Media Ignores Hillary’s 2008 Veiled “ASSASSINATION THREAT” to Obama

Remember when @HillaryClinton said she was waiting on Obama to be murdered? 2nd Amendment? Share it, bc MSM won’t! pic.twitter.com/HK5aZBuHyh

— David King (@FreeAmerican100) August 9, 2016

The hot topic that began at a Trump rally Tuesday is still front and center: Republican nomineeDonald Trump says those who believe strongly in the 2nd Amendment could help preventHillary Clinton from winning the presidency.

Since then the interpretations of what Trump exactly meant by that remark have dominated cable news and political media: Was he actually ordering her assassination, as even some lawmakers have said? Or was he simply mobilizing efforts of passionate gun owners to unify and get out to the polls to defeat Clinton in November?

Team Trump says the latter: It was simply a rallying cry to defeat Clinton. House Speaker Paul Ryan says it was just “a joke gone bad.” Democrats are basically all in lockstep on the former, seizing on the political narrative that Trump is unfit for office, even characterizing the comment as criminal.

What the media seems to be missing in laying out this story is this thing called precedent. And in this case, the precedent belongs to the 2016 Democratic nominee.

The year was 2008. The race for the Democratic nomination was against then-Senator Barack Obama.

But the problem for Clinton was that the race was essentially over in late May. Senator Obama had all but wrapped up the Democratic nomination to the point many were calling for Clinton to face the math and drop out of the race in the name of party unity.

Clinton — who was a big favorite early on to represent the party — was not even entertaining the thought.

And then she decided to say this on May 24:

“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?” she said. “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”

Easy interpretation here: “Drop out? But what if somebody decides to take out Obama? RFK also had the nomination all sewn up at this point, too…. and look what happened to him. We need to keep in mind that some nut job could do to Obama what another nut job did to RFK. And that’s why I’m staying despite having no real traditional path to the nomination.”

Unlike Trump, Clinton actually made this remark, one that Rep. James E. Clyburn of South Carolina called “beyond the pale” at the time, twice.

Earlier that year in March, Clinton told Time magazine: “Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A..”

Was there 24/7 outrage on cable news over the remark? Of course not.

There were segments here and there, but nothing like the avalanche we’re seeing now. And Republicans didn’t call into question Clinton’s mental state or fitness for the office the same way Democrats and the most of the media. Nor did anyone call Clinton’s comments a criminal act.

But that isn’t stopping Democrats, Team Clinton and those who support her in the press from going all-out while ignoring what was said in 2008:

Because that would take either actual effort… or objectivity.

H/T – The Hill

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