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When former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared at the 2017 Code Conference, she drew heat for declining to directly answer Walt Mossbergs first question: Discounting outside forces that were very important, what misjudgment did you make that, thinking about it, was something that you wish youd done the opposite?

Onstage, Clinton pointed to the maddening way her private email server was used against her by former FBI director James Comey, the New York Times and political foes. On the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, New York Magazines Rebecca Traister who profiled Clinton during and after the 2016 campaign offered some theories for the evasive answer.

This is one of the first times in 25 years that Hillary Clinton has not had to be a professional politician, Traister said. There was a viral video that went around before the election of 25 years of Hillary being asked the same question, which was, Can you talk about the fact that youre hated? Why do people hate you so much?

This is not a defense, Im just putting it in context, Traister added. The degree to which Hillary Clintons willingness to say, I fucked up, Im sorry, and to self-flagellate has been an object of media fetishization for a quarter-century.

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Traister said Clinton wont readily say she made mistakes, because she knows how it would play into the 25-year narrative that, as CNNs David Gregory recently said, she hasnt taken real responsibility for the fact that she was not what the country wanted.

[Clinton is] acutely aware that this has been a fetish, and shes also acutely aware that shes been ill-treated by the press for decades, which is rooted in truth, Traister said. Whether you think she should be so defensive and aware of it is another question. I think this is a point where shes like, I dont have to do this anymore.

On the new podcast, Traister questioned whether it was right to treat Clinton and Donald Trump as equally worthy of media criticism, when one was far more experienced than the other. And she questioned the belief that Trump rose to be the leader of the Republican Party on his own.

Its not an accident that the Republican candidate to run after two terms of Barack Obama, against Hillary Clinton, is a man who ran a campaign rooted, in part, on open calls to racism, misogyny [and] xenophobia, Traister said. Donald Trump is not some quirk of nature, and people treat him that way, still Oh, she lost to Donald Trump. Anybody could have beaten Donald Trump! without acknowledging that America created Donald Trump.

Donald Trump was summoned to fight Hillary Clinton, and he did, effectively, because thats a big part of what America wants, she added.

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She may have been KO'd in her prize fight against The Donald, but Hillary Clinton is still in the ring.

Sort of.

Thanks to a professional wrestler known as "Progressive Liberal" who wears a T-shirt with photos of Hillary's face on it, the former secretary of state, senator and first lady -- or at least her image -- is drawing big-time attention in some of the nation's reddest of red states.

Meet Daniel Harnsberger, a Virginia real estate agent by day, who represents Appalachian Mountain Wrestling and goes by the stage name of Daniel Richards. The Progressive Liberal, a moniker printed on the back of his trunks, routinely taunts audiences in conservative states by denouncing country music and telling the crowd that they are uneducated and backward.

I understand now why you all identify with country music, he says to a crowd at an Appalachian event. Its slow and simple and its boring, just like each and every one of you.

The crowds appear to relish Richards bravado and effrontery because it lets them give as good as they get from him.

Im having a great time, Im enjoying it, says the wrestler-political activist-provocateur to Fox News. Theres an entertainment aspect to me about weaving political statements taking shots at conservatives into his wrestling performances.

Richards is quick to note that his schtick is no show he really believes what he says about Donald Trump, about Republicans favoring the rich, and about people in red states being backward.

I believe what I believe and no one is going to tell me any different, Richards says. The right-wing do not pay attention to details theyre not interested, or to listening to opinions different from their own.

But its not just the right, its also the left that turns a deaf ear to ideas and views that contradict theirs, he notes.

Thats the biggest problem in today in the country, he said of the polarization.

It all started a few years ago, when the coordinator of a wrestling event encouraged him to play the bad guy, and he decided to taunt the audience politically.

After Trumps candidacy in 2015, I had the opportunity to incorporate it. My message is this, Republican policies are not working for you guys, and yet they continue to vote red. Kentucky is a poor state.

Richards, who voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont lawmaker, in the Democratic primaries, and for Hillary Clinton in the general election, says hes up for his crowds' push-back.

You have to be unapologetic about who you are and what you believe in --dont be wishy washy, he said.

Republicans stick firmly to their beliefs, and he wishes Democrats would do the same.

Im venting peoples frustrations, Im an outlet for them, he said. People who lean left can relate to me, Im speaking the things theyd like to say.

Elizabeth Llorente is Senior Reporter for FoxNews.com, and can be reached at Elizabeth.Llorente@Foxnews.com. Follow her on Twitter @Liz_Llorente.

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Hillary Clinton's image, liberal taunts propel professional wrestler to red state infamy - Fox News

July 1 is an important date in American history.

And no, not because, barring a miracle, that date will mark the beginning of the third year Illinois has gone without a budget.

As if that grim anniversary were not bad enough, this July 1 history taps us on the shoulder and reminds us who we used to be.

Two hundred years ago Saturday, DeWitt Clinton was inaugurated as governor of New York.

Who was DeWitt Clinton?He was a politician who wanted to dig a canal across New York State. That way, Atlantic Ocean commerce could pass through the port of New York, move 150 miles down the Hudson River, meet the proposed canal at Albany, float west 350 miles, then enter Lake Erie at Buffalo.

