GREAT job, guys!Clinton tour draws crowd -- even in GOP country [FreeRepublic Featured]
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 6/12/03 | SCOTT SHEPARD
Posted on 06/12/2003 6:38 AM PDT by madprof98
FAIRFAX, Va. -- The record-setting book tour of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) lost no steam Wednesday night even in this Republican enclave in northern Virginia.
More than 1,000 people lined up at the local Wal-Mart to get the former first lady's signature on a copy of her best-selling memoir, "Living History." It was her second major promotional appearance since the book went on sale this week.
A dozen protesters with anti-Clinton signs showed up, but Clinton entered the store from the rear and did not see the demonstrators in the parking lot.
At one point, hundreds of book purchasers who spilled out into the lot began chanting "Go home!" at the protesters, drowning out their shouts labeling the senator a "hypocrite" and "liar."
"You just can't believe anything she says," said Jeff Becker, an organizer of the protest. Becker is with the conservative Internet site FreeRepublic.com, which has spent much of this week urging people to protest Clinton's "fictitious" autobiography.
Among the signs the protesters carried was one that said "I Believe Juanita" -- a reference to Juanita Broaddrick, who accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her when he lived in Arkansas. That allegation is not addressed in the memoir...
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Everyone at each of our FUTURE FReeps needs to consider what WE want our post-FReep message to be in the media, and make sure that we stay "on message" - so that we also get this kind of coverage.