Posted on 09/02/2015 2:07:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The latest stash of emails from Hillary Clinton's private server released by the State Department has (once again!) revealed Washington to be a particularly unbearable place, employing particularly insufferable people. From Clinton's email correspondence with her senior staff we can observe how those with proximity to power engage in rare forms of backstabbing, obsequiousness, pettiness, bad humor, and self-obsession.
There was the revelation that Huma Abedin, Clinton's aide-de-camp who held down multiple six-figure salaries at outside consulting firms while making $135,000 at State, apparently complains about not getting "paid enough." Another top Clinton aide, Philippe Reines, was seen tattling on a colleague directly to the secretary. "I for one loved that you finally called out the ogrish males on your staff who roll their eyes at womens [sic] issues and events," Reines wrote to Clinton before calling out one such male staffer by name.
The Reines email might be the second most cringe-inducing document in Washington ever. The top (so far!) prize, however, certainly goes to Clinton lawyer, advocate, and all-around flunky Lanny Davis. In September 2010 Davis sent his "dear friend Hillary" an email with the subject line "Personal - a personal favor." What follows are two pages of over-the-top praise for the former first lady, more than a healthy dose of self-promotion on Davis's part, several hand-wringing apologies for even bothering the great and powerful Hillary Clinton with such a terrible request, and four groveling "pleases."
The email has to be seen to be believed:
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
More like gag-worthy
These people are so gross
This reminds me of a letter that Keynes wrote to FDR in the 1930s. Really seriously over the top a** kissing
Oh my. Cringe-worthy indeed. Lanny Davis always seems a nice enough fellow, but why he’s always worshipped at Hillary’s feet is a real mystery.
The part I liked best is where Davis passes on Lindsey Graham’s view of Hillary as the “nicest and most effective person in the U.S. Senate”...
Really. Graham said that.
“These people are so gross”
They really are. They are actually putrid.
The very sight of that endless arrogant smirk makes my stomach churn. He is altogether evil.
That says a lot about suck up Lanny but even more about the real Hillary. Can you see in Hillary a person who would require this sub human prostrating before “Herself”. I can certainly with the implied threat in every statement.
Yuck. And they said Monica was a whore . . .
“Interesting how an “insider” like Davis counts people like Ted Olson and Karl Rove as friends and people who can deliver for him.”
That jumped out at me, too. As you said, more evidence of Uniparty corruption.
And the Elites wonder why Trump is liked by We The People!!!
The Elites don’t have a clue because they have no scruples.
Anthony Weiner takes photos of his “thing” and emails them around while his wife Huma sleeps with the slug Hillary while her husband Bill is down on an island screwing underage girls means nothing to them.
And that is only a tiny sample of what these putrid people do.
Original Message
From: Lanny J. Davis
To: H
Sent: Fri Sep 17 21:26:58 2010 Subject: Personal - a personal favor
My dear friend Hillary:
I hate to email you too much and to ask you for any favors. I feel as if I am taking advantage of a great privilege that you allow me to send you a personal email every so often. But this is a favor that I fully understand for 100 reasons might not be appropriate or comfortable for you to say yes to.
The American Lawyer is doing a Cover Story (ugh!) about my new law firm, *Lanny J. Davis &
Associates** about my finally hanging up my own shingle after all these years and at a ripe young age, with a 12 year-old and a 5 year-old to pay college tuition for to I cant even state the age I will be in writing when I write my last tuition check.
I am quite concerned *even though the reporter for the American Lawyer, David Levine, seems to be a nice young man (which makes me even more concerned sometimes the nicest ones can burn you the worst. *(You, of all people, should know!)
I have given David Levine, the American Lawyer reporter, a list of friends, business, personal, and political, to call. *I fully anticipate there will be personal and professional mean-spirited shots at me in the story *that is inevitable especially from those attorneys who still don*t accept that what I do is unusual as well as the hateful rightwing (and perhaps even more from the left, who don*t like my *Purple Nation* approach and my effort to help make bad countries better!!!).
To try to balance the cheap shots, I have asked a variety of people from Ds and Rs and in between to talk to the reporter about me. *Ted Olsen did and said great things. So did Mike McCurry and Karl Rove (!!!). *Even President Clinton and President Bush, I am told, may weigh in with nice written statements about their old friend from Yale days. *And believe it or not, even Senator McCain called the reporter personally on his cell phone to tell him how much he appreciated my bipartisan *Purple Nation* approach to politics (inspired, of course, by my friend the great former Junior Senator from New York, Hillary Clinton, whom my friend Lindsey Graham once told me was the nicest and most effective person in the U.S. Senate!).
My message that I hope gets reflected in the article is that I and my law firm offer unique multi-disciplinary capabilities in law, media and politics: *first, *traditional legal advice and litigation, which allows me to get all the facts, good and bad, under the crucial protection of attorney-client privilege; media experience, understanding that reporters need facts and you have to fight to get them to focus on facts, not innuendo, win the trust, so that they will give the person for whom I am advocating a break and actually try to be fair and accurate; and finally, politics and legislative strategies, which often helps clients solve litigation solutions where the courts are not working. *You can see where the shots may come from* lawyers who feel threatened by my unusual multi-disciplinary approach; public relations firms, who don*t thinks lawyers should talk to the media; and lobbyists, who think they should be left alone and not be bothered about being careful with the facts when approaching an elected official.
So my question to you, good friend Hillary, is:
Would you be willing to talk personally to the reporter? *I assume the answer will no * since I can see that that might be inappropriate. *And if that is your answer, I completely understand.
So my second question is, if the first one is no: *Would you be willing to have Philippe or Cheryl issue a statement to the reporter, David Levine, on your behalf about your opinion of my professional skills and/or our friendship over the years?
Please please please * note there are *three please*: *Do not be bashful or concerned about saying no to my request. As you can see, I have a number of people who have talked to the reporter or, in the case of President Clinton and President Bush, who may be giving written statements.
I wasnot even going to ask you for that reason since I didn*t want you to feel badly if you have to say no. *But then again. The honest to goodness truth is, : *Aside from Carolyn, my four children, and my
immediate family, I consider you to be the best friend and the best person I have met in my long life. You know that from the dedication and appreciation of you I have always felt and expressed to you over four decades. So that is why your comments would mean a lot to me, even if just a written statement.
BUT: *one more please (#4) if it feels inappropriate to you as Secretary of State or for any other reason to be in a quote about me on a personal or professional level, I fully understand.
Thanks for just considering this, my good friend Hillary. If the answer is yes, just tell me know by return email (or have someone call my assistant, Maddie Melendez,
who the reporter should contact at your office, *and when. *Unfortunately the deadline is within the next two weeks.
Best and warmest regards,
Lanny
So. Now I understand why I can’t get ahead in business.
Gotta rub on the lip balm and get to kissin’ some ass!!!!
El-creepo.
Beyond pathetic.
Kiss up or ......
The uni party is live and well!
Thanks for the post
I feel the need to shower! What a loser.
How about, just "dead". After an extensive waterboarding and a brief trial of course.
Oh PLEASE Lanny Davis, Linda Graham etc. are ALL DISGUSTING CORRUPT PEOPLE!!!
Thanks for the heads-up.
This letter is so frickin’ unbelievable.
Lanny’s obsequiousness telegraphs that he thinks he is inferior to Hillary.
I got news for Lanny: “you REALLY ARE inferior....not only to Hillary but to every person in the right wing you seem to despise.”
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