in 1980. He was so distraught at the outcome that, I had to go to the hotel where the election night party was held to speak with supporters on his behalf. For a good while afterward he was so depressed that he practically couldn't get off the floor."
10:02 That's not me. I keep going, I also stew and ruminate! I run through the tape over and over identifying every mistake especially those made by me when i feel wronged I get mad And then I think about how to fight back So Bill is just a beta male puss Off the floor? Wow I'm so sad She definitely...I have to read this book she sounds like she's just so full of herself Let see there was one more thing She talks about bumping into everybody at the inauguration. Oh yeah, she talks about the inauguration on... she did it-she made the rounds! She said I bumped into George W Bush and he said boy that was some weird shit with his characteristic Texas bluntness. I couldn't have agreed more that's talking about the inauguration Fascinating Now what is probably better just to wrap this up to get into your clips
