Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* NBC’s Today show just ran a lengthy interview of Machado, leading with a clip of Clinton at the debate, “Donald, she has a name. Her name is Alicia Machado. And she has become a US citizen and you can bet she is going to vote this November.” The sympathetic segment included the most heart-rending parts of Clinton’s TV ad featuring the former beauty queen’s abuse at the hands of the monster.

I guess NBC’s newshounds don’t watch CNN. No mention of the getaway car, the threats to the judge, the engagement-wrecking sex tape, or serving as baby mama for the cocaine cartel kingpin.

When it comes to new U.S. citizens, I’m not certain that Venezuela is sending us their best.

There’s a rumor that Today has scored a major coup in the Morning News Show ratings wars. They’ve recruited Haven Monahan as the newest Senior National Correspondent.

* Great coincidences in campaign reporting: The Guardian & Cosmo sent reporters just before debate to profile Machado, then pubbed today.

* Too bad we didn’t have a fence to keep out this useless eater Venezuelan beauty queen.
USA- not just Mexico and Guatemala’s dumping ground anymore!
Now we are the dumping ground for all of Latin America, for all the flotsam and jetsam washing up from Venezuela and everywhere south of the United States of America.

* “He can say whatever he wants to say. I don’t care. You know, I have my past, of course everybody has a past. And I’m no saint girl. But that is not the point now … (Trump) was really rude with me, he tried to destroy my self esteem. And now I’m a voice in the Latin community.”

Ah yes; the unspoken paradigm of our age – “yeah, okay, so I murdered a few muhfugguhs….so? Murder just a evvyday thing that happen, nome sane? ….but racism! That shit is juss sick and wrong!”

* This story about Alicia Machado is backfiring on Hillary and the MSM so badly it makes the birtherism affair look like a political masterstroke by comparison.

* We all have a past. I’ve been a getaway driver for assassins and threatened to kill judges many times – who hasn’t? Now can we get back to Donald Trump and his fat shaming. Fat shaming is the most important issue facing America today.

* This morning on Fox News, the announcer said an upcoming segment was going to examine whether Trump’s comments about Alicia Machado were blown up out of proportion.

If Ms. Machado put on 60 pounds, as CNN reported, I’d say she blew herself up out of proportion.

* The focus should be on how does someone of such obviously low moral character become a U.S. citizen in the first place? What skills is she bringing to our country and how are we better off that she is living here?

* There seems to be another complication brewing, which is that there are numerous hardcore porn videos featuring an “Alicia Machado”, who is billed as a former Miss Venezuela or somesuch. Not gonna link (for obvious reasons), and I didn’t watch them, but the lady in the stills bears a striking resemblance.

* These Alicia Machado stories are hysterically funny; it’s amazing that Hillary would use this individual to promote her campaign. Who came up with this idea, anyway? Bill?

I would say that Machado fulfills everyone’s expectations about trashy Latinas, and I think it’s only fair to draw attention to her past activities. Also, she’s very good looking in her various stages of undress. I also think it’s fair to mention — but not to link — the references to a sex tape.

In a way, it’s not fair to discuss someone’s personal life; ad hominem, and so on. But Hillary, and apparently with the cooperation of Ms Machado, chose to select her as a paragon of what the US is and should be. Therefore it’s not only fair to discuss the public career of that paragon, it is necessary.

I didn’t watch the debate because when I heard Hillary’s voice (my wife is big on HRC) I told my spouse I had to run the extra car to keep the battery up so I just drove around for half an hour.
I can’t imagine listening to HRC’s voice for the next four to eight years.

However, the point is that therefore I first heard about Alicia and Donald’s infamous fat shaming while scrolling my twitter feed the next morning. So naturally this appeared to be a gaffe on Donald’s part. It was an appeal — perhaps we might say a naked appeal — for the woman vote, since every woman feels that she is fat, and fat shaming is a political issue. But just as every woman feels that she should lose a few pounds, every woman is going to be envious of a woman of Alicia’s appearance, and moreover, the vast majority of woman are not going to approve of a woman who has made a career out of showing off her body. And that is why this further discussion is necessary.

