Liberals attack book of Hillary Clinton quotes

Washington, DC (PRWEB) April 24, 2006 -- Liberals have been swift to denounce a new book of Hillary Clinton quotes, with even the New York Times backtracking on its prior coverage. The author and publisher stand by the book, however, and have issued a challenge to the book's left-wing critics.

"I've Always Been a Yankees Fan: Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words" (World Ahead Publishing; paperback: $12.95; ISBN 0974670189), compiled by Thomas D. Kuiper, features a cover image of New York's junior senator wearing a Chicago Cubs hat. The book just hit stores earlier this month, but it has already come under fire from a number of liberal sources.

Slate editor and “Bushisms” author Jacob Weisberg attacked the book on CNN, liberal journalist David Brock's Media Matters website has relentlessly criticized the book's sources, and the multi-millionaire senator's spokesman scoffed at the book in a New York Times article. And yesterday the Times -- a liberal newspaper -- issued an awkward retraction of the prior article, going to great lengths to explain that Hillary claims to have been a fan of both her hometown Cubs and the Yankees, while also apologizing for not stating at the beginning of the article that liberals dispute some of its sources. (The caveat appeared in the second half of the article.)

“Liberals are attacking this well-researched and thoroughly documented quote book with vigor because it paints a devastating profile of Hillary Clinton as a crass and power-hungry politician,” says Eric M. Jackson, president of World Ahead Publishing. “It is 160 pages long and contains over 400 clearly cited quotations from dozens upon dozens of varied sources. Thomas Kuiper did his homework and it's obvious that Senator Clinton's acolytes are attempting to attack him because they're terrified of this book.”

“I compiled quotes from 63 books and over 100 different articles, so Hillary's apologists have their work cut out for them,” adds Thomas Kuiper, the book's editor. “Was Chris Matthews's statement that he saw Hillary make Secret Service agents carry her bags a lie? How about Hillary's widely quoted claim to be named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who climbed Mt. Everest years after she was born? Or her statement on Dateline that Chelsea was jogging near the World Trade Center on September 11th, a story which Chelsea herself later contradicted?”

In an interview with CNN last week, outspoken liberal Jacob Weisberg -- whose series of “Bushism” books chronicle innocent verbal gaffes by President George W. Bush -- took a shot at the Hillary quote book while making the incorrect claim that “Every single quote has the f-word in it.” Clinton's spokesman, Philippe Reines, also attacked the accuracy of the hundreds of quotes in “I've Always Been a Yankees Fan,” saying readers would be better served in reading Hillary's own books, including her autobiography -- “Living History” -- for which the former Wal-Mart board of directors member received an $8 million advance.

In contrast to the panicked response by liberals, several prominent Republicans have expressed enthusiasm for the book. Last week, New York City's ex-mayor Rudy Giuliani mocked Senator Clinton while invoking the book, saying, “There's that book that just came out…[it points out that one thing that Hillary and I do have in common: We're both Yankee fans.” And Dick Morris, a former advisor to Bill Clinton, writes in the book's foreword: “This wonderful little book will…make sure that Hillary's quotes and lies are not forgotten but come back to haunt her.”

Here's just a small smaple I've pulled just off FR threads:

I could hardly breathe. Gasping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, "What do you mean? What are you saying? Why did you lie to me?" (Sex w/Monica)

"It's been said, and I think it's accurate, that my husband was obsessed by terrorism in general and al-Qaida in particular." (Hillary telling a post-9/11 world what a great commander in chief her husband was; Dateline, NBC 4/16/2004.)

"I have to admit that a good deal of what my husband and I have learned [about Islam] has come from our daughter." (Circa 1996, at a White House function,

Hillary proudly tells some Muslim groups she is gaining a greater appreciation of Islam because Chelsea was then taking a class on the "religion of peace"; TruthInMedia.org 8/8/1999.)

"Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?" (First Lady Hillary in her 2000 Senate Campaign; "The Survivor," p. 382, by John Harris.)

"A right-wing network was after his presidency...including perverting the Constitution." (To Barbara Walters about the Republicans who impeached her husband; 20/20, ABC 6/8/2003.)

"Son of a bitch." (Hillary's opinion of President George W. Bush when she found out he secretly visited Iraq just days before her highly publicized trip to Iraq; "American Evita," p. 259, by Christopher Anderson.)

"What are you doing inviting these people into my home? These people are our enemies! They are trying to destroy us!" (Hillary's reaction to an aide, when she found out that some Republicans had been invited to the Clinton White House, circa 1993; "The Survivor," p. 99, by John Harris.)

"I mean, you've got a conservative and right-wing press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum." (Hillary complains about the mainstream media, which are all conservatives in her opinion; aired on C-Span, 1/19/1997.)

"Come on Bill, put your dick up. You can't fuck her here." (Hillary to Gov. Clinton when she spots him talking with an attractive female at an Arkansas political rally; "Inside The White House," p. 243, by Ronald Kessler.)

"You sold out, you motherfucker! You sold out." (While an intern on Capitol Hill, Hillary Rodham yells at a prominent Democrat lawyer because he was representing someone from a large, profit-driven corporation; "Inside," p. 213, by Joseph Califano.)

"I just don't have any memory of that." (When that Watkins memo showed up revealing that she had ordered the Travel Office firings.)

"And I know there is a collective sigh of relief when people like me leave."

"I'm a big believer in tipping. We should support working people." who did not pay for her meal nor leave a tip for waitress Trish Trupo, a single mother who earns $2.90 an hour before tips.

"I can't go out and save every undercapitalized entrepreneur in America." in response to criticisms that her nationalized health care plan might bankrupt small business owners.

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." 1993

"The stories come and go, and I stay the same."

"Sometimes I read about myself and I say, 'Ooo, I don't like her at all.'"

"I am married to the greatest political person of our generation."

"I think the President has to stand for what he stood for. He has to stick to his principles."

"No, I did not remember that profit." Hillary Clinton ($4300 in one-day trades)

"I do not remember any of those details." Hillary Clinton (when asked to explain the $4300)

"Impeachment does not have to be for criminal offenses, but only for a 'course of conduct' that, while not particularly criminal, might be of such a nature that it destroys trust, discourages allegiance, and demands action by the Congress." Hillary Rodham 1974

"The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not." 1992.

"Give Bill a second term, and Al Gore and I will be turned loose to do what we really want to do"- 1996

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing though our papers. We are the president." -1998, commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents

"If I didn't kick Bill Clinton's ass every day, he wouldn't be worth anything" - 1995

"We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem" -1996

"Look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it, and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been, conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president"- 1998

"I'm having a great time being this pres...I mean senator from New York"- 2001

"I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history"

"Jay, there are literally millions of people who have never read a printed book. You cannot believe, Jay, how many people I have met who have told me that MY book is the FIRST BOOK they have ever read."

"I have to confess it has crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian." CNN 02/06/1997

"We just screwed all of these people." - Hillary to Bill during their first open tour of the White House to the public. - Caught on C-SPAN cameras/microphones in Feb 1993.

"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." San Francisco, 28 June 2004

"The clearest way to know whether you are with a poor person in America is not by the logo on the clothes, because we all wear pretty much the same anymore. It's by looking into their eyes and seeing whether they look into yours, and seeing what kind of teeth they have." - Hillary Clinton, at a meeting for Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Push Wall Street Project, AP

"I'm not some little woman standing by her man like Tammy Wynette." - "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas."

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