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The Failure of Bob Livingston and Newt Gingrich: Once you give up moral authority, you lose it forever

I’ve told the story of meeting Newt Gingrich before and how my wife completely insulted him as he reached out to greet her.  However, the context of current events merits revisitation because clarity has to be made as to why that event occurred in the first place.  We are seeing now why politics has changed, why people feel the way they do about Trump, and how the political left has lost forever a trust they abused recklessly.  And so did Republicans.  It goes back a few years for us, back in the 1990s.  My wife and I were young back then but every bit as involved in politics, and I was deeply involved in the antics of the Clinton administration. When he got in trouble for lying under oath over the Monica Lewinsky affair, we knew we had him dead to rights.  Even carrying around his little Bible wasn’t going to save him.  He was going to be removed from office and even possibly thrown in jail, and at that time, Bill Clinton deserved it.  It would have destroyed the Clinton global initiatives, which opened the door later for Barack Obama’s communism, and would have saved the nation a lot of headaches if only they had destroyed Bill Clinton when they had a chance.  Bob Dole was the head of the Senate, and Newt Gingrich was the Speaker of the House.  Things were poised well for Republicans.  Bill Clinton had done wrong with his affair with legal gymnastics that were not going to save him, and we knew the blood in the water meant the end of the Democrat Party.   But then the mistakes were made, and Slick Willy, as Clinton would be called, and the family name would stay with politics, bringing in an era of mob-style politics in the Democrat Party that has brought our nation to its knees now permeated the next two decades once these mistakes were made.  And those mistakes were and are unforgivable. 

The mistake is old, where outrageous evil thrown in front of Puritans locks them up to action, allowing the evil to grow even more, which is a Saul Alinsky tactic.  The mob and Larry Flynt challenging the Supreme Court on First Amendment rights perpetuated this evil, but it was that kind of time when Bill Clinton was caught in so much scandal for the sexual relationship that he lied about to all of us, under oath, which was the actual crime, had the media come to his defense much the way they had with Larry Flynt on the charges on smut peddling.   The media turned the whole story into a sexual one rather than a legal one, and the entire case moved from a crime to the behavior of two people, in the case of the Clintons, most of Washington D.C., behind closed doors.  That’s when the wheels came off the Republican case, starting with the tough guy Newt Gingrich and his second in command, Bob Livingston.  To defend Clinton, Larry Flynt put up a 1-million-dollar bounty on anybody who had slept with a Republican in Congress and that they would be exploited as hypocrites.  The media story about “it’s just about sex” began to swing the other way unbelievably, and my wife and I watched the Republican Party completely lose on the issue when they had all the moral and legal high ground needed to preserve justice.  It slipped right through their fingers because the head of Congress, Newt Gingrich, had been found out to have had an affair with one of his interns. At the same time, his wife was sick with cancer in the hospital, And his do-gooder second in command, Bob Livingston, had an affair with an intern too, and it was exposed, marking him and other Republicans as forever tarnished. Much of that brand damage still occurs today.  When people wonder why Trump, a guy who has been married three times, is leading the conservative movement, it started with soul searching during these critical years in the 1990s.  

Of course, Bill Clinton got off the hook, and the whole story became about hypocritical Republicans who couldn’t keep their pants on. That’s when the entire RINO movement started, and the party needed to be purged of them.  Newt left office in disgrace.  Bob Livingston had to resign, and he did so to inspire Clinton to do the same.  Of course, Democrats don’t feel guilty about anything.  So the reaction from Clinton was essentially, “I’m good; Hillary likes to watch me have sex.  So go suck on that.”  Hillary enjoyed her husband’s affairs; she controlled him with them the way people who like to have dirt on people love such information.  It was the closest Hillary ever became to being President when she could push her husband around every time he got caught with another woman.  She was herself a sexual deviant.  But she enjoyed the power such knowledge gave her over her husband and president.  So the whole thing came up flat and embarrassing because Republicans couldn’t live up to the lofty image they presented to the public when it counted most.  To this day, it’s much worse, and most people can’t have an opinion on morality because they are out there doing the same embarrassing stuff, and the FBI, CIA, and many members of the media know all about it.  So when it comes time to have an opinion, Republicans can’t express it because many times they are just as dirty as Democrats.

