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Nothing phony about response to Hillary at fete
The Boston Herald ^ | 10/23/01 | Margery Eagan

Posted on 10/23/2001 3:19:34 AM PDT by Gothmog

For a month now we've refrained from taking childish, if not infantile, if not downright cheap and totally unfair shots at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - self-proclaimed virtuecrat and humanitarian, most meritorious of the meritocracy, smartest of the smart set, chief priestess of right-thinking, diversity-university, holier-than-thou know-it-alls who surely know that it takes a village and if you don't know it too you are, simply, a knuckle-dragging member of the vast right-wing conspiracy of dunces.

We've refrained, as I said. But we can keep silent no more.

Saturday night, Madison Square Garden. The Heroes of New York spot the ubiquitous pantsuit. They recoil. Like spontaneous generation, like The Wave rolling through Fenway, the boos come to life and crescendo to full throttle, all but drowning her out. ``Thank you. Thank you for being here tonight,'' says Hillary, onstage at ``The Concert for New York.'' Eight words into her greeting, she's shouting to be heard. ``Thank you for supporting New York.'' She's practically bellowing.

``Get off the stage!'' jeers a cop a few feet away.

``Thank you for your generosity.'' She's screeching.

``We don't want you here!!!'' the cop screeches back.

``On behalf of all the people who are going to need help for a very long time . . .''

And the ``anti-Clinton slurs spread and intensif(y) throughout the Garden, with many standing near the stage lobbing profanities.'' We're quoting The Drudge Report here, pardon me. But these are desperate times.

``Please join me in welcoming . . .'' And Hillary goes on bellowing but smiles as if nothing's wrong, as if she were not being pummeled by the very people we and she have canonized since Sept. 11 - New York City police and firefighters and survivors of the World Trade Center tragedy - as if she were not utterly humiliated and ready to pulverize whoever got her into this nightmare. Oh my, my, my. What a deeply satisfying moment it was.

``It's visceral for me,'' an equally thrilled fellow Hillary-hater Kevin Barry said yesterday. ``Who's she to get up on the stage?'' Who, indeed?

And who better to tell her than The Heroes, the real, regular people who apparently can't stomach her fawning phoniness anymore.

Yet according to Drudge again (sorry), a Hillary confidante labeled these same heroes as ``cops and firemen who listen to right-wing talk radio. They still think she killed Vince Foster!''

In other words, heroes when it suits her; knuckle-dragging vast right-wing conspirators when it doesn't.

In case you missed the others, this is the third post-9/11 faux pas for the first feminist who would, heaven help us, be our first female president.

Last week, a black van carrying Hillary and driven by a Secret Service agent blasted through security at a Westchester County airport, injuring a policeman who tried to stop it. First he shouted at them to stop. Then he banged on the van. ``I didn't know if we had a terrorist,'' said vigilant officer Ernest Dymond, who was briefly hospitalized. ``Once I found out who he was, I was even more agitated that he, of all people, should have known.''

Hillary was on her way to a private airplane at the time.

Then there was her petulant performance during President Bush's speech to Congress a month ago. He's talking courage, endurance, patience, love. She's grimacing, rolling her eyes, chatting away, clapping stingily, as if it hurt.

He's reassuring a shattered nation. ``The state of the union is strong.'' She looks, this newspaper said, like she's ``sucking on a lemon.''

Of course, we could cut Hillary some slack here. We could point out, for example, that many of the Heroes of New York overimbibed Saturday. We could. But we won't.

For if there's one bright side to our current horror, it's that we're drawn to what's better among us, what's higher, grander, truer and soul-enlarging - not what's prunish, greedy, grasping, cold-blooded, calculated and completely full of it. Like her.


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To: Guenevere
Oh my, my, my. What a deeply satisfying moment it was.

Thanks for the ping, my lady!! You are such a far, far better example of what it is to be an American and a lady than that god-forsaken wench who's name it pains me to speak or transcribe.

181 posted on 10/23/2001 10:14:35 AM PDT by dittomom
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To: Gothmog
a Hillary confidante labeled these same heroes . . . How many times have we heard this before? Thank you for an excellent post.
182 posted on 10/23/2001 10:15:40 AM PDT by Peacerose
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To: Heuristic Hiker
You've got to read this article.
183 posted on 10/23/2001 10:25:57 AM PDT by Utah Girl
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To: jeremiah
I went here by accident, this is what they really think of the "heroes of NY" Hillary loves heroes-----NOT

Yikes! I clicked on your link and ended up in "Bizarro World." Multi-bagger barf alert for anyone else who dares.

184 posted on 10/23/2001 11:19:41 AM PDT by Dixie Mom
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To: jamesbond
Uh, ohhh, there goes my theory. I had just about decided that the "PIAPS" I had been seeing all over meant "p*ss in a pant suit." Guess that didn't pan out.

