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Clinton in Charity Shakedown
NewsMax.com ^ | 6/18/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 06/18/2003 6:45:24 AM PDT by kattracks

Former President Bill Clinton agreed to appear at a fundraiser for one of New York's most prominent charities today - but only after he was offered a five figure package deal of cash and electronic gadgets.

The Clinton charity shakedown was hammered out on June 9, as executives from Samsung Corporation met with the ex-president in his Harlem office to negotiate the terms of his appearance at today's Four Season's of Hope gala benefit at Manhattan's tony Cipriani eatery.

Before agreeing to headline the event, Clinton personally inspected the several flat screen TVs and other electronic gadgets offered by Samsung, which is sponsoring the luncheon.

The high-living ex-president also demanded a contribution to his presidential library in Little Rock, reports the New York Post - bringing the total jackpot for his charity speech to $20,000, according to a source quoted by the paper.

Clinton spokesman Jim Kennedy confirmed that his boss' presidential library would receive it's own "charitable contribution" in exchange for the philanthropic appearance.

The Four Seasons of Hope raises money for foundations headed by New York Yankees manager Joe Torre, basketball great Magic Johnson, former New York Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason and golf legend Arnold Palmer, the Post said.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is also scheduled to appear at the gala benefit - but without compensation of any kind. Giuliani's only condition was that he be allowed to arrive late to ensure that he would not be seen or photographed with the ex-president, whom he reportedly despises.

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1 posted on 06/18/2003 6:45:24 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
Giuliani's only condition was that he be allowed to arrive late to ensure that he would not be seen or photographed with the ex-president, whom he reportedly despises.

Reminds me of Joe DiMaggio's refusal to meet Clinton at a baseball game in Baltimore a few years back.

2 posted on 06/18/2003 6:47:32 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: kattracks
He is taking the money "for the children."

What a pompous cheapskate.
3 posted on 06/18/2003 6:48:08 AM PDT by alisasny
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To: alisasny
Clinton is WHITE-TRASH!! What OTHER type of behavior would you expect??
4 posted on 06/18/2003 6:51:14 AM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: Miss Marple
Dirty rotten scoundrel whereabouts ping

Prairie
5 posted on 06/18/2003 6:52:02 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (The "Religion of Peace" says it's OK to kill your daughter if you think she's behaved shamefully.)
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To: Alberta's Child
God I wish Guliani was mayor again!
6 posted on 06/18/2003 6:53:39 AM PDT by areafiftyone (The U.N. needs a good Flush!)
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To: alisasny
Think we'll read about this in the NYT? What a jerk!
7 posted on 06/18/2003 6:56:51 AM PDT by justshe (Educate....not denigrate.)
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8 posted on 06/18/2003 6:57:09 AM PDT by dead
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To: kattracks; Mia T
Hey Bill...we already know you and the Missus are morally bankrupt. Do you have to prove it at EVERY turn?
9 posted on 06/18/2003 6:57:37 AM PDT by jellybean
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To: Alberta's Child
Hats off to Rudy! Tiger Woods stiffed him too after he won the first Master's (I think it was Masters) and if I remember right John Elway would go to the WH either when Clinton was there!

When the Univerity of Oklahoma Sooners won the National Championship in January 2001 along with our Sooner Women's Softball Team winning it in June 2000, they went to the White House the first week of President Bush's term in office.

No way was our President of OU, David Boren, going to let our women's National Champion Softball team go meet Clinton in the White House.

At the Bush photo op with the Sooners both coaches Bob Stoops and Patty Gasso made it quite clear that they had backed the man who was now in the White House!

10 posted on 06/18/2003 6:58:11 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (Bush Cheney '04 - VICTORY IN '04 -- $4 for '04 - www.GeorgeWBush.com/donate/)
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11 posted on 06/18/2003 7:00:24 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: dead
My My My - Clinton's nose is awfully red isn't it? Guiliani doesn't take crap from anyone even the King and Queen of Evil!
12 posted on 06/18/2003 7:04:24 AM PDT by areafiftyone (The U.N. needs a good Flush!)
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To: kattracks; Mia T
Let's hear it for IMPEACHED sick willy! The more he makes, the more taxes he pays! The more he lies, the richer are the poor in our Welfare State.

P.T. Barnum would be pleased that an IMPEACHED con-artist in the an age of advanced communication could keep on making money from those that qualify as a "fool born every minute."
13 posted on 06/18/2003 7:04:37 AM PDT by Graewoulf
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To: dead
Dead- I find it interesting and not so coincidental that Hillary the homely thought that the then little sleickmeister looked like a "Viking", as this little existentially bankrupt and Borkian and dwarfish figure was and still is a barbarian in the scheme of righteous American culture. What a parasitic and virus he is.
14 posted on 06/18/2003 7:07:06 AM PDT by Helms (Springer-Geraldo Ticket in 2008 (Hows That for an Appetite For Destruction ?))
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To: Helms
Borkian? WTF?
15 posted on 06/18/2003 7:11:45 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." GWB 9/20/01)
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To: kattracks
what a scumbag
16 posted on 06/18/2003 7:16:03 AM PDT by hope
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To: kattracks
Giuliani's only condition was that he be allowed to arrive late to ensure that he would not be seen or photographed with the ex-president, whom he reportedly despises.