As a guy, despite the obvious pleasant scenery, I couldn’t care less. However, the publicizing of the career of Ms Machado in the wake of the debate has I believe completely neutralized the “Sisters Unite!” nature of Hillary’s debate night appeal. And that’s worthwhile.

* I almost wish Trump would have said, “I’ve called men a lot worse things, Sweetie.”

And then maybe go on to point out that 99% of the soldiers killed in the damn Iraq war she voted for have been what her most ardent followers like to refer to as “males.” So don’t compare my decision to tweak an irresponsible beauty contest winner 20 years ago to the seriously damaging decisions you have made in your years of “public service.”

* Speaking of loaded language. Here’s the opening of the Editorial Steve linked to in a different entry:

“… When Mrs. Clinton finally got to unload what felt like the pent-up frustration of Everywoman, it was powerful.”

Powerful!

And it was “pent up,” because God knows she’s never had an opportunity express this grievance earlier.

* It seems that Ms. Machado has a problem with la verdad. Megyn Kelly on Fox last night asked her about a contradiction about when she got her “eating disorder.” In 1997 Machado told WaPo she was already barfing up her arepas in preparation for the pageant.

Machado stays on the “Trump bad” message:

“I’m heeere because I know dis person and he nada good person. Dad is de poyn.”

* Can you even be a Miss Universe contestant and be a feminist?

* Trump could not have designed a more perfect case in point, for what Democrats do with immigration, than this woman. Hillary finds a repugnant alien from a Socialist hellhole, who obviously does not have the qualities we look for in a citizen, but who is ready to bring her Socialist country’s narcissistic sense of personal entitlement to all the riches of our country; said alien then proceeds to shill for the treasonous political elites who hooked her up with access to native whites’ social and financial capital, promising to vote against the idea that America and its people should come first; when we are not sufficiently obsequious in this process, they have the temerity to spit in our faces and call us racists.

This is obviously illustrative of our immigration problem in its entirety: we should thank Hillary for making our point for us, and publicize the fact everywhere. I think Trump could be almost as angry and hostile to Hillary as he wanted on this topic in the next debate, with excellent results. I keep hearing people say that Hillary is actually quite smart and has been seasoned by years of political manoeuvering, and that Trump should beware her political acumen. That sounds like it should be true, but I keep concluding that, in fact, she and the rest of the Left have simply never faced real opposition. If one is willing to strike back, they have left themselves open to any number of devastating attacks.

* I think its the duty of men on the alt-right, or just plain old responsible white guys of republican virtue, to stop coddling political nonsense in their women.

Lay it out: “This is a war against white people, against Western civilization–against everything i inherited from my ancestors and hope to pass down to our civilization. If you vote against our civilization you’re voting against me and our children’s future. It is not acceptable and i’m not going to tolerate it. It’s a bright line for me.”

I’ll leave the question of a spanking and what follows it to you. But it’s long past time that white men stopped tolerating adolescent political stupidity in their women.

* What would be unforgivable to me as an employer is the lack of background vetting. Hasn’t HRC’s staff ever heard of Google? Anybody who can use a browser could have found out in half an hour what a nutcase adventuress (love that word) this babe is, but no doubt HRC’s staff think they are so much smarter than everyone else.

* Someone uploaded this 1997 CNN video featuring Trump and Machado. I don’t know if someone else has posted it on another thread. I apologize if they did. But if you haven’t seen it, watch it. Trump is amazingly nice to this woman. And she seems very cheerful and friendly to Trump. Anyone watching this will come away thinking Trump is a good guy.

* Machado may be easy on the eyes, but she is fundamentally the Venezuelan version of white trash. She loves to eat fattening junk food, her taste in men runs toward men who are browner than she is and who are known to the police, and she is a baby momma. America has plenty of its own native white trash women and their illegitimate offspring and really doesn’t need to import any more.

* Having checked out her, er, body of work in the last few minutes I can say she definitely has skills. But nothing a willing American lady couldn’t replicate.

Trump opposed NAFTA 23 years ago. pic.twitter.com/FDFudC5dUD

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) September 28, 2016

Accused accomplice to murder who threatened to kill a judge is Hillary most cunning move! Wow, just wow.

