Posted on 06/12/2003 6:16:09 AM PDT by rockinonritalin
Dear Hillary,
In your new book, Living History, you correctly note that when you asked me to help you and Bill avert defeat in the congressional election of 1994 I was reluctant to do so. But then you assert, incorrectly, that my reluctance stemmed from difficulties in working with your staff. You even misquote me as telling you: "I don't like the way I was treated, Hillary. People were so mean to me."
As you know, I never said anything of the sort. I had, in fact, no experience in dealing with either your staff or the President's at that point, and had not yet met Leon Panetta or George Stephanopoulos. My prior dealing with Harold Ickes had been twenty five years earlier.
The real reason I was reluctant was that Bill Clinton had tried to beat me up in May of 1990 as he, you, Gloria Cabe, and I were together in the Arkansas governor's mansion. At the time, Bill was worried that he was falling behind his democratic primary opponent and verbally assaulted me for not giving his campaign the time he felt it deserved. Offended by his harsh tone, I turned and stalked out of the room.
Bill ran after me, tackled me, threw me to the floor of the kitchen in the mansion and cocked his fist back to punch me. You grabbed his arm and, yelling at him to stop and get control of himself, pulled him off me. Then you walked me around the grounds of the mansion in the minutes after, with your arm around me, saying, "He only does that to people he loves."
I continued to work for Bill since I felt a responsibility to do so until Election Day in 1990. But our relationship was never close and never the same. After the 1990 campaign we parted ways as a direct result of the altercation.
When the story threatened to surface during the 1992 campaign, you told me to "say it never happened."
That, and not the invented conversation in your memoir, was the reason that I was reluctant to work for Bill again.
Yours,
Dick Morris
(2003-06-12) -- The revelation by political strategist Dick Morris that then-Governor Bill Clinton tried to beat him up has boosted the former President's popularity among Republicans.
"Conservatives used to view Clinton as nothing but a dishonest pervert," said an unnamed pollster. "But these new numbers indicate they admire him for trying to pound Mr. Morris. We're not sure whether the favorable spike is pro-Clinton, or anti-consultant."
Mr. Morris, in an open-letter to Hillary Clinton in the National Review claimed "Bill ran after me, tackled me, threw me to the floor of the kitchen in the mansion and cocked his fist back to punch me."
Apparently Mrs. Clinton rescued the diminutive pundit, but the near-whup experience soured his relationship with the Clintons.
Juanita Broaderick, upon reading the open letter said, "Bill did much the same thing to me. I feel Morris' pain."
You grabbed his arm and, yelling at him to stop and get control of himself, pulled him off me. Then you walked me around the grounds of the mansion in the minutes after, with your arm around me, saying, "He only does that to people he loves."
Wow...
I think if he had been in regular enough contact with a Rabbi that might be referred to as "his," he would have lived a very different life. My impression is that his Jewishness was -- in his adult life, anyway -- only a matter of ethnic identification, i.e., he was Jewish enough to be called -- famously -- a "FJB" by Hillary, but that was it.
I do recall reading somewhere that when he ate with the Clintons at the governor's mansion in Arkansas, Hillary would make it a point to see that some form of pork was served every time. Morris ate it; he didn't observe kashrut at all (if he ever did, I don't know), but it annoyed him intensely -- and does show yet again Hillary's essential nastiness.
Bill Beats Dick!
of course, this wooden wouldn't really be news, wood would it?
You DO have a point! And while Morris is not at the top of my list of people whose word I trust, it's certainly way higher than either Clinton's! I'm not always sure of what to think about Morris, but I value his insight... he's a shrewd man.
Forget Hillary's book, when is Dick Morris going to write a book on the Clintons? That would be a bestseller. And it would be truthful.
Well, ask and you shall receive I guess. Guess what's being published June 17th.
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