CLINTON "REGRETS" PARDONING RICH

FoxNews | 3.31.02 | Mia T

[kellynla]

Like Klinton's infidelity, the only thing Bubba regrets is getting caught...

[EggsAckley]

Get a high speed connection---dsl!

There are a number of people here who simply cannot get anything other than dial-up. Just because YOU can get faster service, doesn't mean everyone can. If Jim were to design this site to cater to you and others who have the faster service, he would lose MANY loyal Freepers.

While Mia T's posts are always entertaining and clever, there are times that the loading is almost too much for dial-up. If Pac Bell ever replaces all their old rural lines, I'll be the FIRST to order faster service. And to make matters worse, even though I have a 56K modem, the old phone lines only deliver between 26 to 28K. Blech!

[gc4nra]

"Bill and Hillary loved the Arafats."

It's just too bad that Bill and Hill aren't huddled in his darkened office in Ramallah with him! Slick would make a great hood orament on an Israeli tank.

[RLK]

Clinton regrets ever insult to the integrity of the nation or of any office he holds after he is caught, not because of the insult, but because he got caught.

[MeekOneGOP]

Follow the advice of f.Christian--get a high speed Internet connection.

If you do not live in an area with high speed availability, move there.

If you can not pack up and move, read some other FR threads.

I have AT&T Broadband, and it works great and is fast - thank you.
Post #10 is the one that was griping about his graphics problem.
I was simply replying to it.......

[Navy Patriot]

Klintoon: Ken Starr made me do it. Am I surprised? Not. Good stuff Mia, but could you streamline somewhat for those of us with dialup? NP

[Mia T]

"I am endlessly fascinated by her. . . She's so smart. Virtually every time I've seen her perform, she has knocked my socks off."

--CBS News reporter Lesley Stahl on Hillary Clinton, December 8, 1999.

LESLEY (clinton mediocrity goes undetected primarily because of media mediocrity. "Mediocrity" and "media" don't come from the same Latin root , medius, for no reason.) STAHL

HILLARY, YOU KNOW

BUMP!

 

 

 

 

THE HILLARY, YOU KNOW, CLINTON TRANSCRIPT:

Analyzed and Annotated

 

by Mia T

January 22, 2002

 

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE [YOU KNOW] 'UPDATED'

 

 

ABSTRACT

Background:

Using internal polling, the clinton 'infrastructure' determined that its cozy-clintonoid-interviews-of-the-Colmes/King-kind-scheme is no longer working. The scheme, which successfully shepherded and shielded the vacuous, inept, corrupt clintons for nine years, is now, post-9/11, yielding diminishing returns--and worse--increasing ridicule.

Hence, we had the clinton 'infrastructure' interviewer recalculation last week that specified more interviewer gravitas...and less lapdog...but not more doggedness...that is to say...that specified Jeff Greenfield.

A miscalculation, as it turned out. Greenfield made up in contempt what he lacked in inexorability. (Although he conducted the entire interview circumambulating on eggshells, Greenfield did eventually ask the ugly questions.)

Analysis:

Greenfield's circuitous path to clinton depravity and failure necessitates a nonlinear analysis of the data; we will use a nonlinear least squares curve fitter. Proportional hazards political survival regression analysis will generate a political survival curve for hillary clinton, which will show her viability (so to speak) over time.

Political survival time is defined as the length of the interval between the initial political trial balloon and political moribundity. Political moribundity is defined as two consecutive political failures--(one in the case of 9/11), or three not-necessarily-consecutive boo-filled public appearances, or one instance of a serious proposal generating laughter.

ASIDE: Since by any of these standards, hillary clinton is already flatlined, the more interesting question for this analysis would be: "What the hell is this moribund loser doing in the political arena, anyway?"

Survival is influenced by one or more factors, called "predictors" or "covariates", which may be categorical (such as the quality of 'infrastructure') or continuous (such as intellect or eloquence or character).

Results:

• clinton rigor mortis rendered any discussion of clinton moribundity moot.
• Nonetheless, one of the more significant continuous predictors of political moribundity is clinton's tic-like insertion of "you know," a marker for ineloquence, vulgarity, ignorance, rube-meets-valley-girl demographics, low self-esteem, anxiety and insincerity.
• clinton uttered "you know" 52 times. Greenfield eventually caught the bug and uttered six "you knows," himself. (There is a cautionary tale here for wannabe clintonoid lapdogs.)
• Frequency of clinton "you knows" varied directly with intensity of Greenfield contempt and inversely with magnitude of Greenfield softballs.
• clinton confirmed my hypothesis of Rubin complicity in a clinton coup. See "The Daschle Scheme".

GREENFIELD: Tonight, a conversation with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on the nation and the world after September 11, on GREENFIELD AT LARGE.

THE COMPLETE ANNOTATED INTERVIEW (NB: a very long, you know, download because of the, you know, clinton criminal, you know, redundancy.)

hillary's head revisited:

hillary clinton's brain (such as it is) II

 by Mia T

The smartest woman in the world would relish "the raucous give and take of American democracy, " as Charles Kuralt once put it.

hillary clinton, by contrast, subsists on cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind...

