Hillary Clinton - Little AngelAnd they say the media isn’t biased! Most of you have no doubt by now heard that Hillary “Rod and Gun” Clinton is now passing herself off as a hunter, openly confessing before millions of people that she shot and killed a duck. So what is it we are hearing about the senator and her duck killing expeditions as a youngster from the press?

Reuters has an article in which the event is being presented as “American”, very normal and quite acceptable.

“I was with a bunch of my friends — all men. You know the sun’s up. The ducks are flying,” Clinton told an audience in Wausau, Wisconsin.

The New York senator and former first lady said the group decided to play a trick on her.

“They said, ‘We’re not going to shoot, you shoot.’ They wanted to embarrass me. So the pressure was on. So I shot and I shot a banded duck. They were as surprised as I was,” Clinton said.

It became obvious to Reuters that killing a duck in Clinton’s younger days was an acceptable recollection and ammunition (sorry) to use to garner votes. After all, she’s trying to win the White House.

The jokes were flying everywhere making light of and raising Clinton up on a pedestal of grandeur for sharing her past experiences.

“My father taught me to shoot 100 years ago,” Clinton, 60, jokingly said in Kenosha.

At the Wausau event, a man in the audience suggested she might be able to give Vice President Dick Cheney hunting lessons, referring to the 2006 incident in Texas in which Cheney accidentally shot his friend.

Clinton laughed and said that once Cheney leaves office, the Secret Service will not be around “to protect people from him.”

“We better be careful about where he goes hunting,” she said.

We know what the press did to “Duck” Cheney when he messed up and accidentally shot his hunting companion. So, everyone laughed and Hillary is such a great person, so wonderful and she wants to assure those Wisconsin hunters she won’t mess with their right to own a gun to go hunting with.

But hold on just a cotton picking minute! Mike Huckabee was called all kinds of names by the press and they wanted to crucify him because he went pheasant hunting in Iowa just prior to the Iowa caucuses. Remember Chris Matthews of CNN and the comments he made, along with the sexist comment by Andrea Mitchell that went by the wayside unchallenged?

“Gunplay! Who made killing small animals the test of Republican manhood? Who created the small game hunters test for the presidency? Who declared war on Bugs Bunny?”

And then this one.

“It used to be that candidates had to show they liked eating the local food — you know, the blintzes, the Coney Island hot dogs, the Philly cheese steaks. But nowadays they gotta like killing their supper!”

There’s more!

“So do Republican voters really believe that using a big gun to kill small varmints really makes someone more qualified to be President of the United States? It all reminds me of Bugs Bunny and good old Elmer Fudd.”

And lastly, the sexist comment from Andrea Mitchell.

Matthews to Andrea Mitchell: “Are you upset by this Andrea? You must be!”

Mitchell: “Absolutely. You don’t see any women out there with a gun.”

Now, is there a double standard here or what? Clinton is a hero for killing a duck! She now has somehow become a better candidate according to the press because she claims she once went duck hunting and used to shoot a gun. But look how they crucify old Mike Huckabee!

Give me a break! Where’s the outrage Matthews! What’s the matter? Don’t have have the guts to say the same things about Clinton as you did to Huckabee? Are you scared of the Clintons or is it that you are just two-faced, biased and don’t know what you’re talking about? Why don’t you go on another rant and just replace the word Republican with Democrat and Clinton for Huckabee?

Oh, and Andrea Mitchell, what do you have to say for yourself now. Right from the horse’s mouth, we now have a woman “out there with a gun”!

Tom Remington

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