Hollywood could not have found a worse person to appear than Hillary Clinton — even in a pretaped segment — at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, when one of the strongest messages from liberal elites was supposed to be about preventing sexual harassment and assault.
On Monday night’s Fox News show “The Ingraham Angle,” host Laura Ingraham, along with guest Monica Crowley of the London Center for Policy Research, did not hold back about Hollywood’s decision to include Clinton in the programming.
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“I found it amazing, but not at all surprising that they would highlight Clinton in this moment of sexual abuse,” Crowley said. “This is a woman who defended and protected a sexual predator for decades, a man also known as her husband.”
Although Ingraham and Crowley agreed Clinton had no place at the event, Michele Jawando, the vice president of the Center for American Progress, could not help but defend the former secretary of state from any and all criticism.
“If you look at what Hillary has done, not who she is married to, in the Senate and at the State Department, she has spent years working on behalf of women and girls in this country and around the world,” she said.
Ingraham pressed Jawando: “Does it bother you that she wouldn’t fire the guy who was sexually harassing someone else?” This, of course, was a reference to recent reports that Clinton would not dismiss a man working on her campaign who was accused of sexually harassing a female staffer.
“What did she do to Juanita Broaddrick, Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, and Kathleen Willey?” Crowley asked Jawando. “Mrs. Clinton was in the center of it trying to smear and discredit the women, [calling them] nuts and sluts and a narcissistic loony toon. That’s what Mrs. Clinton did for specific women.”
The “narcissistic loony toon” remark was a reference to Clinton’s comments several years ago about former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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Ingraham also made the point that the Grammy Awards’ choice of someone as unpopular and polarizing as Clinton to appear during its telecast was far from an ideal choice.
“She can do a lot of liberal things you like but not be the best person to come out for the #MeToo moment,” Ingraham said to Jawando. “If I were a liberal, I would be like, ‘OK, thanks, Hillary, for your service, but we’re moving on.'”
Tom Joyce is a freelance writer from the South Shore of Massachusetts. He covers sports, pop culture, and politics and has contributed to The Federalist, Newsday, ESPN, and other outlets.
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