John Pilger describes the obsequious media "feminist" support for
Hillary Clinton's score-settling book on her failed attempt to win the
US presidency, especially its defamation of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, whose disclosures of her warmongering and corruption deliver journalism.
On 16 October, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation aired an
interview with Hillary Clinton: one of many to promote her
score-settling book about why she was not elected President of the
United States.
Wading through the Clinton book, What Happened, is
an unpleasant experience, like a stomach upset. Smears and tears.
Threats and enemies. “They” (voters) were brainwashed and herded against
her by the odious Donald Trump in cahoots with sinister Slavs sent from
the great darkness known as Russia, assisted by an Australian
“nihilist”, Julian Assange.
In The New York Times, there was a
striking photograph of a female reporter consoling Clinton, having just
interviewed her. The lost leader was, above all, “absolutely a
feminist”. The thousands of women’s lives this “feminist” destroyed
while in government - Libya, Syria, Honduras - were of no interest...
