Poison Pen Proves Autotoxic: CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme Fails Yet Again

NY Post | 5.27.03 | Mia T

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Poison Pen Proves Autotoxic:
CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme Fails Yet Again

by Mia T, 5.27.03

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May 25, 2003 -- CONSERVATIVE Washington insiders are lining up to give Sidney Blumenthal a kick in the pants over his latest tome, "The Clinton Wars."

Blumenthal is a former White House communications strategist for Bill Clinton. His book - in which he exhaustively attempts to bolster the Clintons' "vast right-wing conspiracy" theory - charges that gay writer David Brock, once a right-wing hero, was "excommunicated" from conservative power circles after complaining about anti-homosexual statements made by columnist Gary Aldrich.

"Conservatives in Washington, led by a lobbyist, Craig Shirley, bruited it about that Brock was failing the cause because he was upset by Aldrich's gay-bashing," Blumenthal writes.

Shirley - whose public-relations firm, Shirley & Bannister, reps books by Aldrich as well as Ann Coulter and Katherine Harris - begs to differ.

"Knowing his behavior over many years and knowing his obsession with the 'vast right-wing conspiracy,' I can say that Sidney Blumenthal is a deeply disturbed paranoiac in need of clinical assistance," Shirley tells PAGE SIX's Ian Spiegelman.

In a letter to Blumenthal, Shirley refers to the book as "your latest love paean to Bill and Hillary," charging, "That you did not source the charge or have the decency to call me to verify it proves you have no interest in the truth." The missive continues, "I don't want a retraction because, frankly, I don't care what you write or think . . . except when you deliberately write falsehoods. I suspect most of Washington shares this opinion.

"For the record, I never said anything about David Brock's lifestyle as you falsely charge, nor did I ever hear any other conservatives take notice. Who was your source? Stephen Glass? Jayson Blair?"

"He made it up, that's all," Shirley insists. "This guy lives in La-La Land."

Asked if he's read the whole book, Shirley says, "I've thumbed through it, but it's like sticking your head in the sewer - I already know what's down there."

 

[Mia T]

Democratic Party's Problem Transcends Its Anti-War Contingent
CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme _{FICTIONAL TRILOGY}
The Clinton Wars: Stockholm Syndrome Revs Spinning Sid
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The REAL "Living History" -- clintoplasmodial slime

Personal Agitprop-and-Money-Laundering Machine, Cozy-clintonoid-Interviews-of-the-Colmes-Kind-Scheme
Bury REAL "Living History"

Mrs. clinton's REAL virtual office update

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[Mia T]

 

Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs; Hillary is getting $8 million dollars for hers, for a total of $20 million. Not bad for a couple that for eight years swore under oath they couldn't remember anything.

--anonymous

PUFFY-faced polemicist Christopher "Hellbound" Hitchens claims Bill Clinton is a "lousy crook."

... He rips into jokes about President Bush's intellect as "another liberal snig that annoys me a lot these days," adding, "The fact has to be faced: the intellectual candlepower of this administration is a great deal brighter than the Clinton administration . . . [and] the level of professionalism is very much higher."

hitchens on the clintons

YOO-HOO Mrs. clinton

A '68 Mustang is not exculpatory

 

by Mia T, 1-29-03

link to movie

 HALF A HOUSE, HALF A BRAIN: Why the clintons hit on Simon & Schuster

 

NOTE THE CBS--SIMON & SCHUSTER CONNECTION

 

by Mia T

 

Hillary Clinton's equal and inapposite reactions seem to be, at first blush, instances of the immutable First Law of The Betrayed and Humiliated Wife: Outdo the errant hubby's doxy...at all cost.

Thus, Vanity Fair's glamorous Marilyn-Monroe spread of Monica's digitally reduced spread was answered by Vogue's lushly Elizabethan, gauzy-focus, hindquarter-cropped-pleated-and-flounced, Queen-Hillary-for-President cover.

And now we have Hillary Clinton doing a Martha Stewart, who herself, is purported to have been "done" by the aforementioned errant rogue (notwithstanding the plain fact that Martha is more well-known for her tarts than for being one).

