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Hillary Clinton Laid Bare
NewsMax.com ^ | 11/16/01 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 11/16/2001 1:22:43 PM PST by kattracks

It was a rare Kodak media moment.

New York Senator Hillary Clinton discussed in a no-holds-barred fashion on national TV - in a way that made it clear neither she nor her husband would have ever been elected dog catcher, let alone to high national office, but for the protection of the mainstream media's praetorian guard.

Such was the drama that unfolded Thursday night, as Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly dissected Sen. Clinton's performance in the wake of the 9/11 disaster.

Newsmax.com was there, as NewsMax columnist former congressman Dan Frisa crossed swords with Hillary surrogate Geraldine Ferraro - no debating slouch she - in a performance that laid bare one of the great political charades of our time.

The telling confrontation will no doubt go unmentioned elsewhere. And so NewsMax.com offers the transcript in full:

O'REILLY: Has the junior senator from New York, Hillary Clinton, been effective in the aftermath of the terror attacks? She has kept a remarkably low profile. She took some criticism for her mannerisms during the president's speech right after the attack and then she was roundly booed at the benefit concert for the police and firefighters at Madison Square Garden. (Clip showing Hillary being booed.)

Not a good moment for Mrs. Clinton. And she was also MIA at the World Series. With us now is Fox News analyst Geraldine Ferraro, a former congressperson from New York - as is Dan Frisa. Of course, Mr. Frisa is a Republican, Ms. Ferraro's a Democrat.

O'REILLY: So what has Hillary Clinton done in the two months since the attack?

FERRARO: Well, let me comment on both of those tapes that you just put out before I give you that. She was booed, you're right, at that event. Politicians do not do well at sports events or at rock concerts.

O'REILLY: But no other politician was booed ...

FERRARO: I was booed at a Knicks game while I was sitting in a paid seat. I had paid for it.

O'REILLY: That's because you were rooting for the Sixers.

FERRARO (laughing) Well, let me tell you ...

O'REILLY: Look, George Pataki wasn't booed. Giuliani wasn't booed. Even Bill Clinton wasn't booed.

FERRARO: Let me tell you what - they didn't boo when she was down at Ground Zero expressing sympathy. They didn't boo when she got $20 billion and pushed that legislation. They didn't boo when she authored legislation to have a 9/11 stamp that will give money to the families from that stamp ...

O'REILLY: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Give me one specific thing, Ms. Ferraro, give me one specific thing she's done for New York state since 9/11.

FERRARO: Well, what she's done is she has been the person who has pushed most - she and Chuck Schumer, you can't just say just Hillary - the two of them have pushed for the $20 billion ...

O'REILLY: It was a unanimous vote. You didn't have to push for that. It was a unanimous vote.

FERRARO: Hey, wait a minute. How does it get introduced? How is it moved? How is it unanimous? It's not automatic.

O'REILLY: I could have got Blinky the hamburger guy. Blinky the hamburger guy could have introduced that and it would have gotten passed. Anything else besides that?

FERRARO: No, no, absolutely not. In order to figure out what was going on with the Republicans in the Senate, she did get a unanimous vote.

O'REILLY: She didn't do it. Everybody voted for that. Blinky could have got it done.

FERRARO: Oh, Bill - it doesn't - he'll tell you things don't happen automatically in the Congress.

FRISA: No, I gotta side with Blinky on this one, Bill. Anybody could have gotten that passed.

FERRARO: Oh, God ...

FRISA: It was a disaster. It was a horror show. The president called Hillary and Chuck Schumer to the White House and said, "What do you need - you got it."

FERRARO: Were you there when she ...

FRISA: She didn't carry any water on that one.

O'REILLY: Wait a minute. They went back for another $10 billion and they got defeated. They got defeated, right? So Hillary didn't pull that one out of the fire, did she?

FERRARO: Listen, you know what? The thing that happens is when you go down to the Senate, you are a hundred people and she is one of the hundred. She is representing New York state ...

O'REILLY: But what has she done?

FERRARO: She brings - I'm telling you, you wouldn't let me finish - she authored legislation to have a stamp that will end up - it's a 9/11 stamp that will end up taking all the ...

O'REILLY: A stamp?

FERRARO: It's a postal service, a postage stamp. So when it's sold, that money will go to the families of the victims. She has authored legislation that will allow for the victims' families to have mental health services.

O'REILLY: That's already been taken care of.

FERRARO: What more do you ...

