Posted on 06/05/2003 1:11:44 PM PDT by B-bone
Hillary’s Fable
The lie she’s sticking with.
By Dick Morris
Hillary Clinton had a problem on Jan. 21, 1998, the day the Washington Post broke the story of Monica Lewinsky: She had to make sure her husband stayed in office.
Despite her personal pain at his betrayal — and there was undoubtedly great pain — she couldn't both publicly defend Bill and admit that she knew of the affair with the White House intern. To be credible in protecting her husband, she had to deny knowledge. And now she needs to keep up the story.
Hillary's formula for defending herself and Bill had always been to challenge their accusers to prove their charges. In sexual cases, it always boiled down to his word against her word and no proof was possible.
Did Hillary believe her husband's denials? Come on. Get real. If Winona Ryder were caught running out of Bloomingdale's clutching an Armani dress with neither a receipt nor a bag, would you assume she hadn't shoplifted?
When Bill told Hillary that all he was doing with Monica was "ministering to a troubled young girl," how on earth was the First Lady supposed to believe him? When he added that she was blackmailing him, demanding that he have sex with her, or she'd go public claiming to have had sex with him, could a reasonable, sane person possibly buy his story? No.
Yet in her new book Hillary insists she had no inkling that her husband had lied to her about Monica until the day before his grand-jury testimony.
To buy this latest episode of Hillary's Fables, you'd have to accept that she believed him even after semen was found on Monica's blue dress — and after the FBI took a sample of his DNA, two weeks before his grand-jury testimony.
You'd have to be a fool to buy all that. As I told the grand jury, Bill Clinton was truthful, if abstruse, with me in late January, 1998, when the story first came out about his affair with Monica. "Ever since I got to the White House I've had to shut myself down, sexually I mean," he said. "But I screwed up with this girl. I didn't do what they said I did, but I did do something and I may have done enough so that I can't prove my innocence."
It took me months to deduce from the public evidence that this circumlocution was intended to deny sexual intercourse but affirm oral sex. But if he told me, he probably told his wife way back then.
The fact is that Hillary and Bill have had a relationship based on a sick cycle of accusation-denial-admission-reward for decades. He is accused of an affair. He denies it. He admits it when he has no choice. Hillary forgives him and then Bill showers gifts upon her in gratitude. For putting up with Gennifer Flowers and going on 60 Minutes to "stand by her man," she got control of health-care policy. For Monica, she got a Senate seat. Some guys give necklaces, some give Senate seats.
Bill Clinton had been a serial adulterer for their entire marriage, as everybody with half a brain knows.
In 1988, he called me and said that he and Hillary were considering divorce and he had to get away from her for a while. I offered him my house in Key West, Fla.
Right before the 60 Minutes show during the 1992 campaign, he called for my advice and I suggested that he admit and apologize for the adultery with Flowers and he said "If I did that, I'd have to find a new place to live."
In 1995, reviewing his testimony in the fraud trial of Susan McDougal, he asked me how he should handle his "relationship" with her. I said: "If you had sex with her, admit it. Don't perjure yourself. We can always undo the political damage, but we can't undo the legal damage." He nodded.
For Hillary to pretend injured innocence at this point has only one motive: She needs to somehow justify her strident public defense of her husband.
She can't admit the truth: that she defended him because she didn't want him forced from office — ending both their political careers — because he'd been unfaithful to her.
Hillary, give us a break.
— Dick Morris, an adviser to Bill Clinton for 20 years, is author, most recently, of Off with Their Heads : Traitors, Crooks & Obstructionists in American Politics, Media & Business.
"Bimbo Number Five" (to the tune of "Mambo Number Five")
Fox just reported that her book is #2 on Amazon. New Harry Potter book is #1.
If Hillary! didn't know that Bill was boinking Monica and therefore engineered Monica's exit from the White House to the Pentagon before December, then why were her aids so upset about Monica being at the Christmas party? The testimony of those staffers is consistent with Hillary! knowing about Monica -- just like all the other bimbos -- and being an engineer of the usual deny and cover-up plan.
Of course Hillary! is lying when she says she "just found out" on the eve of Billyjeff's Grand Jury Testimony. Only arrogant, leftist fools like Ellen Ratner (on Fox News yesterday) even pretend to believe Hillary's soon to be officially published version of the "truth."
Congressman Billybob
Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Souths revenge.
Impossible not to refute your Socialist air-headed logic with a nice cheap shot to match those of your political peers.
Hillary Clinton is lying whenever she is talking or quoted. Living History is Living Fantasy.
And you, poor soul, are either a naive fool or an obsequious Blumenthal with your head in your arse.
Following the Anti-Christ must provide you with some sense of purpose, but why not get a real life?
As a matter of fact, I would assume she was researching a role?
In Gary Aldrich's book, Hillary (thru her Dad) hired a Private Investigator when Billy was running for Senator for the first time. The PI reported back that Bill had 23, count 'em, 23 mistresses he was seeing. Hillary could care less if Billy's fooling around and wouldn't believe a word if he denied it, as long as it doesn't effect her highness' reign. She was doing Vince Foster the whole time this went on anyway.
He was on Fox news today and did not look any slimmer to me.
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