Posted on 08/14/2005 9:15:30 PM PDT by manny613
Little is more annoying and transparent than conservative pundits putting on an air of elitist dignity and taking the high-minded road, adopting the posture of their "objective" liberal counterparts—at the expense of someone or something that deserves better, in this case Ed Klein's book "The Truth About Hillary." This invaluable contribution to the national dialogue in prelude to the scariest presidential race in history has been used by conservatives from Joe Scarborough and Sean Hannity to Peggy Noonan and John Podhoretz as a point of fleeting, brown-nosey, cushy convergence with their ideological adversaries, whom they mimic in shunning the book. I'm not sure what they'll gain by waxing indignant over Klein's supposedly "going too far" and being "too salacious" and getting "too personal" about a woman who would have them all eliminated if she could.
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Ouch. That's a good one. Right on target.
"It's the Compulsively Lying Psychobroad-Striver-whose-Ambitions-are-Ahead-of-her-Talents Phenomenon, and one doesn't need meticulous sourcing by Ed Klein to recognize it."
I think if she's the Dem candidate in 2008, people who've never voted before will come out to vote against her. I just hope they're not offset by all the Mary Poppins and Dick Tracys the Dems will "register" to vote.
It's a shame that Sean Hannity is lumped in with the others who were too high-minded to give this author his due. Hannity was the ONLY major host to have Klein on his show to discuss the book. Many others had booked Klein, and then strangely cancelled his appearance. Hannity went through with the intreview, despite what he called " the most intense pressure he had received since he's been in radio". He did not elaborate, but he obviously choose to resist the threats by Hillary's minions, while so many others were scared away. He deserves better.
...just my opinion...but I think it would be sweeter if there was just silence. Silence. Silence as she made her miserable way back to the dugout.
I bet her handlers will not let her appear in public for fear of the reaction she will get. She is going to have a very difficult time running for president. She will have to face lots of tough questions, and places. She can not handle the pressure.
When we try to claim that lib pols are more evil than they actually are, we gain them converts. I realize that Hillary Clinton is far more a danger to this country than her husband (who liked the perks more than the power), but I don't think she's quite in the assassination business.
Make no mistake, I despise the far-left liberal agenda that a Hillary Clinton admin would undertake. But to ascribe to her characteristics of a communist dictator makes our side fair game for ridicule. She's bad enough just being a regular lib politician.
That jumped out at me too. While I agree with you that it is not necessary to go to those lengths in describing her intentions, Klein has said on the two interviews I've seen, "She will do anything to get into the White House." Both times he emphasized "anything."
She's not an over-achiever, she's a parasite.
Hillary herself is huddled with advisers, worried about Bill Richardson today, and how to respond.
Hillary herself is huddled with advisers, worried about Bill Richardson today, and how to respond.
I recall reading in a college psychology class about an experiment in which baby monkeys were put in a cage with a wire mom and a carpet mom. The monkeys clung to the carpet mom, shunning the wire mom altogether. Hillary is a "wire mom" and therefore unelectable unless she can soften her image. I doubt that is someting she can pull off for a year or more of a grueling presidential run. Sooner or later we will see "Shrillary" and the public will cling to the Republican carpet mom (hopefully Condi Rice or George Allen).
But I must admit, a Hillary Clinton presidency is something I both loathe and look forward to. I'd like to see her elected, then impeached and convicted.
Totally agree.
Well, you go, Julia! Right on target. She started out with something that has bugged me from the beginning - the conservatives who have tried to act so noble, and chastise Klein for including certain "personal" things about Hillary in the book.
While I credit Hannity with going through with the interview with Klein despite tremendous pressure to cancel his appearance on his radio show,I became so frustrated with Hannity during his interview that I zipped off an email to him. I said essentially that I wasn't interested in Hannity's covering his rear-end interview focusing on what he thought about what Klein wrote. I told him that I wanted to hear what Klein had to say about the content of the book, and why he thought it was important for the public to know it. I told Sean that he had three hours after Klein's interview to say what he thought and that I'd appreciate him allowing Klein the few minutes he had on the program to complete a sentence without interruption, and to focus on something other than the media criticism of the book that everyone could already see for themselves. I want Klein to be heard by those who don't take Hillary's chances of winning seriously. I haven't read his book, because nothing he could tell me would make me any more strongly convicted that she MUST NOT be allowed to become president, and that we should never take the chances that she can not do so for granted no matter how slim they might be considered at the time. That's not "fear", it is prudence. Who would have thought beforehand that Bill could have been president for two terms?
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