Hillary Gets Media Pass on Cop Incident

newsmax.com ^ | October 26, 2001 | Carl Limbacher and Newsmax.com Staff

[nicmarlo]

Hillary Gets Media Pass on Cop Incident, J.C. Watts Not So Lucky

After Oklahoma Rep. J.C. Watts had a run-in with an airport security police officer late last month, media outlets, both in Oklahoma and around the country, amply covered the story.

But a more egregious altercation in mid-October involving New York Senator Hillary Clinton has received almost no coverage, despite the fact that the police officer involved was injured so badly by Clinton's car that he has yet to return to duty.

A Lexis-Nexis search reveals that the Watts incident was covered in no fewer than 21 mainstream press reports since it was revealed on Oct. 7. Many of those reports were stand-alone stories in venues like the Los Angeles Times, the Arizona Republic and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Wire servies such as the Associated Press and United Press International featured eight stories on the Watts altercation, which had the leading House Republican allegedly bristling after receiving a parking ticket at Oklahoma's Will Rogers Airport on Sept. 28, then stuffing the ticket underneath a security officer's badge.

But an Oct. 14 altercation at the Westchester County Airport, where Sen. Clinton's limousine blew past a security checkpoint at 35 miles per hour - injuring county police officer Ernest Dymond in the process - has been the subject of just one mainstream print report.

The Washington Times covered the incident two days later, in a story that quoted Officer Dymond as saying Clinton's car was going so fast, "I didn't know if we had a terrorist." The senator's limousine sped on for another 100 yards with Dymond banging on the window and door and shouting for the vehicle to stop.

It finally did, but only when the Westchester County cop threw his shoulder into the door like a football lineman, sustaining injuries that required emergency room treatment.

In the two weeks since, no New York newspaper has reported the Clinton incident. A Lexis-Nexis search reveals only two other mentions of it - one a report in the Hotline linking to the Internet version of the Washington Times report, and another brief mention in The Hill quoting Mrs. Clinton's spokesman saying the accident was the result of confusion.

Westchester County Police spokesman Det. William Rehm told NewsMax.com Friday that Officer Dymond had yet to return to duty due to injuries sustained in the Oct. 14 Clinton car accident.

[uncbob]

Hillary Gets Media Pass on Cop Incident

She gets a pass on everything from the media

[nicmarlo]

Sad, but true. But, I believe in the old saying, "what goes around, comes around." She'll get hers.

[nicmarlo]

Thanks for your post. I didn't know it had been covered, and I hadn't heard anything lately about the officer who'd been hurt.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

"I didn't know if we had a terrorist."

This statement has always stunned me from the first time I read it. Had I been this airport security police officer’s boss, I would have fired him for not having stopped the vehicle with a blaze of firepower.

[nicmarlo]

It may have been more prudent if the officer fired shots at the tires, rather than ramming himself against the car. But, I don't know what the protocol was/is for officers, especially given today's events with terrorists.

[leilani]

Craig: "Had I been this airport security police officer’s boss, I would have fired him for not having stopped the vehicle with a blaze of firepwer." If I had been an editor with a shred of professional integrity, I would have covered this story on national television. Too bad neither of these scenarios happened.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

It may have been more prudent if the officer fired shots at the tires, rather than ramming himself against the car. But, I don't know what the protocol was/is for officers, especially given today's events with terrorists.

Of course you are correct. At times I get a tad frustrated and get carried away. But wouldn’t that have been interesting? It sure would have liven things up.

[nicmarlo]

I also get frustrated with the liberals. And cops have to worry about them, too. That's all this police officer would have needed--Hillary Clinton and the press would have made him out to be incompetent and gotten him fired had he done anything differently. It would have been pretty funny, though, her escape in a tire punctured by the police. Reminds me of the police chase aired on Fox news a few months ago, the guy driving around in a stolen tow truck with punctured tires . . . all the way around the city until the truck finally burned up.

[nicmarlo]

Like your comic, Wiley

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

If I had been an editor with a shred of professional integrity, I would have covered this story on national television. Too bad neither of these scenarios happened.

Yes, had it gotten national coverage that would have been enough for it to grow legs. I find the incident personally frustrating that how this %^#)&*!! (^& $%^@#!! never has to answer for anything.

[backhoe]

I will attempt to keep enough wits about me to send this story to a pile of papers and talk-show hosts in the morning ( when I think more readers will see it )-- until then, any of you so likewise inclined:

Communicate! Let the Sons of....

[nicmarlo]

Thanks for the list of email addresses. I have added that site to "my favorites" list.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Reminds me of the police chase aired on Fox news a few months ago, the guy driving around in a stolen tow truck with punctured tires . . . all the way around the city until the truck finally burned up.

That truly is hysterical. We don’t get Fox in Panama, so I missed it. What a classic! That would have been TOO FUNNY to see Hillary Claptrap’s tires down to the rim running around in circles around the airport and finally her engine going into a spectacular failure. How fun!

[nicmarlo]

The chase lasted about an hour, I think, and 1/2 hour of the guy driving around on rims. You could see the sparks flying. It was, of course, in Los Angeles. Was pretty crazy. The guy kept going and going until, finally, with all wheels burning, he slowed on a turn and there was no friction to get the truck going. It stopped. The smoke was so thick, you couldn't see him exit the truck, with guns drawn. The police dragged him from the truck so he wouldn't burn from the truck, which, by that time, was engulfed in flames.

[zbogwan2]

I'm melting! I'm melting!

Boy what a puddle of grease Hillary would leave behing if she melted like the witch did?

Great picture of the evil witch Hillary too!

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

I love it!!! Thank you for the additional information. HOW VERY FUNNY!!! I will laugh every time I think of what you just shared! I have the whole picture in my mind!

[ladyinred]

I did not see this story anywhere except here on FR, didn't expect to. Can you imagine if the car had been carrying, say, Jenna Bush? The entire lamestream media would still be talking about it! Hillary is protected, but then we knew that.
Case in point, the headline mentioned, "HIllary is Okay." She wasn't the one injured in the first place, and the headline should be about the Cop who was injured, not her heinous.She runs someone down because she feels she is above normal security, and the news only cares that she is Okay?

[ladyinred]

See post 19! Tee Hee!

[Valin]

IS HILLARY OK??!??

No, she's still a arrogant overbering fata*sed cow.