LOL!!! The contrast between Rudy and the Clintons is undeniable : a man who actually DONATES his time and talents to worthy causes vs. money-grubbing trailer trash. As big a heart as Giuliani has, even he can't tolerate the visceral revulsion of being around That Lying Rapist.

17 posted on 06/18/2003 7:25:26 AM PDT by RooRoobird14 ("Clinton is a rapist, Hillary is his pimp")
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To: kattracks
Can you imagine if it were a Republican president? It's obvious the liberal media's love affair with this creep because that is pretty nasty in which he was demanding charity for himself to give the appearance that he feels everybody's pain. The Clintoons are just the lowest of low and this continues to prove it. And I love Giuliani's request.
18 posted on 06/18/2003 7:25:31 AM PDT by bushfamfan
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To: NonValueAdded
Former Supreme Court nominee, Bork, who in his excellent book, "Slouching toward Gomorrah, proclaimed the ilk of Clinton as dwarfs and illegitamate heirs to American Culture

Charles Krauthammer @ http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer101199.asp

http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- THERE ARE A LOT OF WAYS to say "becoming decadent" or "losing our moral moorings" or "in steep social decline." "Slouching toward Gomorrah" is not the one that comes most readily to mind. But that was precisely the way George W. Bush phrased it in his speech to the Manhattan Institute in New York last Tuesday. "Too often, on social issues, my party has painted an image of America slouching toward Gomorrah." Interesting locution. "Slouching Towards Gomorrah" happens to be the title of Robert Bork's bestseller decrying American cultural decline. And Bush did not just allude to the title. He took exception to Bork's very premise when he said: "Something unexpected happened on the way to cultural decline. Problems that seemed inevitable proved to be reversible." Of course, Bork did not originate the "slouching" image. But Bush was hardly dissing William Butler Yeats. Bush was doing an ever so subtle Sister Souljah on Robert Bork. You remember Sister Souljah. She is the black rap artist known for inflammatory racial rhetoric whom President Clinton pointedly denounced in a 1992 campaign speech before Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition. It helped define Clinton as a Democrat who was not a captive of his party's staunchest constituency, and helped position him as a centrist in the general election. Bush's Manhattan Institute speech was clearly meant to distance him from his party's extremes and position him as a centrist too. Not content just to define his own conservatism as "the creed of social progress" concerned with "human problems" and not "CBO and GNP," he conjured up a foil with his veiled reproach to Bork and Borkian pessimism. Just when we thought W. was struggling to get out from under the shadow of dad, it turns out he's trying to get out from under the cloud of Robert Bork. Bork is a central figure among social conservatives, not just for the valiant way he soldiered through his failed confirmation to the Supreme Court in 1987, but even more so for the moral passion of his subsequent writings excoriating every manifestation of American decline from euthanasia to abortion. To be sure, the Bush speech was full of specifics and programs on how to improve education. Some very sound ideas, although none of them varied greatly from the general conservative approach of testing, excellence and vouchers--or last-resort "scholarships" as Bush delicately calls them--when the public schools utterly fail. But Bush's "slouching" speech will no more be remembered for its content than will Clinton's Sister Souljah speech. In the 2000 campaign, issuelessness reigns. Positioning is everything. Indeed, the main function of "issues"--education, health care, Medicare--is not to provide governing programs or even debating fodder. It is to serve as a vehicle for political positioning. What, after all, are the issues in a time of amazing prosperity at home and tranquillity abroad? The traditional cutting-edge issues of taxes and abortion are both being finessed. Taxes died after the Republican Congress went home this summer and failed to find any resonance in the electorate for a tax cut. And abortion is being smothered by the vast number of Republicans who do not want it barring their road back to the White House. (Invaluable aid is provided by Pat Buchanan's imminent defection to the Reform Party, which is indifferent to abortion--making the point that even a pro-life totem such as Buchanan will play down abortion in order to fight for bigger prizes.) And what, on the Democratic side, are the real issue differences between Al Gore and Bill Bradley? There is but one overriding issue in this campaign season: electability. Bradley is rising largely because Gore looks--as Pat Moynihan so rudely pointed out--like a loser. And George W. continues his high-wire act--fantastic fund-raising and runaway poll numbers--because he looks like a winner. How to keep looking like a winner? Slouch toward the center. With electability next November being the main campaign issue, the major candidates are not playing to their extremes--as they traditionally do to win their hard-core party primary voters--later to tack back. They are straddling the center now. George W. begins by attacking his own party in Congress for a budgetary device that would have delayed paying income support to the working poor. "Balancing the budget on the backs of the poor," he said with Gephardtian flourish. Then he triangulates off Robert Bork. Next thing you know he'll say he loves the Edmund Morris book.

19 posted on 06/18/2003 7:32:17 AM PDT by Helms (The Democrats are the official party of “blue pill”)
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To: kattracks
Clintons never do anything for free or because its the right thing. The only game they play is $$$$$$$$$
20 posted on 06/18/2003 7:35:09 AM PDT by dalebert
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