So by now everyone has seen Donald Trump’s potty-mouthed remarks yesterday about Hillary Clinton, yes?
Actually, no – if you’re a Boston Herald reader.
The dainty local tabloid featured kids glove treatment in Kimberly Atkins’ column today.
As [sic] a campaign rally Monday night in Grand Rapids, Mich., Trump derided Clinton for her 2008 presidential primary loss to President Obama.
“She was going to beat Obama,” Trump said to the crowd. “I don’t know who’d be worse. I don’t know. How does it get worse? She was favored to win and she got (expletive). She lost. She lost.”
The piece described the expletive as “a vulgar Yiddish word.”
Crosstown, the Boston Globe let it fly in its Associated Press pick-up.
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump labeled Democrat Hillary Clinton ‘‘disgusting’’ for using the restroom during a commercial break at the last Democratic debate and used crude language to describe her primary loss to Barack Obama in 2008.
‘‘She was favored to win and she got schlonged, she lost,’’ he said on Monday night, using a slang word for penis.
Meshugge, eh?
As a special bonus, both pieces included this from Clinton: “We shouldn’t let anybody bully his way into the presidency. Because that is not who we are as Americans.’’ (Clinton is channeling Barack Obama there, whose use of that trope was smartly chronicled by the ever readable Andrew Ferguson in the Weekly Standard last year.)
Maybe it’s not who we are as Americans, but it’s certainly who Donald Trump is as a candidate.
To stick with Yiddish, a shmuck.
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