Washington Post: It might be Hillary Clinton’s most cunning move since the start of the general election. The Democratic nominee set a trap for Donald Trump in the final minutes of the first debate, and he walked right into it.

The GOP nominee’s decision to take the bait and rehash his past attacks of a former Miss Universe for gaining too much weight is now dominating the conversation. And the controversy is helping the Clinton campaign galvanize Latinos and prevent undecided women from moving toward Trump.

Even as Trump proclaimed victory in New York, he allowed during a Fox News interview yesterday that he let himself get a little too irritated “at the end, maybe” when Clinton brought up Alicia Machado. Machado alleges that Trump called her names such as “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping” when she gained weight after winning the Miss Universe crown in 1996.

I guess the Hillary campaign controls Wikipedia. The tech giants are united against Trump. They will do everything they can to rig this election.

Here is Alicia Machado’s current Wikipedia page:

Yoseph Alicia Machado Fajardo (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈlisja maˈtʃaðo]; who was born December 6, 1976, in Maracay) is a Venezuelan-born American actress, TV host, singer and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 1996. She was the fourth woman from Venezuela to be named Miss Universe.

Machado won the 1995 Miss Venezuela pageant entering Yaracuy and then the Miss Universe 1996 crown in Las Vegas. The runner-up, Jacqueline Aguilera, also won the Miss World 1995 crown, marking the second time that two Venezuelans from the same pageant won two world titles. Machado’s reign came as American businessman Donald Trump took ownership of the Miss Universe pageant.

During her reign as Miss Universe, Machado made headlines when it was reported that she gained too much weight and the Miss Universe Organization was considering replacing her with her runner-up, Taryn Mansell of Aruba. After winning the Miss Universe title in 1996, Machado announced that all she wanted to do was “eat, eat and eat”.[1] Machado retained her title. Trump called her “an eating machine”, generating controversy.[2] In 1998, she made her debut on the popular Venezuelan soap opera Samantha in the titular role. She won the Midia Award in Spain and the Ace award in New York City, as the new Actress of the Year. Following the success of Samantha she was called to star in Infierno en el Paraiso, another successful soap opera. In 1999 she released her debut album Alicia En El Pais De Las Maravillas. A second album was released in November 2007.[citation needed]

In 2001, she had a small role on the international soap opera Secreto de Amor. During 2004–2005, she pursued a career as a TV commercial model with particular success in promoting a dieting product. In 2005, Machado appeared on a Spanish reality show called La Granja de los famosos (“The Farm”). On February 19, 2006, Machado debuted on a Mexican reality show named Cantando Por Un Sueño (“Singing For A Dream”), a program in the line of the previous Bailando Por Un Sueño (“Dancing For A Dream”), in which the winner has the chance for a dream to come true. The show is very similar to Dancing with the Stars (U.S.) and ¡Más que baile! (formerly titled ¡Mira Quién Baila!) (“Look Who’s Dancing!”) (Spain).[citation needed]

Machado appeared in (and on the cover of) the February 2006 issue of Playboy magazine’s Mexican edition, becoming the only Miss Universe to pose nude for Playboy.[3] On September 9, 2012, she was one of ten competitors on the third season of Mira Quien Baila. On November 18, 2012, Alicia won 3rd place in the 3rd season of Univision’s dance competition Mira Quien Baila. In 2013, Machado stars as the protagonist of La Madame, a television serial produced by RTI Productions and RCN TV in Colombia. In February 2014, she joined Univision’s beauty pageant Nuestra Belleza Latina 2014 as a mentor where she coach the participants on how to succeed in the modeling and television industry.