In her new book, Political Fictions, Joan Didion indicts the fakery of access journalism practiced by vacant politicos like the clintons, whom she sees as "purveyors of fables of their own making, or worse, fables conceived by political strategists with designs on votes, not news."

(More Didion: "No one who ever passed through an American public high school could have watched William Jefferson Clinton running for office in 1992 and failed to recognize the familiar predatory sexuality of the provincial adolescent.")

hillary clinton, Congenital Bottom Feeder, Cowers Below Network Radar, Continues to Subsist on Cozy Clintonoid Interviews of Colmes Kind

by Mia T

EW YORK, Sunday, Feb. 3 -- Rather than courageously confronting major league media, hillary clinton continues to subsist on cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind. Again today, clinton chose to be interviewed not by George Will et al. on the network ABC show, Sunday Morning with Sam and Cokie, but by second-string clinton lackeys on third-rate local fare that followed Sunday Morning in the New York market.

Clinton failed to exceed local performance parameters with ease, clogging the airwaves with standard-issue clinton claptrap.

By continuing to eschew the politically obligatory Sunday morning circuit and formidable inquisitors like George Will, clinton only encourages the incipient whispers of ineptitude, depravity and failure that are filling the Senate cloakroom.

 

 

In addition to this display of cowardice, ineptitude, depravity and failure, one of the more significant continuous predictors of clinton's political moribundity is clinton's tic-like insertion of "you know."

 

A marker for ineloquence, vulgarity, ignorance, rube-meets-valley-girl demographics, low self-esteem, anxiety and insincerity, clinton "you knows" were less frequent during this interview than during the one conducted on January 17^th by Jeff Greenfield. This result is consistent with the previous finding, that the frequency of clinton "you knows" varies directly with the intensity of interviewer contempt for the clintons and inversely with the magnitude of interviewer softballs.

If hillary clinton continues to secure her politically moribund position via second-string clinton lackeys on third-rate local fare, Mort Sahl put the intellectual--if not the final--nail in the clinton legacy coffin on CNN's first-waterloo last month.

Sahl, the 60s satirist and self-professed "radical independent," who cut his political-eyeteeth at the Hungry i, announced, "I have no desire to meet clinton; with no morality, there's nothing there." That the eponymous Clinton News Network televised the demise only adds to the irony.

By way of contrast, the intrepid iconoclast, who never knew a president he didn't skewer, went on to express pride in knowing "the two Bushes," the Kennedys and Nixon.

So much for the clinton legacy.

The CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme, counterproductive on its face, is now officially dead. If the clintons had any concern for the American aesthetic, they would bury it...and themselves, while they're at it.

 

[EggsAckley]

If you do not live in an area with high speed availability, move there. If you can not pack up and move, read some other FR threads.

Not a very practical suggestion. After years of trying to GET AWAY from the gas-powered flatlands, I should leave my thirty acres in the redwoods JUST so I can get dsl??? Yeah, right. I'll rent me one o' them big ole condos in downtown LA.
THEN I'll be happy. LOL!!

[wattsmag2]

I'm sure the SOB regretted it all the way to the bank. Probably even shed a tear and bit his lip as he was cashing the check.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

I get the impression you don't like the Clintons! LOL

[buffyt]

If there is any Freeper who still has not read "THE FINAL DAYS - The Last Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House" by Barbara Olson, you should read it. She tells all about the Rich pardon and others. There were SO many. In all Clinton commuted 21 drug dealers, he seems to have a special place in his heart for them! Chapter 10 is titled IF I WERE A RICH MAN and is all about Marc Rich. Chapter 11 is title EMPTY THE PRISONS, and that is what it appeared Clinton wanted to do through his presidential pardons. There were fifty or more pardons that didn't go through the Dept. of Justice channels as they should have. Barbara's book is EXCELLENT!!!!!! Plus, she was a Freeper and I knew her. She was just so lovely in so many ways!

[buffyt]

Ms. Olson covered that on pages 176, 177, 178, 179 (took four pages) of THE FINAL DAYS -- Hillary's denial of knowing about any of her brother's wrongdoing.... Barbara sums it up with
"Remarkably Hillary was able to stand before the press and the American public and deny -- again and again -- that she had ever spoken to her brother about his frantic effots to secure pardons from her husband and that she has never spoken with her husband about pardons, a subject that consumed Bill over the last weeks of his presidency. Everyone in the White House knew he had pardons on his mind. Everyone spoke to him about pardons, except his BELOVED wife, his co-president."

[MHGinTN]

Regarding Barbara's book, the availability of it is a thorny issue ... why don't typical retailers stock it? The Final Days and Aldrich's, Unlimited Access ought to be required reading in every College and University Poli Sci and/or Journalism program ... but of course the liberal mutators of this Republic are heading in the opposite direction.

