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Hillary Clinton's Alternative Take On What "1984" Was All About
Your Personal Freedom Is Dangerous To The Hive! Hillary Clinton (paraphrasing)
13
September, 2017
Since
the official release of Hillary's new book "What Happened"
yesterday, our sense of logic and rational thought has been under
constant assault by a steady stream of 'Hillary-isms' which provide
some rather dark insights into the bizarro world in which she lives.
That
said, we've seen nothing that tops the following excerpt in which
Hillary offers up her expert opinion on the key
life lesson that should be learned from "1984", namely that
we should trust and rely on "our leaders, the press, and experts
who seek to guide public policy."
"Attempted to define reality is a core feature of authoritarianism. This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos. This is what happens in George Orwell's classic novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner see five fingers as ordered. The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust toward exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves."
Bizarre misreading: @HillaryClinton thinks the lesson of Orwell's 1984 is that you should trust experts, leaders and the press
Sorry,
Hillary...but we're pretty sure that the key takeway from '1984' was
not that we should all trust the government and media just a little
more...
We've
been saying this a lot lately but we find it helpful to clarify in
instances such as this...yes,
this is real life.
The
irony here is that the democratic party and the mainstream media,
both entities that Hillary suggests should have your utmost trust and
respect, have been on a mission to "sow mistrust" for over
a year now with their perpetual 'Russian collusion' narrative...a
narrative for which no actual evidence has been presented.
Of
course, after reading that passage above, one can only come to one of
two conclusions: i) Hillary has never read 1984 (best case) or ii)
Hillary's powers of self-delusion are far greater than anyone ever
imagined (worst case).
Watch As Amazon Deletes Hundreds Of One-Star Reviews Of Hillary Clinton's New Book
13
September, 2017
In
what many have dubbed a flagrant intervention by Amazon itself to
seemingly boost the rating of Hillary Clinton's new book "What
Happened",
the Telegraph
first reported,
and subsequently many others observed first hand, that Amazon has
been monitoring and
deleting 1-star
reviews of Hillary Clinton's new book "which was greeted with a
torrent of criticism on the day it was released."
Reviews
of What Happened have been mixed, with some accusing Clinton of using
it as an opportunity to blame others – such as former FBI head
James Comey, Bernie Sanders, Vladimir Putin, social media and pretty
much everything else – for her failure, rather than herself.
EvenThe
New York Times,
which supported Clinton's campaign, wrote that the book is "a
score-settling jubilee".
What
is fascinating, is how few one-star reviews have remained on the
website amid reports and screengrabs showing that reviewers used the
space to criticise the former First Lady. One 1-star review, which
remained on the website earlier today, read: "Read all the
promotional excerpts, which combined come close to book length –
pretty good novel. It is fiction, isn't it? Surely, someone is
playing a joke." Anotherwrote "Picked
this book up at Wal-Mart out of sheer morbid curiosity. Returned it,
claiming I bought the wrong book"
While
this is not the first time Amazon has intervened to "adjust"
the ratings of its products - in November negative comments under a
book by anti-Trump broadcaster Megyn Kelly appeared to be removed by
the retailer - it has rarely "adjusted" reviews of such a
prominent product so publicly.
Speaking
to Fortune,
an Amazon spokesperson said: "In the case of a memoir, the
subject of the book is the author and their views. It’s not our
role to decide what a customer would view as helpful or unhelpful in
making their decision. We do however have mechanisms in place to
ensure that the voices of many do not drown out the voices of a few
and we remove customer reviews that violate our community
guidelines."
And
for those who find such intervention hard to believe, here is what
Amazon's intervention looks like chronologically on Wednesday.
...
As of 14:55pm
...
and what it looks
like right now:
over 97% of the reviews are now 5 star, with over 1,000 reviews
deleted. As of 5:30pm, of the 445 total review, 438
reviews were positive,
and 7
(as of 5:30pm_ were critical.
The latter number inexplicably keeps doing down.
To
be sure, one can claim that neither the 1-star nor the
5-star reviews are legitimate, and were merely a partisan effort
seeking to amass an either extremely negative or positive view of
Clinton's book, however Amazon's decision to engage in a wholesale
deletion of what appears to be uniformly low ratings will likely
raise at least a few eyebrows.
Readers
can observe the historical changes to Amazon's "What
Happened"
page on their own thanks to the Way
Back Machine
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