FR EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Prudhomme confronts Hillary over Broaddrick rape, is threatened with arrest

Katherine Prudhomme ^ | July 13, 2007 | Katherine Prudhomme

[doug from upland]

HERE'S THE NEW YORK TIMES STORY. Gee, no mention of the confrontation.. Here is the WMUR story.

How is it that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the smartest woman in the world, does not know who Juanita Broaddrick is?

Earlier today I spoke with Katherine Prudhomme O'Brien, our own KPfromDerryNH. I knew she was heading for a showdown with Hillary today and didn't know if they would even let her into the event. She became somewhat famous for challenging Al Gore at a townhall meeting in New Hampshire in late 1999. Kath asked Gore if she believed Juanita Broaddrick, and Gore claimed he knew nothing about the story.

In 2000, I worked with her to plan a rally in New York. The great New York FReepers really got involved with the event. Kath spoke about being a rape survivor like Juanita, and after a poignant speech, she delivered a video copy of the Lisa Myers interview with Broaddrick to Hillary headquarters.

Hillary, if you are such a great defender of women, Help bring this rapist to justice. Maybe you can also explain how a trafficker of women made many visits to your White House, spent two days in the residence quarters, and laundered 645K to the DNC through Charlie Trie.

I spoke with Katherine at about 9:45pm, Eastern. She spoke with great emotion, and the day had been very draining for her. She was going to try to write it up tonight, but I guess it is getting too late. She confronted Hillary face to face, asking her if she believed Juanita Broaddrick. When Hillary said she didn't know about Broaddrick, Kath explained that she was the woman who accused Bill Clinton of rape. Hillary's handlers or Secret Service demanded that she leave and threatened her with arrest. That is the short version.

When Kath's full story gets to me, I'll ask the Admin Mod to add it here.

To: All

OKAY, HERE IS HER STORY. Admin Mod, can you put it up at the end of the original post?

Today I Met Hillary in Nashua, N.H. also known as “The Gate City”
by Katherine Prudhomme-O’Brien

