'This ain't Havana!'

You may have heard numerous media types describe the just-past, third Trump-Clinton debate as befitting a "banana republic." 

Let's see where they got that designedly dismissive phrase. (One which would surely be roundly assailed as "racist" had it been uttered by a conservative. Remember, though, these are the 'Do-as-we-say, not-as-we-do' zealots.)

In the minutes following the candidate exchange, Hillary Clinton's press secretary Brian Fallon issued the "banana republic" descriptor. And, like a retained, on-call emergency response team, the news media snapped into echoey action.

CNN's Dana Bash, NBC's Norah O'Donnell, CBS's Bob Schieffer, and a host of similarly suspect on-mic or in-print sorts repeated the Clinton/Fallon "banana republic" slur.

Group-think is hardly surprising from that pack, whose members indicate having no unique thoughts.

Donald Trump had convened a pre-debate press conference with Kathy Shelton, Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones, and Kathleen Willey. And the kept press balled its fists, stamped its feet, and kvetched its collective ass off.

As a 12 year-old Arkansas girl, Shelton had been savagely raped by 41 year-old deviant sub-human Thomas Alfred Taylor. Taylor's sick cause had in 1975 been championed by then-attorney Hillary Clinton. Five years on, she laughed to an interviewer about Taylor's successful lying during a polygraph test.

(Hillary laughs at recollection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tor00iWUhDQ)

The other three women had survived various awkward torments by loathsome Arkansas Creeper, Bill Clinton. Hillary notoriously engineered 'search and destroy' efforts against the victimized women whose stories could threaten the rise to influence and wealth of the criminal Clinton dynasty.

Trump seated the four victims in the debate's front row and vowed during the debate to have Hillary Clinton properly investigated and imprisoned for financial improprieties and malfeasance while secretary of state.

Trump's evoking of "imprisonment" inspired many-a media promoter of the Hillary campaign to sob of "banana republic" tactics. As if a politician's advocacy of justice's thorough and equal pursuit, including against the politically powerful, were somehow base and condemnable. 

During that debate, though the victims' presence was pointed out to her, Hillary did not address the topic, let alone extend deserved apologies. That easy callousness when political ambition dictates illustrates the degree to which she is decidedly not a sincere "advocate for girls and women." (Not without a darkly ironic sense of humor, though, she did later sniff that Trump "never apologizes.")

Again, Trump's audacity at telling unflattering truths about a royal Clinton sent play-ball media figures into stilted, howling fury. And we all should consider that their instinctive sympathy lay not with the wronged public, but the challenged powerful. 

(During Trump's pre-debate press conference, one reporter carrying Clinton's water attempted injury. He asked the businessman whether he thought prestige granted license to grope. "Why don't you go ask Bill Clinton that?" demanded Paula Jones. "Why don't you ask Hillary, as well?" Foiled in his dark bid, the reporter said nothing in response -- though he may well have later vented furiously of "banana republic.")  

No, hallmarks of what are termed "banana republics" are not to be found in the Trump campaign. But evidence can easily be turned up on the Clinton/news media side,

Not uncommonly, millions of assistance dollars meant for needful populaces often never make it past corrupt governmental/criminal cabals. See "Clinton Foundation, Haiti," to learn exactly how foul-charactered, icily indifferent to widespread human suffering, and dollar-grasping the Clintons are. And do not be surprised when you vomit.

During Hillary's secretary of state stint, and continuing after she had left government service, the Clintons profited outlandishly. They peddled access and influence to foreign lands with US-related interests. Slimy business, true. But these are slimy people, these Clintons. 

And certainly, the FBI's winked indulgence of Clinton wrongdoing, and the shadowy, airstrip rendezvous between Bill and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, exemplify further the ethical rot that is today so ingrained in the US government.

Consider, too, the phenomenon of a lavishly moneyed mainstream media machine that, rather than speaking truth to power, speaks instead in ornate and deferentially respectful manners of the powerful -- whose interests are rarely confluent with the public's own.

The press's feigned outrage at Trump's assembling victims of sexual pervert Bill Clinton merits observation. 

The sickening notion that Bill's rapes, flashings, and foul-intentioned prowlings were legitimate perks of his ascended elitism, ones never to be prosecuted or even spoken of, is only a variation on the 'too big to fail' proposition that offers shield to Hillary's deep-pocket Wall Street patrons.. 

The professional press serves as the status quo's public relations component. It assures daily that All Is OK, and that elite dynasties like the Kennedys, Bushes, and Clintons are beyond legal reach (or public question).

Independent challengers to the dominant class, like Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, or Ralph Nader, may rally popular sympathies among the people, but they are threats to the dominant class and must be 'disappeared' from the landscape. With devout news media countenance, of course. 

Now, that's a "banana republic" operation.


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