Hillary Clinton is out and about trying to sell her latest book, What Happened.  As I say, this is just the latest book from Hillary.  She was paid millions for the one she published after she left the White House in 2001.  I remember walking into a book store back then (remember bookstores?) which had stacks of her book on each side of the door and musing, “Gee, I didn’t know you could pile bullshit that high?”  Well, she now has her doctorate, because she’s managed to pile it even higher and deeper.  What Happened is Hillary’s explanation for why she lost the 2016 election.  Her explanation put me in mind of a line from the movie Presumed Innocent.  In it, Harrison Ford’s character says, “I am a prosecutor.  I have spent my life in the assignment of blame.”  Hillary never was a prosecutor, but she now seems to have dedicated her life to the assignment of blame.  Here is a short list of the people and things that Hillary has blamed for her election loss – so far:  The FBI, James Comey, The Russians, Vladimir Putin, Anti-American Forces, Low Information Voters, Everyone who assumed she’d win, Bad polling numbers, Obama, for winning two terms, People wanting change, Misogynists, Suburban women, The New York Times, Television executives, Cable news, Netflix, Democrats not making the right documentaries, Facebook, Twitter, Wikileaks, Fake news, Content farms in Macedonia, The Republican Party, The Democratic Party, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Jill Stein, and Bernie Sanders.  Let’s examine some of Hillary’s excuses.  For the sake of the reader, I will endeavor to translate Hillary’s dialect (Hillarese?) into plain English.  1) Russian interference through either a disinformation campaign via WikiLeaks or Trump-Russia collusion.  She’s also pointed blame at Russian President Vladimir Putin, “What Putin wanted to do was…influence our election, and he’s not exactly fond of strong women, so you add that together and that’s pretty much what it means.”  Translation – blame something on which there is no evidence, and which can never be proven or disproven.   And she’s complaining about Russian disinformation?  Plus, Putin feared Hillary?  Sure.  2) The DNC: “I’m now the nominee of the Democratic Party.  I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party.  It was bankrupt…I had to inject money into it – the DNC – to keep it going.” Translation – Obama ran the DNC into the ground by raising money for his own slush fund (OFA) instead of the DNC.  Plus, when a business has a product the public doesn’t want, it goes bankrupt.  No surprise.  3) Bernie Sanders: “His attacks caused lasting damage, making it harder to unify progressives in the general election.”  Translation – “I can’t stand up to any competition.”  4)  Wikileaks: “The Comey letter, aided to great measure by the Russian WikiLeaks, raised…doubts again.  And so even though I won the popular vote, enough people in a few states…were just raising all these questions.”  Translation- The truth leaked out, and voters noticed.  Also, the electoral college was to blame, which means, the Constitution was to blame.  The popular vote?  Here’s an inconvenient truth.  Hillary got 2,868,691 more votes than Trump.  But she got a plurality of 3,365,054 votes from New York City and Los Angeles alone.  So, by her own argument, maybe Hillary should be the Mayor of New York or the Alcalde of Los Angeles, but not President.  5) Political journalists: “[Journalists] helped elect Trump, providing him free airtime to giving my emails three times more coverage than all the issues affecting people’s lives combined.”  Translation – The truth leaked out, and the media favored Trump.  Really?  6) Campaign financing: “You had Citizens United come to its full fruition.  So unaccountable money flowing in against me, in a way that we hadn’t seen and then attached to this weaponized information war.”  Translation – The other side fought back.  That’s not fair.  In any case, Hillary spent twice as much as Trump.  7)  Her traditional campaign.  “I was running a traditional presidential campaign…while Trump was running a reality TV show that expertly and relentlessly stoked Americans’ anger and resentment.”  Translation – He had a message and was interesting, I had no message and was boring.  8) The debate questions helped Trump.  “I was waiting for the moment when one of the people asking the questions would have said, ‘Well, so, exactly how are you going to create more jobs?'”  Translation – The media favored Trump over me.  (Really?).     9) President Obama: “I do wonder sometimes about what would have happened if President Obama had made a televised address to the nation…warning that our democracy was under attack. Maybe more Americans would have woken up to the threat in time.”  Translation – Huh?  Obama should have warned us about who?  Putin or Trump?  10) Low-information voters: “You put yourself in the position of a low-information voter, and all of a sudden your Facebook feed, your Twitter account is [posting negative information about my campaign.]”  Translation – The truth got out.  When the voters get the facts, Democrats can’t win.  11) James Comey: “The determining factor was the intervention by Comey on October 28…but for that intervention, I would have won.”  Translation – “If Comey hadn’t reminded voters that I was corrupt, I might have pulled off this scam.”  12) Women under pressure from men: “They will be under tremendous pressure from fathers and husbands and boyfriends and male employers not to vote for ‘the girl.'”  Translation – Really?  Liberals never tire of lecturing us about stereotypes.  Hillary’s painting all men with a pretty broad brush here.  What an insult.  13)  TV coverage of the campaign: “When you have a presidential campaign and the total number of minutes on TV news…was 32 minutes, I don’t blame voters.  Voters are going to hear what they hear…and if they don’t get a broad base of information to make judgements on.”  Translation – The media favored Trump over me.  Whew!  14) Bad polling.  Translation – “The team I hired to do polling screwed up.  I hired them, but it’s their fault.”  15) Sexism and misogyny: “Sexism and misogyny played a role in the 2016 presidential election.  Exhibit A is that the flagrantly sexist candidate won.”  Translation – “Any voter who voted for a man instead of me is sexist and misogynistic.”  Hillary, the real reason for your loss is staring you in the face.  Just look in the mirror.