Today, Friday the 13th of July was my lucky day. I went to Daniel Webster College to meet Hillary Clinton.
I knew that the chance of that really happening would be slim. I arrived a little late but just in time for the program, that had been billed in the paper as free and open to the public to begin. I had called Hillary headquarters for tickets a few days prior. A friendly staffer told me that my tickets would be at the door and that there would be a 1/2 to 3/4 hour question time after her talk.
“Great”, I thought to myself, that will be a good time to see how open and free it really is. I’ve seen pre selected questions before and I loathe that process, it’s a sham.
When I got there, they did not ask my name or anything. It was fantastic that they gave out water bottles. I found the crowd of about a couple hundred strong to be a bit anemic in their overall vibe.
People were pleasant but not wicked thrilled to be there. I thought it would be a much different feel. Bill Clinton spoke for a bit, then Hillary spoke. I don’t care what any of her enemies say, the truth is she is looking better than ever now. Hats off to her hair, make up and style people. I hoped my luck would hold and she really would take random questions.
Throughout her speech, she made some points I agreed with, such as let’s treat our returning veterans better and interest rates on student loans should be as low as they can possibly be. Amen.
When she was done talking music started. Not looking good for that question asking session I dared to hope for...
I went up to the group heading towards the stage to meet her or her husband. It gets cozy fast in those crowds. There was a lady next to me, wearing a tee shirt that declared her as a health care voter, who had two canes she used. I tried to help her squeeze in a bit and half joked with her to whack the folks pushing in front of her with one of her canes. The poor lady might have fallen over if she did. For goodness sakes-can’t Hillary get staffers to watch out for and help those folks. Just a little free advice. Get them all up front, life is hard enough for them. The lady gave up and left.
I was not too far from the former President so I called out to him but he didn’t see me. Hillary came up next and I held out an old light green colored postcard towards her as others were holding tickets, baseballs and stuff like that.
She took my postcard, signed it and asked “Whose is this?” I said it was mine and asked her if she believed Juanita Broaddrick. “Who is that?” she asked.
I replied “The woman who said she was raped by Bill Clinton in 1978.”
“I don’t know anything about that” Ms. Rodham Clinton said, still holding my card
“I sent you a videotape of the interview she gave to Dateline NBC and I’m sure you have received it, I sent it by certified mail and that’s the receipt showing your office got it that your holding.”
At some point around this time someone behind her asked my name so I told them what it was.
She gave the receipt back to me.
I asked her again if she believed Juanita Broaddrick.
“I don’t know what your talking about.” she then started going back towards the direction she had come from, away from her husband.
I had to yell so she would hear me over the music as I asserted “That’s not true!” and went on to ask her “Why are you doing this? You’ve always been so good to rape survivors.”
I was thinking about how she started Arkansas’ first rape crisis hotline and helped start its first rape crisis center. I would have loved her way back then for that.
The people around me suddenly discovered they did not like me and began making vehement requests to have someone get me out of there.
A well groomed, handsome man in a suit with one of those clear, curly wires in his ear, a Secret Service agent perhaps, grabbed both my arms above the elbow and began pushing me backwards and telling me I had to leave.
So I did. Well, I began to.
An enthusiastic, yet clueless young campaign worker invited me to take a sign up card thing so I could get campaign updates.
I declined her offer by muttering a swear phrase that encourages people to go have fun with themselves but I don’t think she heard me.
As I passed the media stage I thought I’d at least talk to some media folks and tell them my side of the story. I had printed it up on a sheet of paper I could give them.
About four guys in suits with wires in their ears were joined by an equal number of Nashua Police officers who told me I couldn’t do that. So I began to leave again..
All eight of them were kind enough to escort me toward the gate. Who says chivalry is dead?
As officers of the law, I will obey them but I couldn’t see why I was such a threat. I’m 130 or so pounds soaking wet, I was wearing a dress and heels and so upset and humiliated I’m was trying hard not to cry and not always being successful.
This was a very hard thing for me to do. I try to be polite but I also know that I must be bold and assertive as well to get the answers I want. I know my intentions are pure and this gives me confidence. At that moment, knowing my intentions were honorable, this caused me to be very angry too. I declared that the event was a sham. To me it was. If a candidate wants to earn the right of having said they were vetted by the tough, hard question asking New Hampshire citizenry, then I respond that she must earn that right. Hillary is not doing that, walking away from tough questions and not being brave enough to take random ones that a whole crowd can hear. Does she think were stupid?
As we all walked on, I was struck by the irony of what the Nashua Police were doing. I asked them how they could square what they were doing to me with what they do all day long for work, fight crime and have to kick me out when all I did was ask a tough question. I asked them how they could sleep at night.
I told them I was a polite person, I never did anything wrong. I wanted to say I’d been a Girl Scout Leader and all I ever do in life is take care of other people. I’m even doing laundry right now as I write this.
One of the men asked me what I asked about. I told them I asked about Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who said she was raped by Bill Clinton and that I couldn’t figure out why Hillary would have ever cared about 18 minutes of blank tape during the Watergate scandal but never wanted to know where her husband was on April 25, 1978, a date he will not account for and the date Broaddrick says the rape happened.
I pointedly asked one of the officers that a man running for governor would have those records, an Attorney General would have those records, right?
They world be someplace, right? No answer, I wasn’t expecting one anyway.
We got to the road and that’s when it got really weird. One of then asked me where I was parked. I pointed towards my car near the airport. Another asked me if I was ok to drive.
“What!?, yes I can drive, I’m fine to drive!” He must have thought I was nuts or he deals with so many drunks this is an automatic question..
I began to walk towards my car, I wanted to get out of there so bad.
An officer started talking about the fence, the gate or whatever but I tried to tell him “OK OK, I’m leaving, I’m leaving” but he kept trying to tell me about the gate.
I could not disobey the officer who was trying to make me listen to what he had to say so I had to walk back to him.
I said “Yes, sir yes, sir, I’m listening, I’m listening.” That’s when he told me that on the other side of the gate was state property. After I crossed over it, if I were to come back I would be arrested.
I was shocked, I’ve never even gotten a speeding ticket in my life. I said stuff like “What!?, I’ll be arrested!?”
“Why,why would you arrest me? What did I do?”and “I can’t believe this, why?”
He only said the same thing over again but this time with an emphatic “Mamn” at the beginning of his sentence.
I thought about walking to the fence as fast as a snail or coming back over just 1 inch to find out why I’d be arrested.
But that would be a high price to pay just to find out and I had to get to my job. How do you call in to get someone to cover for you because you got arrested ? I don’t want to find out. Well, my story ends there and my washing machine just stopped...

