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CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer went out of his way Thursday evening to air a Hillary Clinton campaign ad that compiled a series of quotes from and about Donald Trump to portray him as a sexual predator.

Blitzer tied the ad to a stream of insults President Trump directed at MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough Thursday morning. Trumps claim that he refused to hang out with Brzezinski shortly beforeNew Years Eve because she was bleeding badly from a face-lift earned especially sharp criticism in the media and on Capitol Hill.

Blitzer returned to the topic of Trumps tweets throughout the day, including while interviewing former Clinton campaign chair John Podesta about Trumps rhetoric.

Hes said all sorts of strange things tweeted all sorts of strange things as you well now there was that Access Hollywood video that came out right near the end. You guys put out an ad, a commercial going after him on all those statements, Blitzer said to Podesta. Let me play a bit of that.

The ad played for the next 25 seconds.

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That clearly was not enough for you guys to win, Blitzer noted, What happened?

Well look we said that he was temperamentally unfit and unqualified to be president and he spends each and every day of his presidency proving that we were right, Podesta asserted.

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CNN Brings Back Hillary Clinton Ad Portraying Trump As A Sexual Predator [VIDEO] - The Daily Caller

The left has come up with a seemingly endless number of excuses and conspiracy theories, in an attempt to justify in their minds, how Hillary Clinton was defeated in the 2016 presidential election.

But MSNBC contributor and senior counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group Wendy Sherman may have just come up with one of the more ridiculous excuses to date.

While discussing modern political technology at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, Sherman took the opportunity to weigh in with her absurd theory as to how Donald Trump achieved a historic victory at the polls last November. The former Deputy Secretary of State actually claimed that Hillary Clinton may have lost because Americans were not ready to elect the first woman president after electing the first black president.

And I hesitate to say, but I think its critical, looking out at our audience, looking out at most of us that there is no doubt that we just had eight years of an African American president is not a factor in all that we are experiencing today, Sherman commented.

When we make social change, when we make a decision to do something we have never done before, we then take two steps backward, at least. And I believe in my bonesthat it was pretty hard to elect a woman after we elected the first African-American president.

Yes, she actually said that.

Unable to cope with the fact that Donald Trump is President, some delusional folks on the left are still looking for any reason to explain what they believe to be inexplicable. And when all else fails, they just go with the standard racist or sexist excuse, even if it doesnt make any sense at all.

Sherman was somehow able to use anti-black racism as an excuse for why a white woman lost an election. You almost have to admire that.

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This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.

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MSNBC Contributor: Hillary Clinton Would Be President If Obama Wasn't Black - Mediaite

I am tired of newspaper columnists, television pundits, politicians and Democrats themselves blaming the party for losing the presidential election to Donald Trump. They maintain that the Democrats didnt get the message out.

Hillary Clinton and her supporters were never clearer about what Democrats stood for. The party is and always has been for working families and good-paying jobs and against inequality, for making the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, building a clean energy economy, combating climate change and the progressive goal of universal health care.

Those familiar with history can judge for themselves. It has been Democratic administrations that have turned the ship of state in those directions and Republican administrations that have attempted to sink the ship, and in many cases have done just that.

Those who are to blame for this dismal state of affairs are ignorant voters who cast ballots against their own self-interests, media seduced by an outrageous candidate who pushed ratings up, and misogynists who were threatened by a smart and accomplished woman. According to some exit polls, 53 percent of white women voted for Trump.

And, of course, lets not forget greedy Republican obstructionists.

Esther Talbot Fenning St. Charles

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Clinton's message was clear; media, obstructionists steer ship astray - STLtoday.com

PHOENIX A new ruling Monday from the U.S. Supreme Court could prove good news for the mother of a Mexican teen hoping to sue the Border Patrol agent who shot her son.

In an unsigned order, the justices directed the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to take another look at its decision in a similar case where a Border Patrol agent in Texas shot and killed a teen who was in a culvert on the Mexican side of the border. The justices said the appellate court needs to consider certain new legal issues.