O'REILLY: Oh, I'm glad you asked that. What more ...

FERRARO: Well, what do you want?

O'REILLY: Here's what I want. Mrs. Clinton ...

FERRARO: She also brought 40 senators down to Ground Zero so they would vote for that ...

O'REILLY: Blinky could have brought them down.

FERRARO: Oh, come on.

O'REILLY: Wait, wait ...

FERRARO: But Blinky did not, she did.

O'REILLY: He didn't have Secret Service clearance. Mrs. Clinton has not visited one family that has been affected by the terror. Not one. She did not go to one funeral.

FERRARO: Yes, she did. She gave the eulogy at the chaplain, Chaplain Judge's services.

O'REILLY: I'm talking about the folks here. Not the regular - she didn't go to one family. Not visit one. She didn't go to one of the funerals of any of the folks. Can you defend that?

FERRARO: I most certainly can. You know, she's down in the Senate doing her work. Now let me also say ...

O'REILLY: Wait. I gotta let Frisa get in here. Go ahead.

FRISA: I think that's a poor excuse. I mean, the Senate is not in five days a week or six days a week or seven days a week. She could have certainly attended some of those funerals.

The other thing is she has not comported herself with the dignity that we've come to expect from a United States senator. She's actually hurting New York's case by making comments that blame the Bush tax cut for us not being able to respond appropriately after 9/11. She's also made comments using this tragedy to try and gain sympathy for herself by saying that Chelsea was in a position where she could have been hurt - where she was not.

FERRARO: Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on one minute, Oh, come on.

FRISA: Chelsea herself admitted in Talk magazine ...

O'REILLY: Let's give Ms. Ferraro the last word.

FERRARO: The child was down there. As a mother, as a father, the two of them did not know where Chelsea was and they did what every parent did, which is they went to a panic mode.

FRISA: But every parent didn't make up a story, Gerry, about where their daughter was.

FERRARO: They didn't make up a story. They both agreed that ...

FRISA: She did. She made it up that Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center [when] she was 30 blocks uptown.

FERRARO: They both agreed that she was downtown. Whether she was jogging or she was walking, it doesn't make any difference.

O'REILLY: All right. We gotta go. But I was just amazed that she didn't visit one family, not one. (End of segment)

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To: Jim Robinson
"Hillary Clinton Laid Bare"

Uhmm, Jim...?

You got a Sidebar Moderator who can pull the image out of my head brought on by this title?

;-)

No? Hey...it was worth a shot!

61 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:45 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: Diogenesis
Re: the photo of Beastie sitting in the House during one of the greatest moments in the entire history of this nation.
Imagine that YOU are the Senator of New York. The greatest city in the world, your city, has been attacked in a way that only a work of fiction could produce. YOU are sitting among the strongest leaders in the world and a great president is delivering the strongest speech one might ever hear in the English language. A moment when the entire civilized world is holding it's collective breath.

How COULD you stare vacantly, eyes dazed, clap limply and out of synch with the rest of the world? What possible condition could you be in to act so flaccidly amidst such energy?

I'm not a doctor, but I like to play one. The women is stoned. She's over medicated, alcoholic, and mixes prescriptions with vodka. She takes uppers, downers, vodka, she mixes prozac, xanex, vodka, a diet pill, then some more vodka. She's like an old rocker who can't figure out why the pills don't work any more. Then she drinks a port wine chaser.

Gee, I hoped nobody is shocked, I'm shocked!, when it is "revealed" that most of her trips are to de-tox farms.

How can anybody be so naive as to defend this druggie?

62 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:48 PM PST by GalvestonGal.com
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To: kattracks; sirgawain; Texaggie79; dead

Newly installed cameras throughout US Senate offices
create new deterrents in the war against terrorism.


63 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:48 PM PST by Mr. Bungle
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To: kattracks
LOL I thought this was a thread of those nude photos of Hillary with her girl friends.

Sorry! Carry on........

64 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:49 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: listenhillary
There was a report earlier that Socks the cat died. Someone was saying that the cat was found frozen to death. Apparently the cat made the fatal mistake of falling asleep in Hitlery's lap.
65 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:50 PM PST by bray
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To: Mr. Bungle
Yuck. Let's go in the other direction.


66 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:50 PM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: monocle
No - you can not make a reasonable argument. As I recall, after being booed off the stage, she jumped in a private plane and went to France. Really doing a lot of work for the families in Gay Paree. Anyway, this conversation is a waste of time. Everyone here knows she was never going to do squat for NY. The media knows this as well but are just to cowardly to admit to it.
67 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:50 PM PST by 7thson
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To: sirgawain
"Yuck. Let's go in the other direction."

