For those who prudently had much better things to do last night than to watch the first Democrat presidential debate, and who inexplicably are still curious about what they missed - you are in luck: the Taiwanese animators have taken the time to summarize everything that the average American consumer, shown in this picture from the clip...
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... was meant to take home from this latest pandering to the lowest common denominator.
For a more serious take on last night's spectacle, Mike Krieger has shared, courtesy of ReasonTV, "The 3 Best and Worst Moments of the Democratic Debate (From a Libertarian Standpoint [3])"
He also adds the following:
One of the most offensive lies told by Clinton seen in the video clip above relates to Edward Snowden. As Dan Froomkin at the Intercept [4]notes:
Clinton’s comments on Snowden were flawed in more than one way. She also insisted, incorrectly, that he could have accomplished his goals by going through normal channels.
“He could have been a whistleblower. He could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower. He could have raised all the issues that he has raised. And I think there would have been a positive response to that,” she said.
But Snowden, as a contractor, was not covered by whistleblower protections [5]. He did try going through established channels, but he said his concerns fell on deaf ears [6].
And the response to his leaks has made abundantly clear that no one in
his chain of command was the least bit interested in going public with
the information.She is a master deceiver.
