Posted on 10/29/2007 3:32:32 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
WASHINGTON (AP) - First came the Orwellian mash up YouTube video that portrayed Hillary Rodham Clinton as Big Brother. Then came a clip of her off-key rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Now, a stinging 13-minute video by a bitter Clinton foe is finding its own Internet audience.
The clip, a preview of a longer film by one-time Clinton donor Peter Paul, has scored more than 1.4 million hits on Google Video and about 350,000 on YouTube during the past week. Its popularity has driven it to the top spot on Google Video over the past two weeks.
Paul is a Hollywood entrepreneur, former partner of Spider-Man creator Stan Lee and convicted felon who has sued the Clintons in connection with a celebrity-packed fundraiser he helped organize for her 2000 Senate race. A California appeals court earlier this month ruled that Sen. Clinton should be dismissed from the suit.
But Paul has devoted a Web site to the case and has been on tour in recent days showing his film, "Hillary Uncensored," at New England College campuses. On Tuesday, he is scheduled to screen it at the Metropolitan Club in New York City.
The Clintons have long argued that Paul's criminal record discredits him and in court pleadings have denied Paul's claims against them.
"Peter Paul is a professional liar who has four separate criminal convictions, two for fraud. His video repackages a series of seven- year-old false claims about Senator Clinton that have already been rejected by the California state courts, the Justice Department, the Federal Election Commission, and the Senate Ethics Committee," the Clinton campaign said in a statement.
Paul's anti-Clinton effort is getting help from two technical producers who set up the Web site for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the 2004 campaign that went after Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry by raising questions about his decorated military service in Vietnam.
Robert Hahn and Scott Swett operate http://www.HillCAP.org, the Web site that Paul set up in 2005 to showcase court documents, videos and news articles related to his lawsuit. The video trailer "Hillary Uncensored," and the schedule for the movie are prominently displayed on the site.
Among those featured in the video speaking in support of Paul is David Schippers, who served as chief investigative counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during President Clinton's 1998 impeachment hearings.
In his lawsuit and in the film, Paul says he spent $1.9 million for the August 2000 Hollywood fundraiser that featured such stars as Brad Pitt, Diana Ross and Cher. Paul maintains he organized the event because President Clinton falsely agreed to assist him in a new venture with Stan Lee after leaving the presidency in January 2000.
Campaign reports filed with the Federal Election Commission estimated the cost of the event at about $500,000. An ensuing criminal trial of Clinton's former national finance director, David Rosen, on charges that he lied to the FEC about the fundraiser resulted in an acquittal. At the time, Rosen's lawyer said Paul concealed the actual cost of the event from Rosen, a claim Paul denies.
The complexities of the case are all fodder for the video clip and the movie, spiced with clips of Hollywood performers.
"Her abuse of her power as reflected in my case should make everybody pause about entrusting her with the reins of government," Paul said in an interview.
Paul is awaiting sentencing on his 2005 guilty plea to charges of stock fraud involving Stan Lee Media, the company Paul had wanted Clinton to join. In the 1970s, he was convicted of cocaine possession and of attempting to defraud the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
Swett, who is running Paul's HillCAP Web site, said the video has helped drive more traffic to the Web site, but that the activity is far less frequent than it was on the site he operated for Swift Boat Veterans in 2004.
"Then it was in the final months before the election and we're a year out at this point," he said. "There's a lot of complexity to the Peter Paul lawsuit. You have to read through some of the documents to get a handle on it. That was less the case with the charges that the Swift Boat Veterans and POWs were making against John Kerry."
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The drive bys are trying to catch up on their way to extinction.
They cover what they cover when, as, and if it suits them.
Obviously this is going to be spun in clinton's favor, so it's OK to acknowledge it.
The Clintons have long argued that Paul’s criminal record discredits him and in court pleadings have denied Paul’s claims against them.
However, those same rules do not apply to people like Sandy Berger, or William Jefferson, now do they????
It seems many of the ‘Clinton admin’ officials had to be convicted felons to get accepted into the fold.
The cocaine conviction. This coming from a woman and her husband who were laundering $30 MILLION DOLLARS A DAY from cocaine deals out of Mena Arkansas, giving buckets of cocaine to 14 year old girls in trade for sex.
You have officially crossed over the thresh hold in the MSM from fringe complainer, to real news.
I wonder if anyone can find that clip. Probably Rush.
of course he is. that's why the clintons mixed with him.
might want hire a bodyguard/witness, Mr. Paul.
Be afraid. These people are just about unstoppable.
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We’re trying to keep HillCAP running right now. This article is drawing a fair amount of traffic.
David Rosen was acquitted because the Judge was a CLINTON appointed Judge! Talk about a stacked deck - come on!
If the MSM is running with it, then it must be good for the Clintons to have it out there. Why would the MSM try to destroy them?
The MSM isn't completely monolithic, though it sometimes seems that way. This reporter filed a pretty straight article, and the quotes he used from me are accurate.
Oh I know that. but then why does talk radio make it sound so?
Because it's a pretty accurate first approximation...
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