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We call it Kultursmog, it being that collection of attitudes, ideas, tastes and personages that are polluted by the politics of the left and that predominate on both coasts. And who are we? We are the freethinkers who are immune to the Kultursmog by virtue of our natural skepticism and reliance on empiricism, which is to say, reliance on evidence. Thus, we understand and generally accept that Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. We also accept that Hillary Clinton, assisted by her hubby and their consultants, lost the election. In fact, she lost the election after outspending Donald two to one and turning many of her consultants into millionaires.

Now the question being asked by political wizards is why Hillary lost despite being the smartest candidate, the most virtuous candidate, and, oh yes, the candidate with the best sense of humor since W.C. Fields, though she is a lot prettier. And the question being asked by us that is to say, us skeptics is: Has the Kultursmog learned anything since Hillarys defeat, by which we mean her latest defeat? You will recall that in her 2016 race she was dubbed the inevitable one, at least until the clock struck 8 p.m. on Nov. 8, much as she was dubbed the inevitable one through the election cycle of 2008 until there emerged a little-known community organizer.

Incidentally, does anyone wonder how Candidate Trump would deal with Candidate Obama? That would be a campaign for the ages.

Now there has appeared from the hazy vapors of the smog a book attempting to explain the election, and all the smogs outlets are reviewing it. The book is titled Shattered: Inside Hillarys Clintons Doomed Campaign. The best thing about it is the title, Shattered. After that it is pretty uneven. There are a few glints of understanding, but from what I can tell from reading Shattered and its reviews, the Kultursmog remains securely in the dark. According to it, Hillary was the victim of plots by FBI Director James B. Comey, Russian hackers, errors made by her staff, the sinister doings of the deplorables, and misogyny. Six decades after the dawn of feminism, with the feminists fingerprints all over the republic, Hillary still cannot get a break. Though I am told by reliable sources that up there in the Kultursmog she is contemplating another suicidal run in 2020. She does not take no for an answer.

As I say, there are glints in Shattered that suggest the authors have learned a thing or two about the new political scene that we were being presented with in 2016, though there are few references to Donald Trump and the unique campaign he waged. He proved to be the finest campaigner in my adult life going all the way back to Bob Kennedy in 1968. And Hillary, after all the absurd laudations that the Kultursmog has basted her in, is about the worst. As the authors say, The campaign was an unholy mess, fraught with tangled lines of authority, petty jealousies, distorted priorities, and no sense of purpose. Hillary never could explain why she was running for president. The only other candidate who had trouble answering that question was, as I recall, Teddy Kennedy as he sat frozen before CBS Roger Mudd in 1980.

So Shattered does provide some answers as to why Hillary lost and what the Kultursmog has learned, which is very little. One learns this by noting what the smog neglects to mention. For instance, there is only a brief mention of why she nearly collapsed on a New York street and nothing about the dark glasses she wore, provoking her critics to question her health. Others get angry in this book and even use coarse language but not Hillary, despite years of witnesses quoting her foul mouth. There is no mention of her election night tantrum fueled by alcohol. Why not at least mention that her critics were leveling such charges that night?

Finally, there are people who ought to be mentioned, but are not. Why no David Brock, her controversial ally, or Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime adviser? The best chapter in this book is the chapter on Hillarys server and her failure to deal with it honestly and expeditiously. But by not mentioning Mr. Blumenthal and the 23 classified memos that the Daily Caller reported from his correspondence with her (they were classified as Confidential and Secret), knowledgeable readers will suspect a cover-up.

This is why when we skeptics come across some artifact fashioned by the Kultursmog, we sense that it will be in some way untrustworthy. We are rarely wrong. Just over the weekend, The Washington Post reported polls that suggest Donald Trumps days are numbered. It is not until readers get to the very end of the report that they discover Donald Trump still beats Hillary 43 percent to 40 percent an even wider margin than on election night.

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. is editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc.

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Late-night hosts are having a ball with the Trump administration. Hes good for material, even better for ratings, and Samantha Bees Full Frontal has wholeheartedly participated in this sport. Bee has delighted in skewering the Golden Showers file and sarcastically saluting Kellyanne Conway, and on Saturday, she will host the Not The White House Correspondents Dinner event as counterprogramming for the real deal (which Trump is boycotting, so Nerd Prom should be an even more awkward endeavor than usual).

