Liberals never learn, do they?
On Sunday night, a roster of artists and musicians read from Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House in a pre-taped sketch during the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in an effort to express their disdain for President Trump. The last narrator of Wolff’s book happened to be none other than his 2016 presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton.
It wasn’t funny, but it also wasn’t clever. It was simply a brazen injection of politics — and Clinton — into a music awards show.
When political satire is done right, it’s hard not to laugh at even the most likable politicians (see: The Onion’s Diamond Joe Biden). This wasn’t that.
The Grammys instead force-fed viewers low-hanging fruit that not only turns off half of its audience, but also completely undercuts one of the big themes of the evening: the #MeToo movement.
On Friday, it was reported by the New York Times that, in 2008, then-presidential candidate Clinton shielded her faith adviser, Burns Strider, from being fired after he was accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a young Clinton staffer. Clinton even addressed the allegations on Twitter.
A story appeared today about something that happened in 2008. I was dismayed when it occurred, but was heartened the young woman came forward, was heard, and had her concerns taken seriously and addressed.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 27, 2018
I called her today to tell her how proud I am of her and to make sure she knows what all women should: we deserve to be heard.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 27, 2018
In a world when, in some cases, prominent figures can have their entire careers derailed from accusations of participating or even enabling sexual harassment, assault, or rape without concrete evidence, Clinton has not faced a “reckoning.” Not only has her husband, former President Bill Clinton, been accused of such sexual misconduct, she has done nothing to rid the reputation of silencing her husband’s accusers.
The Grammys also reminds everyone that the entertainment industry simply can’t let the Clintons go. No one asked for this. The producers of the Grammys didn’t have to recruit Clinton to do this sketch as awful as it was in the same sense that Judge Jeanine Pirro didn’t have to go to Chappaqua to search for Clinton in the woods.
Hillary and Bill Clinton are politically irrelevant. Constantly forcing them out into the public only creates more resentment for Democrats who paraded her around throughout the 2016 presidential campaign as she claimed to be a champion for women. They are literally the last people who should have anything to do with this movement.
Now, that that’s settled, who’s ready for JFK’s great-nephew Joe Kennedy III’s response to Trump’s State of the Union address?
Siraj Hashmi is a commentary video editor and writer for the Washington Examiner.