Relationships
Machado once dated professional baseball player Bobby Abreu; the couple later split, calling off their engagement.[4][5]

Political views
On November 24, 2010, BBC Mundo confirmed that Machado had to close her Twitter account after writing a tweet that called for “peace between the Chinas”, referring to North and South Korea.[6] Her gaffe unleashed a rush of insulting posts, prompting her to go offline. “I now have a lot of psychopaths on the account and it’s best I start another one, kisses,” she signed off, according to Venezuelan media.[7]

Since June 2016 she has been publicly campaigning for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.[8][9]

In May 2016, Machado became a U.S. citizen.[10] She has spoken out many times against Donald Trump, who, during her year as Miss Universe, she claims called her “Miss Piggy” because she gained weight and “Miss Housekeeping” because of her Hispanic background.[2] Trump said: “She was impossible” and that “[s]he was the winner and you know, she gained a massive amount of weight and it was a real problem. We had a real problem. Not only that, her attitude, and we had a real problem with her.”[11]

Fox News reports:

Miss Universe Alicia Machado accused of threatening to kill judge in late ’90s

It turns out 1996 Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado, cited by Hillary Clinton in the first presidential debate as an example of Donald Trump’s mistreatment of women, has a complicated past.

Shortly after she won her crown in the late ’90s, a judge in Venezuela accused Machado of threatening to kill him after he indicted her then-boyfriend for attempted murder.

Machado threatened “to ruin my career as a judge and … kill me,” Judge Maximiliano Fuenmayor said at the time.

Her boyfriend, Juan Rafael Rodriguez Regetti, was accused of shooting and wounding his sister’s husband, who he blamed for his sister’s suicide.

Rodriguez was accused of shooting and wounding Francisco Antonio Sbert Mousko outside a church in Caracas where his wife — Rodriguez’s sister — was being eulogized.

Sbert reportedly suffered brain damage from the attack.

The victim’s family accused Machado of driving her boyfriend’s getaway car, but she denied any involvement and apparently was never indicted, due to lack of evidence.

Now a U.S. citizen, Machado told reporters Tuesday in a conference call arranged by Hillary Clinton’s campaign that her experience with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump could “open eyes” in the election.

After the debate, Machado tweeted her thanks to Clinton, writing in Spanish: “Thanks Mrs. Hillary Clinton. Your respect for women and our differences makes you great. I’m with you.”

In June, Machado appeared at a news conference in Virginia held by immigrant advocacy groups to encourage Latino voters to support Clinton.

Machado says that when she gained weight after being crowned Miss Universe for 1996, Trump, who ran the pageant, labeled her “Miss Piggy.”

Asked about the exchange during an interview Tuesday with “Fox & Friends,” Trump said Machado was “the worst we ever had,” adding: “She gained a massive amount of weight. It was a real problem.”

After the debate, Clinton’s campaign quickly released a web video detailing Machado’s story, portraying her as a mortified pageant winner whom Trump called “fat” or “ugly” and who was blindsided by reporters Trump invited to watch her work out.

Daily Mail:

Sex on a reality TV show, a Playboy photo shoot, a threat to kill a judge and claims that a drug lord fathered her baby: Behind the Hillary Clinton campaigner ‘fat-shamed’ by Trump
Alicia Machado’s life has been turned upside down after Hillary Clinton used her to show Donald Trump’s sexism for ‘fat-shaming’ her in 1996
News reports in Spanish indicate that she fathered a child with a notorious Mexican drug kingpin, something she denies
The witness who testified about that relationship was killed by a hitman
Venezuelan judge accused her of threatening to kill him for charging her boyfriend with attempted murder in a case where she drove getaway car
Machado wouldn’t deny that on CNN Tuesday night: ‘I’m not a saint girl. … that happened 20 years ago’
She also appeared in a 2005 Spanish reality TV show, having sex with a fellow contestant on-camera while moaning: ‘What a tasty d***’ – while she was enggaed to Major League Baseball player Bobby Abreu
Shuttered her Twitter account in 2010 after wishing for ‘peace between the Chinas’ – mistaking China for North and South Korea

