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Hillary Clinton has tried a lot of things over the years. Becoming president. Trying to join both NASA and the Marines. Landing at an airport while under fire. But mostly lying a lot.
And that naturally led her to writing a lot of books.
Hillary Clinton is the James Patterson of the political publishing industry. Except unlike Patterson (who did cowrite a thriller with Bill Clinton) no one wants to buy what she’s selling. After losing her final election, Hillary wrote ‘What Happened’, a children’s book ‘It Takes a Village’ and ‘Grandma’s Gardens’ and then ‘State of Terror’ a thriller about the heroics of a fictional Hillary.
You can find most of them in a 99 cent store assuming you can even still find a 99 cent store.
So Hillary, who never misses a grift, decided to belatedly jump on the podcast bandwagon with “You and Me.” If Harry and Meghan could do it, why not her? But unlike Bill, Hillary had never been able to fake interest in other people. And she’s not interesting except as a study in sociopathy. That’s a problem when you expect people to listen to you for 30 minutes or more.
Chartable shows Hillary Clinton’s podcast ranking at 2,793 in America. She reached number 34 in the government category which is like being the speediest elephant seal, coming in just ahead of the podcasts for the Commonwealth Club of California and the National Review. On Audible, Hillary enjoys a whole 18 ratings. That’s the Yelp history of a luncheonette open for less than a year before burning to the ground. Except Hillary’s podcast doesn’t qualify for insurance payouts.
Despite an extra special season finale in December in which Hillary interviewed her husband, no one cared. They didn’t tune in to listen to Gov. Pritzker’s thoughts on abortion, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s musings on loneliness, or to Hillary talking to Judy Blume about sex ed.
And so Hillary hit the book trail again.
A presidential election is the perfect time to release a campaign book. The only problem is that the last time Hillary ran for anything was 8 years ago. But that’s not about to stop Hillary.
‘Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty’, which sounds like a third tier Republican presidential candidate’s campaign biography, is coming in September. For those keeping track, this will be Hillary Clinton’s fourth autobiography and if Simon and Schuster doesn’t stop throwing money at her, there will be, unless an asteroid hits the earth, a fifth.
After an autobiography cashing in on her husband’s adultery (‘Living History’), another one on wrecking the Middle East (‘Hard Choices’) and still another one on losing a presidential election (‘What Happened’), what else does Hillary Clinton have to say about herself? And who cares?
Leaving behind the wreckage of multiple failed books and a podcast, “Something Lost, Something Gained” is billed as “Hillary like you haven’t seen her before.” In other words: human. But Hillary tried rebranding as a human being at multiple phases in her career. She pretended to bake cookies in the White House and went on a listening tour before her first campaign.
But now Hillary is getting religion.
The new autobiography was preceded by ‘Do All the Good You Can: How Faith Shaped Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Politics’ late last year: a religious biography of Hillary by a Presbyterian minister who claimed that “the strong religious faith at the heart of her politics” is “confounding” to “longtime observers.” Confounding is one way of putting it, laughable is another.
Now Hillary will once again “open up” about her religious faith in a five city pre-election tour where attendees will get to hear “never-before told stories” from a former politician who spent her entire life telling stories about herself and making up most of them along the way.
After four autobiographies and a podcast, most people wish Hillary would stop opening up about things, and instead close them up and go away. After exhausting every possible option for cashing in, Hillary Clinton is launching a pre-election book in which she will once again attack President Trump while trying to pretend that there is more to her than politics. But is there?
What does Hillary’s faith consist of? The book’s press release tells us that it is a “testament to the idea that the personal is political, and the political is personal.”
Hillary’s testament is not religious: it’s political. Her human reinventions are always political because there is little more to her than politics. Actual faith transcends politics. It does not preclude laboring for a cause, but it acknowledges, as George Washington did, that its ultimate fate is in the hands of God. Hillary Clinton cannot do that and that is why she cannot let go.
The lie is right there in the title of ‘Something Lost, Something Gained’ which implies that Hillary has gained some philosophical distance after losing her career. Except that eight years later, she’s peddling a campaign book in the middle of a presidential election while offering a “warning to all American voters” about the dangers of voting for her former political opponent.
