Should this "woman" ascend to the presidency, that will truly be the day my country died.You'll note I did not say, "get elected to the presidency," because I just don't see that happening.
Posted on 08/27/2002 5:08:27 AM PDT by MindBender26
Book: Hillary Used 'Etiquette Squads' to Bust Up Protests
A former advance man for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has confessed that her campaign used "etiquette squads" to drive hecklers away at rallies, raising new questions about a March 2000 incident where several reporters were assaulted while trying to cover then-candidate Clinton as crowds booed her during the St. Patrick's Day parade.
Patrick Halley's new book, "On the Road with Hillary," is a largely favorable portrait of the White House hopeful, seen through the eyes of the man whose job from 1992 to 2000 was to make sure Mrs. Clinton was viewed in the best light possible.
That meant that the Boston native was in charge of picking the right TV-friendly settings, the right props and the right photo-ops, according to an account of his book in Sunday's Boston Herald, which also noted:
"Things usually didn't get that dramatic for Halley, though he did help set up so-called 'etiquette squads' to help drive disrupters away from rallies."
During her 2000 bid for the Senate, Mrs. Clinton's campaign became notorious for the heavy-handed way it kept her shielded from reporters and protesters alike.
One particularly ugly altercation took place as she marched in New York City's St. Patrick's Day parade, where she was greeted by block after block of booing throngs.
As Mrs. Clinton pushed through the heckling crowd surrounded by her security and a phalanx of reporters, suddenly violence erupted. The scene was described during a live WABC radio report by Metro Network News reporter Glenn Schuck, who assumed that Secret Service were responsible for the thug-like tactics:
"Secret Service agents literally are pushing press to the ground. They just lost their minds, in my opinion," he told WABC's Sean Hannity.
"I mean they just started pushing and shoving; female camera people five feet tall were getting thrown to the ground, cameras flying. Myself, I was grabbed by the shoulder, I was thrown back over. I think somebody from Channel 11 landed on my back. From that point it really didn't get any better." (See: Hillary's Secret Service Agents Rough Up Reporters as St. Pat's Crowd Boos)
A few days later, a caller to WOR Radio's Bob Grant Show reported that she and her family were also accosted by Clinton's protest-busters along the parade route.
"Maureen" said that after her family had joined the crowd in jeering Mrs. Clinton, "they were surrounded by men in trench coats with radios." They told Maureen that since Mrs. Clinton was first lady that they "did not have the right" to heckle, she told Grant. "We think you should stop this now," the Clinton handlers ordered.
Were these incidents - and dozens of other similarly heavy-handed encounters with Hillary's handlers - the work of not the Secret Servicebut instead Clinton's protest-busting "etiquette squads"?
Author Halley could not be reached by press time to respond to that question.
Remember that movie where the little boy said, "I see dead people"? He was talking about the people who voted for Hillary and Al.
That would be my guess. Mcauliff is as crooked as the Klintons.
Whew, you scared me for a moment. The thought that Hitlery would be around for 20,000 years was almost too much to bear. LOL
((ping))
Actually the "Brownshirts" did wear trench coats as overcoats and the Gestapo were famous for their leather trench coats.
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
Should this "woman" ascend to the presidency, that will truly be the day my country died.You'll note I did not say, "get elected to the presidency," because I just don't see that happening.
He gets my nomination as the hardest working man in politics.
Oh, Thank God!
I couldn't stand another 18,000 years of Hillary!
That FReep report still cracks me up. Thanks for the link.
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