Seems Hillary Clinton is now writing a book titled "An Invitation to the White House" in which she will follow the format of the Martha Stewart classic, "Entertaining", claim multifarious Martha-Stewart talents and wrap her indecorous and corrupt, backwoods, backroom style of White House "entertaining" in Martha-Stewart elegance and purity. (NB: Written years before Martha ImPloded.)

"The Clinton White House has been noted for the...innovation of its events," said Carolyn Reidy, president of Simon & Schuster's Trade Division, the book's publisher.

Hillary Clinton's spokeswoman, Marsha Berry, added that the book will focus on how the Clintons have "advanced the availability" of the White House by increasing the number and diversity of people; that it will "highlight the access that the Clintons have given to more people, more types of entertainment..."

It should be emphasized that it was without even a trace of irony or the slightest smirk that both women related the above.

On closer inspection, Hillary Clinton's bizarre behavior is more than simple Ivana Trump-eting. It is vulgar, compulsive, shameless, smarmy, contemptuous, demagogic, megalomaniacal, in-your-face naked clintonism.

It is one thing for the frumpy, chipmunk-cheek, huge-hindquarter fishwife to insinuate her image -- albeit Elizabethan-shrouded and low-res-clouded -- onto the cover of Vogue; but it is quite another for the corrupt harpy to trumpet White House access even as new charges emerge of the clintons' rapes and other predations, of the clintons' corrupt quid-pro-quo arrangements with a menacing and motley assortment of drug dealers, gun runners and nuclear weapons makers.

For Hillary Clinton to vaunt White House access just as the clintons' China treason is becoming increasingly, patently manifest to all requires a certain level of contempt for the people and for the country that is uniquely clinton.

Thank heaven for small favors...

Or as the real Martha Stewart would say,
"That is a good thing."

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[KC_Conspirator]

Sid represents all that was bad in the 90's and the pre-911 world.

I was quoted on this one and I think it needs repeating.

[firewalk]

Good morning Mia
Thanks for the ping

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[lainie]

"Knowing his behavior over many years and knowing his obsession with the 'vast right-wing conspiracy,' I can say that Sidney Blumenthal is a deeply disturbed paranoiac in need of clinical assistance."

HA!!

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[MeekOneGOP]

Or as the real Martha Stewart would say,
"That is a good thing."

[Grampa Dave]

(Washington, D.C.) -- In a little reported provision of the Patriot Act of 2003, former president Bill Clinton has been exiled to the island of Elba along with his wife, members of his cabinet, and George Stephanopoulos.

"Frankly, Clinton was just becoming a pain in the ass," said Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a co-sponsor of the legislation. "Jesus, we're all sick and tired of hearing about the 'most ethical administration in US history.' I mean, you try to explain to your 90-year old grandmother what "hummer" means."

According to the provisions of the bill, the Clinton entourage will not be allowed any contact with the outside world except for weekly parachute drops of Moonpies, Mountain Dew, frozen White Castle hamburgers, and back issues of The Nation and Swank magazines.

A spokesman for the former president said that Mr. Clinton is "looking forward to this exciting new opportunity to serve the American people." George Stephanopoulos told this reporter that he is currently re-reading The Lord of the Flies.

William Grim, for Iconclast

[Fred Mertz]

I can say that Sidney Blumenthal is a deeply disturbed paranoiac in need of clinical assistance," Shirley tells PAGE SIX's Ian Spiegelman.

Maybe Gary Aldrich can set the story straight about Blewthemall here on FR.

[Sparta]

The Clinton legacy.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

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[Mia T]

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BUSH: "I will not wait on events, while dangers gather."

President's Remarks view

This country has many challenges. We will not deny, we will not ignore, we will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents, and other generations. (Applause.) We will confront them with focus and clarity and courage...

Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a President can make. The technologies of war have changed; the risks and suffering of war have not. For the brave Americans who bear the risk, no victory is free from sorrow. This nation fights reluctantly, because we know the cost and we dread the days of mourning that always come.

We seek peace. We strive for peace. And sometimes peace must be defended. A future lived at the mercy of terrible threats is no peace at all. If war is forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means -- sparing, in every way we can, the innocent. And if war is forced upon us, we will fight with the full force and might of the United States military -- and we will prevail. (Applause.)

 

State of the Union Address by President George W. Bush

 

 

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