Hillary isn’t over anything. Two presidential elections later she’s still trying to run her own kind of sore loser campaign while making some money. At 76, Hillary is not any different than she was at 69. Her only faith is in her ego and she draws strength not “from her Methodist faith”, but from the malice and unsettled scores that had already long ago made her old long before her time.
When Bill Clinton first ran for president, a campaign memo warned that “voters need to meet the real Hillary Clinton. They have a distorted, limited and overly political impression of her.” Over three decades and four autobiographies (not to mention documentaries, a podcast and a show) later, voters have met more of her than they ever wanted to and their first impression was right.
Hillary Clinton is overly political. And her only religion and personality is politics. When Hillary talks about herself, she talks about politics, and when she talks about politics, she talks about herself. The “testament to the idea that the personal is political, and the political is personal” is as close to religion as she will ever get. Hillary is her own faith and her salvation. And after losing her political career, she has no idea what to do except to go through the same motions.
Other failed presidential candidates have moved on to a life beyond politics, but that was never an option for her. The personal being political means that Hillary has no life beyond politics.
Eight years after her political career ended, Hillary Clinton is haunting America. And herself.
RS says
Matthew 7:16 Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them.
Luz Maria Rodriguez says
Beware the wolf.
It’s always on the hunt.
Lethal says
The title “Something lost, Something gained” sure fits the photo of Hilary on the cover. She has miraculously lost her wrinkles and gained a youthful appearance!
internalexile says
It used to be airbrush. Now, of course, it’s Photoshop or, increasingly, AI.
Daniel Greenfield says
yes Photoshop is passe or rather Photoshop and other software packages include AI retouching tools.
Jeff Bargholz says
AI in Photoshop and similar programs? How does that work? Is it like the retouch features for photos on cell phones?
Grey Beard says
Or perhaps a pact with the devil?
Toni says
She & Bill made a pact with the devil when they got married!
Gary says
They managed to airbrush out the devil horns that sprout out of her head. Good thing they don’t have to photoshop her coven hooves.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yeah, Id definitely say the hideous photo at the top of the article is more accurate.
PChestershiremeister says
And she has lost some poundage … wouldn’t be surprised if the photo was AI generated.
Buddy the Cat Meow says
I guess a movie comes next.
Anyway, I read about 3 chapters of Pelosi’s book. The first chapter starts out with “It was a cold day in January ….” Then the second chapter begins with the line “It was a cold day in January…”
I guess we needed reminding that January can be unexpectedly cold in the Northern hemisphere.
Or maybe it was about Pelosi’s fondness for meteorology.
For a fifth Hillary book, just publish the 33,000 missing emails. It could be a smash!
internalexile says
“A dark and stormy night.” That rings a bell.
Luz Maria Rodriguez says
With Gene wilder excitedly exclaiming, “It’s alive; it’s alive.”
Domenic Pepe says
Here is my take on Hillary Clinton … the “new – to be announced” democrat 2024 presidential candidate.
Hillary still has visions of grandeur and she still believes in her own vast importance and brilliance.
Biden is going to croak or withdraw as the dem presidential candidate by the time the dem convention rolls around.
The two leading dem candidates will be proclaimed as Hillary and Newsom. Harris is going nowhere.
Hillary is going to be resurrected as the most brilliant and most experienced presidential candidate ever.
All the woke leftist media brain washing hoopla will be arranged choreographed and focused on Hillary as the most experienced and smartest person in the history of American presidential politics, as well as being the original true village mother for America.
The democrat presidential dream ticket will be mandated at the dem convention as Hillary as president and Gavin Newsom as vice president.
Such a dem presidential ticket will create a lot of lunatic excitement among the woke leftist dems and their berserk woke leftist media.
This seems to me what Hillary and Bill and Obama too are scheming for November 2024.
Make no mistake about it.
Hillary is still very very ambitious … and she is a conniving depraved psychopath who is driven irrationally to destroy America and US working and middle class citizens.
” Deplorables ” is her favorite descriptor word for US working and middle class citizens.
Hillary is the top depraved psychopathic berserk hate-filled shrew in America ….
and that still counts for a lot in the democrat party.
Domenic Pepe says
The two leading dem candidates will be proclaimed as Hillary and Gavin Newsom.
