Posted on 05/17/2008 7:42:28 PM PDT by Richard Poe
| by Richard Lawrence Poe Saturday, May 17, 2008 |
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HILLARY CAN still win the Democratic nomination, provided the superdelegates vote for her. I think they will. Over 60 percent are men, and men cannot resist Hillary.
Granted, Hillary is no spring chicken. Her fleshly allure has diminished over time. But Hillary has other ways of bending men to her will.
Consider her effect upon journalist David Brock. A ruthless political dirt-digger for the right, Brock nearly toppled the Clinton White House. His Troopergate story in the American Spectator triggered the Paula Jones lawsuit, leading to Bill Clinton's impeachment. Yet, when Brock trained his sights on Hillary, he suddenly went soft.
In 1994, the Free Press awarded Brock a million-dollar advance to write a Hillary exposé. Brock slowly fell under Hillary's spell, as he wrote. In Brock's words, he began to "sympathize with the trials and tribulations she faced, and even to see a kind of beauty" in her soul. "In finding Hillary Clinton’s humanity, I was beginning to find my own", he later wrote.
Released in October 1996, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham turned out to be a whitewash, portraying Hillary as an idealist saddled with an unworthy husband.
Brock didn't stop there. He publicly renounced conservatism in the July 1997 Esquire. Then he wrote a book smearing his former conservative friends and colleagues as crooks, liars, drunkards, dopers, philanderers, closet homosexuals and "right-wing fag hags", in Brock's memorable phrase.
Hillary knows how to return a favor. In 2003, she set up her own personal think tank, the Center for American Progress, with $3 million from Wall Street billionaire George Soros. One of the Center's first priorities was to give David Brock a job.
Hillary's Center helped launch Media Matters for America, an activist group dedicated to fighting conservative influence in the media. Brock was put in charge of it. Hillary's former enemy had become her lapdog. Such is the power of Hillary's charm.
Hillary worked a similar transformation on Richard Mellon Scaife. During the 1990s, the Pittsburgh philanthropist and newspaper publisher spent millions trying to expose Clinton wrongdoing through lawsuits and grants to journalists. Time magazine dubbed Scaife "king of the Clinton haters".
Those days are over. Following a March 25 meeting this year with Senator Clinton, Scaife wrote in his newspaper, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, that the meeting had "changed my mind about her".
In an April 20 editorial, Scaife's Tribune-Review endorsed Hillary for president.
Hillary's most impressive conquest to date is Rupert Murdoch, whose $60-billion media empire encompasses Fox News and the New York Post. When Hillary ran for reelection to the Senate in 2006, Murdoch stunned New Yorkers by endorsing her, even holding a Hillary fundraiser at his headquarters in Manhattan.
Fox News has become Hillary's favorite network. Her campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe praised Fox in a May 13 interview on Fox & Friends. McAuliffe complained that "90 percent" of mainstream media favored Obama. By contrast, he noted gratefully, "Fox has been one of the most responsible in this presidential campaign".
What is Hillary's secret? By what alchemy does she transform bitter enemies into loyal operatives? Cynics might argue that Hillary employs methods more forceful than her winning personality.
They might note, for instance, that the last Clinton administration sicced the Federal Communications Commission on Murdoch, nearly putting his Fox Network out of business. At age 77, Murdoch may no longer have the stomach for that sort of fight.
Dick Scaife likewise felt the Clintons' wrath. From 1993 to 1997, he gave $1.8 million to the American Spectator to fund investigative reportage on the Clintons. Such grants are perfectly legal, yet the Clinton Justice Department subjected Scaife and the American Spectator to a 14-month criminal investigation. No prosecutions resulted, but Clinton critics felt the chill.
The American Spectator had already suffered years of harassment, including several suspicious break-ins. Founder and editor-in-chief Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. later wrote, "The pressure was enormous. [David] Brock was the earliest to crack under the strain."
Plainly, Hillary's enemies-turned-friends have other possible motives for switching sides than mere puppy-dog infatuation. In fact, they have every reason to fear Mrs. Clinton. Staying on her good side may be a matter of simple survival for them.
This brings us back to the superdelegates. Most are leaning toward Obama, at this point. But convention rules allow them to change their minds right up till the end.
However she managed it, Hillary did get Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Scaife to join her team. Persuading the superdelegates seems a small task by comparison.
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Richard Lawrence Poe is a contributing editor to Newsmax, an award-winning journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. His latest book is The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Siezed Control of the Democratic Party, co-written with David Horowitz. |
I know this is off the wall, but I couldn’t help wondering about Ted Kennedy’s recent seizures.
I know he openly endorsed Obama, which infuriated Hillary & Co. Then I remembered all the others in the past who somehow crossed the Clintons & ended up dead or in a bad situation.
Maybe it’s not a “hypnotic hold,” rather some spooky jinx. Just my .02, but I find it creepy & weird.
titter!
BUT—having said all that , if he’s serious, at bottom , about Hillary , for whatever combination of reasons, NOT being out of it altogether, I would have to agree-—I have been saying this for 3 months, since the beginning of the big Obama surge, and as every day goes by the MSM is putting another nail in her coffin, and offering up yet another logical argument for why it’s just IMPOSSIBLE for her to get the nomination. I don’t think so.
I wonder if Hillary has a strange hold on me, too? I think it started about the time Sen. McCain became our nominee.
and are festooned with rhinestones.
I never noticed the couple at the sides of the church door before!
Those you mention had a lot to lose.
You can only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power-he’s free again.
— Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
“Yet, when Brock trained his sights on Hillary, he suddenly went soft.”
Sounds like “soft” in this context is a euphemism for FLACID! Hilary can take the magic out of any “wand”!!! LOL!
Funniest article in a long while. Might even say Hill-arious.
How does he know he’s facing the right direction?
“”Dammit, Janet!”
I never noticed the couple at the sides of the church door before! “
That is only natural, probably none of us remember Susan Sarandon’s taught, firm, pert, breasts in that white bra either, it is only human to miss insignificant details in movies.
Political operatives in the FBI handed over 1100 confidential files to Hillary when she was running the White House.
Although it is illegal to posses even one single file, no one was punished.
Thise files contain all the dirt on her enemies that she needs.
I once thought that people who insisted on calling her “Hitlery” were over the top in a juvenile way, that doing so was counter productive to those opposed to her corruption and perfidy. I no longer feel that way.
As a man, sometimes I am just ashamed of myself for no obvious reason.
LOL!
OK, that’s one of the funniest pictures I’ve seen. Thanks for making my day.
The FBI files?
You beat me to it. ;^)
It happens to almost everyone and is the main reason Big Bill had to call in Web Hubbell.
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