Donald Sutherland Thwacks Hillary Clinton in Web’s Least-Essential Political Commentary

Presidential politics is but a blip on our radar most days at Defamer HQ, but every now and then a ping so rattles us from our afternoon stupor that we can’t help but take notice. Today’s wake-up call comes from angry activist and sometime actor Donald Sutherland, who just joined the stirring realms of downmarket punditry at The Huffington Post:

It is incomprehensible to me that Mrs. Clinton can seriously be touting the notion, with the support of the punditocracy of CNN and Fox, that she is leading in the popular vote and should therefore be seriously considered as the most electable candidate in the November election. …

[W]hat about us? What about the American people? Haven’t we had enough of Mrs. Clinton’s mad antics in her pursuit of the realisation of venal personal ambition; her “say anything, do anything, no matter what” effort to manipulate our all too willing media to gull this country’s populace into believing that her wretched illegitimacy is indeed legitimate. How much mendacity do we have to suffer, how much brazenness do we have to swallow before someone, anyone, has the decency, the common sense, to relieve us of this terrible trifle, this pathetic madness?

Such vitriol — from a Canadian! Anyway, if you’re reading this, Kiefer, your Dad’s OK. You can pick him up at Arianna’s.

• Hillary’s Popular Vote Notion only ‘Popular’ with the Punditocracy [HuffPo]