Harris is going nowhere.
All the woke leftist media excitement and brain washing hoopla will be arranged choreographed and focused on Hillary as the most experienced and brilliant candidate in the history of America for the presidency.
Newsom will be Hillary’s VP ….. a young shining rising star of the depraved psychopathic berserk left of the future.
And so, the dem presidential ticket will be Hillary as president and Newsom as vice president.
Such a dem presidential ticket will create a lot of lunatic excitement among the dems and the media, as well as motivating the suburban females and the woke leftist college yoots to work hard for the dem ticket, since Newsom will have been effectively anointed as the dem presidential candidate for 2028, with eight years ahead of him.
Jeff Bargholz says
Alzheimer Joe may croak but he won’t withdraw and the Dirtbagocrats will never nominate Hitlery. She’s the most detested woman in America and was the first or second candidate to drop out of the 2020 primaries.
johnw1120 says
” She is the most detested woman in America” Never underestimate the ignorance of the committed liberal, the faithful will fall right in line ready to vote for the crook.
Buddy the Cat Meow says
After reflecting on what I wrote, I have to say that I made a stupid and useless comment. Sure, Pelosi had a book that was a flop, but I managed to sound even worse. I’ve embarrassed myself with my reply. I should have tried to win over those who don’t feel as I doby writing something thoughtful, but I failed to do that. Shame on me.
Daniel Greenfield says
There have been Hillary movies and a Broadway play with Hillary being portrayed by Laurie Metcalf, Roseanne’s sister from the show, it didn’t do well.
But the version that has Hillary played by a fat black woman is much funnier
Semaphore says
“The personal is political, and the political is personal” clearly describes the fate of Vince Foster and Seth Rich, among others, IMO…
Gary says
The only way I would pick up Pelosi’s book is if I could use it to beat her over the head with it.
Luz Maria Rodriguez says
Maybe we can convince D’nish D’sousa to do a documentary on her and her radical mentor.
Mark S Griffith says
I don’t think Dinesh is quite ready to commit suicide.
Ron Kelmell says
True religion starts with repentance and turning to a living trust in the Risen Christ. I believe in redemption, real redemption, forgiveness, and reconciliation to God.
If crone Clinton were to have a genuine “come to Jesus” conversion it would undermine the mindless devotion of her millions of disciples, ending her political career such as it has been or might be.
Jeff Bargholz says
I always begin my prayers with repentance for my sins and misdeeds and ask to be forgiven. I think it’s very important and I believe I have to be sincere about it, which isn’t difficult. I trained myself to be sincere about it long ago.
Vic says
You are hilarious!
Alkflaeda says
But not Hillarious, one hopes.
Jeff Bargholz says
How do you figure? If you know something you did requires repentance, it’s easy to be sincere about it.
Mark Dunn says
I hope she doesn’t run again. I could see the Jew haters, men in dresses, and all the other misfits rallying around her.
Vic says
Well yeah, wasn’t she running around with arafat’s wife in Paris little while ago?
Saxon says
I am afraid the jews will also support her!
steven kastein says
Sadly, you’re probably right
Jeff Bargholz says
She’d definitely have Planned Parenthood’s endorsement.
John Sweet says
Reflections on Life, Love and Liberty? The only person she has ever loved is herself. She is the definition of a psychopath.
Allan Goldstein says
Hillary married up…
But she wouldn’t down…
So a nominally Jewish handmaid was brought in…
To sing the body electric with Bill.
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
The Hillary Covenant: A new dispensation from Satan.
john blackman says
great AI image on the book cover ! if it was an actual photo of the ol crone it would scare the 1 or 2 possible book purchasers . although the photographer may have used the ol trick of smearing vaseline on the lens , does wonders for that soft humanising image . something lost ? yep she sure did . something gained ? yep we all did , she didnt get the one prize she thought was in the bag . the irony of it all .
Gary says
She looks like an old toad, sitting on a lilley pad, waiting for Biden to croak off, and fantasizing the dems will ask her to step in an save “muh democracy”. Dream on, you phychotic loser.
