Posted on 11/28/2001 3:48:43 AM PST by kattracks
New York Senator Hillary Clinton has reportedly refused to attend a single funeral or memorial service for any of the victims of the World Trade Center disaster unless it was a major media event.
"We sent both Sen. Clinton and Sen. Chuck Schumer letters asking them which services they attended and which families they visited," Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly reported late Tuesday.
Sen. Clinton's office ignored FNC's letter and repeated phone calls, "most likely," said O'Reilly, "because the only events we know she attended were three highly publicized memorial services."
In marked contrast to Clinton's stonewalling, Sen. Schumer's office said they had attended 10 services and promised to provide a list of each one. New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Gov. George Pataki have attended hundreds of funerals for WTC victims.
Anthony Gardener, who lost his brother Harvey in the World Trade Center and has become an advocate for the victims of the disaster, told FNC that he contacted Clinton's New York office twice but got no response.
"I invited her to come and be on our board of advisers to help us with the nonprofit support group that we created, WTC United Family Group," Gardener told O'Reilly. "I never had any feedback from her office, not even an assistant to an assistant or anyone."
Gardener said that he knew getting Mrs. Clinton to help would be "a far-fetched thing. [But] I just thought she might be eager to help."
Associated Press reporter Beth Harpaz, author of the Hillary 2000 campaign chronicle "The Girls on the Van," said that Mrs. Clinton snubbed WTC victims because they didn't vote for her.
"Her core supporters and the main victim groups of 9/11 are pretty much two distinct groups," Harpaz told O'Reilly. "You know, we have a lot of male-dominated professions here, firefighters, cops, Wall Street, a lot of suburbanites, a lot of political conservatives."
Harpaz also suggested that Mrs. Clinton couldn't attend many funerals because "she's been busy in Washington" and she also feared being booed again, as she was at an Oct. 20 concert for WTC victims.
Visibly angered, the Fox host shot back:
"If I were the senator of New York, I would have tried to attend as many of those funerals and memorial services as I could. And if they booed me, they booed me. I'd get down on my knees and say a prayer for that dead person and then I would go and leave."
Three high-profile events Mrs. Clinton attended were a memorial service at Yankee Stadium a week after the attacks, a similar event at Ground Zero in early October, and the funeral for New York City Fire Department Chaplain Father Mychal Judge, where she delivered the eulogy. All three services were televised.
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IF they had, believe me, it would have been covered OVER AND OVER AND OVER again by the sychophant press.
Some percentages:
Staten Island 58% Lazio - 42% Clinton.
Oneida 55% Lazio - 45% Clinton.
I would really like an apology.
BTW Here is a LINK to the official tally by the State of NY. It is a PDF Document that requires Adobe.
Excellent point! LOL!
Thanks for the post. It's a documented hitlery's 'credo' . When will demonRATS wake up?
Who can tell for sure that victims would like her there? She's an offence to humanity.
Prayers for GW and the Truth!
Here's Hiltery gazing down on her SHEEPLE, as the Hag in the Moon. You can see from her happy expression, how delighted she is to be with us all.
The WTC Tourist Guy is about to hurl. I'll save the famous photograph of the real hurl, rice krispy bits and all, for later. Hehehe!
Here she is visiting some poor kids who are saying amongst themselves: "Who is this clown?" What's "F* B* J*" mean. I am afraid you will have fill in the *s.
I wish you hadn't posted this, I will now be in a serious depression at least a week.
Ack! How did I miss that?
Me too. From the beginning of her "listening tour" I just knew that I'd end up under a stinky blanket! And while I think there was some voter fraud, I blame the media for her election. From day one they were so excited about Hillary they were wetting themselves. You couldn't go one hour without hearing her name mentioned in breathless tones on TV. She was essentially SILENT throughout the campaign and they somehow made it seem like she was dispensing wisdom and love everywhere she went. And was LOVED everywhere she went! They were determined to show her in no other light, and when she got her clock cleaned by Lazio in that debate, sure enough, they found a way to make her a victim AND a victor. I heard MEN accusing Lazio of violating her physical space and being a sexually threatening bully. It was as if people had been hypnotized. I wondered more than once if they were hiding subliminal messages in the news coverage, or if sheer repitition had accomplished the same thing.
Testimony to the power of television---the staged and choreographed kind, that is. Spontaneous events on live television tend to backfire on Hillary, and that's why she avoids it.
I hope he does, and I really hope he keeps it up through the next election cycle. Now that O has such big ratings, he's the only one to make a difference in stopping her onslaught of the Oval Office next time around. Everybody else in the media is giving her a free pass. (Yeah, that tough NY press really gave her the business last time, didn't they?)
What would need to happen to change your dire prediction? Let's get started!
Now go to work for the RNC office nearest you and send all your friends Barbara Olsen's book The Final Days. Everyone on my Christmas list is getting one and if they already have it, they can pass it on.
A fraud is a fraud is a fraud when it comes to the likes of Hillary Clinton. She is as evil as OBL in my book!
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