Less than 48 hours after she became a household name as Hillary Clinton’s newest high-profile backer, former Miss Universe Alicia Machado’s life has begun to unravel into a tangle of sex and violence that could give Clintonworld second thoughts about putting her under the spotlight.
Machado added an extended 15 minutes to her fame by claiming Donald Trump ridiculed her in 1996 – calling her ‘Miss Piggy’ and an ‘eating machine’ – after he bought the Miss Universe franchise and she added more than 40 pounds to her beauty queen frame as the title-holder.
But focus has snapped back to Machado’s own past, including a 2006 Mexican Playboy photo shoot that made her the only Miss Universe winner to pose in the buff, and a stint on a Spanish reality TV show where she was shown having sex on camera – while engaged to a Major League Baseball player.
More troubling is the story emerging about the paternity of Machado’s daughter Dinorah, born in 2008.
Univision reported in 2010 that Gerardo Álvarez-Vázquez, a drug kingpin linked to the infamous Sinaloa cartel, fathered the child.
And the police informant who first testified about the pair’s relationship was executed gangland-style in a Mexico City cafe months later in broad daylight.
Álvarez-Vázquez, nicknamed ‘El Indio’ or ‘El Chayán,’ was arrested in April of that year and charged with running the Beltrán-Leyva narco-trafficking cartel, a Sinaloa affiliate.
The U.S. government at the time considered him a fugitive, and offered a $2 million reward for his capture.
He was ‘responsible for facilitating communications between [cartel] hierarchy and Central and South American sources of supply for cocaine,’ the State Department writes.
‘Álvarez-Vázquez was also believed to be responsible for overseeing the … narcotics-related activities in multiple cities of Mexico and to be actively involved in major bulk crystal methamphetamine procurements. He coordinated the movement of illegal narcotics into the United States and overs[aw] the repatriation of narcotics-related proceeds.’
The Mexico City newspaper El Universal reported in 2010 that Vázquez had faced drug trafficking charges in California going back to 2007 – the year Machado became pregnant.
Reforma, another Mexico City newspaper, cited a police report on Vázquez’s arrest, reporting that he and four other drug lords attended Dinorah’s 2008 baptism.
They included cartel ‘chiefs’ Arturo and Héctor Beltrán, top lieutenant Edgar Valdés Villarreal and Colombian drug trafficker Harold Mauricio Ojeda.
Vázquez’s role in the drug cartel was to drum up business with other criminal gangs in Central and South America, Univision reported. He was also a reputed ‘sicario’ – a hitman.
The police shootout that resulted in his capture killed two other sicarios and resulted in the arrests of 18 more.
Machado issued a stinging denial – after Vázquez’s arrest – telling People in Spanish that she ‘did not have any relationship… with Mr. Jose Gerardo Alvarez Vazquez known by the nickname of “the Indian”.’
She said her daughter’s father was ‘a very respectable businessman’ named Rafael Hernandez Linares.’
But in the same statement Machado also claimed the story of drug lords attending her daughter’s christening could not be true because Dinorah had never been baptized – a highly unusual omission in 81-percent Catholic Mexico.

Machado had already drawn unwanted attention, and compromised Clinton’s deployment of her as a campaign surrogate, when DailyMail.com republished news reports from 1998 describing her alleged involvement in an attempted murder in her native Venezuela.
Venezuelan judge Maximiliano Fuenmayor in 1998 publicly accused her of threatening to kill him for charging her then-boyfriend Juan Rodriguez Reggeti with attempted murder in a case where she was accused of being the getaway driver.
Machado insisted she wasn’t present at the funeral where shots rang out, offering two separate alibis. At first she claimed she was acting on the set of a TV show at the time, and later she said she was home sick.
Tuesday night on CNN, anchor Anderson Cooper asked her about the episode.
‘The judge in the case also said you had threatened to kill him after he indicted your boyfriend for the attempted murder.’ Cooper said. ‘I just want to give you a chance to address these reports.’
‘He can say whatever he wants to say. I don’t care,’ Machado said, referring to Trump as she waved her hand in defiance.
‘You know, I have my past. Of course. Everybody has. Everybody has a past. And I’m not a saint girl. But that is not the point now.’
Machado in the same breath called the accusation ‘wrong’ and said it ‘happened’ decades earlier.
‘That moment in Venezuela was wrong, was another speculation about my life, because I’m a really famous person in my country, because I’m an actress there, and in Mexico too,’ she said.
‘And he can use whatever he wants to use. The point is, that happened 20 years ago.’
Machado herself returned from obscurity to fame on the strength of complaints about something Trump said to her more than 20 years ago.