Posted on 12/21/2002 4:25:58 PM PST by doug from upland
If that's the way you feel, Mr. Fray, then maybe you are one of those.
BOOK CHARGES: HILLARY CALLED AIDE JEW BA**ARD |
DRUDGE REPORT FRIDAY JULY 14, 2000 12:00:00 ET **World Exclusive** **Contains Graphic Description** Hillary Clinton has angered Jewish voters in New York and nationally with her controversial support of a Palestinian State, and her startling embrace of Yasser Arafat s wife. Questions remain, and the debate intensifies, as to whether she can win the crucial Jewish vote in New York as she wages a neck-and-neck battle with Congressman Rick Lazio, who has made the Jewish question a campaign issue. Now, as the race comes down to the wire, a new book is set to explore the first lady s feelings about Jews and anti-Semitic sentiments held by certain Rodham family members. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060193921/drudgereport>Biographer Jerry Oppenheimer s new book STATE OF A UNION: INSIDE THE COMPLEX MARRIAGE OF BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON will not be released by HARPERCOLLINS until Tuesday, but the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal: In one particularly shocking passage in the book, Oppenheimer quotes a campaign official who describes an angry attack by Hillary in which she screams at him, "You fu**ing Jew ba**ard!" |
My apologies for the language, even though I did ** it out. I had to show the blatant hypocrisy. |
Translation: "We're not about Principles...we're all about Power."
The witch will not be President. Depend on it. "She" has plenty of dedicated opponents. We're not going to have a repeat of the Bubba years. No way.
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PRENUP/POST-RAPE SENATE SEAT Hardball's Softball hillary clinton 'Interview' BUSH: "I will not wait on events, while dangers gather."
rodham-clinton reality-check
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Bill Backs Hil's Denial By MICHAEL KRAMER resident Clinton came to his wife's defense yesterday, denying that she called a campaign aide a "f-----g Jew bastard" in 1974. In two telephone calls to the Daily News from the Camp David Middle East summit, including one to Mortimer B. Zuckerman, the paper's chairman and co-publisher, the President said, "I was there and [Hillary] never said it. In 29 years, my wife has never, ever uttered an ethnic or racial slur against anybody, ever. She's so straight on this, she squeaks.
"She might have called him a bastard," Clinton continued. "I wouldn't rule that out. She's never claimed that she was pure on profanity. But I've never heard her tell a joke with an ethnic connotation. She's so fanatic about it. She can't tell an ethnic joke &emdash; it's not in her." Seeking to discredit reports of the First Lady's remarks, the President said, "This is part of a pattern. They couldn't defeat me politically, and they can't defeat her politically, so they go after us personally. "Every Jew in America is nervous about the Middle East, and this comes out at this time," Clinton added. "There was a New York Times story last week where [Rep. Rick] Lazio's people said if she can be made the issue, maybe we can squeak by by 20,000 votes. They know if they have to go head to head with her on stature, on accomplishment and on her record, they lose. So the only thing they have left is character assassination." (There is no evidence that Lazio or any Republican entity has been involved in surfacing the story of Clinton's alleged anti-Semitic slur.) The First Lady herself held a press conference at her Chappaqua home yesterday and repeated her earlier denials. "I want to state unequivocally that it never happened and very clearly point out that it goes against my entire life," she said. "In the past, I may have called someone a name, but I have never used ethnic, racial, anti-Semitic, bigoted, discriminatory, prejudiced accusations against anybody. I've never done it. I've never thought it. So why people are accusing me of this is certainly beyond my understanding. "This kind of false accusation, which is intended to divide people, is beyond the pale." Hillary Clinton's campaign has been rocked by the allegation in a new book by former National Enquirer reporter Jerry Oppenheimer titled "State of the Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton." The Jewish vote is crucial in any New York election, and is particularly vital in the close race between Clinton and her GOP challenger, Rep. Rick Lazio of Suffolk County. The slur allegedly was uttered at a heated, finger-pointing session at Bill Clinton's Fayetteville, Ark., campaign headquarters on election night in 1974, following his defeat in his first try for political office, a run for Congress in Arkansas' 3rd Congressional District. In the room that night were Bill Clinton; his then-girlfriend, Hillary Rodham; Paul Fray, Clinton's campaign manager, and Fray's wife, Mary Lee. Another campaign worker, Neill McDonald, was just outside the door and says he heard everything. The story of that encounter has been widely reported before, but without any charge that Hillary Rodham ripped into Paul Fray using an anti-Semitic slur. In interviews with The News on Friday and Saturday, the Frays and McDonald all confirmed that Hillary uttered the slur. McDonald said Hillary was speaking in the "heat of battle" and that he doesn't believe she is an anti-Semite. McDonald