Posted on 06/21/2004 7:21:27 PM PDT by kristinn
New York's summer social season started not at the Hamptons, but tonight at the Museum of Modern Art with the book party for former President Bill Clinton's memoirs, My Life. Tout le monde came and went to bask in Clinton's afterglow and to pay homage to the only Democrat in the last quarter century to occupy the White House.
While they may say they came to celebrate his presidency, deep inside they know they really came to see the man who brought Monica Lewinsky to her knees in the Oval Office.
Outside the museum, two FReepers (Doctor Raoul and firebrand) stood across the street greeting the celebrants with this reminder: a large sign that said, "IF OSAMA WAS A PIECE OF ASS, CLINTON WOULD HAVE NAILED HIM."
Sixty Minutes fossil Andy Rooney was the first to encounter the Osama sign bearers. He walked over, read the sign and silently walked away.
Clinton apologist Joe Conason said, "He's a horse's ass" about Raoul to a group taking pictures.
The two FReepers got a fair amount of media interest. Most of the local TV news channels filmed and interviewed them. Look for coverage on the 10 or 11 o'clock news, or in the morning.
Raoul and firebrand had a good time bantering with passersby and some of the guests who were leaving the party.
Scarborough Country just showed a still picture of Doctor Raoul holding the sign.
A lot of people will be angling to be first in that line!
And probably a lot of people will go through the line more than once.
Good luck on Round Two -- I know you and the rest of the Tri-State Chapter will have a great freep.
Please give Bill Clinton and his adoring fans a rousing rendition of The Cop's Cheer. FReep On!
taped scarborough at 3 am and saw no interview. I did see the local ABC news which reaired and there was the sign held by raoul.
Scarborough Country just showed a still picture of Doctor Raoul holding the sign.
Yea Doc, you still got it.
Best of luck on round 2 and 3 today.
Count on me being there.
The tone of the board and the discussion of issues would be greatly enhanced if all FReepers disagreed with the class that you both have shown here. Kudos to both of you!
We stand on the shoulders of giants. Thank you, Ron Dog, Dr. Raoul, and Kristin, among many others.
Proud member of the "I devilled Hillary" club:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/962203/posts
I talked with a local paper called Metro, a big Chicago daily, Time magazine (I think--at least the microphones said "Warner"), Air America (she kept changing the subject whenever I made a good point, just the way Ann Coulter describes the typical liberal), and the Sun, and I think I will be on Russian television (the U.S. cable version, probably, not in the USSR; anyway it was RTN or RNT).
My sign said: "SAVE! Get the boxed set:" and underneath that were three book covers: My Life, The Communist Manifesto, and Pinocchio. I walked all up and down the line, which wound almost all the way around that huge block, and people in line were mostly laughing, with just a few boos.
More tomorrow, down by Wall Street, where NYC GOP Chick and HateBill will join us. Today we had Sun and freeperfromnj there for a while, on their lunch hour.
He said his name was Drew and he owned some restaurants. Having been on the editorial fringes of the food world, I put it together, and now just checked his picture on the Web. He's a very nice guy, very well informed about politics etc.
Good point and job well done : ) Hannitys radio show today was with a handful of women Clinton has abused, Willey, Dolly etc. It was nice to hear them have a voice today : )
Thanks, Libertina! Just wish I had known earlier. Several of our dearest freepers live on the Upper East Side.
Eileen Wellstone, 19-year-old English woman who said Clinton sexually assaulted her after she met him at a pub near the Oxford where the future President was a student in 1969. A retired State Department employee, who asked not to be identified, confirmed that he spoke with the family of the girl and filed a report with his superiors. Clinton admitted having sex with the girl, but claimed it was consensual. The victim's family declined to pursue the case;
In 1972, a 22-year-old woman told campus police at Yale University that she was sexually assaulted by Clinton, a law student at the college. No charges were filed, but retired campus policemen confirmed the incident.
In 1974, a female student at the University of Arkansas complained that then-law school instructor Bill Clinton tried to prevent her from leaving his office during a conference. She said he groped her and forced his hand inside her blouse. She complained to her faculty advisor who confronted Clinton, but Clinton claimed the student ''came on'' to him. The student left the school shortly after the incident. Reached at her home in Texas, the former student confirmed the incident, but declined to go on the record with her account.
Several former students at the University have confirmed the incident in confidential interviews and said there were other reports of Clinton attempting to force himself on female students;
Broaddrick, a volunteer in Clinton's gubernatorial campaign, said he raped her in 1978. Mrs. Broaddrick suffered a bruised and torn lip, which she said she suffered when Clinton bit her during the rape;
From 1978-1980, during Clinton's first term as governor of Arkansas, state troopers assigned to protect the governor were aware of at least seven complaints from women who said Clinton forced, or attempted to force, himself on them sexually. One retired state trooper said in an interview that the common joke among those assigned to protect Clinton was "who's next?". One former state trooper said other troopers would often escort women to the governor's hotel room after political events, often more than one an evening;
Carolyn Moffet, a legal secretary in Little Rock in 1979, said she met then-governor Clinton at a political fundraiser and shortly thereafter received an invitation to meet the governor in his hotel room. "I was escorted there by a state trooper. When I went in, he was sitting on a couch, wearing only an undershirt. He pointed at his penis and told me to suck it. I told him I didn't even do that for my boyfriend and he got mad, grabbed my head and shoved it into his lap. I pulled away from him and ran out of the room."
Elizabeth Ward, the Miss Arkansas who won the Miss America crown in 1982, told friends she was forced by Clinton to have sex with him shortly after she won her state crown. Last year, Ward, who is now married with the last name of Gracen (from her first marriage), told an interviewer she did have sex with Clinton but said it was consensual. Close friends of Ward, however, say she still maintains privately that Clinton forced himself on her.
Paula Corbin, an Arkansas state worker, filed a sexual harassment case against Clinton after an encounter in a Little Rock hotel room where the then-governor exposed himself and demanded oral sex. Clinton settled the case with Jones recently with an $850,000 cash payment.
Sandra Allen James, a former Washington, DC, political fundraiser says Presidential candidate-to-be Clinton invited her to his hotel room during a political trip to the nation's capital in 1991, pinned her against the wall and stuck his hand up her dress. She says she screamed loud enough for the Arkansas State Trooper stationed outside the hotel suite to bang on the door and ask if everything was all right, at which point Clinton released her and she fled the room. When she reported the incident to her boss, he advised her to keep her mouth shut if she wanted to keep working. Miss James has since married and left Washington. Reached at her home last week, the former Miss James said she later learned that other women suffered the same fate at Clinton's hands when he was in Washington during his Presidential run.
Christy Zercher, a flight attendant on Clinton's leased campaign plane in 1992, says Presidential candidate Clinton exposed himself to her, grabbed her breasts and made explicit remarks about oral sex. A video shot on board the plane by ABC News shows an obviously inebriated Clinton with his hand between another young flight attendant's legs. Zercher said later in an interview that White House attorney Bruce Lindsey tried to pressure her into not going public about the assault.
Kathleen Willey, a White House volunteer, reported that Clinton grabbed her, fondled her breast and pressed her hand against his genitals during an Oval Office meeting in November, 1993. Willey, who told her story in a 60 Minutes interview, became a target of a White House-directed smear campaign after she went public.
Thanks, kp! I think we may call off tomorrow's freep for lack of interest.
No doubt about it, the Doc Rocks!
And you Rock as well Firebrand. Taking names and kicking arse. LOL
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF ANYONE SHOWS UP AND IS DISAPPOINTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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