Can Hillary Clinton, notorious founder of the “birther” movement, win Utah?

Can Hillary Clinton, notorious founder of the “birther” movement, win Utah? September 21, 2016

 

Statue of Pinocchio somewhere
Pinocchio for President! Choose the Lesser of Three Liars!
(Wikimedia Commons)

 

CNN Politics:  “Clinton supporters look to drive wedge between Utah Mormons, Trump”

 

EconoTimes:  “Could Clinton Win Utah?”

 

In other news:

 

NPR:  “With Donald Trump’s Birther Spin, He’s Crossed A Line”

 

Quartz:  “‘He’s a racist and a liar’: Seth Meyers thoroughly dismantles Donald Trump and the ‘birther’ conspiracy”

 

The Washington Post:  “Donald Trump’s birther event is the greatest trick he’s ever pulled”

 

The New York Times:  “Trump Drops False ‘Birther’ Theory, but Floats a New One: Clinton Started It”

 

How will Mr. Donald J. Trump’s devoted followers respond to this latest 180-degree turn in the party line?  The always brilliant William Shakespeare foresaw how it would go down in Act 4, Scene 5, of his play The Taming of the Shrew.

 

An actor named Petruchio plays Mr. Trump.  Another actor, named Katharina, plays an ardent Trumpist.  And, finally, one Hortensio represents an employee of the Trump presidential campaign:

 

PETRUCHIO

Come on, i’ God’s name; once more toward our father’s.
Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!

KATHARINA

The moon! the sun: it is not moonlight now.

PETRUCHIO

I say it is the moon that shines so bright.

KATHARINA

I know it is the sun that shines so bright.

PETRUCHIO

Now, by my mother’s son, and that’s myself,
It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,
Or ere I journey to your father’s house.
Go on, and fetch our horses back again.
Evermore cross’d and cross’d; nothing but cross’d!

HORTENSIO

Say as he says, or we shall never go.

KATHARINA

Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
And be it moon, or sun, or what you please:
An if you please to call it a rush-candle,
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.

PETRUCHIO

I say it is the moon.

KATHARINA

I know it is the moon.

PETRUCHIO

Nay, then you lie: it is the blessed sun.

KATHARINA

Then, God be bless’d, it is the blessed sun:
But sun it is not, when you say it is not;
And the moon changes even as your mind.
What you will have it named, even that it is;
And so it shall be so for Katharina.

 


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