So don’t get angry with me for saying this, but toward the end of the book I was starting to think along the lines of “you know, she may be totally corrupt, but she bloody knows the issues!” Like, if you compare the first paragraph of any of the answers she gives to Lloyd Blankfein’s questions (for example, regarding China) to the longest statement Trump has made about anything, it’s night and day how much more she knows, even if she actually does not care.
And the narrator is bloody annoying too. I totally come from his side. My voting record is Dukakis ’88, Obama ’08, OK? But the guy keeps carping on how awful and phony she is and, you know what? He’s applying ideology to a subject where there is room for none. A corrupt insider who’s “on the take” is not any more vulnerable to somebody with an ideology that to an assistant district attorney with no such leanings.
It is the evidence that carries the book, and that only.
But the evidence is devastating. The three pages that list what she’s charged for her speeches and to whom is all you need to know. Like, she starts with USD 225k for everybody, but toward the end she goes totally a la carte, charging “what the market will bear.” They could have published that alone and the book would be worth buying.
But they’ve published more. My total favorite is the bit where Chelsea suddenly discovers how awful the Clinton Global Initiative is and starts spamming about this major epiphany of hers and in particular about how it makes her saintly daddy look like Tony Blair. So the main man there first fires off an email saying “somebody contain her please,” but she carries on. And then he goes “can somebody please remind her we paid for her wedding?”
It’s awesome awesome stuff. I haven’t seen the whole list, so I can’t tell whether the person who did the anthology was some type of God or if all the material was this revealing.
But if you want to have a feel for the depths to which the polis has sunk, you simply must read these emails.
And if it was the KGB who released them (which I very much doubt) they’ve done the West a service. This is a major wake-up call!
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Great view from from a left leaning author on why ...
Reviewed in the United States on 8 July 2017Preston Zimmerman
Politics. Yuck learned so much I had never known. Sadly we don’t learn this stuff until it’s too late
Reviewed in the United States on 5 January 2019Thomas P. Byrne
I was a little disappointed. Written from a progressive viewpoint
Reviewed in the United States on 4 October 2017