The fluff magazine, People, and other Hillary Clinton media backers, are giving her credit for making an apology to Bo Copley, a West Virginia coal miner, who confronted her over her March remarks at an Ohio town hall about putting coal miners and coal companies out of business. Not so.
“I just want to know how you can say you’re going to put a lot of coal miners out of, out of jobs, and then come in here and tell us how you’re going to be our friend, because those people out there (protesters) don’t see you as a friend,” asked Copley.
Hillary faces coal miner Bo Copley, in black t-shirt, over her March remark about putting people like him out of business. (gawker.com)
Hearing her response, it was difficult to determine if she was trying to blame the media or the coal miner himself for not understanding what she really meant as she claimed first that it was a misstatement, then taken out of context.
“I don’t know how to explain it other than what I said was totally out of context from what I meant, claiming the whole episode was a “misstatement,” adding “because what I was saying is that the way things are going now, we will continue to lose jobs. I didn’t mean that we (Democrats) were going to do it, what I said was, that is going to happen unless we take action to try to and help and prevent it.”
Well, what are the coal miners supposed to think? Her boss, the president, has sought to kill the coal industry since his 2008 campaign when he said, “If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them.”
As if that wasn’t clear enough, Hillary said, “We’ve got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels.”
About that “apology” – “I do feel a little bit sad and sorry I gave folks the reason or the excuses to be so upset with me, because that is not what I intended at all,” she mused, while actually regretting that she was caught being candid about her true thoughts on coal.
“Oh, it’s a long, long while from May to November …” *
- With apologies to Maxwell Anderson, who wrote the lyrics to September Song.
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