Jonah Goldberg has absolutely had it with Hillary Clinton discussing public trust and transparency.
In an appearance on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” the National Review senior editor ripped the former secretary of state for her Wednesday remarks at Columbia University on the two issues. Goldberg told the conservative radio host that watching Clinton talk about the topics was like “watching a cat use a human toilet” because “it’s interesting,” “kind of adorable” and “hilarious.”
The columnist added that it’s like “Charlie Sheen talking about sobriety.”
“Hillary yesterday was so measured and so emotional — or attempting to be emotional and credible on the issue of rebuilding public trust,” Ingraham told the NRO editor.
“I thought it was fascinating. It was sort of like watching a cat use a human toilet. It’s interesting, it’s intriguing, it’s kind of adorable, but it’s also kind of hilarious,” Goldberg said. “She’s like Charlie Sheen talking about sobriety. There’s nothing to her that makes any of this plausible.”
“Her superpower is an utter inability to be embarrassed or ashamed about anything. She can go out and say anything as if she really means it and she expects people passive-aggressively to take her seriously,” he said. “It’s infuriating.”
“The thing that drives me crazy these days is that even conservatives are buying into this argument that it is incumbent upon her critics to come up with the ‘smoking gun’ of criminality,” the columnist said. “This idea that unless we can prove on videotape or a signed check or an email from Hillary that is concrete proof of criminal activity. That therefore there’s no there there, and that is the argument we are hearing from Howard Dean. That we hear from all these people, and the simple fact is that it’s that’s nonsense. It’s complete and utter nonsense.”
“The governor of Virginia was just sentenced to a prison sentence because of the appearance of a conflict. The appearance of a quid pro quo. They never provided any quid pro quo,” Goldberg said. “The whole standard is not necessarily criminality. That is a very high bar. The very low bar that they’re supposed to clear is not to have the appearance of criminality. The appearance of wrongdoing.”
