calimary
calimary's JournalDid you see CNN last night?
It was Don Lemon and a colleague with a panel of guests. They started talking about it, specifically focusing on some unknown speechwriter who fucked up. They kept at it til that video clip was played - of Matt Lauer's interview with her, and it ended with the quote of the night (where she told him "I wrote it, with as little help as possible"
and then they switched back to Don Lemon and friends. It was AMAZINGLY hilarious - Lemon and this fellow who was co-hosting with him SAT THERE. FROZEN. Gaping at the camera, utterly speechless, completely flummoxed, as though they couldn't believe what they just saw. They sat there in stunned silence for at least two or three beats before one of 'em finally spoke up and rather sheepishly said something like "well, all I have to say about that is 'no comment'."
I almost fell outta bed laughing!
It was freakin' CLASSIC!!!!
Well, if you choose to believe what she told Matt Lauer yesterday.
She flat-out told him "I wrote it. With as little help as possible."
It was during an interview slated for this morning's "Today" show - done on the Trump plane. They hadn't made their entrance to the convention arena yet. He asked her if she'd been rehearsing her speech. She said no, that she looked over it. And then, claimed authorship. What I loved 
was Paul Manafort blaming Hillary for it.
So we do have a new meme, I guess - "Thanks, Hillary" replaces "Thanks, Obama."
Paul Manafort certainly did.
He brushed it off as some sort of cat fight - Hillary threatened by another woman so she destroys the other woman.
Yeah. That's right. Hillary did it. 
She told Matt Lauer she wrote it.
In an interview, on the Trump plane, that was pre-recorded to run on this morning's "Today" show. The interview was done before they arrived at the convention center at which she was going to deliver "that speech."
Her quote: "I wrote it, with as little help as possible."
Cue the video. Which, happily enough, has been done probably a hundred-or-so times by now.
Sheesh - as I write this, another hour starts on MSNBC and guess what's the lead story AGAIN!
Kate Snow just now: citing a website regarding the wording of speeches - one-in-a TRILLION chance that it was a coincidence!!!!
Not surprised.
But she obviously got hired, and promoted. She didn't exactly walk away - she's a big star over there now.
Which leads me to wonder...
I just saw that. Sean Spicer - RNC Communications Director.
Now trying the ol' Contradicta defense. Minimize it by word count. It was FIFTY WORDS!!!!!!
Remember Contradicta trying to minimize her dereliction of duty to the 9/11 Commission about doing NOTHING about the warning in the Presidential Daily Brief? "It was SIXTEEN WORDS!!!"
And now they're using the Contradicta defense!
Contradicta Rice: "it was SIXTEEN WORDS!" (To the 9/11 committee, attempting to dismiss or minimize the body-blow of the Presidential Daily Brief that warned about a bin Laden attack to come.)
RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer: it was FIFTY WORDS! (Out of a 15-hundred-word speech. "It was THREE CLIPS! You played THREE CLIPS!!!!! Out of a 17-page speech!!!"
My husband just said this is like playing Grand Theft Auto and then insisting you're in the clear by listing all the things you DIDN'T steal.
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