Hillary Clinton and the ‘White’ House

TCS Daily ^ | 19 Jan 2006 | Lee Harris

[Xphantasos]

[John Lenin]

While some may say that Hillary's playing the race card to garner the African American vote, Ms. Clinton sees things differently. 'You tryin' ta say I'm a phony? I'll bust a cap on yo ass, sucka!'.

[cricket]

Hillary: "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about."

Actually she said. . ."you knowh what I'um' about!"

Of course, she really is inviting her audience to share her dirty little secret. . .by implying she knows theirs. . .

Guess she forgot who owned those plantations. . .or she figures they do not remember.

[cricket]

NOOO...she didn't say that either! She said. . .one more time. . .

"you knowh what I'um' tallkin about!"

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Yep, she tried to add some "street" inflection to her "you know what I'm talkin' about".

I actually found that to be the most offensive part of all.

[right-wingin_It]

ARTICLE: "Hillary Rodham Clinton recently said that the White House under George Bush has become “a plantation,”

That is not what she said.

I think what the problem was is that multiple the news organizations are mis-quoting her. I thought that I had heard "The Today Show" say that she said the White House (Bush Administration) was the plantation, not the House of Representatives. Someone then corrected me here on FR, and so I thought I must have mis-heard the news report. But now I'm thinking maybe I did hear it right now, even if Hillary did or did not say that. Got to love the media...

[GaltMeister]

What 'choo talkin bout' Willis!

[Fruit of the Spirit]

"So what on earth made Hillary Rodham Clinton describe the Bush White House as a plantation?"

It was a racial slur of sorts. She's appealing to the Blacks for support because, she suggests, they're just the slaves of this administration.

HA! Like they haven't been the slaves of the liberal Clinton administration. How about Clinton's, "Dumbing Down of America"? Welfare, anyone?

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"He that thinks money can do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money." - Benjamin Franklin

[R.W.Ratikal]

Hillary Clinton is often crude. After comparing Congress to a plantation (slaves, get it?) she turned to several blacks near her, and as if they were too stupid to make the connection between slaves and plantation, she said to them, "And you know what I'm talk int about."

Remember this was said to a group ot affluent peoples who live on a standard of living ten times higher than nineteenths of the rest of the people on Earth and whose idea of hard times would be if there was no Wal-Mart within two miles driving distance of their gated communities.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Yeah, 'slaves' paid $250,000 a year and free to retire-- with benefits.

[freekitty]

It sounds like all she said refers to what she and Bill ran the house like. LOL

[cricket]

I actually found that to be the most offensive part of all.

Agree. . .and of course, this is where the truth of a Lib is most easily found. . in the 'offensive;' as they are their own worst insult.

[FOG724]

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=012006C

Mea Culpa

Boy do I feel stupid.

In my article on Hillary Clinton’s remarks about Bush running the House of Representatives as a plantation, I totally misrepresented the Senator’s comments as if she had been talking about the White House, from which I drew several conclusions, none flattering to Senator Clinton, and none of which, in light of the facts, should have been drawn by me. Though one may disagree with the remarks that Senator Clinton actually made, they certainly did not deserve to be treated the way I treated the remarks that I wrongly assumed she had made, and I owe an apology both to the former First Lady and to my readers for my error.

While at the moment I feel a bit foolish, I am genuinely pleased to discover that Senator Clinton did not make the statement that I wrongly imputed to her -- though, needless to say, I would have been even more pleased if I had discovered this before I wrote the article! I have always respected Hillary Clinton, and I am relieved to find out that her swipe at the Bush administration was well within the pale of normal American partisan discourse. My distortion of her words was entirely the result of my own carelessness, and was not the result of any ill-will or malice toward her.

For some time now I have thought about writing an article on the dangers of speed reading on the Internet. It was originally intended to poke fun at people who read my articles and then imputed to me ideas that were often the exact opposite of those that I tried to express. Unfortunately, this incident has made it vividly clear to me just how very close to home this danger lies.

On the hand, the great virtue of the Internet is that when someone makes a gaffe like mine, it is immediately pointed out to the idiot who has made it, who, in this case, unfortunately, is me. (It’s always much more fun when the idiot is someone else.)

It is often said that people learn by their mistakes, though in most cases what they learn is to make different mistakes. No doubt in the future I too will make new and original mistakes, but I will always try to correct them as soon as they are brought to my attention, and to apologize to anyone I have treated unfairly because of them.

Lee Harris is the humble author of Civilization and Its Enemies.