Fast forward about 20 years, and my wife and I talked to Newt Gingrich; I shook his hand and spoke to him a bit.  He’s a brilliant political commentator.  And I can talk to people politely and find something to like about them.  Find some valuable attributes to them that can be used politically.  My wife can’t.  If a person is not authentic, she wants nothing to do with them.  She was still mad at Newt Gingrich and Livingston, who had gone on to become a power lobbyist, indicating that he was a party guy in D.C., not a rock of morality, and my wife couldn’t forgive any of them for compromising the Republican Party.  To her point, we didn’t live that way; why couldn’t Republicans in elected office resist the temptations of the flesh and decadence to keep the party on the moral high ground?  Why give that up for anything?  Yet they did, and she refused to shake Newt’s hand when it was just the three of us at an event, making it very awkward for me.  But I understood my wife’s position, and ultimately she was right.  Many Republicans, even now, cannot speak on moral issues because they are committing violations of the flesh as much as anybody.  And God’s forgiveness isn’t enough to save our country.  That’s a lot of the reason we are in the position we are in now, and so much evil has been allowed to grow.  It’s not enough to have opinions about smaller government and taxes and have a pro-business platform.  You must be a good person to your family, community, and country.  And so many officeholders fall short.  And when they do, my wife and I have never forgiven them.  I have lower expectations of people than she does.  But that doesn’t make her wrong.  If only Livingston and Gingrich could have maintained lofty morality when the temptations of the flesh permeated their conduct, the world would be much better off now.  And we wouldn’t have to fight as hard as we do to undo those sins of the past.  Once you give up your moral authority, you can never get it back, and such authority is needed for running a government, which is missing now.

Rich Hoffman

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I Have Been Warning about Hillary Clinton Since the 90s: When people say, “you’d do it too,” they haven’t met my wife

Well, I’ve been saying it since the 90s. Then like now, I read every book that came out talking about the Clintons on their climbs up power, the land deals, the body bags, the stories of horror in the White House, and I warned about Hillary Clinton most of my adult life. Of course, people would say that it was too inconvenient to know the truth, that Bill and Hillary Clinton were no big deal. After all, it’s just sex, and it’s between them. If Bill Clinton wants to sleep around and Hillary wants to put up with it. Who are we to judge? If I had a dime for every time someone has told me that, I’d have all the money in the world. Well, now, finally, people are getting an idea of what I was always talking about. We have finally learned with specific confirmation coming out of the Durham Report that Hillary Clinton planted evidence on Trump both before and during his presidency, which of course, is against the law in many ways. Everything I have said here, and many others too, about Hillary Clinton, has been true, and it has taken this long for it all to catch up to her. And even that, the release of the information indeed came from the Biden administration, who see her as a threat now that she’s been poking her head up out of the ground recently, as she smells blood in the water for the Biden administration. She has been out there talking, feeling the temperature of things, and the Biden administration provided this little leak from the DOJ to get her off Biden’s heels. This report should have come out years ago, but like everything else, it’s political. Everyone knows about it, but nobody will admit to it in the light of day until there is some political motivation to get the information out. The same will be true, as I have said from the beginning, about the election fraud of 2020. The truth will come out when it’s politically to the advantage of those most guilty. Until then, there will be a cover-up literally until the day they die.

