Interview: Hillary Clinton Says Trump Won Because He's a Man—like Folks Say Caitlin Clark Is Popular Because She's White

We have failed this generation in so many ways. It seems to me that young folks coming up would be better served if we taught them to take personal responsibility by modeling that quality. Instead, grown folks who should know better refuse to conduct self-inventory because it’s easier to live in denial than to do that. We are witnessing this in the treatment WNBA rookie Caitlin Clark is getting from the media, some fans, and at least one player. And here comes twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton still explaining away her loss to former President Donald Trump during a recently published interview with the New York Times.

Hillary Clinton, whom no one paying attention should trust, refuses to accept that people didn’t want her as president because she’s, well, Hillary Clinton. She has spent all this time as an election denier, going so far as to call Trump “an illegitimate president,” but now, in the interview that took place in February and released Saturday, she admits to losing—but she’s got a very good reason. Nooo, it’s not because she abandoned Americans begging for help in Benghazi, four of whom died. “Had Hillary Clinton ‘done her job’ as secretary of state, the four Americans killed in Benghazi in September 2012 would still be alive, two members of the security team said,” according to Politico. Her response when being grilled about it didn’t help, either: “What difference at this point does it make?” while some insist her words were taken out of context. I imagine they were, but soundbites bite.

No, it’s not because of the email scandal in which she figured she could do whatever she wanted, rules be darned.

No, it’s not because of alleged corruption within the Clinton Foundation.

No, it’s not because she called Americans a “basket of deplorables.”

And, let’s just get it out the way, it’s absolutely not because she’s downright unlikable. I could go on. But you already get the point and, hopefully, the irony.

Instead, she told the NYT that it’s “because they just couldn’t take a risk on me because, as a woman, I’m supposed to be perfect.” No, Hillary—not perfect, just someone we can trust, just someone we actually like. She went on to say, “They were willing to take a risk on” Trump “because he was a man, and they could envision a man as president and commander in chief.” I’ll grant her that there still are people who do not believe it’s a woman’s place to lead a nation, but I venture to say that’s a minority of people. But either way, she has too many flaws to test her theory. It’s rather sad that eight years later, she still doesn’t get it.

It’s interesting to me how similar this is to the current hoopla in the basketball world, where collegiate superstar Caitlin Clark has dominated the attention, broke various and sundry records during college, such as having the most points in NCAA history, the most career three-pointers, the most tournament three-pointers, and the most assists. I could go on with her accomplishments and records she has broken, but you can find a good list here and here.

As the number one WNBA draft pic, she has sold out arenas in all of her six regular season games so far, and as Gil’s Arena covered on Friday, “Since the draft in April, revenue from the WNBA’s online store is up more than 2,000 percent, already surpassing total sales for the 2023 season.” She joins the elite list three-people long—herself, recently retired star Candace Parker, and the New York Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu—as “the only rookies with 85+ points, 25+ assists, and 20+ rebounds in their first five career games.” Let me insert here that she has done this in spite of all the shade thrown at her, the double- and triple-teams, the hard fouls on her, the ticky tack fouls called against her, and without even shooting to her full capacity. Oh, and we must not forget that with her entrance into the league, teams were given charter flights. That’s just a drop in the bucket of her value. Oh, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t add she’s handling it all without complaining, always being gracious, and not clapping back at all the nonsense hurled in her direction from jealous players and hateful, race-baiting observers.

But nooo, her publicity has nothing to do with any of those things. It’s all about the fact that she’s white. Even the WNBA defending champion A’ja Wilson said, “It boils my blood when people say it’s not about race because it is.”

Add to that The View’s Sunny Hostin, who said Caitlin is benefiting from “white privilege” and “pretty privilege.” She went on to state that she is treated special because she is “straight” in a league with a large number of lesbians.

I never thought I’d be applauding something Whoopi Goldberg said, but when she’s right, she’s right. She said:

To have her reduced that way bothered me a lot because this is her record," Goldberg said, pointing to her note card. "Unless you can show me who’s got a better record than this, this is why she’s getting the attention she’s getting, because she’s a damn good player and [it] doesn’t matter whether she’s straight or gay, ain’t nobody crying when she’s making those balls.