CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER FAILURE CONTAINMENT TEAM SCHEME Fails in its 1st Effort

O'REILLY FACTOR, The New York Times | 12-22-01 | Mia T

[MizSterious]

"Who's paying for this"--question of the year. Audit that library fund! Mia T, thanks for the ping. Excellent work as always!

[Mia T]

Thanx for the interesting info.

In sylleptic terms,

had Schlesinger

lost his bow tie with his mind,

that particular syllepsis would have never been. ;)

[beckett]

I really like that brilliant little essay on Riefenstahl, Mia.

The quote from a Touch of Evil reminds me of one of my favorites between Cary Grant and James Mason in North by Northwest:

Cary Grant: "Apparently the only performance that's going to satisfy you is when I play dead."
James Mason: "Your very next role. You'll be quite convincing, I assure you."

[beckett]

Mia and I go way back to a Usenet board on AOL. Some of her brilliant material can be traced to things she wrote then. In particular, her reference to the "excitable and lying old lady" of history was part of a posting from those days. Then she phrased it, "Someone--I forget who-- once called history "that excitable and lying old lady." Naively believing that she sincerely forgot who said such a thing, and at the time not realizing how deeply literate she is, I researched the question and found it was de Maupassant, something I'm sure Mia knew all along.

Mia now includes de Maupassant's name in that particular piece. I like to think she does it to avoid confusing some of us whose gift for words isn't as abundant as hers. I have a proprietary feeling for the alteration (deserved or not, I really don't know), and I consider it my contribution to her impressive, creative and brilliant body of work.

[Mia T]

thanx, beckett. I had forgotten. you are absolutely right...Another fact: The hostility to my posts was palpable -- it was the NYT forum. ;)

[SemperFidelis]

I agree with Lonesome. Keep doin' what you do best.

How have you been?

[Slyfox]

Clinton: "We must do more to reduce the pool of potential terrorists"

It all depends on how you define the word, "terrorist".

Just look at the kind of people Clinton DID go after. Pro-lifers, second ammendment defenders, people with nutty but harmless religions, radio talk show hosts and the people who listen to them, legal refugees - Chinese and Cuban, bonafide and legal drug companies as opposed to the illegal ones, women he raped and sexually-harrassed...

[Mia T]

The quote from a Touch of Evil reminds me of one of my favorites between Cary Grant and James Mason in North by Northwest:

Cary Grant: "Apparently the only performance that's going to satisfy you is when I play dead."
James Mason: "Your very next role. You'll be quite convincing, I assure you."

posted on 12/23/01 11:27 AM Pacific by beckett

North by Northwest? Are you sure it's not from the old west wing? Vince Foster in the Cary Grant role...and as James Mason, either of the mephitically interchangeable clintons.

[Mia T]

Clinton: "We must do more to reduce the pool of potential terrorists."

Q ERTY3 + Q ERTY6 bump!

What about the pool of ACTUAL terrorists, (like, say, the FALN or bin Laden), you impeached twit?

What is most interesting about the rapist's clinton-was-an-utter-failure containment team scheme is the calculation that incompetency is a preferable legacy to idiocy or a sui generis narcissistic sedition.

[chambley1]

Send to your local newspaper:

Editor: Several participants at a recent meeting in ex-President Clinton's Harlem office said in interviews that they had agreed to compile a list of the Clinton administration's achievements that his supporters could have handy when defending the president.

One thing the ex-president may consider is to add the infamous "Blue Stained Dress" to the First Lady Dress exhibit at the Smithsonian. To add flare to the exhibit, and to make the dress stand out more than the others, they can exhibit it under ultraviolet light to highlight one of the ex-president's best personal achievement streaks.

I wonder how many of the ex-President's staffers stopped by ground zero or visited with victims who lost family members while in New York. The answer is probably zero.

A disgrace to the nation.

God Bless America.

[Southack]

Please remove me from your Bump list.

[Mia T]

No problem...altho I find your public request a bit curious...

[Southack]

"No problem...altho I find your public request a bit curious..."

Thanks. I'm surprised, however, that you of all people would be curious about another's style.

[Mia T]

You say "style." I say "stiletto."

[aristeides]

A James Mason villain had infinitely more class than either Clinton could ever have.

[ChaseR]

AS USUSAL, EXCELLENT THREAD Mia T - thanks and keep up the great work! BTTT!

[Mia T]

Q ERTY2 BUMP!

[Mia T]

classy-"trailer-park-trash"-is-an-oxymoron BUMP!

 

Even THE MOB wouldn't be caught dead with them...

"My client had nothing to do with the low-rent, trailer-park trash politicians who infested our country for the past eight years."

