You Won’t Believe What Donna Brazile Said About Cheating For Hillary Clinton

“Take Donna Brazile, for example,” I continued. “She’s the insider who got caught handing debate questions ahead of time to the frontrunner’s campaign—not during the general election run against her Republican rival, but way back during the primary season. Now, you’d think she might feel a shred of remorse for her actions, especially after getting let go as a paid contributor from the cable news network. But of course not!”

I gestured toward the screen, queueing up an audio snippet from a recent broadcast on Joe Madison’s national talk radio show.

“In fact, here is what she had to say right on Joe Madison’s show,” I noted, playing the clip:

“The one thing folks need to understand at cable networks like CNN, MSNBC, and all of this—when you hire folks whose primary responsibility is to their specific candidate and their political apparatus, they’re going to do whatever they can to—”

I cut the audio mid-sentence, shaking my head in utter disbelief.

“Hold on, I’ve got a real issue with this,” I interjected sharply. “Oh, I’ve got a big issue with this! Joe Madison—I thought this guy was supposed to be a reputable host! People were telling me, ‘Tim, you’ve got to check out Joe Madison.’ But look at what this host is actually doing here—he’s defending someone who bent the rules! His defense is basically, ‘Well, you know, she has personal ties to that political family.’ Well, yeah! But maybe people thought she was acting as an objective professional!”

I leaned forward, tapping my finger on the desk to drive the point home.

“Using that line of logic,” I argued, “we couldn’t hire you to work at a diner or a restaurant because, hey, you eat food! So if you take the kitchen’s inventory and hand it out, or take the food, eat it yourself, or slip it out the back door, we should’ve just known better because, well, you eat food! That’s completely absurd! And he just lets her slide right by with that excuse!”

I reached over and hit play again. “Let me keep playing this, folks. Maybe I cut the track off a second too soon. Listen to a bit more of this exchange:”

“The one thing folks need to understand at CNN, MSNBC, and all of this—when you hire folks who, as you say, their primary responsibility is to their candidate and their party, they’re going to do whatever they can to win,” Brazile’s voice echoed through the speakers. “That’s just the nature of the beast. So, you know, I guess goodbye cable news and hello whatever comes next. But let me just tell you something… My conscience, as an activist and as a strategist, my conscience is very clear. When I said what I said, I said it, and I’m not going back on it. But I also understand that throughout the primary season—whether it was 2008, 2004, or 2016—I was in touch with everybody. Martin O’Malley, Bernie Sanders—who I’ve known for over thirty years—and the frontrunner, who I’ve known for… you darn right I’m going to talk to everybody, Joe! I will never go on TV or come on radio without having my facts straight. I will ask things, I will submit things, I will circulate information. And guess what? I also enjoy the exchange I have with my colleagues. They work for everybody. My friends are deeply embedded in all of these campaigns…”

I paused the recording once more, taking a deep breath as I absorbed what had just been said.

“Let me make sure I’m hearing this right,” I said, addressing the audience directly. “So what she’s claiming is that giving advance questions to the frontrunner’s campaign—effectively undermining Bernie Sanders’ chance at a fair primary—was just ‘business as usual’? Just standard corporate politics?”

I raised my hands in frustration.

“And on top of that,” I added, “she’s trying to suggest that her basic phone calls with Bernie Sanders or Martin O’Malley are the exact same thing as secretly feeding confidential broadcast material to the frontrunner’s team! As if those two things are identical! That is not okay, Donna! It’s really not! That kind of conduct is completely improper, and you shouldn’t be working for any major news outlet ever again. Go back to working directly for the party committee and stay put! Though, honestly, you shouldn’t even be working for the committee either, because the national committee isn’t supposed to be an exclusive personal tool shed for one candidate. You get what I’m saying?”

I leaned closer to the camera, my voice dropping to an intense, steady tone.

“Yet host Madison didn’t push back or call her out on any of this,” I pointed out. “So I don’t want to hear any more comparisons between Joe Madison’s broadcast and what we do here! Don’t draw any parallels between Joe Madison and Tim Black! The only similarity we share is the color of our skin! Because if I were sitting in that interviewer’s chair, I would have looked her straight in the eye and asked, ‘Where in the world are you coming from with that line of thinking?'”

I shook my head, taking another small sip of coffee.

“This whole thing is just terrible,” I admitted. “She has learned absolutely nothing from this ordeal—not a single thing. She flat-out refuses to reflect on it, and she isn’t offering any real apology for what went down. She did whatever it took for her preferred group. That’s right! She did whatever she felt she had to do to ensure Bernie Sanders lost the nomination, which ultimately landed us with the current administration.”

I leaned back, taking in the full weight of the situation.

“So for everything people have to say about the current president and his administration—how did we end up with him in the White House in the first place?” I asked rhetorically. “It’s because insiders like Donna Brazile tainted the party’s credibility so severely that millions of voters simply lost faith and stayed home on Election Day.”

I picked up my mug one last time, raising it toward the lens before taking a long drink.

“Grab yourself another cup of coffee, folks. Coffee with Tim Black.”