To promote her event, Bee sat down with the Hollywood Reporter in an interview conducted by Lena Dunham. The two women discussed how theres now an abundance of news to cover, and every time one switches off the phone, Something terrible happens in the world. Bee finds it challenging to satirize material that she finds potentially tragic, but thats how journalists and TV hosts must roll in 2017. She also reveals how she (like many people) anticipated that Hillary Clinton would be president, but Bee says she planned on calling out any sketchball Clinton policies and moves:

We looked forward to holding President Hillary Clintons feet to the fire. We were so excited about that. We thought, Well be able to tell a diverse range of stories. This will be so interesting. Were not going to let up on her. We want her to be president. But we dont see anyone as the messiah. Its not like she wouldnt have failures and make terrible mistakes and do things we wouldnt like.

Bee also admits that shes not really on Twitter right now, for she felt an immediate felt a geyser of hatred after the election. She simply went dark, although (obviously) her show continues to send out regular tweets. Speaking of which, the show tweeted that they arent able to accommodate everyone who wanted to attend the Not the White House Correspondents Dinner. Yet anyone who wishes to contribute to the chosen cause the Committee to Protect Journalists (from threats, imprisonment, and even death when it comes to those who cross Vladimir Putin) can visit the below link.

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This weekend, the New York Times scraped the fresh scabs off Democrats wounds from 2016. In an extended piece, the Times provided us with the best account so far of the deliberations inside the FBI as it investigated Hillary Clinton and debated how best to announce the results of that investigation to the public. It should surprise no one that there wasnt exactly a playbook for handling a serious criminal investigation of a major-party nominee for president, and neither the Department of Justice nor the Federal Bureau of Investigation observed standard operating procedures.

At the beginning, the DOJ toned down its public statements on the Clinton probe, calling it a matter rather than an investigation, even as the FBI possessed a document by a Democratic operative that implied that Attorney General Loretta Lynch wouldnt allow the investigation to derail Clintons campaign. When Bill Clinton turned up in Lynchs airplane, it caused understandable dismay inside the FBI, and Comey became convinced that he should announce the results of the investigation rather than the attorney general.

Later, when potentially relevant e-mails were unexpectedly discovered on Anthony Weiners laptop, the FBI faced an agonizing choice: Should it disclose that it had re-opened the investigation?

The question consumed hours of conference calls and meetings. Agents felt they had two options: Tell Congress about the search, which everyone acknowledged would create a political furor, or keep it quiet, which followed policy and tradition but carried its own risk, especially if the F.B.I. found new evidence in the emails.

In my mind at the time, Clinton is likely to win, Mr. Steinbach said. Its pretty apparent. So what happens after the election, in November or December? How do we say to the American public: Hey, we found some things that might be problematic. But we didnt tell you about it before you voted? The damage to our organization would have been irreparable.

Comey chose to disclose, and the rest is history. Heres FiveThirtyEights Nate Silver making the succinct case that Comeys letter to Congress could have turned the election:

In an election this close, it seems foolish to argue that the Comey letter didnt make some difference, but its equally foolish to pretend that lots of other things didnt make an equal or bigger difference. As for blame? Well, thats easy:

It was all Hillary Clintons fault. All of it.

She made the decision to flout standard practice, sound policy, good sense, and the law by setting up a homebrew server and using a private e-mail for official business, including the sending and receiving of classified information.

She made the decision to lie, repeatedly, about what shed done.

She made the decision to press forward with her campaign and pressure Democratic leaders (including superdelegates) to join her team while misleading them every step of the way.

She led the Democratic party off the 2016 cliff.

In all these things, of course, she was merely imitating the master manipulator, her own husband. Remember how skillfully Bill Clinton transformed the public debate over his own perjury? Remember how he and his team coaxed a sympathetic press into making the propriety of the investigation the main story, rather than the underlying tawdriness and corruption of his conduct?

This is the Clinton way. This is what they do. They do what they want, when they want, how they want, and then indignantly demand that everyone else conduct themselves with maximum restraint and with complete consideration of the Clinton familys political goals. In other words, they embrace vice while demanding compliance and cooperation from everyone else, including law enforcement.

In reality, vice tends to leave virtue with a dilemma. Hillary Clintons misconduct put the DOJ and the FBI in an impossible position: What do you do when a presidential candidate herself is under known criminal investigation, and when the public is broadly aware of extraordinarily damaging facts about the candidates conduct? Do you quietly close it with minimal comment, or do you address the facts? What do you do when you re-open an investigation you publicly closed? These are the choices Hillary forced on the FBI and the DOJ.