Jeff Bargholz says
Why can’t that nasty old skag stop clamoring for public attention and quietly fade from public perception? I honestly think she has mental health issues. Say what you will about Bill Clinton, at least he has the decency to not force himself on the public for no good reason, and he’s much more famous than Hillary is.
Beez says
Her penis envy, i.e., her will to control, is what is lost. Freedom from her manipulation is what is gained.
Gary says
He doesn’t really force himself on the public, but he certainly forces himself on women.
NAVY ET1 says
Fading into obscurity isn’t what Hillary deserves, but like so many Democrats, it’s hilariously what she needs…because for a liberal demigod who believed she was due the WH and believing she “had the answers” and no one chose to listen is a painfully slow death for the progressive elite.
While there’s very little good coming out of America’s institutes of higher learning, I take some solice in the fact that the average freshman has never heard of her…and that’s gotta sting.
And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the book cover photo. “Cheap fakes” are all the rage right now, since Hillary hasn’t looked like that for 20 years and appeared recently for an event in her much recognizable moo-moo.
Daniel Greenfield says
to be fair, if it’s Hillary, it’s probably an expensive fake with the excess money going to the Bill Clinton Home for Unwed Haitian Mothers
David Ray says
Three things of note . . .
¹ The bitch is more of a testament of how college is geared to churn out rabid cultists, rather than thinking adults.
Once in, the student marinates in “studies” classes, marxist clubs, social clicks, “safe spaces” etc.
A maturd mind might survive that cesspool for four years unscathed, but too many decend into seething, perpetual bitterness.
To wit; Hillary became a Saul Alinsky devotee.
² She is such a shallow narcissist, that she couldn’t handle ANY bad press – no matter how mild or brief, such as when she fired the staff of the Press Release Office – an act briefly covered & quickly forgotten.
Hence, the bitch cooked up a scheme to appear justified in firing the Travel Office.
She orchestrated siccing the IRS & FBI on Billy Dale and brought felony charges on him. (Sound familiar?) Dale survived the false charges, but it cost him his life savings.
Billy Dale later recounted the affair on the Rush Limbaugh Show. He opted not to vote for Bill Clinton a 2nd time.
³ The shrew is brimming with an enormous entitlement mentality. Looting the White House silverware was an odd reflection of it; selling pardons was a natural one.
Later on, she embraced the bribe-taking scheme in the Clinton Global Initiative. Her position of Secretary of State was leveraged into pay-for-play donations. (The Clinton Holyland Foundation is now on life-support, as the donations dried up after she lost the 2016 election.)
So now she writes, yet another dust collector.
Last time, so few would show up at her book signings, that she opted to cancel other signings. (That was lucky for the attendees, as she treated them with her usual distain.)
Daniel Greenfield says
my favorite Hillary attendee story is back when she was running, and people paid thousands of dollars for photos with her, they would have to pose first and then she would walk into the shot
Birder says
Wait…..don’t democrats hate religion??!!
Opium of the masses..….blah, blah, blah= Marx
Go away Hillary! You’re a “has been” that “never was”!
Daniel Greenfield says
leftism is a religion
Mickorn says
To see these words:
“But mostly lying a lot.
And that naturally led her to writing a lot of books.”
Right next to an add for “Beijing Biden”, edited by D. Greenfield, is almost too funny to be true.
The elephant seal joke is funny, though.
Daniel Greenfield says
Democrats lying a lot does generate a whole lot of my writing
Jeff Bargholz says
Beijing Biden: the Secret Relationship that Threatens America.” Since when are treason and the threat it causes America funny?
Grey Beard says
Hillary — a gift that keeps on giving!
Jeff Bargholz says
Or a grift that keeps on taking.
Kasandra says
She’s like the mad slasher in a horror movie that comes back even after you think he’s finally been killed. She just will not go away.
R.D. Miller says
Forgotten – but not gone.
Marc E Gerstine says
on Amazon this book is number 1 on the “New Releases in Russian History” List
Marc E Gerstine says
https://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/books/5032/ref=zg_b_hnr_5032_1
CHARLES FAZIO says
Trump was right. She should have gone to jail, if not for her crimes against humanity, then just to get her away from the rest of us. She is a pest.
Andrew Blackadder says
Hillary who ?… I remember once upon a time somebody of that name but then I forgot.