Posted on 11/24/2002 4:48:37 PM PST by Mia T
LBANY, Page Hall Auditorium, SUNY, Wednesday, Nov. 20 -- Facing Hardball's transmuted-by-access softball host, Chris Matthews, and an audience Matthews, in an apparent pre-emptive attempt at absolution disclosed as "all Ds,"[Democrats]...You packed the house," hillary clinton made it clear she will continue to subsist on cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind. Tickets to the event were limited to University at Albany students with a photo ID and/or independent proof of illegal alien DNC or DNA sequencing.
By eschewing the politically obligatory Sunday morning circuit and formidable inquisitors like George Will, hillary clinton only encourages the incipient whispers of ineptitude, depravity, cowardice and failure that fill cloakroom and kitchen, alike.
NO MANO A MANO THIS...
The much-hyped "college tour" showdown at Albany Downtown was promoted for weeks by Matthews and MSNBC as "a one-on-one with the senator from New York." The show -- and the "senator" -- were not as advertised, however.
Unfortunately for America, the only visible adversary at the SUNY access-journalism extravaganza was a free press. MSNBC trumpeted clinton as Zogby-polled presidential timber: "Always finishes a strong second to Gore." (A patent disqualifier if ever there was one, if you ask me.)
Notwithstanding this obvious lapse in logic, one wonders where and when Zogby collected its data, According to the most recent relevant poll, which was conducted by the Marist Institute last month -- and according to the results of this month's election, nary a soul wants hillary clinton back in the West Wing.
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." The smartest woman in the world would relish "the raucous give and take of American democracy," as Charles Kuralt once put it. She would not be reduced to packing audiences and.flacking reporters.
By continuing to confuse "strident" with "presidential," clinton once again demonstrated the ease with which she fails to exceed minimal performance parameters. Lawless to the core, she managed to turn nature's abhorance of a vacuum on its head, clogging the airwaves with standard-issue clinton claptrap.
REVERSIBLE TRANSMUTATIONS...
This collegiate meeting of the minds, so to speak, managed to elevate nothing but access journalism, raising it to historic new heights. Not content with this dubious achievement, Chris Matthews decided to become hillary clinton's full-fledged advocate the following day when it became clear that the softball interview did not go quite as planned; clinton's limitless vengeance and limited intellectual dexterity unwittingly, and much to her political disadvantage, reversed the Matthews transmutations: softballs were transformed to hardballs with each clumsy move and cheap shot.
OLD SCORES TO SETTLE...
No answer exposed clinton's cognitive flat-footedness or her thirst for revenge more than her comment about President Bush's motivation to oust Saddam: " I mean it is clear that a lot of people in this administration have some old scores to settle...with Saddam Hussein."
Psychologists call this projection. It is the clintons who know about settling old scores. It is the clintons who only know about settling old scores
Bill Clinton, quoted by George Stephanopoulos,
All Too Human: A Political Education
A Vast Conspiracy, p. 258, Jeffrey Toobin
WOODWARD WALLOPS CLINTON...
Bob Woodward disagrees with hillary clinton. (Meet the Press, 11.24.02) Woodward is the author of the new bestseller, "Bush at War," which "draws on four hours of interviews with President Bush and quotes 15,000 words from National Security Council and other White House meetings in reconstructing the internal debate that led to U.S. military action in Afghanistan and the decision to aggressively confront" the Iraqi president. Woodward says that Bush's motivation to confront Iraq comes not from revenge but from lessons learned: That one must take care of threats early, that given the range of Saddam's psychological disorders, an Iraqi nuclear capacity would change the equation not only for the region but for the world.
FOURTH-ESTATE FAILURE...
Chris Matthews failed utterly. He had his shot at hillary clinton and avoided asking anything of significance. No questions on the eight years of clinton corruption, on the rapes, on the utter failure of the clintons to confront terrorism, a failure that resulted in 9/11, a failure that threatens our very survival.
Oh yes, he did ask the obligatory "Will you run for president in '04?" question no less than three (3) times as is apparently required for access to hillary clinton.
A variant of the "When did you stop beating your wife?" complex-question type of fallacy, the clinton "infrastructure" requires media myrmidons of the left to ask hillary clinton this question no less than three (3) times per "interview," operating on the theory that the implicit question ("Why in the world would the zipper-hoisted wife of an impeached utter failure ex-president be qualified to be president anyway?") will be rendered, if not moot, certainly disremembered.
A subset of the CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme , the clinton "infrastructure" complex-question fallacy scheme is intended to confer legitimacy on an otherwise loony concept: Another clinton--uh--presidency.
Actually-this is hard to take in. But I believe you-just can't envision it. I thought Peggy was, like, way beyond this. Maybe he wishes his wife had Peg's mind, outlook, whatever.
Physically-I think she is beautiful, full of life and has an exceptionally feminine, but powerful, voice. But she does kind of look like female gary bauer (Is that the name I am looking for? You know, the guy who was running for president way early on?) And I can never get that out of my mind. LOL.
So, does she really play up to chris's crush?
Now THAT is really extraordinary. Are there any newspaper articles out there regarding this other than the web site you mentioned?
I really think it's her femininity and maybe her Irishness....but he really needs to cool the crush...it's PALPABLE!!
I'm sick of threads with deceiving titles that turn out to be nothng more than a vanity. I'm especially disappointed when a vanity turns out to be nothing more than a re-hash of some old bandwidth-wasting graphics with a new title.
The problem is, you folks don't understand the FR rules. Vanities are to be posted as such, NOT as Breaking News. FR software does not show who ORGINALLY posted the article, only who is replying to whoever. IF EVERY post to an article included the name of the original poster, FReepers could ignore these vanities based on the reputation (or lack thereof) of the ORIGINAL poster. But since it doesn't, we can't, so don't be surprised when we complain.
I'd also appreciate that if you want to make fun of me personally, you'd at least have the courtesy and guts to include me in your "To" list so I can rebutt, rather than make me search the thread for your comments about me.
And Mia's post is current...did you READ the title? Did you KNOW that hitlery was just on cris's show? Did you know it was pretty big news as this coven head rarely takes her big ankles out into the public arena where she might have to actually answer a question?
Apparently you have never been really flamed-or you would have laughed off whatever burr is sticking you with a simple agreemen - to disagree. No one is forcing you to read this thread, ya know.
I'll start...Mia T's post should actually be in BREAKING NEWS because it is actually worthy, truly commentary that deserves to be seen by most of FR, not you of course because you don't like her MO, but most.
As I have to tell liberals all the time: "Face it, I'm right, you're wrong, now get over it."
Good Night.
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