58 posted on 07/14/2007 1:18:42 AM EDT by doug from upland ((Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project))

[AwesomePossum]

Does anyone else remember when the MSM wouldn’t even cover the accusation—and then, after Lisa Myers did her interview with Juanita—NBC refused to air the interview until AFTER the impeachment vote!!!!

And, they did not air it on NBC, but instead, they aired it on one of the least watched and lowest rated cable channels, MSNBC..............now that is hard hitting journalism..............

Just another example of the MSM keeping truths from the American People as much as they possibly can.............they can "honestly" say that they covered the story, but made sure that as few people as possible saw it.............

[Lee'sGhost]

Can anyone update us on Lisa Myers?

[LibertyRocks]

Exactly, Doug. Hillary’s evasion tactics tell a lot about the truth of Juanita’s accusations, IMHO. If Hillary can’t even handle a simple question and defend her husband, then there is something definitely wrong going on...

And, in this one instance I actually feel a bit sorry for Hillary — I can’t imagine being married to someone who committed these acts, and whom I couldn’t trust enough to defend against supposedly slanderous remarks. It’s one thing to forgive a cheater and stay married — it’s another thing altogether to condone by silence a sexual offender.

Hillary really needs to clean house, IMHO... I think a lot of women deep down do not respect her decisions in this matter at all (and I don’t think it’s just Republican, or Conservative women that feel this way either...).

[doug from upland]

I’ve spoken to Lisa recently, trying to get her to do the Peter Paul story. She believes Juanita. That was the problem. The story was too credible.

[doug from upland]

It was on NBC, not cable.

[LibertyRocks]

Just a question for anyone here...

Hillary doesn’t own stock in Diebold, does she??? I sure hope there are no connections there (Gosh, how I HATE electronic voting machines...). I don’t think there are enough people who really like Hillary enough to elect her President — I don’t however consider it beyond the realm of possibility that her being elected would include some type of vote fraud.

[Tymesup]

“Neither Bill nor Hillary has ever been asked about Juanita. They have never made a comment. Who made the only comment? His atty or press sec? I think atty, but I can’t remember for sure.”

It was David Kendall who issued a denial that made for interesting parsing. He said, “The President did not assault Mrs. Broaddrick.”

First, at the time of the alleged incident, Mr. Clinton was not the President, so Kendall wasn’t lying.

Second, rape is not assault, so Kendall wasn’t lying.

Third, Juanita was married to Gary Hickey, so she wasn’t Mrs. Broaddrick, so Kendall wasn’t lying.

[Tymesup]

Juanita was probably still married to Gary Hickey at the time David Broaddrick confronted Mr. Clinton.

[nicmarlo]

It doesn't matter to whom Juanita was married at the time. The following statement is quite telling:

“Startled, Clinton pulled his hand away and said, ‘I didn’t know she was with you when that happened.’

There was no discussion about "THAT"....so, just what could THAT have possibly been except for the rape Clinton committed against her?

[LibertyRocks]

RE: Clinton's mindset...

In the same Oprah interview I quoted and linked to earlier Clinton speaks about his childhood -- raised in an abusive alcoholic family. He talks about one time where his father fired a gun at his mother when he was five-years-old, and he speaks of going to school the next day as if nothing happened.

