Bill Shine’s Wife Defends Anti-Vaccine Conspiracies and Racist Rhetoric: Media Made Me Look Like ‘Crazed Lunatic’
The wife of White House communications chief Bill Shine appeared on a radio show today to double down on her anti-vaccination conspiracies and racially charged rhetoric.
Darla Shine suggested to host Robert Scott Bell that the “left” media ran a smear campaign to make her look like a “crazed lunatic.”
Darla Shine, whose inflammatory comments include her claiming “1 out of 10 black boys has autism,” demanding “young black boys do the right thing,” and mocking African countries via a racist meme, issued a blanket defense of her opinions and did not apologize:
“I had my radio show from 2006 to 2010, after I wrote my book… So after I had this radio show on a hundred station, Don was with me, there wasn’t one complaint. Everyone loved the show, everyone loved me… I mixed it with some humor, because you can’t always be serious, and my style is to be a political satirist. And I’m laughing because they’re digging into shows from 2007, you know podcasts, where I was joking around — I did a whole podcast, a three hour podcast, and I was talking about how women are hormonal, so these girls who work for me we were all fighting in the office, and joking about the time of month. And this is all funny stuff, right? And then I was also talking about women have to be careful going into politics because we’re hormonal. I’m voting for Hillary Clinton. I have to walk away from this insanity, Robert. I cannot believe that the left has gone out of there way to make me look like this crazed lunatic conspiracy theorist. Why all of a sudden now?”
She went on to tell Bell — who is an anti-vaxxer himself and even brought his unvaccinated daughter on the show to push the conspiracy — that the reports on her past comments featured some of her “best stuff [so] I was happy to get [it] out there.”
“I questioned a few things, which I think I have a right to question under the Constitution, and they twisted it around to say, ‘Is Darla a racist?'” Shine added.
The White House official’s wife attacked CBS late night host Stephen Colbert and CNN for covering her remarks, but supposedly refusing to cover the old tweets of movie director James Gunn, who recently came under fire for old tweets joking about pedophilia.
“The hypocrisy is so clear, it’s so obvious, it just is a disgrace,” Shine said.
“I don’t remember anyone going after family members [during the Obama administration],” she continued.”Where are they going by coming after me? Where are they going with this?”
Prior to her husband taking a top job in the Trump administration, Shine authored a book advocating for to stay-at-home moms, ran a mommy blog, and hosted a radio show. Through these mediums, as well as Twitter and Facebook, Shine voiced countless controversial opinions on black people, women, Muslims, and pushed unfounded conspiracies on vaccinations, which were detailed in a Mediaite report released just after Bill Shine took the White House job.
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