I had worked on the Ross Perot campaign back in the 90s, and I supported Bob Dole in an active way when he was running for president, even though I was in my 20s at the time. I’ve been warning about this stuff and fighting this kind of thing that Hillary is guilty of my entire adult life. And I said back then, as I continue to say, a lot of the reason we have such a messed up political system now is that we did not crack down on these bad people back when we first knew they were dirty. My wife and I have lived our lives in such a way that we’ve had lots and lots of opportunities to join some of these characters in a life of corruption. We’ve met lots of celebrities and had opportunities for many millions of dollars in our bank account just to get in the mud and not be a threat to those who craved power so they could become rich off it. A few weeks ago, I had just such an opportunity, which was a higher offer than average. Still, it was essentially a seven-figure deal to effectively go away, to stop writing the blog, to just disappear into the background, and to stop talking. I can think of dozens and dozens of similar offers over my thirty years, and for people who think I’m a ridiculously shiny penny, they haven’t met my wife. She is far, far, worse than I am. This story about Hillary and her husband Bill and many others who have enriched themselves in politics ultimately points out a contrast that I have heard all this time, “well, who could blame them? You’d do it too.” Well, “NO,” we all wouldn’t. Some people don’t and won’t, and my wife and I are certainly a couple who haven’t. It’s not that there weren’t opportunities. But when we see and hear stories about people like the Clintons, we get outraged because we see them as scum bag criminals who sold out and lived their entire lives as sellouts. And we feel the same way about anybody who sells themselves short of using politics to enrich themselves at the expense of law and order. 

Recently my wife and I were at a VIP thing, and Newt Gingrich was there. It was a private setting, and there weren’t many people around. Usually, all the participants are slick at these things; they know how to play chess and have many layers of personality where their true feelings can be hard to understand. My wife is not one of those people; she is one way, all the time. She is as pure and ideological as Snow White, and it’s not fake. She’s like that 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for many, many decades now. She is the least corruptible person I have ever met, and she’s too far into it to change now. At one point, it was just Newt and I talking a bit, and I asked my wife to step over and to introduce her to the former Speaker of the House. Newt is one of those celebrity politicians known worldwide, so most people would be a bit in awe upon meeting such a person in such a personal setting, shake their hand, and have private time with them. Well, she refused to come over. Here she was just two or three feet from Gingrich, but she wouldn’t acknowledge him. He reached out his hand to shake hers, but she wouldn’t budge, which left me in an awkward position. She looked at me, not him, and said, he sold us out by not prosecuting the Clintons when he had a chance, and look what they’ve done to this country. And she walked off. That left me there to explain to Newt Gingrich that she was a purest in every form of the word, and she has not gotten over the events of the 90s. He was good about it and simply said that history is always 20/20. In many ways, she was right, Newt did have a chance with Bob Dole to crack down on the Clinton crime family, and the failure to do it then made it far worse in the future. And of course, we see that impact now, and even now, only when it’s politically convenient.

The point is, not everyone sells out to the money and the fame. Many of the characters I’ll be talking about this year as we pave the way for the next Trump run for the presidency deserve what they have coming. I have been holding back as I gather up my thoughts, but I’ll just say this. I’m not going to sit at the breakfast table with that woman and listen to her go on and on for hours about corruption that could have been fixed twenty or thirty years from now, that went on during the government removal of Trump from the White House. Those most guilty in what they did need to pay, just as the Clintons should have paid with jail time in the 90s for what they did. Because we let them stick around all this time without justice, we get what we have now, a terribly corrupt political system that is in significant need of a massive overhaul.   Personally, I do look down my nose at people who will do anything for fame and do so at any price. I haven’t lived my life that way, so when Hillary, Bill, or the Bidens make decisions that sell out our country, our Constitution just for some easy cash and hide their crimes along the way for the cover-up, I have no sympathy. Zero. But it is nice to point to something and say, “see,” you should have listened. I’m not surprised by what the Durham Report is saying with factual evidence about Hillary Clinton now. People are shocked, but I’m not. However, I am more interested in everything they haven’t told us about yet. Because in my experience, there is a lot, more than people are ready to deal with. But despite all the efforts of these political criminals, that information is getting out anyway, and it is better to act sooner rather than later.

