Lady of 'History': Hillary Clinton Is Again the Eye of a Public Storm

The Washington Post ^ | June 12, 2003 | Mark Leibovich

[tgslTakoma]

Hillary Clinton is laughing a lot, almost unnervingly so given that she's in the midst of reliving some of the most painful parts of her husband's embattled presidency. She is being repeatedly asked this week about such unpleasantness as Whitewater, missing documents and the suicide of a close friend. She is discussing her marriage counseling on national television.

And yet in an interview yesterday afternoon, loud, long and full-throated giggles came rapid-fire from the former first lady. She is asked, for instance, about the mixed early reviews for her just-published memoir, "Living History," some of which call the book detached and unemotional. "Hahaha," goes Clinton. Some people have told her the book is too revealing. "People say, my gosh, why are you telling me these things?" she says.

She is asked how she feels about supplanting Sen. Ted Kennedy as the GOP's favorite Democratic villain. "Hahahaha. . . . It's something that kind of goes with the territory of being me," she says. "Apparently I've raised quite a bit of money for Republicans."

She is asked how often she is asked if she will run for president. "Every interview," she says, letting go her loudest laugh yet. She says she has no intention of running in either 2004 or 2008.

"I should get, like, little Chinese fortune cookie things, and like, just print up the answer on the piece of paper and just pass it out.

"Hahahaha."

[tgslTakoma]

More from the story, about Monday's book-signing event in NYC...

Clinton arrives at Barnes & Noble at 11 a.m. "Hello again," she says to a cluster of about 100 reporters and photographers. They are crammed between the Science Fiction and Fantasy shelves, a few feet from where Clinton will sign books. Her smile is tight and bright. She answers shouted questions, including one about whether she's always been faithful to Bill ("Yes"), and now that that's cleared up she can sell books.

Clinton is wearing a canary yellow pantsuit and crosses her cream-colored pumps under a pine table. In a little more than three hours, using a Mont Blanc pen, Clinton will sign -- by the store's count -- more than 1,000 books with assembly-line efficiency. Each customer will receive a signed book (or two) and roughly 10 seconds of small talk before being gestured away by a store staffer. In the first 10 minutes, Clinton will use the exact greeting -- "Hi, how're you?" -- with 18 consecutive customers, before she breaks her streak with a truncated "Hi" for the 19th.

They actually counted how many times she used a particular greeting? The Washington Post's fawning coverage of Her Heinous is absolutely amazing, even for the Post.

[tgslTakoma]

This one's for you, doc.

[rs79bm]

Has anyone read the reviews of this book on Amazon? I was thoroughly enjoyed to see that most if not all of them stick it to Hillary.

[tgslTakoma]

The good Doctor's been busy this week, kids.

It must be all those organic, nuclear-free tofu burgers he eats at Takoma Park's fine bistros that gives him such energy.

Tofu burgers, the modern-day spinach for our Popeye, Doctor Raoul!

[rs79bm]

Clinton will use the exact greeting -- "Hi, how're you?" -- with 18 consecutive customers

Typical Hillary. In other words, just let me sign your book and then get the hell out. I'm just here for a photo-op anyway.

[JennysCool]

Interesting they focused on the maniacal laugh here, as many FReepers did viewing the Baba Wawa interview. What's up with that?

[RonDog]

Here is an important SHORT EXCERPT from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47263-2003Jun11.html:

...In the parlance of packaging, Clinton is in the process of "reintroducing herself to the American public." Or, to her detractors, she is giving America a chance to get sick of her all over again.

"This woman won't go away," says Raoul Deming, who was protesting Clinton's appearance at a book signing outside a Manhattan Barnes & Noble on Monday. He is wearing a rubber George W. Bush mask and holding a homemade sign that says "Rodham Hussein."

"She's out here trying to rewrite history," he says, and he's not prepared to let Hilla-palooza pass without a catcall or three. He traveled four hours by train from his home in, of all places, Takoma Park...

[billhilly]

The title of this article should have read "Lady" of history, rather than Lady of "History." I am so sick of hearing Hillary referred to as a lady that I get physically sick.

[billhilly]

The title of this article should have read "Lady" of history, rather than Lady of "History." I am so sick of hearing Hillary referred to as a lady that I get physically sick.

[Mr. Mojo]

Hillary Clinton is laughing a lot, almost unnervingly so

Nervous laughter.

[rs79bm]

"I should get, like, little Chinese fortune cookie things, and like, just print up the answer on the piece of paper and just pass it out.

"Hahahaha."

Yea, ha ha. Good one Hillary.

[Duramaximus]

"People say, my gosh, why are you telling me these things?"

Because your are a hypocrite, a liar, a cheat, a fraud, a phoney, a criminal, and you deserve to be locked up for the remainder of your life, breaking big rocks into little rocks.

[RonDog]

See also, from:

Hillary Potter Flies into the Walmart, VA
to Meet the DC Chapter of the FreeRepublic
Been There, Freep It, Got the Tee Shirt | 6-11-03 | bmwcyle

Posted on 06/11/2003 7:10 PM PDT by bmwcyle

Hillary Clinton enemy of the State arrived at the Fairfax County Fairlakes Wal-Mart store. She rode in her big black smoked glass limo hoping to sell her lies one more time. The line was out the garden department and into the side parking lot.

I arrive at the shopping center to see a long line of about 50 people standing in line to drink the Kool-Aid and get the book of lies signed by the Witch...

-- snip --

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

[Cicero]

I was in that very same Barns & Noble on Wednesday--picking up some science fiction paperbacks. I guess I missed her.

There was a leak in the ceiling and water all over the floor, new since my last visit there, about 20 feet from where she was doing the signing. I wonder if there's some connection?

As Hillery would say, "Hahahaha."

[Mr. Mojo]

I am so sick of hearing Hillary referred to as a lady that I get physically sick.

Hillary probably winces as well whenever she hears it. Feminists despise that word.

[Flora McDonald]

This woman is absolutely painful. I would rather have a migraine than read about her.

Can you imagine: a United States Senator that giggles under stress?

[spokeshave]

Coupled with excessive head bobbing

[Randjuke]

"Somebody told me the other day that there's something like 279 hours a day of nationally syndicated conservative right-wing talk radio," Clinton says. That compares "to about five hours a day of so-called progressive talk radio. And there's a statistic that, like, 22 percent of Americans get their news from that source."

I'd like to see her source for this. Shouldn't she be busy with her job instead of this crap?

[DoughtyOne]

That's what people do when they have nothing but contempt for the people they meet.