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90s Scandals Threaten to Erode Hillary Clinton’s Strength With Women

Yeah, Bill Clinton's one-man War on Women (although Kennedyesque!) was problematic even in the 90's; by contemporary standards it simply cannot be defended. Of course, if the legacy media can limit the "90's scandals" to the sex stuff it is still a win for Team Hillary - as Bernie Sanders casts about for examples of Clintonian ethical sleaze, the Marc Rich pardon may yet re-emerge.  Tax breaks for the Rich indeed.

But back to rape and sexual assault allegations. As an example of how young progressives are backpedaling like a Patriot cornerback check out this Voxsplainer by Dylann Matthews on the Juannita Broddrick rape allegation:

So far, this issue has mostly been raised by conservative media and Republican politicians like Prudhomme-O'Brien. But it's a substantive matter worthy of coverage from non-right-wing outlets as well. There really are multiple accusations of sexual assault against Bill Clinton, accusations that have too often been conflated with his much better-established and much less morally concerning history of adultery. Are the women making these accusations survivors who deserve to be believed, to borrow Hillary Clinton's language? Or, as she later insisted, have their accusations all been found to be baseless?

The basic answer is that some of the claims appear more credible than others. There are three main accusers, of whom it seems by far the most credible — based on the publicly available evidence — is Broaddrick. Jones's claim was aired for years and faced several major problems (including the fact that she claimed the president's penis had a "distinguishing mark" that doctors and Monica Lewinsky said it did not have), and Willey repeatedly lied to federal investigators and changed her story dramatically between grand jury testimony and a deposition in the Jones case (among other issues).

But Broaddrick's allegation, while hardly proven, has not been definitively refuted. Only Broaddrick and Bill Clinton know what the truth of the matter in the case is. But if one generally believes it's important to believe the victim, it's hard to argue that this case should be an exception.

Ouch. Don't take my word for it - here is David French of the NRO:

It’s a Bad Day for the Clintons When Vox Fairly Explains the Rape Allegation Against Bill

 

I must admit, when I clicked this morning on Vox’s ”explainer” of Juanita Broaddrick’s rape allegation against Bill Clinton, I expected a whitewash. I was wrong. Not only did Dylan Matthews do an excellent job laying out the story, he reminded me of a number of details I’d forgotten.

 

My my. Although do keep in mind - many of these young progs grew up waving the pom-poms for Obama, not Hillarity!, so the impulse to sell, or even lease their soul to the Clintons isn't what it might be in an older legacy 'reporter'.

 

That protective impulse shines through in this bit from the Times:

A warning Mr. Trump issued to Mrs. Clinton on Twitter — “Be careful Hillary as you play the war on women or women being degraded card” — initially grabbed attention last month. Then, Paula Jones, who had accused Mr. Clinton of exposing himself while she was an Arkansas state employee, and Juanita Broaddrick, an Arkansas nursing home executive who alleged that Mr. Clinton sexually assaulted her in 1978 when he was attorney general of Arkansas, re-emerged in the news media.

Mr. Clinton maintained he was innocent but eventually paid Ms. Jones $850,000 to settle her sexual harassment case. He has denied, through his lawyer, assaulting Ms. Broaddrick.

Well. "Sexual assault" includes many non-rape actions, such as unwanted groping, so the Times is giving the Clintons a bit of space there. As for "he has denied, through his lawyer", well then, that means Bill has not personally denied it. No press avail, no teary "I did not have sexual relations with that woman...", and why should he waste his time or ours, since Bill's credibility would be zero anyway.

Comments

[henry]

more popcorn please.

[Rocco]

But back to rape and sexual assault allegations. As an example of how young progressives are backpedaling like a Patriot cornerback check out this Voxsplainer by Dylann Matthews on the Juannita Broddrick rape allegation:

Since the topic is about a sex offender, perhaps Denver would have been a better example.

http://thebiglead.com/2014/09/18/peyton-manning-1996-tennessee-lawsuit-trainer-bare-butt-mooning/

[Jane]

I read a story last night about Clinton's first affair, and Hillary's ongoing harassment of the woman. She was 21, Bill was 29. Hillary was a witch. The woman's name was Maria. And it was one sick story.

