Posted on 12/16/2001 8:20:36 PM PST by classygreeneyedblonde
Since launching her bid to become New York's senator, Hillary Clinton says she's been booed by crowds so many times that she's now gotten used to it.
Asked about an incident where she was booed off the stage at Paul McCartney's Oct. 20 concert to honor firefighters and police killed in the Twin Tower attacks, Mrs. Clinton told the New York Times Sunday Magazine, "I've gotten used to being in situations in political life, either vicariously or on my own, where that just happens sometimes."
Clinton described the humiliating heckling episode as "part of the healing process" in the wake of the World Trade Center attack.
"(The firefighters and cops) can blow off steam any way they want to," she added. "They've earned it."
The former first lady has also been publicly booed at New York City's St. Patrick's and Israeli Day parades as well as at her own New Year's Eve Millenium celebration on Washington's Mall.
Clinton campaign biographer Beth Harpaz, author of the book, "The Girls on the Van," recently told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly that Sen. Clinton hasn't attended any funerals for constituents killed in the 9/11 attacks because she's afraid she'll be booed.
And while she wasn't heckled or jeered during her first visit to Ground Zero on Sept. 14, one on-the-scene source told NewsMax.com that firemen and cops refused to shake her hand.
The Times profile also revealed that Mrs. Clinton's obnoxious eye-rolling during President Bush's address to Congress just days after the 9/11 attacks was more typical than previously known.
"Her aides insisted it had nothing to do with the president," reported Timesman Frank Bruni.
"But when I later saw her at a Senate budget committee hearing, she silently and reflexively shook her head and rolled her eyes almost every time one of the economists who were testifying mentioned Bush's tax cut."
Not so funny, here. Hitlery. We are the ones who need healing after hearing and seeing you.
Stupid bi... !
...and I've gotton the name of every person who booed and when I'm President, will they ever be sorry. I'll ruin their lives.
Get a load of this whopper. Nobody gets booed at a funeral.
That's why she stays in the "sanitized zone" where only eunichs like Russert get to interview her.
It worked so well in keeping her husband in line, after all.
And that maudlin, self-pitying vein is a sure winner too. Look what it did for Nixon.
Guess which story made it's way to the network news.
Ideologitis does that to a person.
Ya gotta hand it to her. Taking Chutzpah to new heights! Wasn't her they were heckling. No sir. They were heckling because it was part of the 'healing process' by which, presumably, they were being healed ... by heckling her.
Ergo, she was performing a useful service, for feeling their pain, she promptly presented herself as an object of hecking in order to further the healing process. For them. And for the children.
Booed at a funeral? Now that's a tough crowd!
I can hear it now:
"Well. You don't want to sign the treaty. That's just fine. Is something wrong with me? No, nothing. What could be wrong? I'm fine. Fine. I'll just fly 7,000 miles back to Washington with no treaty. Why should that be a problem...?"
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