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Nothing phony about response to Hillary at fete
The Boston Herald ^ | 10/23/01 | Margery Eagan

Posted on 10/23/2001 3:19:34 AM PDT by Gothmog

For a month now we've refrained from taking childish, if not infantile, if not downright cheap and totally unfair shots at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - self-proclaimed virtuecrat and humanitarian, most meritorious of the meritocracy, smartest of the smart set, chief priestess of right-thinking, diversity-university, holier-than-thou know-it-alls who surely know that it takes a village and if you don't know it too you are, simply, a knuckle-dragging member of the vast right-wing conspiracy of dunces.

We've refrained, as I said. But we can keep silent no more.

Saturday night, Madison Square Garden. The Heroes of New York spot the ubiquitous pantsuit. They recoil. Like spontaneous generation, like The Wave rolling through Fenway, the boos come to life and crescendo to full throttle, all but drowning her out. ``Thank you. Thank you for being here tonight,'' says Hillary, onstage at ``The Concert for New York.'' Eight words into her greeting, she's shouting to be heard. ``Thank you for supporting New York.'' She's practically bellowing.

``Get off the stage!'' jeers a cop a few feet away.

``Thank you for your generosity.'' She's screeching.

``We don't want you here!!!'' the cop screeches back.

``On behalf of all the people who are going to need help for a very long time . . .''

And the ``anti-Clinton slurs spread and intensif(y) throughout the Garden, with many standing near the stage lobbing profanities.'' We're quoting The Drudge Report here, pardon me. But these are desperate times.

``Please join me in welcoming . . .'' And Hillary goes on bellowing but smiles as if nothing's wrong, as if she were not being pummeled by the very people we and she have canonized since Sept. 11 - New York City police and firefighters and survivors of the World Trade Center tragedy - as if she were not utterly humiliated and ready to pulverize whoever got her into this nightmare. Oh my, my, my. What a deeply satisfying moment it was.

``It's visceral for me,'' an equally thrilled fellow Hillary-hater Kevin Barry said yesterday. ``Who's she to get up on the stage?'' Who, indeed?

And who better to tell her than The Heroes, the real, regular people who apparently can't stomach her fawning phoniness anymore.

Yet according to Drudge again (sorry), a Hillary confidante labeled these same heroes as ``cops and firemen who listen to right-wing talk radio. They still think she killed Vince Foster!''

In other words, heroes when it suits her; knuckle-dragging vast right-wing conspirators when it doesn't.

In case you missed the others, this is the third post-9/11 faux pas for the first feminist who would, heaven help us, be our first female president.

Last week, a black van carrying Hillary and driven by a Secret Service agent blasted through security at a Westchester County airport, injuring a policeman who tried to stop it. First he shouted at them to stop. Then he banged on the van. ``I didn't know if we had a terrorist,'' said vigilant officer Ernest Dymond, who was briefly hospitalized. ``Once I found out who he was, I was even more agitated that he, of all people, should have known.''

Hillary was on her way to a private airplane at the time.

Then there was her petulant performance during President Bush's speech to Congress a month ago. He's talking courage, endurance, patience, love. She's grimacing, rolling her eyes, chatting away, clapping stingily, as if it hurt.

He's reassuring a shattered nation. ``The state of the union is strong.'' She looks, this newspaper said, like she's ``sucking on a lemon.''

Of course, we could cut Hillary some slack here. We could point out, for example, that many of the Heroes of New York overimbibed Saturday. We could. But we won't.

For if there's one bright side to our current horror, it's that we're drawn to what's better among us, what's higher, grander, truer and soul-enlarging - not what's prunish, greedy, grasping, cold-blooded, calculated and completely full of it. Like her.


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To: Gothmog
Since Hilliar Clintoon and her handlers have attacked the New York Heroes, would not a proper response be to begin a RECALL DRIVE to remove Clintoon from her New York Senate seat? I can see the voters of New York responding to RECALL BOOTHS manned by New York’s finest, the Firefighters, Policeman, and the Spouses of those killed at the WTC.

After the successful RECALL DRIVE then a real Senate election could be held. Of course the Republicans would nominate Rudy to run. I don’t doubt that he would be elected by a wide margin against whomever the Demoncrats ran.