Anyone else see it?

[buccaneer morgan]

Yes it was in the daily mail, now vox is focusing on inconsistent stories, Shirley.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

Seems the Clintons have brought us to the point where we're yet again discussing differing observations of a President's, er, appendage. JATFI? Hard to see how that's good for Hillary.

[Miss Marple]

Good morning!

Three inches of snow and still falling.

Daughter just called. It took her an hour and 45 minutes to get to work, normally a 45 minute drive. She said that NO streets are plowed in Indianapolis, like they didn't even try.

I wonder if this will fall on the new dem mayor's head.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

Yes, Jane, that was on the Daily Mail. The woman died not too long ago.

[Jack is Back (but On Alert with his Percocet and Prune Juice )]

jane,

You mean this one?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3396589/Anonymous-phone-calls-fears-stalking-veiled-threats-power-hungry-Hillary-torpedoed-torrid-affair-Bill-Clinton-21-year-old-campaign-worker-threatened-destroy-master-plan-president.html

With some people like Hillary its in their DNA.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

Buccaneer was too quick for me.

[glasater]

Twelve year lows in oil. Price is below 28. Futures are off over two hundred points.

[Porchlight]

That is a shocker from Vox. My older brother is inexplicably a fan. I think he is a Bernie fan, but will of course vote for Hillary if she's the nominee.

[Miss Marple]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2580967/

Headline: Kasich sees himself as "the prince of light and hope"

[Porchlight]

$850K is a lot of cake to settle an unfounded sexual harassment claim, wouldn't you say, Voxsplainers?

[NK]

don't know what to make of this, is there any chance it's accurate, I know Hilligula's trend line stinks, but these #s?: http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/19/comedy-gold-new-cnn-poll-of-new-hampshire-has-bernie-sanders-leading-hillary-by-27-points/

[Marlene]

Yes Jane,I read that story also. Hillary had some kind of weird power over Bill from the beginning of their relationship. I think he was scared of her! She was a cold and scheming b*tch and got her claws into him.
They are sick people.

[Miss Marple]

NK,

Younger democrats like Bernie, at least the ones around here do. I have seen a couple of Bernie bumper stickers, no Hillary stickers.

It doesn't surprise me. Plus Bernie is from the next state over so almost has "favorite son" status in New Hampshire.

[Rick Ballard]

Perhaps it's just proof even maggots can be induced to gag, NK. Comrade Sanders is "new" even though his idiocies are two hundred years old while the Red Witch with her Black Albatross choker and the Rapist dragging behind is "old" (and insufficiently commie).

There is a reality limit to what indoctrination and conditioning can achieve and the reality of the stink coming off Red Witch may just be too strong.

[Threadkiller]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html

Rubio is the only one who can beat both Hil and Sanders.

[NK]

I am aware of the young Progs Bernie support, but this is a stunning (IF ACCURATE) smackdown of Hilligula by Dems more than Bernie support. It's almost like they've caught on that she is a world class grifter, and as I thought for over a year, BJ hurts her with younger women. The 'rape culture' insanity is devouring the Clintons. It may be getting close to pass popcorn time. I would love for the Dems to run Bernie, let them come out as the socialist party.

[henry]

Steyer now backing Bernie....(seen on Twitter by our lurking friend).

[Marlene]

I really believe Bernie will win the NH primary.
He is seen as harmless,old,crazy Uncle Bernie.
I've seen quite a few Bernie bumper stickers in Florida,usually on cars with Massachusetts license plates.

[NK]

RickB-- I think you said what I was typing at 09:32, of course you said it much more eloquently.

[Threadkiller]

"Bombshell"

Newton Boris Schwartz, Sr. is a Houston area attorney who wants the issue to be settled once and for all. Joining the WIBX First News with Keeler in the Morning show on WIBX 950 on Wednesday, Schwartz shared new information which he says he has uncovered – that both of Cruz’s parents voted in a 1974 election in Calgary.

That would mean Cruz is not eligible to be POTUS, says Schwartz, because in Canada you cannot have dual citizenship. In other words, his parents identified as Canadian, and only Canadian.

