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Right Winger’s Money Campaign To Call Bill Clinton A Rapist Leads President To Call Protesters Out
President Obama didn't let a group of disruptive anti- Hillary Clinton protesters get to him while stumping for the Democratic nominee in North Carolina Tuesday.
"Those folks are auditioning for a reality show," the Presi- dent laughed after two pro- testers wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Bill Clinton Rapist" had in-
terrupted his speech.
The outdoor Greensboro
rally crowd erupted in "Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!" chants as the protesters shouted something inaudible
while being escorted out by se- cret service agents.
President Obama at- tempted to get back to his speech, but was interrupted again a few minutes later when a third protester rushed to- ward the stage while shouting "Bill Clinton is a rapist." Also that protester was quickly taken away by security.
"You know what, here's the deal — try to get your own rally!" President Obama quipped to deafening cheers and applause. "See, if you can't get your own rally, don't come mess up somebody else's, right? We got work to do here." Similar protests have broken out at Clinton rallies across the country in recent weeks, presumably due to a contest launched by right-wing media pundit Alex Jones.
Jones pledged in an Oct. 6 video to award $1,000 to any- one who rushes toward the stage and flashes a T-shirt with the words "Bill Clinton Rape" for at least five seconds during a nationally televised Clinton campaign rally. Jones pledged to award $5,000 to anyone who shouts "Bill Clinton is a rapist" while flashing the shirt.
"Wear it, get aggressive," Jones says in the video. "My budget is $100,000...Bill Clinton is a rapist, not a phi- lander. Hillary covers up the rape."
Ever since a hot mic record-
Outdoor rally that was dis- rupted by 3 protesters that are seeking money to defame for- mer president, Bill Clinton.
ing recently revealed that Donald Trump in 2005 bragged about sexually as- saulting women, the Republi- can nominee has tried to point fingers at Bill Clinton, whom he claims has "actually abused women."
"Now I hear then some peo- ple saying, 'Well, I'm a Chris- tian so I'm all about forgiveness because nobody's perfect,'" President Obama said. "Well, that is true. I am certainly not perfect...and I, too, believe in forgiveness and redemption, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to elect the person president.”
Really??....Trump Spokesperson Blames Hip Hop For Rape Culture
Ignorance was clearly bliss during a recent CNN interview with National Spokesperson for the Donald Trump Cam- paign, Katrina Pierson.
Host Carol Costello had to cut the conversation short when Pierson refused to ac- knowledge Trump’s culpabil- ity for his lewd comments about women, which were from a 2005 conversation with Billy Bush that recently leaked. I
Instead, she says, “This rape culture is purported by none other than the entertainment industry, none other than Hip Hop music, which you can hear on local radio stations.” Costello quickly assessed Pierson was simply “deflecting to excuse Mr. Trump’s com- ments.”
Trump has used the excuse that his comments were just “locker room talk,” when he said he would grab a woman by the “pu*%y.” Costello’s other guest, lawyer and politi- cal strategist Angela Rye, said that the more than 4,000 lawsuits filed against Trump prove that the leaked tape was more than just chit-chat. Many
Katrina Pierson is one of the women in Donald Trump’s camp defending his actions, was on the CNN panel blaming Hip Hop culture for rape cul- ture.
of those lawsuits came from women he worked with in the past, and included accusations of sexual harassment and dis- crimination.
To blame Hip Hop music, however, put a glowing spot- light on exactly how much Pierson is out of touch with re- ality. As Costello pointed out, while it is part of a larger con- versation and “the way sexual assault is portrayed in some Hollywood movies is wrong, that doesn’t make what Mr. Trump said right,” putting an abrupt stop to Pierson’s er- roneous comments.
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