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.

[lambsquarter]

Hillery thinks she is god the media thinks she is god so when is judgement day. The answer came as the way of New York Fire Fighters and a little word Boo Boo Boo wasn't that great

[nicmarlo]

Yeah, News12 changed that headline the next day. I think because either Rush listeners must have emailed the h*ll out of them, or someone alerted them about what Rush said. I happened to read it before Rush aired it on his show. Rush posted it all on his program notes for that day (I think Oct. 16, if you can get it). I haven't heard anything at all about it since then. I don't believe Rush has updated us on this. I sent News12 a piece of my mind about it:

My email to News12 on 10/15/01:

Your liberal bias is showing: I don't care if Hillary Clinton's okay after breaching security. I applaud the police officer who tried to stop this breach. How is he doing?!!! He should not have been put in this position by a Senator, especially the junior senator from, of all places, NEW YORK!

Please report fairly and let us know how the heroic police officer is. Thank you.

[backhoe]

Thanks for looking- you really can annoy lots of people with those....

[jws3sticks]

Here's a shot of HRC, teats and all:

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bump to the top!!

[Fair Paul]

I don't understand why She needs to travel anyway. Since the world revolves around Her wouldn't it reason that wherever She is going would come to Her, thus obeying the laws of nature?

[nicmarlo]

Good point. But then, if she didn't travel, there'd be less photo ops. And you know how the Clintons can't live without the cameras.

[RodgerD]

your mention of obeying and laws reminded me of those magic momenents back in January...

[lowbridge]

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

How DARE that cop imperiously stand in the Queen's path, how dare he expect her royal majesty to obey a security checkpoint like a common peasant! How dare he hit her car with his body! /sarcasm

[nicmarlo]

Touche!

[nicmarlo]

Yep, that's about what they did . . . steal from and trash the White House.

[nicmarlo]

Thanks for your calculations. It only confirms to me that the officer really believed the people in the car could have been terrorists. As we all know, an intense emotion (such as the reflex of self-defense present when one feels they are in immediate and present danger), creates adrenaline. Even if the vehicle/running speed estimates given are a little exaggerated (which is a possibility), the adrenaline rush the officer would have experienced in this situation, thereby enabling him to run faster, makes it more credible that he was genuinely worried.

[nicmarlo]

Update on Police Officer: He's now silenced about incident by his superiors: Here's a current thread going around:

Injured Cop Fumes At Hillary

[nicmarlo]

Sorry, bad link, try here: Injured Cop Fumes At Hillary

[nicmarlo]

Sorry, this one works (am new, will get better at this): Injured Cop Fumes At Hillary

[backhoe]

Index!