Schwartz indicated he would send a copy of the documentation to WIBX 950, adding that we were only the second media outlet he’d shared the news with. He planned to release the information to national media outlets later in the day on Wednesday, he said.

http://wibx950.com/breaking-news-ted-cruzs-parents-voted-in-canadian-election/

Ted was born in '70, not after '74. Is the notion here that Ted lost his purported US citizenship when his parents purportedly became Canadians?

This attorney is in his eighties(not that there is anything wrong with that) so he may have been duped with a previously debunked story of Cruz's parents.

[Old Lurker]

As you know, I spend but 30 seconds on my wife's WaPo each morning.

But today I scoured it cover to cover to see how they covered the IG letter about Hillary's super top secret indiscretions on her server.

You got it: Not one single word in the entire paper unless I missed it.

There were pages and pages bashing the Reps though.

[I could search.]

Alright, anybody know the provenance of 'distant cloud no larger than a man's hand? I recently ran across this in something my father wrote almost 50 years ago: 'None of these alternatives are palatable.....they will continue to be ignored until the cloud becomes somewhat larger than a man's hand."

[Now to my Interpreter's Bible.]

Ah, I Kings 18:44.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Younger democrats like Bernie...--

That can be read two ways.
The first way I read it prompted me to wonder, if Bernie is one of the younger Dems are there any of them older than him who had not already fossilized.

[narciso]

well red queen is clearly jurassic, whereas commissar is cretaceous, I think that's right,

you don't expect pravda or granma to showcase the dissident voices, do you comrade,

[Rick Ballard]

The Fascist propaganda organs will wait until a Republican takes public notice of the IG DNI letter in order to make it a "political" issue. It's not going away. The intelligence community will not allow it to be ignored.

[narciso]

how about that,

http://www.jammiewf.com/2016/thanks-obama-a-50-caliber-weapon-funneled-through-fast-and-furious-found-at-el-chapo-hideout/

[jimmyk]

Off topic, I find it amusing though disturbing that so many business/financial types think that a low oil price is a scary bad thing.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/oils-nightmare-scenario-dominates-davos-114532016.html

Maybe it's a symptom of a slowdown, but in and of itself low energy prices seem like a good thing, unless you're in the energy business. Reminds me of the climate nuts who seem to believe that there's an absolutely ideal temperature.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Ted was born in '70, not after '74. Is the notion here that Ted lost his purported US citizenship when his parents purportedly became Canadians? --

This is an issue DoT utterly and properly destroyed. It is utterly meaningless what some other countries laws say about citizenship.
If Mexico passed a law stating anyone who visits Mexico is a Mexican citizen do we then have dual citizenship?

Absent some actual evidence Cruz's mother "purportedly" took action to become a Canadian citizen and renounced her US citizenship, stories like the one above are pretty much just smears.

[And that has made all the difference.]

Marlene, my understanding is that when Bill was ogling Hillary in the Yale Law Library, she challenged him to do something besides look.

[Beasts of England]

I keep hearing about Super Delegates on the dem side and that - if I understand the concept correctly - the state primaries are largely irrelevant. Does that ring true?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Ah, I Kings 18:44.--

You beat me to it, kim.
Good old One Kings [heh] wherein Elijah lays it out.

[Rick Ballard]

DoT took care of every specious argument advanced by the drooler. Ringing the bell only guarantees more comment slobber.

[narciso]

it depends on why, the price is down, if it's because of fracking, which is one component it's fine, if it's because of China's slowdoewn it's troublesome,

[Threadkiller]

Briefly, Ig.

DoT's argument was that another country has no say with regards to a child born in the US. Ironically he always supported that "another country" when the "another country" was the US making a claim on foreign soil. I dismantled that argument quite easily.

Specific to Cruz. His parents's actions could have cost him his US Code citizenship through their actions prior to his age of majority. US Code has specific statutes for him to reapply.

[Threadkiller]

Poor Wittle Wickey...

:-(

[jimmyk]

You got it: Not one single word in the entire paper unless I missed it.