Rich Hoffman

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If You Vote for Hillary Clinton, You’re Stupid: Listen to the best news coverage anywhere of a very important 2016 week

image1 (3)I watched a lot of news over the last week, mostly by choice.  To me we are at war and I want to know the intelligence of the battlefield movements.  This war we are fighting so far hasn’t turned to guns too much, but it is along ideological elements.  It hasn’t turned grossly violent yet.  It was a big news week around the 4th of July of 2016 and my life has been busy.  I am grateful to the very nice people—and they know who they are—who gave my wife a chance to meet Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich this past week.  She isn’t the type of person who gets glowy eyes for celebrity.  If a star musician stepped up next to her at a shopping mall, she wouldn’t even blink in excitement, but when Trump told her that she was “beautiful,” it made her year (I caught the picture a little late as Donald was moving away from my wife heading to the next person)—so thank you to the people responsible for putting us in that unique position.  I’d also like to thank Linda Hughes at 1600 WAAM radio for all the times she has allowed Matt Clark to have me on during his monumental Saturday afternoon broadcasts.  The broadcast we did on 7-9-2016 I think beat any hour-long news broadcast in the entire country during the entire previous week—and that includes Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and all the big radio guys.  Not even Bill O’Reilly nailed down the Hillary Clinton email scandal or the Dallas domestic terrorist issue better than Matt and I did in the following broadcast.  I would recommend that you listen to it dear reader and pass this along to a friend.  Its information critical to the failures of our times by the political left and addresses the necessary steps it will take to correct our path in America for the future.

https://soundcloud.com/clarkcast/fbi-proved-clinton-lied-racial-tension-further-divides-us-7-9-16-podcast

Because of those frequent broadcasts on WAAM I have a radio studio set up at my house, which I am showing for the first time in pictures taken on July 9th.  For me it is Mt. Olympus, a place of divine philosophy that can reach the far edges of the globe—so I put a little effort into what gets said at that table.  I’ve been to quite a few radio studios over the years, and the one at my house is by far the best—for me.  Everything is clearer from my seat at that table in front of that particular microphone.image1 (2)

As I said on the air, I was watching Barack Obama further embarrass America while giving a speech from Warsaw, Poland.  I had the sound turned down so it wouldn’t get picked up on our WAAM broadcast, but I could read the captions, and the President’s body language.  Obama had his right shoulder pointed toward the audience most of the time with his head cocked slightly to the right in a way that gave away a lot of guilt he was obviously concealing.  That stance is reminiscent of many statues of important people and is a learned behavior that a guilty person falls back on while trying to sell something to others that the perpetrator themselves are trying to buy into.  Essentially, Obama was trying to get himself to buy into what he was selling to the world as he spoke.  He proposed that local police were insufficient, that they needed to be federalized—he proposed gun control measures—and he failed to identify the role he played in the creation of domestic terrorism between the races—which obviously climaxed in Dallas, Texas.image2

What was hilarious if the situation were even funny, was that Obama and his political left proposed more gun control and more federal control when the story they were happy to conceal—which was that Hillary Clinton is in big trouble because she perjured herself in front of congress—revealed during the FBI testimony—and that the government at all levels had proven itself to be completely incompetent.  The political left has their fingerprints all over these issues because they have not allowed Republicans to be a part of the decision-making process.  The only role Republicans have played in all these issues is that they have went along with many of the proposals so not to be called silly names like “racists,” “Nazis,” or “angry white guys.”  Fear of the name calling has forced Republicans to cave on almost every issue the political left has proposed and this is what we get as a government—a mess with various factions in open war with one another and a former Secretary of State who can’t tell the truth about the position of the sun in the sky.  She seems to be willing to lie about anything—and she clearly can’t be trusted even at a minor level of security—yet she’s running for the most secure position in the entire world.image2 (1)