added that he is and has always been a supporter of the Clintons. In his talks with The News, the President went out of his way to try to discredit Oppenheimer, Paul Fray and the most disinterested of the witnesses, McDonald. Clinton dismissed Oppenheimer's credibility because he had worked for a supermarket tabloid. The President said Paul Fray had begun to display "irrational behavior" during the '74 campaign. "It really got bad," Clinton said, "and he and Hillary somehow got in a fight. There was never a racial slur. If she were an anti-Semite, which she is not, it would never have occurred to her to say anything like that to him" &emdash; a reference to the fact that Fray is not Jewish. McDonald, the President said, was a business failure who had to move to Dallas to work for his brother because "no one else would hire him." The Clinton campaign has sought to dismiss the entire episode by pointing out that Fray isn't Jewish. But Fray says his paternal grandmother was, and that Bill Clinton knew of his heritage. The President told The News he didn't believe he knew that Fray had a Jewish grandparent and added, "I'm quite sure Hillary knows nothing about that." Both Hillary Clinton's campaign and the President have questioned why so inflammatory a charge has come to light 26 years after the slur was allegedly delivered. Fray has told conflicting stories. He first told The News that he shared the story with journalists over the years, but that they had ignored it because they were more interested in Fray's confirming details of Bill Clinton's sexcapades. But on Saturday, Fray told The News that he hadn't mentioned the slur to anyone until he spoke with Oppenheimer because the writer and the writer's wife are Jewish, adding: "I decided to set the record straight about who the [Clintons] really are." In recent days, Hillary Clinton has come under renewed fire for her embrace of Yasser Arafat's wife in November and for her tardy condemnation of Suha Arafat's claim that Israel had used poison gas against Palestinian women and children. With Edward Lewine and Emily Gest
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A new book on the marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton confirms charges first made to NewsMax.com last September by Arkansas state trooper Larry Patterson, who alleged that the first lady is no stranger to anti-Semitic outbursts, especially when she gets angry. Trooper Patterson was bodyguard to the Clintons from 1986 to 1993. "It was quite common," Patterson told NewsMax.com executive editor Christopher Ruddy, for Hillary to refer to Bill as a "Jew mother-f----r" or a "Jew Bastard" during heated arguments. Bill would return fire in kind, the Clinton bodyguard said. Patterson made the revelations in a two-hour audiotape, "More than Sex: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton Revealed!" published by NewsMax.com. Now a new book by Jerry Oppenheimer - "State of the Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton" - backs up Patterson's charge in spades. "In one particularly shocking passage," reported cybersleuth Matt Drudge on Friday, "Oppenheimer quotes a campaign official who describes an angry attack in which Hillary screams at him, 'You f---king Jew Bastard!'" Two sourced eyewitnesses confirmed to Oppenheimer that they heard the verbal assault, says Drudge. "One anti-Semitic slur slung in anger hardly defines a person," Oppenheimer reportedly cautions. But again, Patterson alleged that such incidents were "quite common" in the Clinton household. That observation finds support in the revelations of one-time Clinton insider Dick Morris, who told Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity in November about another disurbing incident with distinctly anti-Semitic overtones. Here's how NewsMax.com covered Morris' bombshell at the time: One-time White House political guru Dick Morris alleged Thursday night that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton once insulted him by suggesting that, as a Jew, he was obsessed by money. "That's all you people care about is money!" Mrs. Clinton shouted, after Morris requested a pay raise during a meeting while Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas. Morris, who is Jewish by birth, told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" that Hillary's anti-Semitic outburst came as she "exploded in anger" over his request. Morris says his account of Hillary's anti-Jewish insult will be included in Gail Sheehy's upcoming biography of the first lady, "Hillary's Choice." The former Clinton confidant detailed two separate examples to Fox News Channel illustrating Mrs. Clinton's apparent personal discomfort with Jews. Jewish voters comprise a significant portion of the electorate in New York - a state the first lady hopes to represent in the U.S. Senate. Hours before his appearance on Fox, NewsMax.com questioned Morris on Sean Hannity's WABC radio show. When asked about the account of former Clinton bodyguard Larry Patterson, who alleged in September that fights between Bill and Hillary would often degenerate into shouting matches laced with anti-Semitic vulgarities, Morris, a Fox consultant, promised he would address the issue on "Hannity & Colmes." The mainstream press has completely ignored Patterson's charge that both Clintons privately indulged in bigoted and hateful language. But now, with Patterson's claims