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Thursday, September 29, 2016

Right, Who Would Say Something Nasty About Her?

At the debate the other night, Hillary Clinton castigated Donald Trump because he had called Alicia Machado fat.  Machado is a former Miss Universe, and that pageant was owned at the time by the Trump Organization.  After winning, Machado started gaining weight and Trump is said to have called her Miss Piggy.  Hillary not only denounced Trump for that but said that she had brought Machado to the debate to be in the audience.  She gave Machado the full Hillary Clinton embrace.

To say the least, that was strange.  Machado is not the sort of person one would think Hillary would use as a victim.  Machado went on a South American TV show modeled after Big Brother a decade ago.  She was engaged to a major league baseball player at the time.  Despite that, she engaged in sex on live TV with another contestant on the show.  (Her baseball player fiancé broke the engagement.)  After that show, Machado hooked up with a mobster and was questioned for being the getaway driver from a murder that her boyfriend allegedly committed. 

One would think that Hillary Clinton would not have so tightly put her arms around such a shady character.  Maybe it says more about Hillary's judgment than Trump's temperament.  After all, Miss Universe has to stay beautiful.  Much in the same way that other media personalities and movie stars have to keep their looks, a beauty pageant winner makes a living from how she looks.  Trump could have been nicer; there's no doubt about that.  Still, what he said is hardly equal to what Hillary just did.

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