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Yes, There Is A 'Hillary Standard' -- She Gets Away With Everything

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In an interview with "60 Minutes" that aired on Sunday, Hillary 
Clinton actually said something that is undeniably true: "I 
often feel like there's the Hillary standard, and then there's 
the standard for everybody else." By that, Clinton meant to say 
that she often gets treated unfairly. Which is also true.

But then Clinton went on to claim that by "Hillary standard," 
she meant that she is uniquely singled out for "unfounded, 
inaccurate, mean-spirited attacks with no basis in truth." That 
should have elicited a laugh from CBS News' Scott Pelley, but 
instead he asked this tough follow-up question: "Why do you put 
yourself through it?"

Anyone who isn't blinded by partisanship can see that there is, 
and has been, a Hillary standard. But not one in which Hillary 
is the victim. It's one in which she, because of her party 
affiliation and gender, is held unaccountable for any wrongdoing 
that would doom mere mortals.

We don't need to run through the familiar litany in detail, but 
suffice it to say that if a Republican had been secretary of 
state when a U.S. ambassador was killed by terrorists in a 
country that the secretary's own policies had destabilized, that 
person would unlikely be the party's nominee.

If anyone but Hillary Clinton had set up a private foundation 
that took money from government officials who were at the same 
time seeking favors from the federal government, she'd never 
have survived the scandal.

And if anyone but Hillary had set up a private email server 
while secretary of state, for the express purpose of protecting 
her correspondence from Freedom of Information Act requests, 
well, first of all, the press would likely have exposed it while 
she was secretary of state.

Once the email scandal did come to light, her blatantly obvious 
and yet endlessly repeated lies would have sunk any other 
candidate a long time ago. It's also unlikely that the FBI would 
have concluded -- after amply demonstrated that she was grossly 
negligent in handling national security information -- that no 
"reasonable" prosecutor would want to try Clinton for her 
crimes. If it weren't for the Hillary standard, there would be 
"reasonable" prosecutors lined up around the block eager to try 
this case, if for no other reason that to show that no one is 
above the law.

Finally, if anyone but Hillary had been so greedy as to make 
half a million in one day giving speeches, and more than $21 
million over the course of two years, to major corporations and 
special interests, no one would ever take her seriously when she 
complains about "greed."

To be sure, the "Hillary standard" isn't entirely unique to 
Hillary. It's more like the "Democratic standard," whereby 
Democrats generally are treated differently than Republicans. 
Democrats can lie, cheat, viciously attack opponents, be as 
corrupt as the day is long, and the press will play it down, 
ignore it, or make excuses, all while sending armies of angry 
reporters chasing after even the slightest perceived GOP 
wrongdoing.

Clinton is like Nietzsche's "Ubermensch," except in Nietzsche's 
version, the Ubermensch didn't whine about being above the law.

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