This should settle it ... surely the publisher got it right ...... it's Olson.
Posted on 10/07/2001 8:17:56 PM PDT by CommiesOut
| MONDAY OCTOBER 08 2001 |
| 'Obscenely corrupt' Clintons savaged from beyond grave |
| FROM MARTIN FLETCHER IN WASHINGTON |
| ONE of Washington’s most prominent and outspoken conservatives is about to shatter the capital’s political truce with a book savaging Bill and Hillary Clinton for the way they left the White House. Barbara Olson is utterly beyond reproach, however. She died on one of the hijacked aircraft on September 11. Mrs Olson, 45, wife of Ted Olson, the US Solicitor-General, finished The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House just days before she boarded American Airlines Flight 77 to Los Angeles at Washington’s Dulles airport. She had delayed her departure overnight so that she could see her husband on his 61st birthday. In the few minutes before the aircraft crashed into the Pentagon Mrs Olson twice managed to telephone her husband, making reverse charge calls. The first time she said the aircraft had been hijacked, the second that the passengers and crew had been herded to the back. “What can I tell the pilot?” she asked before being cut off a second time. Her book claims to tell “the whole shocking story of a manic Clinton White House consumed with self-enrichment, gifts, pardons, federal land grabs and an orgy of spending and regulating. If the Clinton Administration was the most corrupt in American history, here was its most obscenely corrupt moment.” It pulls no punches, which presented an obvious problem for Regnery, Mrs Olsen’s conservative publisher. Since September 11 the partisan sniping that is such a central feature of life in Washington has ended and Republicans and Democrats have put on an unprecedented show of unity. The company suspended the printing and conferred with Mr Olson. Finally it decided to proceed. “Barbara never shied away from controversy,” Alfred Regnery, its president, said. “Her family, friends and colleagues all thought she would be pleased to know that even terrorists could not keep her opinions from being known . . . She never would have countenanced the thought that terrorism could still her voice or cancel her work.” In fact, Regnery not only decided to proceed with the printing, but increased the run to more than 100,000 copies. The book will not reach the shops until late this week, but has already reached number 36 on Amazon’s bestseller list on the basis of advance orders. The dedication reads: “To My Best Friend, Ted.” An envelope in each copy invites readers to donate to the Barbara Olson Memorial Scholarship Fund. Mrs Olson worked as an investigator for Congressional Republicans during the Clinton scandals of the 1990s, wrote a caustic book on Hillary Clinton called Hell to Pay and became a combative television pundit. She named her two dogs Reagan and Maggie. Her husband is an equally controversial figure. He led the legal team that blocked a recount of Florida’s presidential election votes, thereby ensuring George Bush’s victory, and Democratic senators believe that he was a pivotal figure in what Mrs Clinton once labelled a “vast right-wing conspiracy” to discredit her husband. |
Yeah. It will be interesting to see how the Clinton dirt machine tries to smear BKO. I have no doubt they will try.
(And let them try - - I bet Ted and the Justice Department are loaded for bear.)
Just imagine what she would be saying about Condit taking out petitions!
This should settle it ... surely the publisher got it right ...... it's Olson.
I trust someone will refer Mrs. Clinton to her wasting no time in using the tragedy for personal benefit and to further the homosexual agenda:
And if a photo came out of him actually doing this, I don't think a single one of us here at FR would be in the least bit surprised.
I think you will be surprised! It may not shock you any more than the Clintoon's disgusting self-promotion after 9/11, but it will definitely shock you at least as much. It may not be worse, but it will likely be different, and new, information for most.
What surprised me was the fact that the publishing house stopped the presses on it! Most contracts for commissioned books have an "unexpected death" clause that states that the work will be published, regardless. It seems cold, but they have to make sure they recoup their advances, and the authors do sign the contracts fully aware of that clause. I'm sure the only reason they stopped the presses was out of respect for Barbara, and not out of fear of reprisal. It was a major relief to find that they had decided to continue with publication.
Most definitely, Barbara is the Patron Saint of FReepers. She may have been shy, but not when it came to defending America and promoting causes she believed in. She found her voice then, and it was strong, intelligent, and right! May God bless her, Ted, her family, and legions of friends! She was one of the best good guys there ever was, and she will be missed.
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