Posted on 02/17/2003 12:11:46 PM PST by Liz
November 15, 1999
Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton
An IWF Speakers Series featuring author Barbara Olson
Barbara Olson was one of the founders of the Independent Women's Forum, and both she and the Independent Women's Forum have come a long way since 1992. Barbara has been a regularly featured guest on our panels over the years, and she has appeared widely on television as a commentator. She was the Chief Investigative Counsel of the House Government Reform Committee, and in that capacity, she investigated both the Travelgate and Filegate scandals. She turned that experience into a compelling and fascinating new book, Hell to Pay: the Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Speaking truth to power" is a common catchphrase of the feminist hard left. But in fact, if there's anybody who has spoken truth to power, who has championed right over might, who has defended the rule of law against the rule of men, it is our own Barbara Olson.
IWF President Anita K. Blair
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The title of my book, Hell to Pay, came out of the early scandal of the travel office firings. David Watkins was head of Clinton's Office of Administration. In January of 1996, he sent a memo to Chief of Staff Mack McLarty, saying that they both knew there would be "hell to pay" if they failed to take swift and decisive action in conformity with the first lady's wishes. That memo stuck in my mind. When I started to write this book, I realized there had been so much hell to pay by so many people in this White House. The real crimes against people were committed when they dared to cross the first lady's wishes.
The Clinton administration's firings were not just the travel office employees. You may remember that a White House usher, Chris Emory, was fired when he dared to talk to Barbara Bush about her computer. The switchboard ladies were fired who operated the telephone. The correspondence ladies were removed. The kitchen chef and the kitchen help were removed. The Secret Service was moved out of the residence. Cameras were taken down. There was a total turnover. At one point in my book I talk about the paranoia of the Clinton administration. That came full circle when we saw Hillary Clinton claim on television that there was a vast right wing conspiracy promoting allegations about her husband's sexual liaison with Monica Lewinsky. Of course, those allegations were later proven true.
If you go back and read Mrs. Clinton's writings about children, which are numerous, you see that her caring for children really extends to using them as political levers. Whenever Hillary has a position-on welfare, pollution, crime control-she quite often will say that these policies are for the children. And it's very difficult, as everyone in Washington knows, to be against people when they say "it's for children" because then you are evil and you are against children. I think that has worked very well for her.
One thing that really stopped me when I was re-searching her views on children was in an essay that she wrote. She said, "Decisions about motherhood and abortion, schooling, cosmetic surgery, treatment of venereal disease, or employment, and others where the decision or lack of one will significantly affect the child's future should not be made unilaterally by the parents." If the parents aren't going to make these decisions for children, who is? If these decisions are going to be made by someone else, we'll have to insert a government advocate into the family. And we all know what happens once a government advocate is inserted: We no longer have the traditional American family. We have the village that Hillary talks so much about. We have a family that has social workers and teachers and pediatricians inserted into the decision-making of the family unit.
It's a philosophy of family socialism. It comes out of her sixties roots. It was carried throughout the seventies and it was implemented in Arkansas when she was helping Bill Clinton in his reelection. People have said, "Well, you know a lot of kids were sixties radicals." But the more you look at her background, the more it becomes obvious that she was not merely a frivolous protester. This was a woman who studied under some of the hardest ideological gurus of the left.
In my book, I talk a great deal about the legendary radical activist Saul Alinsky and, indeed, I've opened all of my chapters with a quote from his book Rules for Radicals. The more I read Saul Alinsky, the more I saw that Hillary Clinton's way of dealing with opposition comes right from him.
Saul Alinsky really disdained the SDS students and the students who were growing their hair long and scaring most of America. He said that was the wrong way to go about a revolution. What he recommended to Hillary and others was that you use your middle-class roots, that you infiltrate and you change the system from within.
After Hillary finished her Wellesley senior thesis under the mentoring of Saul Alinsky, he offered her a job. She turned it down to go to law school. If you follow her career and look at her writings and her work, you can see how she successfully internalized those rules for a soft, but radical revolution.
Barbara Olson, a lawyer currently in private practice, is a television commentator and legal analyst and is a member of the National Advisory Board of the IWF. She spoke to the IWF in November about her book, Hell to Pay (Regnery).
Excerpting post #24: Hitlery is regurgitating the Planned Parenthood agenda taught for years in our schools from K-12 under the misnomered "Family Life" curriculum. PP is the architect of legalized abortion and operates the largest chain of abortion clinics in the nation. This misanthropic organization is subsidized by federal, state and local tax funds, and is in our schools everyday proselytizing their hateful, anti-family liberal agenda. Parents should find out what their children are being taught and strongly protest PP's phony "Family Life" curriculum.
This needs to be brought up as well now that so many low-information voters are actually considering Her Heinous as the founder of the Barak Hussein Obamma III regime.
Final chapter
A book by a victim of the attacks on America is topping the charts. But why does Hillary Clinton want it off the shelves? Leo Hickman reports
Friday 2 November 2001 05.29 EST Last modified on Thursday 21 January 2016 13.37 EST
For an accurate gauge of America’s mood, log on to Amazon.com’s list of best-selling books. In the days after September 11, Amazon’s top 10 provided a snapshot of how strong the public’s sudden thirst was for reason amid the madness. People scrambled for books about the Taliban, the Koran, Osama bin Laden, Afghanistan’s history - even Nostradamus. Echoing shifting events, these were soon joined by books on anthrax and military strategy, but in the last week a new book - not even published yet - has shot to number one on advance orders alone.