[Our man in washington]

I could see a decent man saying one of the following:

"I think Marc Rich was innocent, which is why I gave him a pardon. I have endured a lot of criticism for it, which I admit has been hard on me. Nevertheless, I was willing to weather the criticism to help an innocent man."

I made a mistake by pardoning Marc Rich. I was misinformed about the true nature of what he did. Some may say I pardoned him as a payoff, but the truth is that I honestly believed he was innocent. I'm sorry for being misinformed."

But what kind of person says "He was innocent, but I'm sorry I pardoned him because it made me look bad?" If Rich was truly innocent, wouldn't the criticism be a small price to pay to help?

(Of course, Marc Rich is guilty. I'm just pointing out that Clinton's statement reveals Clinton's lack of character, REGARDLESS OF THE FACTS ON MARC RICH. I'd like to see a Clinton defender squirm out of this one.)

[DoughtyOne]

Here here! I'm right behind you on that.

[Mia T]

Q ERTY2 BUMP!

Olson Book's Chilling Warning: Clinton's Terrorist Pardons Sent Signal

Crime/Corruption
Source: News Max
Published: Oct. 14, 2001 Author: Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

In a bone chilling chapter of her new book "The Final Days," late heroine-author Barbara Olson warned that ex-president Bill Clinton's pardons of terrorists who had repeatedly bombed buildings in New York City "send a signal" that the U.S. isn't serious about fighting terrorism.

In words that now seem like a harbinger of her own Sept. 11 death at the hands of the Middle Eastern terrorists, Olson cited example after example of how U.S. officials strenuously warned Clinton that pardoning FALN Puerto Rican separatists who had waged their own bombing jihad on America posed a threat to national security.

In August 1999 Clinton pardoned 16 FALN terrorists without even being asked, in a move that was widely seen as a cynical ploy to win Hispanic votes for his wife's New York senate bid.

The group had planned and executed 130 bombing attacks on New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. from 1974 to 1983. Miraculously, the FALN managed to kill just six Americans. But hundreds more were seriously wounded.

Law enforcement officials were stunned when Clinton decided to pardon the FALN bombers.

"The FBI's assistant director of national security, Neil Gallagher, said that the people turned loose by Clinton 'are criminals, and they are terrorists, and they represent a threat to the United States,'" Olson wrote.

In a subchapter eerily headlined "Pardons for Terrorists Send a Signal," she reported:

"President Clinton had not bothered to consult with relatives of victims of FALN terrorism. In fact, the survivors of those murdered and those whose lives had otherwise been destroyed by the terrorists were not even informed that their attackers were being released."

Olson continued:

"Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder.... conceded that the nation owed much greater consideration to the victims. And Holder's boss, Janet Reno, explicitly acknowledged that groups aligned with the FALN still posed a threat to national security."

In comments turned gut-wrenching in light of last month's attacks, former Justice Department pardon attorney Margaret Love told the late author that Clinton's terrorist pardons should have set off alarm bells.

"We should have seen a big flashing red light because of the FALN cases.... That was a foreshoadowing of what happened later."

Love was referring to Clinton's January 2001 pardons of drug dealers and international fugitives, not the attacks on the U.S., which no one foresaw. But it's nearly impossible now to read those words as anything but prophesy of the terrorist acts that murdered Olson and nearly 6,000 others last month.

In a moment of now legendary heroism, the late author telephoned her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, from American Flight 175 to warn that terrorists had hijacked her plane. Mr. Olson had the terrible task of telling his wife that two planes had slammed into New York's World Trade Center minutes before.

Barbara Olson's phone call was the first warning the government had that Washington, D.C. had come under similar attack.

In comments sure to irk those who argued for eight years that Bill Clinton's private life was nobody else's business, the late author contends that the terrorist pardons were payback for Mrs. Clinton indulging her husband's decades of rampant philandering.

"Hillary had done a lot of heavy lifting for her husband, much of it, such as the various bimbo eruptions, that required her to hold her nose. She had to cover for her husband and lie."

Olson called the FALN pardons Bill Clinton's "first return on her investment."

Though a lively debate has raged ever since Sept. 11 over whether the ex-president did as much as he could to stop Osama bin Laden, the one-time congressional Clinton investigator is the first to raise the FALN pardon question at any length.

Perhaps now Sen. Clinton, who has made herself newly available on the TV talk show circuit since the World Trade Center attacks, will be asked whether she agrees with Olson that her husband's terrorist pardons "sent a signal."

 

 

 

"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.),

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

"I did not have any involvement in the pardons that were granted or not granted," insisted Sen. KnowNothing, seeming to forget her presence at the New-Square/Oval-Office schmooze that secured pardons for the four Hasidic felons who set up a phony school in Brooklyn to swindle the government out of millions intended for the poor.

Mia T, Sen. KnowNothing Victim Clinton Effectively Pleads 5TH in Press Conference by Invoking Spousal Privilege

HEY, HEY MARY JO!

 

by Mia T

 

So many pardons 4 sale.

 

So many rodhams & clintons to nail.

 

Hey, hey Mary Jo!

 

Can you spell R-I-C-O?