--Michael Rosen, lawyer for Thomas Gambino, son of late Mafia boss Carlo Gambino

New York Post via The Wall Street Journal

(Michael Rosen was understandably eager to distance his client, a convicted loan shark, from the clintons. Another Thomas Gambino reportedly paid $50,000 to roger clinton in an unsuccessful effort to get a pardon for his father, Rosario Gambino.),

 

Don't lose

Your head

To gain a minute

You need your head

Your brains are in it.

--an old roadside ad, Pushme-Pullyou

 

 

 

 

[Mia T]

Q ERTY1BUMP!

[Mia T]

Clinton Contaiment Team

In a just world, this term would refer to three shifts of prison guards.  --steve-b

 

 

Q ERTY2 bump!

 

 

 

68 rms riv view

NY househunting for AR felons

 

by Mia T

 

 

 

In my view, "Newgate" would be the perfect home for the clintons.

Erected in rural country ("pleasant, airy, and salubrious," as Thomas Eddy called the site in his 1801 book), Newgate was located about two miles above City Hall in what is now Greenwich Village. (Selling point: Hillary-as-Giuliani-irritant is inversely proportional to distance of clinton abode from City Hall.) Construction was begun in the summer of 1796 and finished in late 1797.

 

On four acres overlooking the Hudson River, the Doric-style building was of two stories with a cupola, surrounded by a stone wall ranging from 14 to 23 feet high. It contained 54 12-by-18-foot rooms designed for eight persons each; there were also 14 solitary cells, eight feet by six feet and 14-foot high, with windows eight feet from the floor, for a total capacity of 446 occupants. A large room for a chapel was set aside, as were living quarters for the keeper and his family. Another two-story building of brick, 200 feet long by 20 feet wide, contained the work-shops. There was also a garden "in excellent order," as Eddy wrote. 'The entire cost of the grounds, buildings, and a wharf on the river-front was $208,846. The first "residents" arrived Nov.28, 1797.

 

Caveat emptor!

The clintons would be wrong to automatically equate the creepingly leftist location and incipiently leftist penal code of New York's first state prison with suitability.

 

Although Newgate was the embodiment of a new, "more enlightened" penal code--prior to Newgate, 16 crimes were punishable by death in New York, including murder, rape, robbery, treason, burglary, the taking of goods from a church, forgery and counterfeiting--it must be emphasized that treason and murder were retained as capital offenses as were all other felonies, if committed a second time.

 

Truth-in-advertising compels me to disclose that Newgate no longer exists. But this small detail should pose absolutely no problem for the clintons and their promiscuous campaigns, all of which being, after all, mock documentaries about non-entities, the paradoxical personification of nothingness.

 

 

Up the River Means Downwardly Mobile

 

 by Mia T

Are you ready to SING, SING, SING

--doug from upland

 

Sing-Sing and the clintons would be a great fit, Newgate notwithstanding. Imagine the two grim, oranged-suited, arrogant mobsters, marching in silent lockstep, their proximity to the infamous death house and the electric chair causing them quotidian night sweats, (If it's good enough for Ricky Ray Rector. . .). Imagine their fear, their subjugation to overbearing authority (If it's good enough for Billy Dale. . .) All the stuff of Sing-Sing legend. . .

 

Sing-Sing (much like the clintons, themselves) was conceived as a profit-making if exploitive enterprise. It was located on the Silver Mine Farm, an abandoned 130-acre mining site on the banks of the Hudson River precisely because of its rich quarry which provided materials for the construction of the prison (built with prisoner labor) and future sales.

The clintons, who have several decades of experience turning prisons into profit-making enterprises--(BLOOD TRAIL NEWS ARCHIVES)--not to mention copious experience in fraudulent mining ventures--( Zairean quid pro quo)--will feel right at home in Sing-Sing.

 

It's not easy to play fair against Mr. and Mrs. Clinton, who, in the words of the authors, "operated like a crime family, expecting friends and aides to protect them even against their own best interests." What's amazing, of course, is that's exactly what Clinton friends and aides have always done, from Susan McDougal to Webster Hubbell to flocks of nameless White House special assistants. Even Jim McDougal died just in time to deprive the independent counsel of a key witness against Mrs. Clinton, thus derailing what the authors report to have been her likely indictment for perjury and obstruction related to the Whitewater investigation....     

Reading the tumultuous events of the Lewinsky probe in a comprehensive narrative is unlike attempting to make sense of it in daily doses. Something different comes through the heavy accumulation of detail of, for example, the duplicity of the Justice Department, or the sharklike behavior of the White House. One begins to get a choking sense of the atmosphere of corruption and ruthlessness the Clintons inhabit -- and, worse, have forced the rest of us to inhabit. Taken in one piece, the habitual, even casual abuse of power on display begins to resemble conditions one normally associates with a state of totalitarianism, where such concepts as truth and justice are only paid lip service. In the end, then, it makes you wonder when there will be fresh air again.

-----Crime-family values