[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

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[Auntie Mame]

It's pretty obvious the author actually read Hillary's book, and "Living History" sounds even worse than expected.

Thanks for posting this elegant, amusing article. I really enjoyed it.

[habs4ever]

You post the best stuff! great article and I swear Labash is a Guilder!!!!

[goodnesswins]

Whew.....I could NEVER read that tripe......glad someone else can summarize it well....thanks for posting it, HLL.

[Always Right]

marked for later

[pooh fan]

A sick and twisted tale with parts far scarier than anything by Stephen King. The most troubling aspect is, there will be thousands who will believe it, in the same way little kids write to J.K. Rowling asking for the address of Hogwarts School of Wizardry.

[Exit148]

In the book stores, there should be a spot for "What the critics say" beside all displays of this fairy tale, and Matt Labash's critique should be in BIG print!

[A Citizen Reporter]

"Who else could seriously write of her grade-school appointment as "co-captain of the safety patrol" "This was a big deal in our school. My new status provided me my first lesson in the strange ways some people respond to electoral politics."

This is scary stuff....BWAHAHAHA.

[Carthago delenda est]

Whoa! Thanks a bunch for posting this review -- it is always a joy to see a reviewer take down a truly pathetic work. The best method, of course, is to simply quote the author -- let her damn herself, as it were. Of course, in order to do that, a reviewer usually has to drag himself through a book completely.

Mr. Labash is a tougher man than me. Can you imagine actually reading over 400 pages of this garbage? Blecccch!

[Irene Adler]

"At one point, she says he has nice hands..."

Nice hands! Bill Clinton's hands make me sick, honestly. His fingers are way over-long, and white and creepy, like bleached snakes. Take a good look at a photo which shows Clinton's hands clearly, sometime, and see what you think.

[ladyinred]

Hi HLL! This is by far the very best article/review of Lying HerCampaignStory I have read to date, and there have been plenty if you have been paying attention. Thanks for a terrific find, "You know!"

[Richard Kimball]

As others have noted, this is a brilliant find.

The conservative caricature of Hillary Clinton has always hinged on painting her as a bloodless, calculating shrew who pulled Bill's strings and regularly packed the dirty laundry off to the dry cleaners. But there is a much more prosaic explanation for why so many detractors find her even less appealing than her husband. He, for all his faults and nods to political expedience, exhibited an anti-political impulse: a scampish charm and an insatiable, often reckless appetite to live life for it's own pleasures, consequences be damned. While Bill's detractors would call this his hedonistic side and his boosters would call it his human one, Hillary, as revealed by her own ghostwriters' words, is pretty much a one-sided affair. "Living History" paints her as a purely political creature.

This is one of the most insightful paragraphs I've ever read discussing the Clintons.

[RLK]

But while her publisher paid Hillary $8 million to come clean on her husband's infidelities, she does precious little of it. Hillary lumps the Paula Jones incident in with "the other phony scandals," without ever disclosing whether, harassment charges aside, she disbelieved that her husband had any romantic designs on Jones.

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Bills acts on Jones were hardly romantic. They were more an attempt to humiliate and express contempt.

[lorrainer]

Labash Bump!

[Carolina]

Hmmmmm. Where to start, where to start? So many excellent bits.

And then there's the least attractive Hillary, Hillary the Martyr, who in her eagerness to reach for grandiosity after her life had been turned into a sex farce, draws strength from the examples set by Harriet Tubman, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Wiesel survived a Nazi death camp and Mandela survived 27 years of imprisonment for opposing an unjust, racist government. Hillary survived having her husband turned into a Jay Leno monologue because he received blowjobs from an intern and lied about it. It's all the same in Hillaryland--as her staffers called their workspace.

Ah, yes. Suffering St. Hillary.

To label "Living History" as being merely boring would be to owe a groveling apology to Bill Bradley.

Hit the nail on the head!

Everything she does--no matter how pedestrian--seems to contain some golden moral or noble expression, which almost always rings false. Since it's not officially a campaign book, and contains next to no policy prescriptions, one could reasonably expect her to throw open the window and let out some of the hot air. The memoir give the impression that you are never being allowed a glimpse into her true world. Or more troubling perhaps, that you are--that Hillary's artificial world is also her real one.

Thus earning her true name Shrillery!

Consequently, you never get the sense that she is trying to seriously arrive at the truth, but rather, that she's merely shining up her resume.

And boy, she's polishing up for the biggest job in the world.

[mountaineer]

"I hadn't decided whether to fight for my husband and my marriage, but I was resolved to fight for my President."

This is frightening, sad, disgusting and just downright appalling. Excellent article!

[BigWaveBetty]

such as when Hillary recounts the first words she overheard Bill utter when encountering him at Yale Law School: ". . . and not only that, we grow the biggest watermelons in the world." A friend explained to her that melons were all Clinton "ever talks about."

Please don't tell me the smartest woman in the world actually thought bill was talking about fruit.

This review is a great find, thanks very much!

[Fintan]

The first paragraph is absolutely brilliant. Wish I'd written it...

[proud American in Canada]

This is a great article....

The book sounds even worse than we thought!

[rockinonritalin]

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