Slade3200
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Agreed... by "mistake" I meant it was stupid and dumb... Not that it was an accident.Anybody that thinks Clinton was calling Trump supporters deplorable racists is an idiot. She was calling anybody who is racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic etc. deplorable. It's pretty simple. She did make a mistake with her "half" statement and she paid the priceI get what she was saying. You seem to want to ignore it.It's all word games and only idiots don't get the point of what she was saying... Trump does it in every other statement he makes. That's not literal, I don't mean half of every statement he makes, but you get the point, right?! ;-)Not really.Thank you. Yes she did say that and she reacted the "half" comment the next day. Point is she wasn't talking about people's support for Trump, she was talking about people's support of the deplorable acts. Racism, sexism xenophobia etc. the whole thing got spun to hell.
She said:
"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic -- you name it."
While she was calling them deplorable for those beliefs, she was still directly stating that about half of Trump supports belonged to that group. I could also care less that she retracts something once the political fallout for stating it becomes known - politicians do that crap all the time. It was not a misstep. She did not accidentally say the wrong thing. She purposefully stated that she thinks half of the people supporting trump were essentially deplorable people.
She tried a low blow and it blew up in her face. But don't pretend like is more than the partisan spin game. We all know what she was talking about.
The "deplorable and proud" groups are flaunting their support for Trump when the point of deplorables was directed at something much more ugly.
She was saying that Trump supporters were largely racists and bigots. There is no 'word games' with that. I have provided the exact quote and the exact words - things that you demanded.
Now you are calling people who do not agree with you that she did not actually mean what she said 'idiots.' It seems that you did not actually expect anyone to give you the exact words and point out how how she called half or Trump supporters bigots. The facts speak for themselves.
Wrong! Her saying "half" was a stupid and dumb thing to say but it was no mistake, she was backpedaling try to minimize the damaged.