PIAPS = Pig in a pant suit :)

185 posted on 10/23/2001 11:23:10 AM PDT by Dixie Mom
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To: ohioWfan; Mia T; muggs; Alamo-Girl; Miss Marple; Prodigal Daughter; RMDupree; Luis Gonzalez...
OhioWfan, I cannot thank you enough for this ping! If I had missed this article, I would have REALLY missed a gem! Thank you, sweetie, so very much!

To the rest of you wild and wooly FReepers-Is it possible that others genuinely recognize what this arrogant sorry excuse for a human being is all about? What a zinger this article is.....I mean, this is practically an assault. (I loved every word! hehe)

MiaT-you produced and article about Hillary that talked about the phony news, the made up news as it were, that agenda driven folks use in tandem with a politico to elevate that person's background and that intend to elevate the reader's opinion, I thought it was so right on I could not believe it. I think hillary in particular has been manipulating the news, thru her sources in the media who fawn and would be willing to crawl naked on glass shards for this horry woman should they be called upon to do so. I could not find where you had posted the beginning of that article and then the link to the rest of it....I would love to bookmark it should you remember what I am referring to-Thanks!

186 posted on 10/23/2001 11:35:54 AM PDT by Republic
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To: Republic
It is a gem, isn't it??

IMO, best line.........as if she were not utterly humiliated and ready to pulverize whoever got her into this nightmare. Oh my, my, my. What a deeply satisfying moment it was.

Ah, yes!! Deeply satisfying for a whole lot of us!!

187 posted on 10/23/2001 11:49:12 AM PDT by ohioWfan
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To: Gothmog
Please don't apologize. This is great! Is this author a FReeper, I wonder.
189 posted on 10/23/2001 11:53:41 AM PDT by Bigg Red
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To: Gothmog
Thanks for posting it. I object to the derogatory reference to Drudge. I read Drudge BEFORE Monica. However, it should make us laugh that someone apologizes for quoting Drudge. Journalists quoting Drudge feel like a minister in a roadhouse (or worse). They cannot help feeling a need to explain why they dirtied themselves with the Drudge Report.

The articles says what most of us have felt for a long, long time. I predicted that the Clinton's would set a record in books published about their scandals...and I said it the moment they were elected. Lady Macbeth has outlived many of her critics and friends. I wonder what we will learn when people are no longer afraid of her.

190 posted on 10/23/2001 12:03:07 PM PDT by Chemnitz
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To: Gothmog; Republic
...Other American Hero NYC Firemen were seen yelling out near the Concert Stage at -The Enemy Within- CLINTONS about what they've all had to deal with after the Sept. 11th Airstrikes on the NYC Twin Towers...

"This is all YOUR Fault ...This is all YOUR Fault"

191 posted on 10/23/2001 12:17:39 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE
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To: Gothmog
This was great!
Damn! I hate her!
192 posted on 10/23/2001 12:26:46 PM PDT by Curly007
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To: Gothmog
Let's hope these sorts of comments continue through the next election. Maybe then we can get rid of her once and for all.
193 posted on 10/23/2001 12:38:01 PM PDT by Lucky2
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To: Gothmog
In case you missed the others, this is the third post-9/11 faux pas

I counted five. The author forgot: 1) Hillary! horning in on the re-opening ceremonies at the NYSE which was meant to be presided over by the NYPD and NYFD, and 2) Hillary! horning in on all the funerals for the NYPD and NYFD leaders during the first week.

-PJ

194 posted on 10/23/2001 12:41:24 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too
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To: Crusty_Pant_Suit
I love that "Xillary Pic as Tourist Guy" more than beer

More then beer? Geeze that must be alot!

195 posted on 10/23/2001 12:42:08 PM PDT by KLT
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To: Gothmog
What overkill? The writer is telling it like it is. Finally. And thank God!

Hillary was on her way to a private airplane at the time.

Newsmax.com reports that

Hillary was on her way to a stinking fundraiser when her car ran the checkpoint.

Okay, they didn't use the adjective "stinking," but it was implied by me when I read it.
197 posted on 10/23/2001 1:09:34 PM PDT by GretchenEE
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To: ohioWfan
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PING! This was wonderfully written with great visual imagery and much punch. Some phrases in here will linger well in my mind!

What could be worse for a pol to be booed by the heroes of 9/11, in her own "constituency"? (I'm pretending here that the people of NY actually elected her without vote fraud, for the sake of the argument.)

198 posted on 10/23/2001 1:20:20 PM PDT by GretchenEE
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To: Gothmog
The day started bad for me. Woke up with the trapezoid muscle pulled and hurting bad, on a cloudy morning that has become a gray day all over.... But then suddenly I come here and read this, after seeing the clip of the video and You 've made my day! There is sunshine, and justice and joy!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
199 posted on 10/23/2001 1:23:44 PM PDT by Minty
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To: NYC GOP Chick
Bookmarked!
200 posted on 10/23/2001 1:26:43 PM PDT by Minty
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