Twice-failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was the butt of a cruel joke this week after Turning Point USA’s Anna Paulina likened her to a sexually infectious disease that just “won’t go away.” Paulina was quickly booted for the raunchy rejoinder, and hosts of the Fox News program apologized profusely for the unscripted insult — but the controversy didn’t end there.
Juanita Broaddrick, a former healthcare worker who has long maintained that Bill Clinton raped her in 1978, believes that the Hillary-herpes comparison didn’t go far enough.
“Not awkward at all,” Broaddrick tweeted of Paulina’s mishap. “Hillary is worse than Herpes.”
I’m with HERpes
Paulina may have crossed the line with her inappropriate snub, but she thought that she was appearing on the Fox News show to discuss another line being crossed at the U.S.-Mexico border. As Turning Point’s director of Hispanic engagement, Paulina was invited to talk about the migrant caravan and the political fallout from the humanitarian crisis.
So when senior correspondent Rick Leventhal began asking her questions about Clinton’s emails, she seemed genuinely confused and began reciting border control facts — only to be interrupted by Leventhal.
“I thought we were talking about Hillary’s emails, but we could get to the border,” he said before discussing the border crisis with another desk. “I am amazed that with everything going on in the world, we still have Hillary Clinton in the headlines,” Leventhal added before asking his Turning Points guest how she felt about the subject.
Grasping at straws, Paulina answered: “She won’t go away. She’s like herpes.”
Cut off
Immediately, the show’s producers cut their guest’s broadcast feed.
“Not appropriate,” Leventhal lectured. “We are going to wrap this segment a little bit early because of the language that was used in the segment, and we apologize to our viewers for that.”
The next day, Paulina apologized for her “brash and unprofessional joke,” explaining that she was placed on the wrong segment of the show and, in the resulting confusion, she made a dreadful error.
Yesterday on Fox I was placed on the wrong segment & in the confusion made a brash and unprofessional joke. To Fox and those watching, I am deeply sorry.
My feeling simply is that Big Government creates dynasties like the Clintons that won’t go away & Americans are over it.
— Anna Paulina (@realannapaulina) November 23, 2018
No need to apologize
But like many of the Twitter users responding to Paulina’s apology, Broaddrick doesn’t think she should be sorry for anything. Not long after her alleged rape in an Arkansas hotel room 40 years ago, Broaddrick maintains that Hillary Clinton threatened her during a face-to-face encounter.
“She grabbed ahold of my arm… and she says with this very angry look on her face… ‘Do you understand everything that you do?'” Broaddrick alleged. “At that moment, I felt she knew [about the alleged rape] and she was telling me to keep quiet.”
Broaddrick was understandably upset after Clinton said that it would be “very easy” for FBI investigators to look into the nearly 40-year-old claims of sexual assault leveled against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Broaddrick answered by saying that if it’s “‘very easy’” to go back decades to examine allegations of sexual misconduct, then surely Clinton would “support my request for the FBI to investigate my RAPE by your husband.”
Recent polling suggests that most Americans have had enough of the Clinton family and want to see a fresh candidate in the 2020 election. While herpes patients can live with their disease forever, many Democrats have complained that they can’t tolerate another moment with Clinton — and it’s not just Ms. Broaddrick who can’t stand the sight of the former first lady.
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