Somewhat surprisingly, the NYT and CNN seem to be covering it, at least online. However, in the dead tree NYT it was in the bottom lower corner of page A16. The thing about online is that it you won't likely see it unless you're looking for it. Ditto with it being buried in an obscure part of the print edition.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

It's down to where it should be because political and economic circumstances have for now, broken the back of the extortionate cartel that a healthy West would have forcibly broken decades ago.

[Threadkiller]

Ted Cruz's Canadian Birth Certificate doesn't help the "just visiting" argument.

[Threadkiller]

Maybe Palin is a mole set about destroying Trump.

And he has, he’s spent his life with the workin’ man and he tells us, Joe six packs...

http://m.nydailynews.com/news/politics/transcript-palin-endorses-trump-no-pussy-footin-article-1.2502732

Ugh.

[Old Lurker]

Rick 9:56. I wear it as a badge of honor (or stupidity) that I have never resorted to the Narciscolator to simply not see certain posters. But I swear if we go down this tiresome road again, I will beg for it.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

-DoT's argument was that another country has no say with regards to a child born in the US.--

That's just not accurate. Another country has no say on who we deem citizens whether born here or not.

- Ironically he always supported that "another country" when the "another country" was the US making a claim on foreign soil.--

There's nothing ironic about that because it is exactly the same principle only without your inapt limitation of "born in the US".

--I dismantled that argument quite easily.--

No you didn't. It's really only a matter for argument in the same way some people are of the opinion they're really Napoleon.
If it's not an inarguable fact other countries could pass laws rendering no one on earth eligible for president.

I'm not arguing it further because there is nothing to argue.

[Threadkiller]

Fine.

[narciso]

there was less flak over Hamburg .in '43, then Bezos and Carlos Slim puts out on any given day, whether pleading for copkillers, salafi, corrupt
potentates like Razorback, some combinations of all three,

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I think TK's suggestion re Rick and TK following TK and Cecil's formula of ignoring each other was a good one.

[Old Lurker]

Dow down 300 already.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Walter Williams as usual with a different and compelling point of view; Blacks and the Confederacy.

[Threadkiller]

I know I would appreciate it.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

John Stossel on economic myths.

[Rick Ballard]

Ignoring the shit on the comment sidewalk didn't work with Cleo and it won't work now. The intent is precisely the same in both cases and TM should consider the same remedy - it finally worked with Hit's help.

I won't suggest other commenters stop stepping in the shit and smearing it around. That never worked with 'poor' Cleo and it won't work in this instance.

[narciso]

I would say jim crow, was a more permanent wound on the nation,

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/19/gates-man-i-
hope-the-next-president-doesnt-surround-himself-with-yes-men/

shirley he can't be serious,

[Thomas Collins]

The Hill absolutely needs to keep her POTUS campaign viable to give her lawyers leverage in negotiating an exit from the race and, at best, no hoosegow time. I am becoming convinced that she would be el toasterino on an Espionage Act count (gross negligence).

[Threadkiller]

What is the "intent," Rick?

Over the years everyone has seen the topic tone way down. One comment today and you are in a frenzy.

Let it go, man.

[Old Lurker]

Absolutely agree, Rick.

Since I always pay attention to what certain posters think, it was terribly frustrating when DoT got sucked in because scroll-on-by with him and others required scanning the post first before rejecting it.

[narciso]

Gates has no shame, which isn't unique among the morning show coffee clatch of nepotism, fraud charges, and worse,

[Old Lurker]

TK, it is like feeling the first tingle of a disease you thought you had kicked in the past. We are pre-sensitized and wary.

[Old Lurker]

Gates deserves no more respect than the CIA guy in 13 Hours. Sell it once, pal, and you cannot get it back.

That is harsh, I suppose, but he was one of those I had counted on to provide adult supervision to the twerp in the WH.

[Threadkiller]

I think it is new and topical, OL.

Sorry to hear you think of me in the terms set forth by Rick.

It only turns into romper room when he calls me things like "the drooler" in a conversation he wasn't invited to. It is all on this page to see.

Anyway, I still hold you in high regards.

