5.18.2016

Keeping up with the Clintons

Hillary Clinton’s Financial Disclosure Shows Millions in Book Royalties and for Speeches - The New York Times

"The Clinton campaign has used Mr. Trump’s reluctance to reveal his tax returns to imply that he is not as wealthy as he claims, a criticism that has irked Mr. Trump. 'What Is Donald Trump Hiding?' read the subject of an email blasted out on Tuesday by the Clinton campaign. Clinton aides, meanwhile, have circulated the Twitter hashtag #PoorDonald."

Yet another wacky plot twist in what must be easily the longest-running reality show on record, Keeping Up with the Clintons, the Clintons are now engaged in a fund-raising and social-media campaign accusing the Donald of not being rich enough. Up the people.

Also one of the Clinton’s super PACs (or, in the NYTimes stylebook, “Super PACs”) released its first anti-Trump TV commercial (and no, Bunky, no amount of fervent hoping will make it the last—Obama ran on hope, the Clintons run on there is no hope, we are inevitable (except in 16 or 17 states so far, but who needs them))—where were we…oh yeah—released its first anti-Trump TV commercial which the Times runs—in toto, breathlessly—as a news story here. With another for good measure—more news!

And in other news, Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) reported last night—I watched for about five minutes after the house consortium finished viewing Duck Soup—Clinton (the H one) “campaigned her guts out” in Kentucky, presumably to pull out a squeaker (or, if you’re counting delegates, a tie) in there. So you know.

Which brings us to today’s pop quiz: Would the title video in Duck Soup—a bunch of live ducks swimming in a cauldron of water over an open fire—have survived PETA?

Yes you’re right. Too bad.

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