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PAGE SIX: CHELSEA REBUTS MOM'S STORY
New York Post ^
| 11/10/01
| RICHARD JOHNSON with Paula Froelich and Chris Wilson
Posted on 11/10/2001 12:16:49 AM PST by kattracks
 Chelsea Clinton
- Photo by: AP |
HILLARY and Chelsea Clinton should have gotten their stories straight. It turns out there are glaring discrepancies in their accounts of what Chelsea was doing on the morning of Sept. 11. Appearing on NBC's "Dateline" shortly after the World Trade Center attack, Sen. Clinton told viewers how her daughter had cheated death on that fateful morning.
"[Chelsea] had gone on what she thought would be a great jog," Clinton explained. "She was going down to Battery Park, she was going to go around the towers. She was going to get a cup of coffee and - that's when the plane hit!"
Clinton went on to share her fear and confusion when she could not get in touch with her daughter and didn't know where she was.
"At that moment, she was not just a senator, but a concerned parent," Katie Couric told "Today" viewers the next morning.
As cyber-columnist Matt Drudge reports, the result was widespread media coverage that portrayed Hillary, who was not in New York at the time, as a concerned and distraught mom who had personal ties to the WTC tragedy.
But Chelsea, who had declined to give any interviews, has broken her long silence by writing a first-hand account in Talk magazine. She reveals she wasn't jogging that morning, and was actually miles away from the disaster, safely ensconced in a pal's apartment on Park Avenue South.
"I stared senselessly at the television," Chelsea writes. She notes that she talked briefly with an aide to her mother before the phone lines went dead. She then ventured out on her own to try and find a public phone to call Hillary.
"Looking uptown I saw that every phone in view was surrounded by people. Then I looked downtown, the direction everyone was coming from; I assumed the lines would be shorter and went south. People told me later that I had been 12 blocks from the Towers . . ."
"I do remember standing in line at a phone somewhere and hearing a deafening rumble . . . a man standing next to me in line . . . said that one of the Towers had just collapsed," Chelsea recalls.
Calls to Clinton's office were not returned.
The piece in Talk indicates Chelsea is as politically savvy as her parents. One of her first thoughts was, "I was worried that with the tax cut, we wouldn't have enough money to repair New York and D.C. and to help the families of the thousands I knew must have died."
A couple of hours later, "Once we stopped running I started praying," Chelsea relates. "I prayed for my country and my city. I stopped berating the tax cut and started praying the president would rise to lead us."
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posted on
11/10/2001 12:16:50 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
...when we practice to deceive.
2
posted on
11/10/2001 12:29:26 AM PST
by
samtheman
To: kattracks
Born of an unholy marriage, a prop and a pawn, an unwitting spawn.
3
posted on
11/10/2001 12:35:00 AM PST
by
Outraged
To: Howlin
The pieces to this puzzle are extraordinarily scary, the Manchurian Candidate and the Clinton machine...a figment of the devil's imagination.
4
posted on
11/10/2001 12:40:22 AM PST
by
Outraged
To: kattracks
12 blocks....a mile. What a self-serving bunch of bunk. My sister-in-law was in a subway directly beneath the towers when the plane hit. She said the doors were closed and no one was allowed to exit the subway. There was one girl who was so afraid (no one knew why they were locked inside the subway) that she literally began to claw on the subway door. These are the people who have stories to tell. Why on earth would any magazine give face time to a self-serving story from Chelsea? Her mother's lies go without saying.
5
posted on
11/10/2001 12:41:27 AM PST
by
MistyCA
To: kattracks
Yikes! I wouldn't like to bump into that on a dark night.
To: Outraged
and coyote ugly to boot.
7
posted on
11/10/2001 12:52:13 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
8
posted on
11/10/2001 12:58:31 AM PST
by
Aeronaut
To: kattracks
Coyote ugly, true, but kattracks, she can't help it. Look at here daddy Walter H.
To: kattracks
A clinton caught in a lie ??? No way, this is stunning (sarcasm)
To: kattracks
Chelsea's a Two-Burka if I ever saw one.
To: Ann Archy
Now that's funny!!!
To: Mr. Snrub
What I want to know is, which of them is lying, and why? I don't believe incompetence. Is Chelsea trying to gain reputation for being 'honest," for example?
To: Thornwell Simons
Shes only in the "Public eye"for one week and has already stirred up controversy.Get rid of the clintons,all of them!
To: Thornwell Simons
What I want to know is, which of them is lying, and why?Do you seriously believe that Chelsea thought about the Bush tax cut on hearing the WTC collapse? They are both lying. It's all bullsh*t.
To: Thornwell Simons
Honest and clinton dont fit in the same sentence.
To: Ann Archy
The Freeper ladies are the hardest to please. LOL!
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posted on
11/10/2001 1:27:38 AM PST
by
dennisw
To: kattracks
""I stared senselessly, " writes Chelsea
That's easy to imagine.
To: kattracks
That their stories don't match isn't surprising. The Clintons and their brethern seem to continuously spew inane and not-really-well-spinned propaganda that doesn't sync with either reality or each other. Had their tall tales matched, you'd have to suspect collusion.
There's no doubt that these people are the epicenter of a lot of this country's pathology and, for that reason, I hope we don't let up on them.
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posted on
11/10/2001 1:42:33 AM PST
by
pt17
To: samtheman
"
...when we practice to deceive.""But you don't have to go through hell if you can learn to lie real well!"
20
posted on
11/10/2001 1:44:19 AM PST
by
albee
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