[narciso]

Constabile, is a dead ringer for weasels, see Suits, and now Damian Lewis's mouthpiece on Billions,

[Old Lurker]

-370.

You gotta be quick.

[narciso]

is this localized or are we going to a towel, ala hitchhiker's guide,

[Old Lurker]

TK, I do not think of you that way at all except on this one subject. That's what I meant about having to scan first before scrolling since on all other topics I do pay attention to your thoughts.

[Old Lurker]

-400...

The dogs are not eating the dog food.

[anonamom]

The Hill-Bill weird relationship:

I think since his mother abandoned him to got to CRNA school, then she stayed and practiced in a different town, he's got mommy issues that play a huge role in their perverse relationship.

[Threadkiller]

So when Rick maliciously dings me for pointing out Trump polling or crowd size, does it become apparent that his fixation is on more than one subject?

It is comment police profiling at this point.

[narciso]

when does Chip dillard, interrupt his golf game?

[Rick Ballard]

jimmyk,

If I were a highly credentialed planner/banker/oligarch such as those floating in the cesspool in Davos, I would be very concerned about losing the linchpin to the Malthusian models of scarcity used to create the illusion of 'growth' through inflation. Between increased CO2 driving crop yields up (and prices down) and fracking ingenuity demolishing the Peak Oil myth (while setting an upper bound for energy prices), what's left for a well credentialed moron to blabber about wrt the concept of Malthusian scarcity?

Poor grubers - they may be forced to look for jobs commensurate with their actual abilities.

[Threadkiller]

I should have thanked you, OL.

I'm gonna drop it right now.

...and watch my life savings drop as well. :-(

[Old Lurker]

Rick, whenever I fantasize where one might do the most amount of good with one nuke, Davos always seems to be on my list.

[Old Lurker]

Thanks TK.

Sorry about the market but you know well my thoughts about the Beatles and "Nothing is Real" as seen from out here on the Ledge.

[narciso]

this is why I asked Rick, what where the parameters for a correction,

[glasater]

This is good:

For the Sake of Capitalism, Pepper Spray Davos

[narciso]

now that allows them to get away, glas,

[Clarice]

Great Davos post Rick!

[PDinDetroit]

Down goes the DOW, -440 at one point now seeing a "dead cat bounce" to -425.

How's that economy now dems? 18K down to 15.5K?

[DebinNC]

"Now, I have to go back to work on my State of the Union speech. And I worked on it until pretty late last night. But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people. Thank you"

Hillary was in the room near BC during that January presser. But it wasn't until August following his depo that Bill fessed up to deceiving the country, including"even my wife and daughter". How stupid and/or unperceptive would HC have to be not to have read the WaPo article in January and watched Bill's "listen to me" speech a week later, and not known the truth? Then we're to believe it wasn't until Bill came clean 6 mos. later than HC's eyes were opened? It still shocks me that NY voters elected her senator.

[jimmyk]

NY values, Deb. :)

[NK]

$8.00/gal gas was Obummer's goal (along with his energy secy and science adviser) here we are $1.88 nationally and dropping. Note the Left's response, it's not drilling it's the lousy economy!... how can we have a lousy economy with the blessings of Obamanomics for SEVEN YEARS!!! http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/19/video-remember-when-barack-obama-said-we-couldnt-just-drill-our-way-to-lower-gas-prices/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

It is as though the great lesson the world learned was that Paul Volcker's demolition of the 70s stagflation to attain price and currency stability was the giant mistake and the whole world is now populated by central bankers setting policy based on the Arthur Burns model, only supersized in a way Burns would have blanched at.
Or alternately, the great lesson to be learned may be that, like Japan, low-to-no-growth and stagnation can be maintained almost indefinitely so long as one gives up any chance of greater prosperity.
In the end of course the 'almost' part of 'almost indefinitely' can never be escaped and the pent up pain will be administered, because markets cannot be denied forever. The word "market" is a nickname for economic reality. Anything that distorts or "controls" markets works about as well as any other reality denying mode of survival.

[PDinDetroit]

What BC looks like after HC gets through with him. (click the picture to see it all)

MOST EMBARRASSING!!!