I really think what we are seeing is a classic case of an abused child who never really "got it" , and then continues the cycle of abuse by trying to gain an increasing amount of power both personally and publicly even to the point of physically overpowering those whom he sees as "weak". (Some just KNOW what they've gone through is wrong and would never dream of doing that to someone else, and some seem to never realize it)

In Clinton's case it would also appear that he has no respect for women either -- probably another learned trait from watching his father beat on his mother.

What's even more disturbing is what he talks about in that interview and in his book about his "parallel lives". Clinton said that he falls into making these "mistakes" when he is overly stressed, and his "old demons" are haunting him. I really wonder how far the split goes in his mind... Whether it's just a learned coping mechanism, or whether he has a full-blown mental illness such as some kind of dissociative disorder (which is pretty common in survivors of childhood abuse).

He certainly exhibited some classic signs of paranoia, IMHO, when he was in office (Hillary too, as a matter of fact, with the whole "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" tripe). The quote I mentioned above fits into this as well as Clinton talks about how he was persecuted by whom he refers to as "the bad guys".

Just a layman's opinion of course, but Clinton sure makes an interesting "case study".

[Tymesup]

IIRC, Katherine Prudhomme was audited, also.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thanks and a bump.

[doug from upland]

Bill was asked once — by Sam Donaldson. He deferred to his attorney because, of course, he had to get back to his job. That would be playing with interns and selling technology to the ChiComs.

[doug from upland]

I don’t know if it was a full audit. It may have just been a communication that she owed more money.

[Mad_as_heck]

Katherine Prudhomme has shown the left what "speaking truth to power" actually looks like...

Trent Lott wouldn't stand up to a head of lettuce.

[firebrand]

We need to get the Dateline tape up on YouTube. Is there some way to do this?

[ulm1]

bump

[investigateworld]

I believe Slick is a text book case of a child being raised in a alcoholic home. Now Hillary?

What abuse was she exposed to during the formative years? Every thing I've read is her father was loving but strict.

And we've all heard the "women don't want nice guys, that's too much like Daddy" theory.

So we have to look at Hillary as someone who has a love of power to the Nth degree.

And power for what?

What's really cooking under those dyed roots on her head? Like DFU says, stopping Hillary should be a FReeper Manhattan Project.

[LibertyRocks]

Seriously, I think Hillary may just be a classic snob with a penchant for power, and status... I haven’t heard of anything bad going on in her family (but then who knows... many families have secrets and dysfunctions).

One of my best friend’s mother went to high school with Hillary, and described her as extremely snooty and mean. I know all the stories portray her as being popular, but I think we have all known the kind of person I am talking about...

I think Hillary has a very over-inflated ego frankly, and she seems to be a person that considers herself better than others, and above the law (considering all the scandals she’s been linked to). Not to mention her two-faced attitude towards women, and her fake ‘compassion’ for the poor and ‘minorities’. I think being with Bill probably pushed her even more in that direction. I think she is probably heavily into denial and such as well — probably still wishing for the “perfect” life which with Bill she will never have, and which she has to put on a good “face” for to the public. Mix that with the whole feminism streak and you’ve got a recipe for disaster, IMHO. Nothing, IMO is more dangerous than a politician who thinks they are always right, and has something to prove...

I’m currently reading Barbara Olson’s “Hell to Pay”. I haven’t gotten that far through it yet, but it is very enlightening as to the influences that have shaped Hillary’s political views — and it’s not good as we all know...

There is so much out there that makes her unfit for the Presidency (or any elected office) that it’s really a wonder to me how she has gotten so far... then again Socialism and communism has become in vogue nowadays with many in the younger generation (those who grew up AFTER the Berlin Wall fell and were never taught about the evils of Communism, etc...) — not to mention some of their parents who IMHO are simply delusional to think those political ideologies could ever work on a large scale.

Anyway, I agree with you that we need to do something even above and beyond what the Swift Boat Veterans were able to do to Kerry. This woman should NEVER get anywhere near the White House again... Somehow the public has to be told the truth about her, before it’s too late.

[Much thanks to BKO (Barbara Olson) for all her hard work exposing both the Clintons... May you rest in peace — we still miss you here at FR, and we won’t forget you!]

[DTogo]

Good points.