Posted on 12/19/2002 7:51:25 PM PST by Carl/NewsMax
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton condemned Trent Lott late Wednesday, telling reporters that she could never vote for him to continue on as Senate majority leader after hearing his remarks about Strom Thurmond.
No doubt Lott is in a pile of trouble. But at least he didn't deliver his offending statement while adopting "a mock African-American accent," the way Hillary did - according to the Los Angeles Times - while addressing a group of supporters in Washington, D.C., a few years back.
On April 26, 1996, Mrs. Clinton was the star speaker at an Emily's List fund raiser, where she recounted an anecdote about San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
The LA Times reported the next day:
"Speaking in a mock African American accent, Mrs. Clinton said that Brown asked two years ago to be introduced to 'this Emily List' whom he supposed to be a wealthy Democratic donor."
According to the Times quote, Hillary's speech pattern was more suitable for an old "Amos 'n' Andy" broadcast than a politically correct fund raiser.
"She's supportin' all these people," Clinton huffed while poking fun at Brown's ignorance. "She's supportin' Sen. Dianne Feinstein. She's supported Sen. Barbara Boxer. ... She supported everybody. Why won't she support me?"
The then-first lady told the group that when she explained to Brown, then California's Assembly speaker, that Emily's List was a political fund-raising organization dedicated to electing female Democrats, he tried to cover up his gaffe.
"Oh, I knew that all the time," she quoted Brown as saying.
Sounding steamed over the racially offensive remarks, Brown spokesman P.J. Johnson told the Times afterward, "The mayor is well aware of what Emily's List is."
But by the time the San Francisco Examiner caught up with him a few days later, Johnson was toeing the party line.
Asked if the mayor objected to Hillary's using a mock black accent to tell a story about Brown's ignorance, Johnson told the paper that his boss hadn't heard the speech himself.
But he added, "It depends on how she said it. The mayor's not a real uptight person. If Hillary was in good humor, it wouldn't be a problem."
Frank Wilkinson, press aide for Emily's List, told the Examiner that Clinton delivered her Willie Brown quotes not in a black accent, as characterized by the Los Angeles Times, but "in a Willie Brown accent. She was imitating Willie Brown."
Her story was "very funny," Wilkinson insisted. "There was great deal of appreciation for Mayor Brown in the warm way in which the first lady told it."
So that's Trent's problem. He's not funny. ;-)
That has to be the most stupid comment of the day. As if she ever had plans on voting for him in the first place.
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He's not from "Hymie Town" is he? Which side of the war was "Hymie Town" on anyway? The side that won or the side BJC said should have?
I wish I had a $ for everytime I've heard a Clinton use "ordinary Americans."
They are, in the words of Senator Robert Byrd, "white niggers."
Altoast2000 could REALLY get nailed for this - eh? (Can I get an amen...)
Newsflash Hitlery...YOU AIN'T PART OF THE MAJORITY IN ANYTHING!!! MIND YOUR OWN TRAINWRECKS!!!
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