‘Victimhood is the new heroism!’ Allahpundit, NYT’s Douthat preview Saint Hillary’s biopic

Basically, you have a heroine whose 3 most famous moments are 1) the defeat of Hillarycare, 2) the Lewinsky scandal, and 3) losing to Obama.

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) August 8, 2013

@DouthatNYT Surely she can/will be portrayed as a sympathetic victim in each of those moments?

— alexmassie (@alexmassie) August 8, 2013

@alexmassie Oh, sure. But weird to have a biopic in which your steely future-president heroine spends her political career being a victim.

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) August 8, 2013

@DouthatNYT @alexmassie Victimhood is the new heroism

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) August 8, 2013

@jpodhoretz @DouthatNYT @alexmassie Her “heroism” is that she soldiers on through all of the victimization #survivor

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) August 8, 2013

@allahpundit @jpodhoretz @alexmassie That IS the power of her story, yes! The martyrdom of St. Hillary. But Joan of Arc won some battles.

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) August 8, 2013

@allahpundit @jpodhoretz @alexmassie For Hillary, there's no dramatic peak, no hour of triumph. I mean, beating Rick Lazio?

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) August 8, 2013

@DouthatNYT @allahpundit @alexmassie She will bring cooking oil and cookstoves to a village in Djibouti and the tears will flow.

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) August 8, 2013

@DouthatNYT @allahpundit @alexmassie Hillary flew 1 million miles. You think that's easy? And without frequent-flyer miles!

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) August 8, 2013

.@DouthatNYT You left out the triumphant vote cast to authorize the invasion of Iraq. @allahpundit @jpodhoretz @alexmassie

— David Swerdlick (@Swerdlick) August 8, 2013

Isn't turning $1k into $100k trading cattle futures an accomplishment?@DouthatNYT @allahpundit @jpodhoretz @alexmassie @mattklewis

— S D Winkler (@sdwinkler) August 8, 2013

@allahpundit @DouthatNYT well there was that landing in Bosnia

— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) August 8, 2013

@DouthatNYT @jpodhoretz @alexmassie We practically owe her the presidency after all of this suffering

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) August 8, 2013