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Blumenthal's Book Contradicts Hillary's
NewsMax.com ^
| June 4, 2003
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 06/04/2003 5:43:30 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
In her new book "Living History," New York Senator Hillary Clinton says she was so angry after her husband admitted having sex with Monica Lewinsky that she barely spoke to him.
But her account differs sharply from that of her chief defender, Sidney Blumenthal, who says in his own recently released book, "The Clinton Wars," that Bill and Hillary were "bantering" back and forth just two days after the silent treatment supposedly started.
In excerpts of her book covered by the Associated Press, Mrs. Clinton claims that on Aug. 15, 1998, after her husband confessed that his relationship with Lewinsky was "more serious than he had previously acknowledged," she felt "nothing but profound sadness, disappointment and unresolved anger."
"I could barely speak to Bill, and when I did, it was a tirade," the former first lady insists.
But Blumenthal says that on Aug. 17, 1998 - immediately after Mr. Clinton told the nation that he had lied to protect his wife and daughter, the president called him to ask about his reaction to the speech.
After telling Clinton he thought it went "all right," Hillary got on the line. "I told her the same," wrote the former White House aide.
After they spoke, Mrs. Clinton handed the phone to James Carville, who was also on hand to gauge the damage. But Blumenthal says he could still hear the voices of others in the room.
"I could hear the President and Hillary bantering in the background," the top Clinton spinmeister recalled on page 465 of his scandal tome.
Blumenthal says he was relieved to discover that the first couple "were still working as a team."
"Without that, nothing was possible," he said.
Hillary, however, says that she was still giving Bill the cold shoulder even after they left the White House for a vacation on Martha's Vineyard.
"While on the island, she felt 'nothing but profound sadness, disappointment and unresolved anger,'" Mrs. Clinton wrote, according to the AP. "Buddy, the dog, came along to keep Bill company," Hillary claims. "He was the only member of our family who was still willing to."
TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: contradicted; hillary; livinghistory; sid; sidblumenthal
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To: Carl/NewsMax
And Buddy was the best looking one of the family as well.
May he rest in peace.
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posted on
06/04/2003 5:45:09 AM PDT
by
Galtoid
To: Carl/NewsMax
Shades of a "Mad" universe - "Lie vs Lie".
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posted on
06/04/2003 5:45:50 AM PDT
by
ctonious
To: Carl/NewsMax
Contradictions when it comes to the clintons? No way!
/sarcasm
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posted on
06/04/2003 5:46:07 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Sometimes too much to drink isn't enough.)
To: Carl/NewsMax
Carl, Lets' be happy about one thing......that he did not resign as Gore would no doubt be President today. So while they think they pulled one over by remaining a "team" they pretty much ruined the Democrat party for the time being with it only getting worse.
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posted on
06/04/2003 5:47:11 AM PDT
by
alisasny
To: Carl/NewsMax
'Blumenthal says he was relieved to discover that the first couple "were still working as a team."
"Without that, nothing was possible," he said. '
I think that one statement by Sid Vicious precisely sums up EVERYTHING about this couple!! Together, they are like a huge, merciless machine...mowing down everything that isn't to their advantage. Separate, they're not nearly as effective. They NEED each other. That's why she'll never divorce him.
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posted on
06/04/2003 5:49:11 AM PDT
by
Maria S
To: Galtoid
May he rest in peace.Maybe she had Buddy rubbed out because he sided with Bill.
To: Maria S
Together, they are like a huge, merciless machine...mowing down everything that isn't to their advantage An SAT question of the future: "Goering was to Hitler as Hitlary was to _______?
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posted on
06/04/2003 5:53:54 AM PDT
by
ctonious
To: Carl/NewsMax
Imagine that. i am so surprised... but but... wonder who is not telling the truth? Could a Clinton lie? no way man they tell it like it is.
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posted on
06/04/2003 5:59:06 AM PDT
by
hapy
To: ctonious
Or... "Fire was to Nixon's tapes as ScotchGuard was to ________?"
To: Carl/NewsMax
Hillary was in shock and awe that Bill had lied to her about Monica Lewinsky. This from the woman who hired private detectives to counter "bimbo eruptions" during her husband's first Presidential campaign. I can't wait to see Ann Coulter's take on all of this.
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posted on
06/04/2003 6:07:50 AM PDT
by
mass55th
To: Maria S
Hillary Clinton's "Living History" is the new "1984" and "Big Brother" combined. End of story!
To: Carl/NewsMax
I can't believe that Hitlery would even dare to feel betrayed. Ol' Bubba has been doing this sorta thing for years. Like this was anything new and she didn't know. Geez, Louise. Give me a break.
To: Carl/NewsMax
IF I was going to believe anyone's version it would be Sid's
Hellary's version to so full of BS to even come close to the thruth
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posted on
06/04/2003 6:16:04 AM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!)
To: Carl/NewsMax
Hilarious that it would be Blumenthal to put her heinous' story to the LIE.
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posted on
06/04/2003 6:18:35 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(without the brave, there would be no land of the free)
To: b4its2late
Certainly Chelsea never stopped being daddy's little girl. So much for using the dog for her LIES LIES LIES>
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posted on
06/04/2003 6:21:42 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(without the brave, there would be no land of the free)
To: OldFriend
Funny if this book of hers turned out to be her undoing after all.
To: Carl/NewsMax
BS. She knew from the moment the scandal broke that he did it.
To: Carl/NewsMax
"Blumenthal's Book Contradicts Hillary's"Well of course it would - I imagine that Blumenthal actually wrote his book himself!
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posted on
06/04/2003 6:49:57 AM PDT
by
Redbob
To: Thane_Banquo
BS. She knew from the moment the scandal broke that he did it. She knew before it broke. The only thing she might not have known was "who is it this time?"
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posted on
06/04/2003 6:57:18 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(http://wardsmythe.crimsonblog.com)
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