HILL SHILL SPILLS ALL; CO-ED: SHE KNEW TO CALL ON ME (Clinton's staff pressured her to shut up)

NY POST ^ | November 14, 2007 | GEOFF EARLE, Post Correspondent

[Liz]

An Iowa college student pulled back the curtain on Hillary Clinton's stage-managed campaign stops..... Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff said a Clinton staffer produced a binder with about eight questions. "The top one was planned specifically for a college student," she said. "It noted 'college student' in brackets and then the question." Clinton's staffer approached her..... Gallo-Chasanoff said she proposed a question about comparing Clinton's energy plan.... "I don't think that's a good idea," the staffer told her, "because I don't know how familiar she is with their plans." Gallo-Chasanoff says the Clinton camp tried to get her to keep quiet.......a staffer called and told her "not to talk about" the story to more media.

[Roccus]

Thank you. I had forgotten about the pardons. That can go on the list in post #41 as well

[Gondring]

“Senator Clinton, it has been suggested that you try to weasel out of scandals by claiming you are unaware of your staffers’ actions?”

“It’s news to me, Wolf.”

[Ann Archy]

GAG ME!!!! That Pony-tailed girlie man STILL gives me the shivers!

[Miss Didi]

Thanks to Rush!



RUSH: Let me do some little analysis here on timing for all of this stuff to have happened to Mrs. Clinton now. We're into the third week of a slow bleed, and it all started, I think -- I can't prove it -- but I think it all started on this program the day of the debate in Philadelphia at Drexel University when I read a story on the Associated Press talking about how radioactive the issue of driver's licenses for illegal immigrants in New York was for Mrs. Clinton. The reporter said, "This is radioactive." I said, "Well, ask her about it!" The story was about how nobody is asking her about it because it's radioactive. I said, "Ask her about it." That night she was asked about it by Tim Russert, and she flubbed it, she flip-flopped it, she blew it big time in ways that we don't need to recount. On a conference call later the next day, a bunch of Clinton supporters were discussing all this, how to stratergize around it and what to do about it, and according to the Hill newspaper, one of them even said, "Russert should be shot," and then said, "I shouldn't say that on a conference call."

Now, also, in the process of this, folks, we have dealt, perhaps, too soon to say, but we have dealt a damaging, perhaps fatal blow to Governor Eliot Spitzer's plan to give illegals driver's licenses. So we have a twofer there. We have Mrs. Clinton off the highway, the guardrails didn't protect her, she's in the SUV and it's rolling over there. She had to get Clinton out to start defending her. Then, of course, came not tipping the waitresses; then comes the planted questions; then Bill Clinton says boys are ganging up on her here; then Mrs. Clinton had to say that she was a woman and they're attacking her because she's a woman, and she says no, I can handle it, I'm tough, I'm your girl and blah, blah, blah. You know all this. Now we've got this ongoing bleed with the student and planted questions, and the Clinton, Inc., war room today warning Wolf Blitzer that he better not gang up on her, he better not do any personal attack Russert-type questions Thursday night at the debate in Las Vegas, or else. They didn't say or else, but it was a warning.

I speculated earlier that Wolf may want to beg off the debate because who's going to take care of his children, just like these diplomats in the State Department don't want to go to Iraq, because who's going to take care of their children? Wolf, by the way, get a cup. I don't know that Wolf's listening. I know he listens. If he's not listening, somebody tell Wolf to get a cup. I know people at CNN monitor this show. You people at Media Matters, I know you're listening, tell Wolf to get a cup. Well, I could send him one but I don't know if mine would fit him. But nevertheless, let's look at the timing of this, ladies and gentlemen. Here we are shortly before Thanksgiving, and all of this is happening. Up 'til the past three weeks, it has been smooth sailing. Mrs. Clinton is reporting all this marvelous fundraising superiority, magnified, big leads in the polls, wherever you look. Now, all of a sudden, this little slow bleed is happening, and it shows no signs of abating. Now, it could all abate, if she comes out of the box with a bang, big-time performance Thursday night in the debate, then, you know, these things can turn on a dime, and if she comes out and is forceful, answers these questions, then Hillary has weathered the storm. So that's a possibility.

But if that doesn't happen, if the slow bleed continues, we're going to be at Thanksgiving next week, and the news cycle over Thanksgiving, everybody tones it down, you got football games on the weekend, college and pro, families getting together, the whole mess. The news cycle sort of goes slow. Then, right after that, you get into December, and hello holiday time, and it's sort of like August and July. Those are interruptions into what I call normalcy. It's like radio ratings in July and August, you don't pay much attention to them because people are not living their normal lives. Vacations, kids are out of school, same thing in December. Plus, you know, the Drive-Bys are going to be guaranteed to be pounding us with horrible economic news. So the last thing that people are going to remember is this slow bleed of Mrs. Clinton's, unless they can do something to make big news in December, to get rid of this. Then the Hawkeye Cauci, January 3rd, right after the Christmas holidays are over!

