About 15 minutes before President Trump’s State of the Union address began, Hillary Clinton posted an epic-length retrospective on her (mis)handling of sexual harassment on her 2008 campaign. Nice timing on her part.
Clinton addresses question of why she didn't fire Burns Strider, moments before SOTU begins https://t.co/xkQl21VqYX
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 31, 2018
Yes, why didn’t she fire Burns Strider, rather than reassigning the woman who accused him of harassment?
"The short answer is this. If I had to do it again, I wouldn't." https://t.co/xkQl21VqYX
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 31, 2018
Well, things were different way back in 2008, you know, and we weren’t all feeling empowered by the #MeToo movement. Clinton writes:
We can’t go back, but we can certainly look back, informed by the present. We can acknowledge that even those of us who have spent much of our life thinking about gender issues and who have firsthand experiences of navigating a male-dominated industry or career may not always get it right.
I recognize that the situation on my 2008 campaign was unusual in that a woman complained to a woman who brought the issue to a woman who was the ultimate decision maker. There was no man in the chain of command. The boss was a woman. Does a woman have a responsibility to come down even harder on the perpetrator? I don’t know. But I do believe that a woman boss has an extra responsibility to look out for the women who work for her, and to better understand how issues like these can affect them.
In other words, she absolutely dropped the ball when it was in her court. So why not give her own State of Hillary address?
Hillary just posted a HUGE Facebook post about her history of empowering abusers pic.twitter.com/rta8OqcwJ2
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) January 31, 2018
REALLY LONG pic.twitter.com/5vfIBj0z4P
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) January 31, 2018
We told you it was epic-length. “I screwed up and I’m sorry” would have fit in a tweet.
Clinton's #SOTU address is long https://t.co/VWlPD1mxcN
— Brett _________ (@BrettRedacted) January 31, 2018
Ah, the rare Tuesday Night News Dump.
Well played Team Clinton. Well played. https://t.co/iniTGQZfjt
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) January 31, 2018
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/958518998915801088
https://twitter.com/seanagnew/status/958521269720412160
Hillary Clinton dropping in ahead of the #SOTU to remind everyone exactly how bad of a candidate you had to be in order for Trump to be president tonight. https://t.co/TQnIcOGHh0
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) January 31, 2018
This is cynical as hell. Exactly the type thing Hillary's detractors say it typical of her… https://t.co/jSShN12l79
— Mark_Coughlan (@Mark_Coughlan) January 31, 2018
How dare Clinton steal the spot light away from Kennedy Jr. https://t.co/cjXZLNeAHu
— Matthew Battle (@librab103) January 31, 2018
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