Posted on 10/22/2001 7:49:14 AM PDT by RooRoobird14
Monday Oct. 22, 2001; 9:20 a.m. EDT
Clinton Pitched Fit Over Hillary Boos
Ex-president Bill Clinton pitched a fit backstage at Paul McCartney's Twin Tower benefit concert Saturday night after his wife Sen. Hillary Clinton was roundly booed by the audience.
Clinton "was very vocal and pointed backstage in his displeasure about the reception for Hillary," reports New York Daily News gossip columnist Mitchell Fink. He was "not happy," Fink added euphemistically.
The ex-president became "vocal and pointed" after Mrs. Clinton was nearly hooted off the stage by concert-goers who apparently resented her attempt to horn in on an event that was staged to honor firefighters and policemen who had perished in the Twin Tower attack.
"Thank you -- thank you for being here tonight," Mrs. Clinton shouted as she struggled to be heard, before introducing a video by stand-up comic Jerry Seinfeld.
Some in the booing crowd no doubt recalled that at Hillary's nominating convention last year, Clinton-backers spit on five members of an Albany Police honor guard as they marched an American flag into the convention center.
Two months earlier, Mrs. Clinton had branded as "murderers" four New York cops who were later aquitted in the accidental shooting death of Amadou Diallo.
The sour reception mirrors the welcome Mrs. Clinton got from cops and firefighters just two days after the attacks, when she accompanied President Bush to Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.
"The cops and firemen couldn't wait to shake Bush's hand," one eyewitness told NewsMax.com exclusively. "But when Hillary came by, everyone just stood there with their arms folded. Nobody wanted to shake her hand. It was embarrassing."
The Daily News mention of Mrs. Clinton's humiliating concert reception was the only mainstream print coverage of the incident.
WABC Radio and nationally syndicated radio host Don Imus, however, did replay clips of the crowd booing Hillary from the original VH1 cablecast.
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You think this has something to do with it? (rhetorical question) Hillary's people think it's because the audience of police, firemen and concerned citizens listen to talk radio... lol.
"Thank you -- thank you for being here tonight," Mrs. Clinton shouted
Errr, excuse me, WITCH CLINTON, but this is ABOUT THEM......not YOU!
She spoke as though everyone was there to honor HER!
BOOOOOOOOOO! BOOOOOOOOOO!
regards
Gotta love them New Yorkers; when they get things right, anyway.
She has such a lovely way with all TYPES of people!
I suggest she run to the loving arms of Sahu Arafat...and the FALN, she has such few friends...and America since 9-11 has suddenly found their memory...LOOKS like the "elephants" are waking up!
"That Mr. Dorismond spent a good deal of his public life punching people is a fact.
--RUDY GIULIANI
Margaret Carlson, Nation/Campaign 2000: Who's Sorry Now? After another police killing, Giuliani offers no apologies. That gives Hillary Clinton an opening--and sparks the hottest week yet in their Senate race. , Time, 04-03-2000, pp 42+.
Uh, women have two Xs. Men have XY.
Wanna try that again?
The point the Clinton lovers miss when insulting the heros for their behavior ( which was correct) is that a major part of the evening was also to honor the firefighters, police and EMT's fallen comrades. The word honor has no meaning to the Clintoons, and the audience was just reminding them of it.
Sir, how dare you insult spoiled narcisistic teenagers everywhere. I do hope that you will repent of your faux paus.
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Exactly! That's why she chose her TV appearances so carefully before her election.
Did you know that last week when she was on Hannity & Colmes, she said she wouldn't come on there if Sean asked her ANY questions?
Sean would chew her up and spit her out.....heh heh. I'd also LOVE to also see O'Reilly interview her. Gawd, that might be good pay-for-view. LOL!
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