It’s becoming fashionable to compare Hillary Clinton to Tom Brady.
Most recently, the New York Post ran an article likening the Democratic presidential candidate to the New England Patriots quarterback because of their respective scandals, labeling the two controversial figures “too big to nail.”
The Post’s Kyle Smith writes of both:
Of course, Brady is declining to turn over text messages and e-mails that might make it official that he knew about the NFL team’s deflated footballs, while Hillary is withholding her own communications that might provide more insight into the Clinton Foundation’s relationship with foreign governments.
The article also compares the NFL to the Obama administration, as both are essentially protecting Brady and Clinton, respectively, in order to save face themselves.
The point the Post misses, though, is one that was made by “Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer during an interview with the Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis last week: Namely, while the mainstream media is collectively calling for Brady to be punished, they are too shy to do the same for Clinton, even despite the fact that Hillary’s potential crime is much more serious.
Brady, Schweizer alleged, is being held to a higher standard of honesty and transparency than Clinton.
And it’s not only conservative voices that are making the connection between the football star and the former secretary of State.
Liberal political analyst Juan Williams weighed in on the Wells report, which showed that Brady likely knew about the deflated balls, on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” last week.
“Obviously, this is not an indictment,” Williams observed. “What you’re looking at here, though, and I thought the most damning part, was Brady’s refusal to cooperate. [He] wouldn’t give up the e-mails, the cell phone, and that to me looked like a guilty man trying to hide something.”
He abruptly started laughing, and when asked why, responded, “Tell Hillary Clinton. She destroyed the server,” thereby casting Clinton as a “guilty” woman.
The problem for Clinton is that, no matter how much protection she gets from the Obama administration, her mere appearance of guilt may cost her the most crucial thing to the future success of her political career: Votes.
