Hillary Clinton finally went ahead and pulled for the huge conspiracy nut and crazy-people vote heading into primary season for the 2016 election. During an editorial meeting with the Conway Daily Sun in New Hampshire, the Democratic hopeful assured curious parties that she was going to finally break open the seal on all of the secrets behind Area 51 and UFOs:
During the meeting, the former first lady, former senator from New York and secretary of state answered serious questions about foreign policy and the economy, and at the end, she chatted with this reporter, who had asked her about UFOs in 2007 while working for the Cabinet Press in Milford, New Hampshire. She recalled that 2007 exchange with a smile and seemed to have fun discussing the topic.
“Yes, I’m going to get to the bottom of it,” said Clinton with enthusiasm.
Back in 2007, Clinton had said that the No. 1 topic of freedom-of-information requests that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, received at his library was UFOs.
I do like that people are clogging up the whole FOIA chain seeking information about aliens. I can only imagine how many of those also include references to Bigfoot, Nessie, and Bruce Vilanch — he’s real and I can prove it.
Obviously the comments are meant to be taken with a grain of salt, possibly even as some sort of joke. It’s not the first time this joke has been rolled out by a Clinton, though. Not only did it pop up during the last election, but Bill Clinton brought it up during his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Plus he mentioned that he hoped it wasn’t like Independence Day, which I think it’s easy to say that the rest of America does too.
(Via Mother Jones / the Conway Daily Sun)