There may come a time to more fully evaluate the FBIs conduct toward the Trump team, but we dont have nearly enough facts to make the kind of judgments we can make regarding the investigation of Clintons e-mail scandal. Clinton evaded prosecution on the strength of her name and through the horrible precedent set by the DOJs deal with David Petraeus. She should be grateful that shes not in prison, not outraged that shes not president. She brought this all on herself.

David French is a senior writer for National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, and an attorney.

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Hillary Clintons Department of State aides allegedly threatened a South Asian prime ministers sonwith an IRS audit in an attempt to stop a Bangladesh government investigation of a close friend and donor ofClintons, The Daily Caller News Foundations Investigative Group learned.

ABangladesh government commission was investigating multiple charges of financial mismanagement at Grameen Bank, beginning in May 2012. Muhammad Yunus, a major Clinton Foundation donor, served as managing director of the bank.

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and permanent U.S. resident, recalled the account of the threatened IRS audit to TheDCNF. The allegations mark the first known instance in the U.S. that Clintons Department of State used IRS power to intimidate a close relative of a friendly nations head of state on behalf of a Clinton Foundation donor.

Wazed told TheDCNF it was astounding and mind boggling that senior State Department officials between 2010 and 2012repeatedly pressured him to influence his mother to drop the commission investigation.

The commission report was released in early 2013.

They threatened me with the possibility of an audit by the Internal Revenue Service, he said. I have been here legally for 17 years and never had a problem. But they said, well, you know, you might get audited.'

They would say over and over again, Yunus has powerful friends and we all knew they were talking of Secretary Clinton. Everybody knew it was Mrs. Clinton, Wazed told TheDCNF.

The Prime Minister originally disclosed in general terms the pressure exerted on her son at a February reception in Munich.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy had to face pressure from the US State Department to keep Muhammad Yunus as the Grameen Bank managing director, the Dhaka Tribune reported.

Hillary Clinton phoned me and exerted the same pressure. Even the U.S. State Department summoned my son Joy three times and told him that we would face trouble, Hasina added.

Hasina said State Department officials told Joy that Clinton would not take the matter lightly.

Convince your mother, she recalled Joy quoting officials.

However, Hasina never provided details of the ordeal her son faced until his interview with TheDCNF.

The World Bank alsodecidedto rescind a $1.2 billion loan to Bangladesh while the IRS was pressuring Joy in 2012. The money was requested in order to build a key bridge near the capital city of Dhaka. The World Bank leveled bribery charges against two Canadian officials, but a Canadian court later acquitted both individuals.

Former Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, who twice met with then-Secretary of State Clinton, told TheDCNF it was apparent there were links between the World Bank loan cancellation and Yunus. Moni now is chairwoman of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs.

Whether there was any abuse by the U.S. Government or the secretary of state, that I cannot say, Moni said. I can only say we saw two facts: One was the communications from the State Department, and then the other one was the withdrawal of World Banks loan.

But she was more direct about Yunusrole in the World Bank cancellation.

Professor Yunus obviously tried to punish or tried to retaliate and punish the government of Bangladesh, especially [Prime Minister] Sheikh Hasina, she said.He knew how important the Padma [bridge] was for our economy, for our peoples government, and it would revive the whole of south of Bangladesh.

Obviously, he tried to use that to get out of the situation he was in, and he wanted to punish the government, she said.

Wade claimed he received threats from all levels of the State Department.

The threats came from all levels. It came from the U.S. Embassy in Bangladesh to pretty senior officials within the State Department.

Wade regularly met many State Department officials as he lived near the nations capital. He considered many to be friends and colleagues, but the tone and substance of the discussions radically changed beginning in 2010.

Previously, we pretty much discussed many issues, things like trade, finance or national security. But then, the only thing they would be harping on was Yunus. They had one obsession, to save Muhammad Yunus.

Clinton met with Yunus three times as secretary of state while the Bangladesh government investigation was underway, according to an August 2016 Associated Pressreporton Clinton Foundation donors.

Throughout the Bangladesh governments investigation, He (Yunus) pleaded for help in messages routed to Clinton, and she ordered aides to find ways to assist him, AP reported.

Nonprofit government watchdog Judicial Watch obtained Clinton emails thatshowed her aide Melanne Verveer regularly updated Clinton on Yunus ongoing plight.