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

Interesting piece on Townhall re the Hil-LIAR-y server debacle, Top Secret classifications, and the impending flood of stories/leaks expected to result from these revelations:

"NBC: Intel on Hillary's Server Was So Secret, IG Needed Special Permission to Review It."

The 'SAP' intelligence on her server was so secret that the man whose job it is to oversee America's intelligence community had to be granted special permission to review a sworn declaration summary about its contents.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/01/20/nbc-intel-on-hillarys-server-so-secret-ig-needed-special-permission-to-review-n2107168

[NK]

Ig-- as our friend in ChiTown always reminds us, Chairman Miller was even more destructive than Arthur Burns. Miller turned Burns' smoldering inflation campfire into roaring stagflation.

[DebinNC]

NY values, Deb. :)

You ain't kidding, jimmyk. Down here in GA, I listen to Chuck Schumer and Peter King and question whether we live in the same country. De Blasio inhabits an alternate universe imo.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Bill Gross with a little reality; Davos fiddles while global markets burn. Monetary policy increasingly ineffective. Fiscal stimulation non-existent.

The tragedy is it is all so simple and wealth automatically created when people are left to their own devices. It is the attempts to eliminate or control the absolutely necessary and short lived effects of downturns that create the prolonged depressions and recessions that destroy wealth and put in place the self generating institutions which then make it their business to eliminate or mitigate what is in fact the natural and needed method of eliminating malinvestment.
They give us smallpox to avoid chickenpox.

[narciso]

more like ebola or marburg,

https://gma.yahoo.com/freed-iranians-never-boarded-flight-us-195732625--abc-news-topstories.html#

[jimmyk]

Well, at least we NYers drew the line at Weiner's shenanigans, even if Huma seems very Hillary-like in her tolerance and enabling.

Yes, Ig and NK, it seems like the same bad ideas get reincarnated every generation, if only as an attempt by the meddlers and self-important policy gurus to provide some justification for their existence.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Well Burns was there a whole lot longer than Miller but they both were useless.

I'm not exactly a gold standard bug but I have to say the Fed lost a great deal of sobriety with the loss of the gold standard and the collapse of Bretton Woods.
Fed policy since then has become more extreme and damaging as time goes on.
Volcker gets a great deal of the "credit" for that, to temper whatever good he did as chairman of the Fed.

[jimmyk]

More dark money:

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2016-01-20/what-kind-of-man-spends-millions-to-elect-ted-cruz-

They say he disdains the establishment wing of the Republican Party, which he sees as too cozy with Big Business and Wall Street. Unlike many of his peers in New York financial circles, he doesn’t shrink from the culture wars. He’s supported a campaign for the death penalty in Nebraska and funded ads in New York critical of the so-called ground-zero mosque. He and Rebekah have also directed money to an anti-abortion group and a Christian college, though people who know the father and daughter say they don’t talk about religion.

I'd never heard of this guy's political activities, though I know about his firm. Perhaps Jane Meyer can do a sequel.

[narciso]

well but you ended up with mayor bane, really it's turtles all the way down,

[narciso]

like ted forstmann, I guess,

[Miss Marple]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/how-donald-trump-defeats-hillary-clinton-217868#ixzz3xjdJEox0

He picks up more support in the black community than people would have expected. Good article on demographics and strategy.

[Miss Marple]

jimmyk,

That;s a fascinating article on Mercer. I had never heard of the guy or the firm.

You can think you're well-informed, and then something like that pops up and you think to yourself, "I don't know what the hell's going on."

[NK]

Mercer at Renaissance? The other strange bit is that his partner at Renaissance, Simon, is a huge Hilligula supporter and crony, and I suspect got a lot of Clinton.com email inside info.

[Jane]

Apparently only 6 people have SAP clearance.

[jimmyk]

like ted forstmann, I guess,

I recall Forstmann was mainly focused on schools, wasn't he? This guy seems like the left's worst nightmare across-the-board.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

That Bloomberg article on Mercer was so canted and full of misleading innuendo attempting to paint every person in it as some kind of nut I had to stop reading about half way down.