Washington Post Column: The character assassination of Hillary Clinton

Washington Post ^ | 01/01/2013 | Kathleen Parker

[prairiebreeze]

But the attacks on Clinton during her illness, essentially attacks on her character, have been cruel and unfair. What must the world think of us?

As if there wasn't plenty in her past to question her character about.

Better call Kathleen Parker a waaaaambulance.

[Nuc 1.1]

Clinton is a lying scum bag, completely without character. Don't boo hoo about her rough treatment Parker. She made her bed.

[driftless2]

In 2008 Parker said Hillary was “thoroughly qualified” to be president. This despite Hillary having an almost identical program to Obama’s. Whatever Parker is, she’s no conservative.

[freekitty]

Ms. Parker, this is a woman that would not stoop to help her fellow American under any circumstances. Please don’t push this crap on us.

[jivin gene]

“You are not “journalists”. You are slobbering, agenda-driven, propaganda-selling, useful idiots for a new Politburo.”

Obviously, they have forgotton what Hitler did with his “useful idiots”, when they ceased to be useful. The cattle-cars are being prepped, as we speak.

[Mouton]

Lets not forget the missing Rose law firm billing records.

[gaijin]

1. My plane got shot at by snipers —we had to duck and run like heck for cover.

2. I was named after Sir Edmund Hillary.

3. The filthy loot I made from cattle futures? I simply read the Wall Street Journal —and turned $1,000 into over $100,000 in almost NO time. And with no previous experience. While regulating top commodity futures officials.

4. The Rose Law Firm billing records? Yeah, they turned up after 11 months in my office. Yeah, they literally had my fingerprints on them. Uh...we just didn’t SEE them.

5. I never knew about Kathleen Willey. Or Juanita Broadderick. Or Gennifer Flowers. I have never had knowledge of my husband’s infidelity, and no I am not a lesbian. No, my marriage with Bill is not “a bargain”. No, Chelsea’s dad is not Webb Hubbell. I’m not in a lesbian affair with a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

[clearcarbon]

I suppose blaming GWB or Dick Cheney for her condition would have ruined the tone of the article.

[ozzymandus]

Why is this leftie surprised that nobody believes anything a congenital liar like Hillary says?

[Boogieman]

Don’t you have to have some character before it can be assassinated?

Then there’s this:

“Again, Clinton may well prefer to miss her day before the firing squad, but it is unlikely that doctors or a hospital would assist a secretary of state — or anyone — in concocting a fake affliction.”

Lawyers have no problem finding doctors everywhere in America who are willing to diagnose fake afflictions on demand to support injury claims. Politicians often suffer some convenient injuries or afflictions when they need sympathy, like Teddy Kennedy’s convenient neck brace, or Jessie Jackson Jr’s convenient mental illness. Ordinary citizens doctor shop and malinger to the point where it costs businesses and insurance companies billions of dollars a year, and any schmoe in California can get a fake diagnosis and prescription for pot. Yet Hillary, who is supposedly the shrewdest woman in American politics, can’t get a doctor’s note to cover her behind?

[scott7278]

Poor widdle ol’ Hillary...because apparently character asassination is worse than the actual assassinations she had carried out.

Liberal women, for feigning strength, sure play the victim card well.

[ApplegateRanch]

The character assassination of Hillary Clinton?!?

Since when can one assassinate a dead turnip?

[Rummyfan]

How do you perform a character assasination on someone who has no character?

[trebb]

After 9-11, Kathleen sounded almost sane for a little while. I guess she’s “conflicted” between her heart and her brains and her heart has taken over - it takes two mops to clean up all the blood that bleeds out.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Lawyers have no problem finding doctors everywhere in America who are willing to diagnose fake afflictions on demand to support injury claims.

Hillary’s character aside, do you honestly believe her blood clot is FAKE?

[Boogieman]

I have no idea, but if she wanted to get a Doctor to just say she had a blood clot, I’m sure she would have no problem finding one to do that for her. I certainly wouldn’t put it past her to fake an illness for her own benefit, either.

[Jabba the Nutt]

To assassinate a character, the person has to have character. Hillary Clinton has been a corrupt, lying sack of manure from her days as first lady and Vince Foster law partner in Little Rock.

Hillary has to prove the truth of whatever she says, she has lost any benefit of the doubt.

Bill Safire determined that Hillary was a congenital liar. That's the baseline for Hillary: She lies.