Clinton also supported Yunus in other ways. The U.S. Agency for International Development, part of State Department, partnered with the Grameen Foundation for a $162 million micro-finance project in 2009. The agency separately awarded $2.2 million to the foundation.

Yunus first ran into trouble when a 2010 Norwegian documentary chargedthat he diverted nearly $100 million of Grameen Bank funds to finance his private enterprises.Yunus presently owns more than 50 private and nonprofit companies, ranging from Grameen Telecom to firms in the fashion industry and even a yogurt company.

Wazed said word of the $100 million diversion did not sit well with many Bangladeshis who earn an annual per-capita income of $1,314.

The whole Grameen Bank embezzlement issue was important for us, Wazed said. You know, he took $100 million from Grameen bank and transferred to his private trust to create 57 personal, private sector projects.

Wazed added that Yunus eventually paid it back, but thats not the point. He took the money, and the bank is a state-bank not authorized to provide big business loans.

After the Bangladesh government commission report came out in 2013, officials removed Yunus as managing director. They invoked a rule stating bank executives can only work up to the age of 60. Yunus was 70 at the time.

Prior to the scandal, Yunus was a high-flying bank executive who championed micro-credits, small loans to try to lift the poor out of poverty.

He won the admiration and later financial and political assistance of the Clintons when the former president was governor of Arkansas.

The Clintons also frequently hostedYunusat their foundations annual Clinton Global Initiative galas in New York. He was a heavily promoted as a CGI speaker nearly every year from 2008 to 2016, according to the foundations website.

Yunus was awarded the 2006 Noble Peace Prize, reportedly with backroom lobbying by Bill Clinton.

As a New York Senator, Clintonsuccessfully pushed Congress to award him the Congressional Gold Medal. Then-President Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian award, in 2010.

Yunus, in turn, was a donor to the Clinton Foundation. Grameen America, one of Yunus major American organizations, gave between $100,000 to $250,000 to the foundation, according to the Clinton Foundation website. His Grameen Research group donated $25,000 to $50,000.

TheDCNF contacted both Grameen America and the Clinton Foundation seeking comment but received responses from neither.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been accused of many murders of individuals working close to her. A recent fake news article suggested that Clintons assistant Johnston Wilson (J.W.) McGill died under mysterious circumstances. However, there are no concrete facts supporting the claim that McGill was found dead after suffering an apparent heart attack. Where did this fake news article originate?

In April 2017, the web site geopolitica.ru published the article claiming that McGill, an assistant for the former Secretary of State, had died under mysterious circumstances. You can read text from the fake story below.

Johnston Wilson McGill, 34, was pronounced dead on his couch by a private doctor after suffering an apparent heart attack. It has happened just days after being summoned to appear before Trey Gowdys congressional committee to testify about Hillary Clintons email server. McGill was one of Clintons aides. The death was reported hapanned [sic] at her home of natural causes.

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Does this whole thing seem a little bit odd to anyone else? It feels oddly like weve seen things like this happen before to people who could possibly incriminate Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, as the doctor who pronounced has an impeccable record and is an authorized coroner in new York, the findings will be accepted and entered into public record.

However, there is no truth to this rumor. Although the Geopolitica.ru story is currently being circulated on social media, this text originally appeared on The Last Line of Defense, an entertainment web site with a penchant for fake news. According to a disclaimer on the web site, all of its content is satirical.

The Resistance may include information from sources that may or may not be reliable and facts that dont necessarily exist. All articles should be considered satirical and any and all quotes attributed to actual people complete and total baloney. Pictures that represent actual people should be considered altered and not in any way real.

Although there is no truth to this rumor that did not stop conspiracy theorists from quickly starting to spread the claim that McGill was killed in an attempt to keep Clinton out of jail. Here are some examples of people sharing and discussing the fake news article about Clinton.

Besides the origin of the story with a known fake entertainment news site, there is no record of a Johnston Wilson McGill working on Clintons staff. Additionally, there are no genuine news reports about his alleged death.

Furthermore, Trey Gowdy concluded his investigation into the Benghazi email scandal in July 2016. Although this article does not include a date for the death of the fictional McGill, the web sites appear to have published the story in March and April of 2017, according to Snopes.

What did you think of the fake news about another murder at the hands of Clinton? Have you seen people sharing the story falsely on social media? Let us know in the comments section.

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