Hillary Called Herself a "Moderate," But Blames Sanders for Questioning If She's "Progressive"?

Wow.  I cannot believe how Hillary Clinton so grossly misled the press about the recent campaign "issue" regarding whether she is a "progressive" or not. 


The controversy of whether the "progressive" label should be applied to Clinton reached a new, higher level several days ago when MSNBC reporter Kasie Hunt asked Sanders a
question shortly after he arrived in New Hampshire to campaign before the NH Primary.  Hunt asked Sanders if  he thought Clinton was a "progressive."  Sanders replied, "Some days, yeah...except when she announces that she's a proud moderate.  And then I guess she's not a progressive." 


At that moment, surrounded by media and people, Sanders didn't explain the source of his reference to Clinton saying she was a moderate. (He did this later) Last September, at an event in Columbus, Ohio, Clinton said the following:


"You know, I get accused of being kind of moderate and center," she told the audience at a "Women for Hillary" event.  "I plead guilty"


The remark was viewed then by some as a response to the campaign of Sanders, who was running as more left-leaning than Clinton.  A September 10, 2015 article for CNN said that Clinton "argued at the Columbus event that being in the "center" is a positive, not a negative."
So, a few months ago, Clinton  called herself a "moderate."
Yet, Clinton, in response to Sanders' comment, said she thought it was "a low blow."
Think about it:  Clinton was saying it was a "low blow" for Sanders to refer to how she had
defined herself before an audience in Ohio in September.
That is the clearest definition of deceit.  Clinton was trying, in the most extreme fashion, to badly mislead voters -- create the most false, out-of-context impression possible about the issue in front of her.  Hillary, for the next few days and during the Feb. 4th debate with Sanders, started a whole new, false narrative about what had happened.  She said Sanders was trying to be a "gatekeeper" for what defined a "progressive" and by Sanders' standards, virtually no leading Democrats - from President Obama to the late Paul Wellstone - would be defined as a "progressive."
She made it sound like Sanders himself had initiated the entire discussion of how she labled herself. Hillary is the one who doesn't seem to know what she wants to call herself.  Additionally, her record has often resembled that of a "moderate" more than a liberal or progressive. 
For Hillary, the truth often doesn't matter.  All she seems to care about is her self-interest, which, right now, is warding off Sanders' challenge and winning the White House.
What is truly pathetic is that only a couple of reporters even referred to Clinton's September remark about herself being "a moderate."   And, when Clinton said that Sanders had engaged in "cherry-picking" by citing her remark in September, I didn't hear anyone in the press question or criticize her false characterization. No, in fact, Clinton, in September, appeared to be trying to develop her strategy for competing with Sanders.  She decided, quickly, that she'd try, instead, to compete with Sanders by calling herself a "progressive."
Sanders should have done much more to identify this "deceit" by Clinton.  He should have objected to it and noted how foolish and phony it was for Hillary to complain about something she had brought on  herself.  Sanders' campaign has not been nearly aggressive enough about pointing out to reporters and voters when Clinton is lying or misleading.
Of course, it's not an easy task because Clinton and her campaign have made more and more false or sleazy statements every day.