So my point is, there's not a whole lot of time to turn this around if it continues, and if she doesn't have a boffo performance on Thursday night. You can talk all you want about Wolf Blitzer, the Clinton, Inc. can warn Wolf Blitzer all they want, but I tell you if her opponents have any gonads, they're not going to have to depend on Wolf Blitzer in order to go after her on some of this stuff. In a normal campaign, that's what would happen. In a normal debate, the moderator is just there to sound the warning bell when your time is over but, if the Breck Girl wants to get into it, roll up the sleeves, same thing with Obama -- you know, talking about Obama turning up the heat, I don't think he's got the personality right now to turn up the heat on a stove. But we'll have to see. We'll just have to watch and see on Thursday night. But the timing of this could not be worse, quote, unquote, for Mrs. Clinton.

Analysis: Timing Is Everything

[Cedric]

“Nothing has ever stuck to her before...”

Wrong.
Nothing ever stuck to BILL. Everything stuck to either Hillary or Algore.

Just look at her negatives {polling data}.

[Ann Archy]

Amen to EVERYTHING you said.

[Cedric]

You’re living in a delusional parallel universe.

Bush would have been skewered as a heartless, venal aristocrat had he given your answer. He’d have come in 3rd behind Perot and, likely, the GOP would never have recovered.

[Roccus]

She has never, NEVER had to pay the price for anything she has done.

[mware]

I think after Spitzers turn around on the driver licenses, He will become person non gratis with the Hillary camp. He has made life difficult for her and that is unforgivable in their eyes.

[Ditter]

Hill should have stuck to “listening tours” they worked well for her. when she opens her mouth to speak she often sticks her foot in it.

[a real Sheila]

“I don’t know whether Hillary knew what my question was going to be, but it seemed like she knew to call on me because there were so many people, and . . . I was the only college student in the area,” she said.

Has anyone seen a video clip?
Is H wearing a flesh-colored earpiece in the video?

[RGSpincich]

Beware the SwiftStudents.

[Cedric]

That’s different, your claim was nothing ever STUCK to her which implies public perception not legal consequences.

[Cincinatus]

Bush would have been skewered as a heartless, venal aristocrat had he given your answer.

Of course he would have by the MSM. That would just add even more to his vote totals.

The big problem GHWB had in '92 was that the GOP base couldn't get enthused about him. And they felt betrayed by his tax increase. He could have won back their hearts with a good answer to the pony-tailed guy. And in that, I include a lot of the Perot voters.

[Doc Savage]

Washington AP: The nude and lifeless body of Iowa college student Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff was discovered early this morning in Fort Marcy Park near Arlington, Virginia. A handgun built from three different untraceable guns was found clutched in her hand. Four .22 bullets had been fired from the gun.

Federal Park Police Chief Craig Livingstone told reporters that she had obviously killed herself by firing four bullets into her head. No post mortem is planned.

When asked by reporters what she knew of the tragedy Hitlery Crinton stated that, "You know as much as I do!" No further investigation is planned.

[PGalt]

What will stick is the avalanche next November. It’s going to be a very interesting 2008.

[Arrowhead1952]

Next, she will bring up this again.

[COUNTrecount]

“Reporters who have covered the hyper-vigilant [Clinton presidential] campaign say that no detail or editorial spin is too minor to draw a rebuke. Even seasoned political journalists describe reporting on Hillary as a torturous experience... [and] recount excruciating battles to secure basic facts. Innocent queries are met with deep suspicion. Only surgically precise questioning yields relevant answers. Hillary’s aides don’t hesitate to use access as a blunt instrument, as when they killed off a negative GQ story on the campaign by threatening to stop cooperating with a separate Bill Clinton story the magazine had in the works. Reporters’ jabs and errors are long remembered, and no hour is too odd for an angry phone call. Clinton aides are especially swift to bypass reporters and complain to top editors” — senior editor Michael Crowley, writing in the New Republic.

[Cedric]

The premise is the Clintonistas and the DBM plated the pony tail guy to show how in-touch Bubba was and how out-of- touch, cold and insensitive, by contrast, Bush was. Clinton, of course, won praise for his “feel your pain” answer. The Clintonistas were praying {to Satan, no doubt} that Bush would give them a double-whammy by answering as you advocate.
Thankfully, Bush didn’t take the bait.

[Bryan24]

“The campaign has admitted planting the question but denied Clinton knew about it - and yesterday wouldn’t answer whether they had a binder with prepared questions.”

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It’s not the lie that is so bothersome, it is the outright arrogance of lying to protect an OBVIOUSLY stupid and incapable Hillary Clinton of doing anything “off-the-cuff”. These people would lie about the sun coming up if they thought it would protect Hillary.

And it is OBVIOUS that Hillary knew. Everyone knows she knew.

The political landscape in this country right now is like a football game. But it isn’t any ordinary football game.

In this game the opponent (the democrats), have crooked refs, a dishonest chain crew, a stadium announcer that is sympathetic to the opponent and the TV coverage is being done by former members of the opponents team who are still on the payroll of the former team.