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A project of this magnitude seemed to demand national effort. Clinton first tried to get the budding federal government to foot the bill. Thomas Jefferson dismissed the canal aslittle short of madness.

But just as states now are picking up balls dropped by our paralyzed federal government, so Clinton brought the battle home. He ran for governor vowing to build the canal if elected.

Clinton won, and was inaugurated on July 1, 1817. Construction of the canal began . . . wait for it . . . three days later, on July 4, just outside Rome, New York. The heart breaks.

The canal 40 feet wide, 4 feet deep and 363 miles long was dug by hand, with shovels and picks, with the occasional black powder explosion. It required 83 locks to surmount 675 feet of elevation, and aqueducts to cross streams. Before the canal, it cost $100 to move a ton of freight from New York City to Buffalo. After the canal opened in 1825, the same shipment cost $10 and got there in a third of the time. Tolls repaid the cost to dig the canal within a decade.

I dont want to suggest that our forebears didnt argue. They did. Historian Peter Bernstein describes the struggle to fund the canal in the New York legislature like this:

On more than one occasion, victory seemed within grasp only to be dashed by the resiliency of the opposition and the incredulity of the timid. In many ways, it was a lot easier for the engineers to improvise this stupendous technological achievement than it was for DeWitt Clinton and his allies to subdue their political opponents.

Yet he did it. We can develop the most advanced medical treatment, CAT scans and exotic drugs. But we cant muster the political will to pay for it. Weve moved so far beyond shovels and mules. Yet we cant pass a budget to keep those projects going. The current Illinois budget impasse will soon close 900 construction projects, worth $5 billion, throwing 25,000 workers out of work.

The Erie Canal didnt just supercharge the rise of New York City and shift power from the South to the North. It also is directly responsible for the explosive growth of a certain marshy nowhere on the banks of Lake Michigan, 500 miles west. Chicago owes its existence to the Erie Canal. Canal fever spread to Ohio, then Indiana. Illinois got the bug and platted the wilderness around Chicago, then sold the land to pay for a canal connecting the Chicago River to the Illinois River and eventually the Mississippi and points south.

History is still with us in more ways than you imagine. I didnt realize until I began my gentle float down canal history, but the Erie Canal is still in use. Mostly for pleasure boats, but the past decades have seen an uptick in barge traffic. Nor is it endangered the New York State constitution stipulates that the canal will be preserved under state management and control forever.

In Illinois, the word forever only evokes the feeling of how long this budget fight has been going on and how long it is likely to continue.

If you are thinking that Chicago really should honor DeWitt Clinton for showing the tenacity that directly led to the creation of our fair city, dont bother. Clinton Street is already named for him. Who did you think it honored?

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CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer went out of his way Thursday evening to air a Hillary Clinton campaign ad that compiled a series of quotes from and about Donald Trump to portray him as a sexual predator.

Blitzer tied the ad to a stream of insults President Trump directed at MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough Thursday morning. Trumps claim that he refused to hang out with Brzezinski shortly beforeNew Years Eve because she was bleeding badly from a face-lift earned especially sharp criticism in the media and on Capitol Hill.

Blitzer returned to the topic of Trumps tweets throughout the day, including while interviewing former Clinton campaign chair John Podesta about Trumps rhetoric.

Hes said all sorts of strange things tweeted all sorts of strange things as you well now there was that Access Hollywood video that came out right near the end. You guys put out an ad, a commercial going after him on all those statements, Blitzer said to Podesta. Let me play a bit of that.

The ad played for the next 25 seconds.

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That clearly was not enough for you guys to win, Blitzer noted, What happened?

Well look we said that he was temperamentally unfit and unqualified to be president and he spends each and every day of his presidency proving that we were right, Podesta asserted.

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CNN Brings Back Hillary Clinton Ad Portraying Trump As A Sexual Predator [VIDEO] - The Daily Caller

The left has come up with a seemingly endless number of excuses and conspiracy theories, in an attempt to justify in their minds, how Hillary Clinton was defeated in the 2016 presidential election.

But MSNBC contributor and senior counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group Wendy Sherman may have just come up with one of the more ridiculous excuses to date.

While discussing modern political technology at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, Sherman took the opportunity to weigh in with her absurd theory as to how Donald Trump achieved a historic victory at the polls last November. The former Deputy Secretary of State actually claimed that Hillary Clinton may have lost because Americans were not ready to elect the first woman president after electing the first black president.

And I hesitate to say, but I think its critical, looking out at our audience, looking out at most of us that there is no doubt that we just had eight years of an African American president is not a factor in all that we are experiencing today, Sherman commented.

When we make social change, when we make a decision to do something we have never done before, we then take two steps backward, at least. And I believe in my bonesthat it was pretty hard to elect a woman after we elected the first African-American president.

Yes, she actually said that.

Unable to cope with the fact that Donald Trump is President, some delusional folks on the left are still looking for any reason to explain what they believe to be inexplicable. And when all else fails, they just go with the standard racist or sexist excuse, even if it doesnt make any sense at all.

Sherman was somehow able to use anti-black racism as an excuse for why a white woman lost an election. You almost have to admire that.

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