On first glance, an insider’s account about the last days of Clinton’s White House may not seem to connect with America’s current search for heroes and answers, but the identity of the author soon provides a clue to the book’s looming success. The Final Days: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House is by Barbara Olson, a sharp-tongued rightwing regular of the US network’s political talkshows and former federal prosecutor who spearheaded a range of investigations into the dog-end of Clinton’s administration. Olson also died when American Airlines Flight 77 smashed into the Pentagon on September 11.
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As the most high-profile victim of the September 11 attacks, the tale of Olson’s harrowing last phone call to her husband - Ted Olson, the US solicitor-general - as hijackers overpowered the plane’s pilots was replayed repeatedly across the world’s media outlets in the following days. But it appears there is more to the book’s appeal than simply the spotlight of tragedy. The surge of interest in Barbara Olson’s book is symbolic of a partial return to partisan bickering and cat calling following a period of polite and respectful truce.
After its September 13 printing run was cancelled (Olson was on her way to Los Angeles to publicise the book on the TV show Politically Incorrect when she died), there were rumours that Hillary Clinton and her operatives, seeking to escape the book’s damaging revelations, were trying to permanently block the book’s publication. Regnery, its conservative publisher that promises to “confront the status quo of political correctness”, promptly issued a statement: “Everyone we talked to, including her husband, Ted, agreed that Barbara would have wanted this book published.” Regnery added that each book would carry an envelope inviting readers to contribute to the newly formed Barbara K Olson Memorial Scholarship Fund. How could the Clintons possibly be seen to counter such a sentiment?
In the New York Post’s gossip pages, Cindy Adams noted that “insiders” were “whispering they wish someone could stop the book” due to its “vicious” anti-Clinton tone, and given that Hillary Clinton was engaged in a very visible healing role for New Yorkers as one of their senators.
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In contrast, with the open sore of the Clinton years still irritating many Republicans, the publishing of Barbara Olson’s book seems to have become their latest cause celeb. Last weekend, Lowell Ponte, a popular rightwing US national radio talk show host, emotionally defended the book’s publication, going as far to say that it could be as significant in stopping Hillary Clinton reaching the White House as the Chappaquiddick incident was to Ted Kennedy. “Buy and read this book, and you will be helping to wipe that smug, arrogant smile off Hillary’s face.”
The book’s appeal for the wider reader must lie in its promise to deliver new evidence into, as the title spells out, alleged Clinton abuses: how, upon leaving the White House, the Clintons shipped 70 priceless treasures to Arkansas; how Bill Clinton pardoned 16 FALN Puerto Rican separatists responsible for a series of US bombings 20 years ago in, what Olson claims, was a cynical ploy to win Hispanic votes for Hillary’s bid for a New York senate seat; and how, with “immaculate deception”, the Clintons “showered” gifts and pardons on close associates before shutting the door on the Oval Office last January.
Hillary Clinton’s problem is that she cannot now adequately defend herself against the book’s accusations because the author is presently untouchable. With Hillary suffering the indignation of being heckled at the recent Paul McCartney fundraiser by those überheroes and now crucially important Clinton constituents - the New York firemen - and with Bill now being openly criticised for not crushing Bin Laden’s menace when he had the chance, Olson’s book looks set to be a further woe for the Clintons. It could also act as tinder in the reigniting of political hostilities, for now simply put on hold.
I have this book, have read it several times, Barbara Olsen was a terrific writer and author...
Another good book to read is “War on Women” It goes into a lot of detail about things that have never been published or reported on the media or talking heads, the Clintons are murders and will kill anyone who gets in their way...
Everything is documented and their isn’t anything they can do about sueing the Authors of this book, it’s all true...
Thank you very much for such a revealing and informative post....
Another point: MRs. Bill was never legally eligible to be a Senator as she was never a Legal Resident of New York.
However, liberals democrats and thieves (but I repeat again) used their power and political leverage to give the position to her, circumventing all the safeguards in place to prevent that and totally ignoring the law in the process.
I am actually surprised they did not appoint her Chief Adviser To The White House (above the V.P.) while they were about it.
I mean, why not? She STILL has not been arrested or even charged despite all the evidence against her!
She has the goods on people...I read an article one time that said while she was in the White House she copied tons of things, boxes and boxes of stuff, she did the same thing while she was Senator, could explain why she didn’t do anything but name a few streets and parks...
And now this email situation, just get it done and over with, it’s time that we clean up all the corruption in ‘sewer city’ and move on, there is so much treason going on, it could take 8 lifetimes to know how deep this goes...
As an aside: do you think it would be worth the effort to re-post this thread in a new one to generate more attention about the character makeup of BJ’s wife? I mean, how can so many people simply ignore what she is all about and want her to succeed the current _resident, BO The Hussein?
I still have my copy. Barbara would have a field day with all the subsequent HRC activities that have taken place since 9/11.
She is sorely missed.
So was Breitbart.
I think all of us that remember these horrible people The HillBills should make several posts a day...this is who we are fighting against to save America...
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