Posted on 12/15/2007 9:20:05 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Gail Collins might not be as crude as Billy Shaheen. But in her own Grey Lady way, the NY Times columnist has recycled the insinuation that transformed Shaheen into an ex-Hillary co-chair.
Let's first have a look at Shaheen's statement, as reported by the Washington Post:
"The Republicans are not going to give up without a fight ... and one of the things they're certainly going to jump on is his drug use." Shaheen said Obama's candor on the subject would "open the door" to further questions. "It'll be, 'When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?'" Shaheen said. "There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It's hard to overcome."
Compare and contrast with this paragraph from the end of Collins's column of today, "Barack’s Blast From the Past" [emphasis added]:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Gail Collins keeping Shaheen smear alive. Ping to Today show list.
Guilty
I always enjoy watching Democrats smear each other.
“DID BILL CLINTON OVERDOSE ON COCAINE?”
By Christopher Ruddy
September, 1999
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37edb5185038.htm
“Now that the press has raised the “coke” question in their dogged pursuit of George W. Bush, questions about Bill Clinton’s drug past are also fair game.
One area of inquiry for the news hounds at, let’s say, the Washington Post, might be an incident that supposedly took place in the early 1980’s when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas.
Dr. Sam Houston, a respected Little Rock physician and once a doctor for Hillary’s cantankerous father, Hugh Rodham, says it is well known in Little Rock medical circles that Clinton was brought to a Little Rock hospital for emergency treatment for an apparent cocaine overdose.
According to Houston, who told us he spoke to someone intimately familiar with the details of what happened that night, Clinton arrived at the hospital with the aid of a state trooper. Hillary Clinton had been notified by phone and had instructed the hospital staff that Clinton’s personal physician would be arriving soon.
When Mrs. Clinton arrived, she told both of the resident physicians on duty that night that they would never again practice medicine in the United States if word leaked out about Clinton’s drug problem. Reportedly, she pinned one of the doctors up against the wall, both hands pressed against his shoulders, as she gave her dire warning.
Like most tales that reflect poorly on Bill Clinton, the press has ignored any inquiry into this one. In 1996, however, columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell located and telephoned one of the nurses who had been on duty the night Bill Clinton was brought into the emergency room. According to Tyrrell, the nurse didn’t deny the story, but said she couldn’t talk about it because she could lose her job. Welcome to Arkansas.”
But all eyes were on the guy who said Bush used cocaine in college or wherever it was)
Didn’t Molly Ivins write about it in one of her BushBashingBooks and get the Red Carpet from Katie and Matt, and Brian, and Wolfe, and Charlie, and Bob, a
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Bet she’s well connected to the Clinton Chinese Mafia War Room. Problem is it is backfiring on The Wicked Witch of NY. Reminds the people of the Politics of Personal Destruction and the War Room.
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
Thanks for your work and for posting propagandist’s pictures to go with their work.
Giggle. I don’t believe the Republicans brought this up. I believe it was the Clintons. And that’s like opening the door to Billy the rapist since he has been known to do cocaine.
a lib/dem nyslimes so-called journalist sliming another lib/dem black...how did she get off the plantation...and ya know what I’m talkin about!!!!
Do you HAVE to keep posting that picture ?
She’s another lesbian I presume.
There’s just something about those pageboy haircuts.
I wonder why they called them pageboy haircuts?
Is it a LAW that Liberals HAVE to be UGLY??
It’s their lifestyle that makes them UGLY.
Seems Gail Collins has been a Hillerite for a while.
Gail Collins’s Op-Ed column offers some observations on US Senate race in New York between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Repr Rick Lazio
October 24, 2000
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