Potentially more significant, the Supreme Court said there was no basis for lower courts to conclude the Border Patrol agent is entitled to qualified immunity.

The ruling is a victory for the plaintiffs in that case: The appellate court had previously ruled that they had no right to sue in U.S. courts. It gives the parents of Sergio Hernandez a new opportunity to make their case that Border Patrol Jesus Mesa Jr. who fired across the border can be found liable.

But Robert Hilliard, attorney for the victim's family, told Capitol Media Services that what the justices wrote in connection with his case should also benefit Araceli Rodriguez who is suing Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz over the 2010 shooting of her son.

"Reviving our case, and determining no qualified immunity (for the Border Patrol agent) is the first step in what I believe will ultimately be constitutional protections to those shot and killed (in Mexico) by Border Patrol agents standing in the United States,'' he said.

Swartz shot Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez who was standing on the Mexican side of the border at Nogales, through the border fence. Swartz has not denied the incident but said the 16-year-old was throwing rocks at him.

After hearing oral arguments last year, the judges of the 9th Circuit decided not to rule whether her case could go forward. Instead they said they would wait to see what the Supreme Court ruled in the Texas case.

There are several issues that are key in both cases.

Potentially the most crucial is whether a Fourth Amendment claim of wrongful search and seizure in this case, encompassing wrongful death can be brought in federal courts when the victim was killed in a foreign country.

The full 5th Circuit said no because the victim was "a Mexican citizen who had no significant voluntary connection to the United States'' and "was on Mexican soil at the time he was shot.''

But Hilliard noted the Supreme Court said it's not that simple. He said the justices want the issue reconsidered, with the lower court considering things ranging from the rank of the officers involved to how disruptive it would be to have judges intruding into the function of other branches of government.

And Hilliard insisted those factors favor not only his client but also Rodriguez in her case against Swartz.

In Monday's ruling, the justices also resurrected the claim that Hernandez's Fifth Amendment rights were violated because he was deprived of life or liberty without "due process of law.''

That claim does not require someone be in the United States to bring. But the appellate court concluded that the Border Patrol agent was entitled to qualified immunity because Hernandez was "an alien who had no significant voluntary connection'' to the United States.

The justices, however, said that assumption has no legal basis.

"It is undisputed, however, that Herandez's nationality and the extent of his ties to the United States were unknown to Mesa at the time of the shooting,'' the high court wrote.

Swartz, through attorney Sean Chapman, has raised the same defense of qualified immunity. But U.S. District Court Judge Raner Collins, in an earlier ruling, reached the same conclusion as the Supreme Court in the Hernandez case, saying Collins cannot claim qualified immunity for his actions, particularly as the agent could not have known at the time of the shooting that the victim was not a citizen.

If nothing else, Monday's court action means it will likely be at least October if not later before the justices rule in the Texas case. And that keeps the civil lawsuit against Swartz on the back burner, even as a criminal trial against him is set to begin Oct. 12.

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High court rules against immunity for agent in Texas cross-border shooting - White Mountain Independent

A social media presence is no longer an optional part of running a small business; it's an absolute necessity.

Facebook, Instagram and other popular forums are as important, if not more so, to a company's marketing as is television ads and sponsoring local events. But that's still a lesson some small-business owners are learning.

Half of small-business owners have a Facebook page, according to the CNBC/Survey Monkey Small Business Survey. The survey, conducted in April, gathered the findings from more than 2,000 small-business owners across the country in a variety of industries. It revealed that while 40 percent use social media to communicate with potential customers, just 21 percent advertise their companies on social media.

Those numbers are increasing as these sites become a bigger part of the general public's life (Facebook, for example, recently announced it had hit 2 billion users). If you're running a small business and are on (or joining) Facebook and other social networks, there are a number of ways to gain an edge on the competition and boost your bottom line.

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10 surefire ways to crush your rivals on Facebook - CNBC