Posted on 06/05/2003 10:30:20 AM PDT by kattracks
Supporters of Hillary Clinton are trying to put the best face possible on a major factual contradiction that undermines the credibility of the biggest news in her book "Living History" - the claim that she was so angry after her husband confessed the truth about Monica Lewinsky that she could "barely speak" to him for weeks.
As first reported Wednesday morning by NewsMax.com, Mrs. Clinton's chief defender Sidney Blumenthal says that on Aug, 17, 1998, just two days after the silent treatment supposedly started, he heard the Clintons "bantering" back and forth when they telephoned him in Italy.
The banter was so friendly it was obvious they "were still working as a team," says the senior Clinton aide in his own book, "The Clinton Wars."
But on Thursday, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell attacked Blumenthal as an unreliable source during the following exchange with radio host Don Imus:
IMUS: He said they were obviously still working as a team.
MITCHELL: But Blumenthal is not the greatest source on this. Not only is he a . . .
IMUS: No, he's a skunk.
MITCHELL: [Unintelligible] . . . -ocrit, but he was in Italy. And it's not impossible to believe that she was working with [Bill] on his defense against all of their common enemies, which she certainly believed, while at the same time being furious with him for giving ammunition to their enemies. [End of Excerpt]
Mitchell did not address the Blumenthal tidbit that had the first couple engaged in friendly "bantering" at a time when Hillary says she was "barely speaking" to Bill.
Meanwhile, Sen. Clinton's spokesman Philippe Reines was desperately trying to spin away the Hillary-Sid contradiction.
"This is a ridiculous attack," he told a liberal Washington, D.C. newspaper that covered the NewsMax exclusive on Thursday without attribution. "When people have the opportunity to read the full book, they will understand how she felt and what she experienced."
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The fact that there was a contradiction indicates sloppiness on someone's part. We are just conjecturing as to how that happened. There have been several plausible guesses from not vetting Blumenthal's manuscript, to miscommunication with ghost writers, to the natural sloppiness of habitual liars. All are possible.
A side from Sid's problems, the "leaked hype" included the now 'remembering well' Mrs. Clinton saying the confession took place in their bedroom. The Clintons didn't share a bedroom from reports and the admission of the little mrs. 'she needed her sleep and the president stayed up all hours of the night'. Mentoring I expect......
If anyone buys the book, ask for proof that the Tooth Fairy really, really did the writing as the ghost writer.
Meanwhile go to Amazon and buy Jeff Head's latest "Dragon's Fury - High Tide (Vol. III)" , a grreatt read!
A side from Sid's problems, the "leaked hype" included the now 'remembering well' Mrs. Clinton saying the confession took place in their bedroom. The Clintons didn't share a bedroom from reports and the admission of the little mrs. 'she needed her sleep and the president stayed up all hours of the night'. Mentoring I expect...
If anyone buys the book, ask for proof the Tooth Fairy really, really did the writing as advertised.
I wonder if he'll turn up dead without his car keys? Only to be found later in a suit jacket pocket?
Hillary, did you write this book youself? Yes or No.
Who put the car keys in Vince Fosters jacket after someone asked how his car and his body got to Ft Marcy park without them?
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