The Pooh-Pooh Strategy

[Flanders]

pooh-pooh verb, transitive
pooh-poohed, pooh-poohing, pooh-poohs

Informal.
To express contempt for or impatience about; make light of: "British actors have long pooh-poohed the Method" (Stephen Schiff).

Over the weekend the media went bonkers reviewing an excerpt or two from Hillary Clinton’s soon to be released book. I want to offer some background, and point to a major shift in Democrat strategy that I’m sure the MSM will adopt with relish.

At long last, Hillary Clinton, the creator of the “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy” strategy has laid her creation to rest. I have to admit that it had a long run; eventually morphing into a suggested government ban on criticism:

Just prior to his appointment as President Obama’s so-called regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein wrote a lengthy academic paper suggesting the government should “infiltrate” social network websites, chat rooms and message boards. Such “cognitive infiltration,” Sunstein argued, should be used to enforce a U.S. government ban on “conspiracy theorizing.”

Obama czar proposed government ‘infiltrate’ social network sites
Sunstein wants agents to 'undermine' talk in chat rooms, message boards
by Aaron Klein

Obama czar proposed government ?infiltrate? social network sites​

Hillary Clinton’s latest creation is designed to pooh-pooh embarrassing inquiries like the one into Benghazi. Reince Priebus and Laura Ingraham touch on the strategy in these two videos:

Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace | Fox News

"Fox News Sunday" Group: Controversy Over Hillary Clinton & Benghazi | Video | RealClearPolitics

I’d be overjoyed if the new strategy is nothing more than a preview of the 2016 campaign:

Laura Ingraham: She is very smart, and blanketing the air waves with any further questions are political. That's classic Clinton. That’s classic Clinton war room. We are seeing a preview of the 2016 campaign.

Alas, the pooh-pooh strategy will probably live a longer life on message boards than did the vast right-wing conspiracy.

Interestingly, the vast right-wing conspiracy strategy made opponents look like meanspirited kooks, while the pooh-pooh strategy applied to politics identifies the person expressing contempt as being up to no good. Note that Hillary Clinton is certainly up to no good when she wraps herself in the flag as part of her Benghazi pooh-pooh strategy. She said this in the Fox panel video:

One thing that has never been a hard choice for me is serving our country. It has been the greatest honor of my life.

The truth is that she never served this country. In fact, she served everything except our country. She served the New World Order; she served the United Nations; she served the International community; she served Socialism’s ideology, and she served her personal political agenda.

And this:

I will not be a part of a political slugfest on the backs of dead Americans. It’s just plain wrong, and it’s unworthy of our great country.

XXXXX​

Those who exploit this tragedy over and over as a political tool minimize the sacrifice of those who served our country, . . .

Hillary Clinton: Politicizing Benghazi ‘just plain wrong’
By Vincent Bzdek and Philip Rucker Updated: May 30 at 10:36 am

Hillary Clinton: Politicizing Benghazi ?just plain wrong?​

Finally, that woman will betray “our great country” every chance she gets. Even if she is not a conscientious America-hater she is so blinded by perverse ambition she is the easiest of prey for America’s enemies. Write it off as a character flaw if you want to be generous. Whatever you call it her flaw predates her years as secretary of state:

Hillary's Chinese Espionage Problem
By Ed Timperlake

Articles: Hillary's Chinese Espionage Problem

 

[blastoff]

Dems have been sending their minions to message boards for several election cycles now. They start showing up a few months before an election, spew their bullshit and then, poof, they disappear shortly after the election. And they'll be back here again soon.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Dems have been sending their minions to message boards for several election cycles now. They start showing up a few months before an election, spew their bullshit and then, poof, they disappear shortly after the election. And they'll be back here again soon.

Where do I sign up to be a paid minion? And, do I get be an "ilk" too?

You idiots have no problem with the Rs gerrymandering, stealing and buying votes but you have a fit over people stating their views and opinions.

Get a frikken clue.


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[konradv]

Dems have been sending their minions to message boards for several election cycles now. They start showing up a few months before an election, spew their bullshit and then, poof, they disappear shortly after the election. And they'll be back here again soon.

You're being disingenuous, if you think the Reps don't do the same thing.