Matt and I gave what turned out to be one of the most balanced broadcasts in media and I’d attribute it to a couple of things.  Neither Matt nor I make our living off his radio show—so we do it out of passion—purely.  We are doing it because we want to and Linda doesn’t really put pressure on the ratings for that afternoon timeslot—not in the way that larger outlets might be concerned with.  That frees up our minds a lot to be as straight as the truth allows—which we fully utilized.  The second is that I get the opportunity to do things like shake hands with Donald Trump and others—so I can know them on a more personable level which gives me an objectivity that other outlets don’t have.  Like my wife, I am not enamored by celebrity.  Debbie Boehner was standing right next to me the other day, as was Newt Gingrich and the head of the Butler County Republican Party, and to me we are all just people doing our best to do what’s right.  That allows me to listen to them without the tapestry of celebrity which puts what they say in a different realm of communication.  It allows me to then report to a radio audience information in a unique way—where Linda gives Matt a lot of freedom to report on her airwaves and I have life experiences that color the discussion with large doses of reality that is hard to come by.  When those two things come together some good work is done and I am particularly proud of our broadcast on July 9th.  In the long history of me doing radio broadcasts over the years, that show will go down as one of my favorites.image3

I propose working through problems with the First Amendment before resorting to the 2nd.  That kid in Dallas let the hate of race baiters heckle him into action against white police officers and he was wrong.  The media were wrong for stoking the flames which caused that kid to act and Obama set the table for everyone way back when he declared that Trayvon Martin could have been his son.  To hide his guilt in feeding the frenzy that is causing all the racial anxiety, Barack Obama suggested more gun control and insisted that the answer was in more federal control of people’s lives.  Yet just days prior, Hillary Clinton–who is running for president of the United States, was revealed to be grossly incompetent in her handling of her email situation—which was revealed as a result of the Benghazi hearings of a few years before.  During the FBI revelation of their findings it was discovered that Clinton had perjured herself during those same Benghazi hearings—so the revelation was that Hillary was not only stupid, but she was in fact a criminal who will be certainly facing jail time because of that crime alone—not to mention all the crimes she has not been caught yet with.   And those are the facts which Matt and I weaved into a simple hour-long broadcast.  I dare anybody in media anywhere to do better.  I bet they can’t.image4

Now, about some of the Trump rally pictures above, which were taken during the Cincinnati rally on July 6th.  At the end Newt came up to my wife specifically, it was just the two of them alone for a moment, and she shook his hand politely but quickly turned away from him leaving it to me to do a little clean up.  We watch Gingrich almost every night on Fox News so he certainly has celebrity appeal, and most people would be proud to have their picture standing next to such a person.  Well, my wife and I don’t do that.  In truth, my wife isn’t sold on Gingrich as she does not like the way he has handled his personal life on a few occasions.  She felt the same way about Donald Trump for a long time.  If not for the quality of Melania Trump and Trump’s daughter Ivanka, my wife would not be on the Trump train.  So she needs some time to get used to Newt Gingrich being with Donald Trump.  She almost turned down a V.I.P. invite just because she didn’t want to see Newt Gingrich or our local celebrity Sheriff Jones in person.  (She feels Jones doesn’t do enough to rid Butler County of drugs which is her issue with him).  Newt obviously felt strange when my wife shook his hand then turned away quickly leaving him standing there all by himself.  I was laughing because I knew what she was thinking and I also knew how Newt took it so I snapped a quick picture which is the closest thing to posing with a celebrity that you’ll get from my wife—or I for that matter.   I quickly stepped up to Newt and shook his hand to take away the awkwardness and get him back on track—because for him it was tough to work a V.I.P. line and have the first person you stepped up to reject you with a cold fish handshake.  I think that perspective is one of the reasons that Matt and I do so well together.  We can’t do it all the time, because we are both very busy people professionally.  But we do it often enough to make a difference.  And the audience of his radio broadcasts is the direct benefactor.  So use them accordingly and with a nod of appreciation.  They are truly unique broadcasts.

Rich Hoffman

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