121 posted on 10/23/2001 7:23:51 AM PDT by kapn kuek
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To: Crusty_Pant_Suit
OMG! I 'clicked your thingy' (sounds pretty bad, huh?) and I have tears running down my face from laughing so hard. My coworkers think I'm nuts! Thank you for the biggest belly laugh I've had since 9/11!
122 posted on 10/23/2001 7:24:04 AM PDT by LibertyGirl77
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To: Gothmog
For if there's one bright side to our current horror, it's that we're drawn to what's better among us, what's higher, grander, truer and soul-enlarging - not what's prunish, greedy, grasping, cold-blooded, calculated and completely full of it. Like her.

Great article!

123 posted on 10/23/2001 7:28:16 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: LibertyGirl77
EXCELLENT....Shrillary bombs in NY and bin laden is bombed in Afghanistan....

I have a spring in my walk this morning....

Send copies of article to all the major print lefties

124 posted on 10/23/2001 7:28:22 AM PDT by spokeshave
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To: Gothmog
am I the only one who caught this?

First he shouted at them to stop. Then he banged on the van. ``I didn't know if we had a terrorist,'' said vigilant officer Ernest Dymond, who was briefly hospitalized. ``Once I found out who he was, I was even more agitated that he, of all people, should have known.''

Is he calling Hitlery a HE?

125 posted on 10/23/2001 7:31:39 AM PDT by Frank Grimes
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To: Frank Grimes
Unfortunately, he is referring to the Secret Service officer/Hillary's chauffeur.
126 posted on 10/23/2001 7:33:13 AM PDT by LibertyGirl77
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To: 41Thunder
Think of it this way, That was the best Freepin'Yet of Hildabeast!

Seen by many MILLIONS!

127 posted on 10/23/2001 7:39:47 AM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: Copperhead61; connectthedots
I think the Boston Herald is to the Boston Globe as the Washington Times is to the Washington (Bleep). Isn't that right, ctd?
128 posted on 10/23/2001 7:42:04 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: Aquinasfan
No, but I should have the first hour and a half on my yesterday's tape of Rush; I didn't get that far listening to it (if I had remembered so great a likely topic, I would have).
129 posted on 10/23/2001 7:43:16 AM PDT by maryz
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To: maryz
I have been reading Margery Eagan's columns for years and she is one of the few liberal/feminists who actually have a little common sense. She saw through Bill and Hillary's phoniness from the start and I give her credit for that.

I am now so glad that HRC won the senate seat last year. It puts her front and center so that the whole world (including NYC) can see her for the grasping, phoney-baloney shrew that she is. As an elected representative of the people, she is fair game and she'll finally be held accountable for her actions. No longer will she be able to "hide and bake cookies" like she did in the Clinton White House.

Had Hillary lost to Lazio last year, she would be out of the limelight right now and would undoubtably surface again at some later time to run for president or something. After four or eight years of obscurity, she'd be able to fool the people again. Now she doesn't have even a remote chance to be president, thank God. The people have got her number now.

130 posted on 10/23/2001 7:45:33 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: maryz
If you're not from Boston, you may be shocked to learn that Margery Eagan is a member of the VLWC. She's an ultra-liberal, who occasionally stumbles upon common sense.

Sorta like those blind squirrels finding acorns and broken clocks being right twice a day.

131 posted on 10/23/2001 7:47:01 AM PDT by mc5cents
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To: Gothmog
Great Post!!!!
C
132 posted on 10/23/2001 7:48:39 AM PDT by Fiddlstix
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To: Gothmog

133 posted on 10/23/2001 7:52:46 AM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: Gothmog
I saw it! I cried! It was the most beautiful moment on TV! You could hardly hear her for the BOOOOS!!!! It was magnificient! If Hitlery didn't know before that night how she is hated, she surely knows now.
134 posted on 10/23/2001 7:55:19 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: Gothmog
Hurrah!! Bump.
135 posted on 10/23/2001 8:00:04 AM PDT by ericthecurdog
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To: Gothmog
Overkill? Are you kidding? I want more.
136 posted on 10/23/2001 8:11:31 AM PDT by paul51
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To: ericthecurdog
you all must read this again BTTT!! hehe
138 posted on 10/23/2001 8:17:02 AM PDT by PeterBarringer
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To: Gothmog
Maybe some of the leading campus "intellects" should gather together and ponder what Livia Rodham has done to make people hate her so much.
139 posted on 10/23/2001 8:21:03 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Gothmog
I wasn't there so let me add mine: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
140 posted on 10/23/2001 8:21:15 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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