That’s One More Hotel That Hillary Clinton Isn’t Welcome In

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Hillary Clinton is the Democratic presidential frontrunner. She’s also a non-stop gaffe machine. The two don’t go together too well because Hillary’s gaffes end up reconfirming the impression of some in her party that she isn’t progressive enough.

I’m not sure the party really saw this coming.

Hillary’s gaffes used to involve telling crazy lies, like being named after Sir Edmund Hillary or coming under fire at the airport. Her new gaffes are less about lies than about being “almost politically correct” but then shooting herself in the foot.

The former secretary of state spoke at a gala for the New York Historical Society at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on November 21. During a Q&A session, Clinton, who received an honor from the organization, praised President Obama’s recently announced executive order on immigration that will give around 5 million illegal immigrants legal status. Calling the executive order “historic,” she urged the black-tie crowd to remember that “this is about peoples’ lives.”

“This is about, I would venture to guess, the people who served us tonight, who prepared our food tonight,” Clinton said, according to MSNBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald.

But a spokesperson for the Mandarin Oriental disputes Clinton’s suggestion that the executive order would be extended to any of the hotel’s employees.

“Mandarin Oriental, New York does not knowingly employ illegal and/or undocumented immigrants. We require all employees to provide proof of their eligibility to legally work in the U.S.,” said Tammy Peters, a spokesperson for the hotel, in an email to THE WEEKLY STANDARD. “All wait staff and catering staff are employed through our hotel and we do not use outside contractors for such services.”

Not only did Hillary fall into stereotype mode, but she also managed to make herself unwelcome in a hotel. Any hotel that hosts an event she’s at will now have to worry that she’ll call the legality of their operations into question.

  • doramin

    So now Hillary is praising Obama’s decision legalizing five million illegals? Whereas, some days ago she said private businesses do not make the economy?

    How is the Lib media going to breathlessly cover her presidential campaign at the same time covering up all her speeches?

    • JJ

      The MSM does it for Barry all the time. They’ve had plenty of practice!

      • doramin

        Remember her “Ghandi-running-a-gas-station” crack? They just pretended it never happened, which is funny in itself. Drudge broke Monica Lewinsky seventeen years ago. Fox is getting more viewers than the Big Three networks now and these people still think they have the power to spike stories.

        Meanwhile, both Hillary and Barry (the choice of a new generation, y’know…hip…kewel and all that; still can’t accept that YouTube makes it impossible to say one thing, one day, to one audience, and the opposite the next day to a different crowd. How many clips are there of “O”-the-Great-and-Powerful saying “you can keep your doctor?: Thirty-two?

    • Pete

      There was a much commerce before governments ever created roads for public commerce. Not that the SHRillary Clintons and Elizabeth Warrens of the world would know it.

      • doramin

        Cankles and Fauxahontas never read far enough into the textbooks to learn the part about the ancient empires of yore having to collect taxes and tariffs from private commerce to be able to AFFORD to build said roads, bridges, canals, aquaducts, ports and lighthouses, etc.

        Or the parts about what happened to said ancient empires when they overtaxed, overspent, decreed price controls and debased (watered down) their coinage.

        • Pete

          Charlemagne used private contractors to supply his troops. the merchants were responsible for guarding their wares.

          OMG! Liberals will freak!

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    Good work, Hillary!! Pats on the backs for you and your “research” staff! Now, how many toes are left on your feet after continually shooting yourself there? Are you in a contest with gaffe-happy Joe Biden?

  • JakeBlues56

    A conservative who said this would be finished- a career ending comment.. but the media will ignore this and she will get a pass,as always with leftists.

  • Biff Henderson

    She keeps rubbing people the wrong way. Brillory dint con.

  • DVult

    This is about the peasants who we are pretending to care about in our effort to fool them into voting for us. As an example of these peasants, you have the staff at this hotel who clearly only exist to serve our needs but are otherwise completely useless and far inferior to our exalted selves. (Also hiding the fact that all the rest of you including my scumbag husband and idiot daughter are not much better than them and that I am actually the only one who really counts.)

  • Texas Patriot

    Does Annie Oakley have to worry about political correctness? I don’t think so. Hillary is coming out with both guns blazing and going straight for the middle of the road. She knows she doesn’t have to worry about the Left, so she’s going straight for the All-American deer-hunting, gun-carrying, Independent who sees Republicans like Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell as phony as three-dollar bills. And without a viable Conservative candidate with vision and a plan to put America back on the winning track at home and abroad, she’ll probably get that vote.

    • doramin

      Jeez. There must be hours worth of clips of Hillary over the years lifting up her tail and taking multiple verbal dumps on us knuckle-draggers to fill out endless campaign ads.

      What’s in short supply are Re-pube-lican candidates with the guts to run such ads…and fire the consultant class that tells them to smile and play nicey-nice.

      • Texas Patriot

        An avalanche of negative political ads won’t win in this environment. All they will do is prove that Republicans have no vision and no plan for getting us out of the horrific trap we’re in today. What the American people want is sound political, economic, and military leadership, and they will vote for anyone who can provide it.

        • doramin

          Oh, we’re in agreement there, Tex. The Repubelicans did NOT deserve to win as big as they did this time around. It was Obama and the Dems who so spectacularly screwed up the country. How many times does it have to be said that we need a new Contract With Americs or equivalent? The pubbies have to have a positive program to sell the people, a leadership willing to embrace, propagate and defend it and a membership willing to repeatedly spread the word on every medium.

          Of COURSE the Dems and the Lib Media will scream and ridicule any set of policy prescriptions…just as they did in 1995. But so what? What they ended up doing was forcing us to discuss it at length, with Newt & the Gang happy to fill in details. The Old Bulls RINOs are such gutless wonders, they can’t stand to have the MSM call them mean names. They are congenitally incapable of figuring out that the MSM is out to “get” them no matter what they do or say.

      • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

        The Republicans must be FOR something, and not just AGAINST Obama, Hillary et al. But they haven’t figured that out yet.

  • nopeacenow

    Three cheers for the hotel spokesperson. She could have just kept quiet but didn’t.

  • Jason Vickers

    These liberals continue to demean these illegals left and right. They need to be deported. I don’t care if they clean my house, mow my yard, pick my vegetables, or cook my food. We have over 90 million people currently not in the workforce and they make 5million more legal to work here….It makes no sense what so ever. I don’t think Hillary stands a chance myself.

  • REVMAN

    Clinton, who received an honor from the organization, praised President Obama’s recently announced executive order on immigration , and SHE IS RUNNIN FOR PRESIDENT????