bolstered by Morris' twin anecdotes, questions about Mrs. Clinton's true feelings toward Jews may be more difficult to dismiss. Morris' account appears here verbatim for the first time in print: HANNITY: Let's talk about this new book that's coming out about the Clintons by Gail Sheehy. You were interviewed for it and the questions about charges of anti-Semitism by the Clintons. What did you tell her? MORRIS: Well, I'm not going to draw conclusions - it concerned Hillary, not Bill. And I'm not prepared to draw a conclusion as to whether she's anti-Semitic or not. I will just present you with the facts that I gave Gail Sheehy. HANNITY: OK. MORRIS: I'm Jewish. And I would often go to the governor's mansion and I would often have dinner with them. And it was kind of a joke. Every time before dinner, Hillary would take me aside and say, "Dick, I'm sorry. We're having pork. I just wasn't thinking about it." And I would say, "It's OK, Hillary, I don't mind pork." And the third and the fourth time, I finally said, "You've asked me this four times. I eat pork. I like pork." So we joked about it, we kidded about it. Then about a year later, I was having a meeting in the breakfast room in the governor's mansion with Betsy [Wright, Clinton's then-chief of staff] - Hillary, Bill and me. And Bill and I were fighting about my fee. I was pushing for more money. HANNITY: That's something a good consultant would do. MORRIS: And Hillary was upset because of the limited income they had to live with and that I was making so much money from their campaign. And she was getting really annoyed at me for the battle. And she exploded in anger and I'll just quote her. She said: "That's all you people care about is money!" And I backed up. And I said, "Hillary, I assume by 'you people,' you mean political consultants. And she said, "Yeah, yeah, that's what I meant, political consultants." And I said, "I'm glad to hear that."
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The Brooklyn Democratic Councilman proffers a powerful argument, namely that the primary function of the Arafat speech was to foment hatred of Jews, to create a new generation of Jew-hating Arab terrorists and that by saying nothing right there and then, hillary clinton became Arafat's witting accomplice. By URI DAN and GREGG BIRNBAUM First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's brief visit to the West Bank yesterday ignited new Middle East tensions when she sat silently as Yasser Arafat's wife accused the Israelis of gassing Palestinians. Mayor Giuliani, Clinton's likely Senate opponent, blasted her inaction - and the first lady last night issued a statement trying to minimize the fallout. The incident began in Ramallah when hostess Suha Arafat, with Clinton by her side, stunned the first lady and infuriated Israeli officials with a shocking claim that the Jewish state had systematically used toxic gas to poison Palestinian women and children. "It is important to point out here the severe damage caused by the intensive daily use of poison gas by the Israeli forces in the past years which has led to an increase of cancer cases among Palestinian women and children," Arafat said. At an event to announce a $4 million U.S. health grant, Arafat also charged that Israel had contaminated about 80 percent of water sources used by Palestinians with "chemical materials." Clinton sat stone-faced during the remarks, which she listened to as they were translated from Arabic. She also was expressionless when another Palestinian official said provocatively that he looked forward to seeing her soon in the state of Palestine and "its capital city of Jerusalem." A spokesman for Giuliani quickly leapt on Clinton for not responding. "I can't believe that Mayor Giuliani would have sat idly by and said nothing," said Giuliani political aide Bruce Teitelbaum. "I can say with a great degree of certainty that Mayor Giuliani would have responded to that kind of rhetoric swiftly and firmly." Clinton issued a short statement last night from Jordan, saying, "What was said today in Ramallah is an example of why the president [had] urged the parties to refrain from making inflammatory charges or engaging in excessive rhetoric and to deal with any issues at the negotiating table." Officials believe Yasser Arafat must have OK'd his wife's speech and the Israel-bashing tone of the entire event. Suha Arafat's comments about poison gas - in a country filled with Holocaust survivors - were immediately blasted by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who is involved in intensive peace talks with Yasser Arafat. "These comments have of course no connection to reality and it would have been better if they would have never been said," Barak's office said in a statement. "Poisoning the public atmosphere does not help bring about success in these negotiations." American Jewish leaders didn't fault her for ignoring Suha Arafat's charges, but said she should strongly condemn them now that her West Bank visit is over. "I would like to see the first lady address the comments," said Malcolm Honlein, head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. "They can't be allowed to stand unanswered." New York Post®, nypostonline.com, nypost.com and newyorkpost.com are registered trademarks of NYP Holdings, Inc. Copyright 1999 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
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