I think you might cause a fissure in space/time if you juxtapose those images too closely.

68 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:50 PM PST by Mr. Bungle
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To: NYpeanut
Don't worry about anyone posting a picture of HRC bare. Jim Rob would NEVER let that happen. He loves us too much.
69 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:51 PM PST by Enough_Deceit
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To: KentuckyWoman
You've got to see this one....

Hitlery can drag ol' Crusty to the Letterman Show, but won't even send a Glossy B/W 8x10 to Mr. BIll

Instead, she inlists Geraldine, sans Killer, to talk for her....

...................... I wonder....what was she and Reno doing while Geraldine was Floundering before millions....?

70 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:52 PM PST by Alabama_Wild_Man
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To: PJ-Comix
I'll be breaking a BIG STORY next week about Chelsea's true 9-11 activities.

Any chance of getting on your ping list for that one? Otherwise, I might break my F5 key refreshing the Latest Posts page every 15 seconds.
71 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:53 PM PST by Xenalyte
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To: monocle
But wait, didn't she wear a Yankees baseball hat during the election? Yup, she did, but couldn't make the game for fear of the boo-birds. O'Reilly also showed the Witch while she disdainfully looked on while President Bush spoke to Congress. She looked as evil as she really is. Oh, and Ferraro is a known, dumocrap loser.
72 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:53 PM PST by Paulus Invictus
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To: kattracks
What can one say about Hilterly Sodom Clinton

SHE IS PROOF POSITIVE THAT ANAL SEX CAN PRODUCE A PREGNANCY

That is the only possible way this woman could arrive in this world.

73 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:54 PM PST by chadsworth
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To: kattracks
they didn't boo when she was down at Ground Zero

I thought that they had at one point; but, I may be wrong about that. Anyone in NY know for sure. I thought I had read an article about it and that the rescue workers were not friendly towards her.

As for the story about Chelsea, Ferraro is an idiot. HRC did not tell the reporter that she and Bubba were worried because Chelsea was "in the vicinity" of the Towers. The Beast made up a complete lie about her daughter in order to reap sympathy for herself. If they weren't sure for a bit where Chelsea was and they were worried, why not just say that. Why fabricate an entire story about her going jogging around the WTC.

I watched this last night and it really is mind-boggling to watch these apologists still trying to cover for the Clintons.

74 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:54 PM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: listenhillary
Hillary Laid Bare


75 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:57 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
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To: Diogenesis
Yup, how true, doing her work for the people of N.Y. Oh, that phony woman makes me sick to my stomach. She better hope she never gets what she so richly deserves. What goes around, comes around. Karma!
76 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:57 PM PST by naughtynonie
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To: kattracks
I watched it last night and loved O'Reilly's questions and answers! As a New Yorker, I can tell you that Hillary has done nothing, nada, niet for our state. If New Yorkers vote for her again...she's a complete jerk and a shadow alongside Chuckie. Have you noticed how often she and he are together? What a pair of waste products as far as their caring for our state and doing anything to help us out. (I'd like to help them out...)
77 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:58 PM PST by Marysecretary
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To: Jim Robinson
Eek. My thoughts exactly. I covered my eyes before I peeked at the article, just in case.
78 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:58 PM PST by austinTparty
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To: kattracks
What has HIllary done? Hillary and Slick willy have done what they always have done. The attended fund raisers. It's party time all the time for the Clintons. You don't think for one moment that the death of almost 7,000 people would stop a Clinton all night bash, a drunken fund raising event. With each tornado and each bombing of Iraq or Kosovo the Democrats would set up a fund raiser and the Clinton celebrated each event and the money poured into the their pockets. New York has always been Clintons party town, even in his Arkansas days, at tax payers expense he would fly in and out to party or just spend time with his whores. That's how Danny Boy was conceived. Hitlary a NON Resident of New York but yet she holds a New York Senate seat. Hitlary comes to party and raise money, she flies in and flies out and makes sure she gets her photo ops in. After all if Hillary is to claim she is a New Yorker she does need some proof of being in New York.
79 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:59 PM PST by rebapiper
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To: LibertarianLiz
No, they didn't boo her but they stood there with their arms folded and wouldn't shake her hand. What a difference when Bush arrived!
80 posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:59 PM PST by Marysecretary
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