"A spokesman for Sen. Hillary Clinton is branding a new book about the New York Democrat as being "full of blatant fabrications." "
Posted on 06/07/2005 7:16:41 AM PDT by cweese
NEW YORK (CBS) A spokesman for Sen. Hillary Clinton is branding a new book about the New York Democrat as being "full of blatant fabrications."
Edward Klein, in his book "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President," says Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan - who publicly championed her 2000 race for the Senate - was privately less enthused about the former First Lady.
According to an excerpt in July's Vanity Fair magazine, both Moynihan and his wife, Liz, felt disdain for the aspiring senator and didn't trust them when she initially approached them for support.
Ultimately, they did back her and Clinton kicked off her Senate campaign with a news conference at the Moynihans' upstate farm. On Monday she called Senator Moynihan, who died in 2003, her "wonderful predecessor" and said, "I so wish he were with us now. I can just hear him saying what needs to be said about the president and the Republican leadership."
According to Klein's book, Moynihan made no secret of the fact that he found both Hillary Clinton and then-President Bill Clinton difficult to deal with and told friends that he had a long list of people he disliked in the Clinton administration, and that Hillary Clinton was at the top of the list.
The book also quotes "an insider" as saying the veteran senator and scholar, who advised presidents of both parties at various times in his career, blamed Hillary Clinton for the Clinton administration failing to follow his advice on both welfare reform and health care.
Klein says Liz Moynihan, who managed her husband's campaigns, said of Hillary Clinton, "I believe that she believes that God approves of her, and that therefore she can't do anything wrong. I suppose it's a Midwestern Methodist view, the equivalent of Nixon and Quakerism."
Mrs. Moynihan is furthermore quoted as calling Hillary Clinton "duplicitous."
"She would say or do anything that would forward her ambitions," Mrs. Moynihan is quoted as saying. "She can look you straight in the eye and lie, and sort of not know she's lying. 'Lying' isn't a sufficient word; it's a distortion of the truth to fit her case."
Asked to comment on the excerpt, Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines said: "Senator Clinton will always be proud to have had the support of Senator Moynihan, and as she has said many times, wishes she still had his wisdom and counsel. Beyond that, we don't comment on works of fiction, let alone a book full of blatant fabrications."
The Moynihans' daughter, Maura Moynihan, denied Klein's report and told The Associated Press that her mother has given up public life and will not comment.
"I think I know my parents better," she said. "The reporting is utterly and completely wrong."
Clinton leads potential GOP Senate opponents 2-1 in recent polls and is considered a Democratic contender for the presidency in 2008, although she has not said that she plans to run.
Addressing a crowd of 1,000 supporters at a fundraiser Monday in New York City, the New York senator aimed squarely at the Bush administration, claiming it "wants to turn Washington into an evidence-free zone."
"We are living in a time when the other side doesn't want us to see the facts. Facts are inconvenient - facts about global warming, facts about mercury in the air, facts about people staying unemployed longer," said Clinton. "Facts are stubborn, persistent and annoying if you believe that decisions should be made on ideology and partisan politics."
The New York Women for Hillary breakfast at a midtown hotel raised $250,000 for Clinton's 2006 re-election campaign.
Clinton said of President Bush, "There has never been an administration, I don't believe, in our history more intent upon consolidating and abusing power to further their own agenda."
"Whether it's the right to organize and be part of the American labor movement ... whether it's the right to be able to be have a choice when it comes to the most private and intimate decisions that a woman has to make, whether it is to protect the environment - whatever it is that we slowly but surely built up during the 20th century, this current administration and their allies in Congress want to turn the clock back on all of that," said Clinton.
She said Janice Rogers Brown, a California Supreme Court justice nominated to the federal appeals bench by President Bush, "truly sees the world in 19th century terms."
Brown, derided by civil rights leaders as a radical judge, has referred to President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal as "the triumph of our socialist revolution."
Man am I getting sick and tired of hearing about Mr. and Mrs. Hillary Clinton. When will we be done with these people?
Released it too soon. Should have waited until late '07 or mid '08.
I am as well. I don't think they'll ever go away.
HRC ping!
Disagrfee..the campaing for 2008 is well underway. The nominee will be "decided" before 2006 elections..
Just what are "facts" to a lawyer?
Are we going back to a time when we need to define the word "is" as factual?
In politics perception is more important than facts, and less harder to prove. Hillary should think about that before she takes on the red states.
I don't think it matters much. As usual, the big MSM is ignoring it anyway.
Never is my guess because even after they see their last sunset, the media and liberal historians will keep them in the lime light.
"A spokesman for Sen. Hillary Clinton is branding a new book about the New York Democrat as being "full of blatant fabrications." "
Well, by releasing these now, they'll make a few statements of denails, or saying things were taken "out of context" etc. It'll be "old news" by the '06 election cycle, and anything brought up to the candidate in '08 will be ignored or they'll say "that was already addressed when the book was published", even if they never commented. It'll be forgotten by most. And even if Shrillary loses her seat in '06, what makes anyone think she won't run anyhow?
It should be handled like the Vets did against Kerry... release it when the candidate is officially running, and let the questions mount up... build a great big cloud of doubt about the candidate...
I'm sure there will be more damning info. released closer to the '08 election which will (hopefully) help sink Hillary's presidential run.
MSM ignoring the new Hillary book as well as Hillary campaign fraud ala David Rosen....
But this is Vanity Fair, one of the most liberal magazines out there.
That's what strikes me as odd, that Vanity Fair is giving the book some time and attention.
Everyone is a liar except the Clintons. /sarcasm
I agree with you, ken5050. Working to get Hillary out of American politics has already begun as is prudent, if we want to be affective against her cunning and manipulative campaign for the White House.
Then we'll be rid of the Clintons.
I guess it all depends on the meaning of "fabrication". In our post modern world fabrication is just a nuanced answer for yea its true but it shouldn't matter. Or fabrication may be the cleaning of one blue dress, it just depends on what the beast wants it to mean.
Yep--first question--Hillary who hired Craig Livingstone and directed him to break the law in misusing FBI files.
Yep--first question--Hillary who hired Craig Livingstone and directed him to break the law in misusing FBI files.
-Not until Christ returns as the same spirit that enervates
them has been doing such things to it's human surrogates since the dawn of mankind.
imo
Philippe Reines is the Press Secretary for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY). As the primary point of contact between Senator Clinton and the national press corps, Reines serves as Senator Clinton's spokesman, and is responsible for her interviews and media appearances. Most recently, Reines helped orchestrate the media campaign and seven-month book tour that accompanied the release of "Living History," Senator Clinton's bestselling memoir of her time in the White House.
Previously, Reines served as Communications Director for US Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) where he successfully helped the Congresswoman raise her profile as a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee.
Prior to his work on Capitol Hill, Reines was a member of the 2000 Gore-Lieberman presidential campaign's rapid response operation. From the campaign, he joined the Florida recount and worked on the Democratic Party's communications team. After the election was decided, Reines returned to New York and spent a year as Deputy Communications Director for the New York City Council before joining Speaker Peter Vallone's mayoral bid.
Reines remained deeply involved in former Vice President Gore's public activities after Gore left office in 2001. He served as Gore's Teaching and Research Assistant for his "Covering National Affairs" course at the Columbia School of Journalism in the Spring of 2001, and in December of 2002 he contributed material for Gore's appearance on Saturday Night Live.
Prior to pursuing his long-standing passion for politics, Reines worked in banking and finance for several New York City banks. A New York City native, Reines earned his political science degree from Columbia University.
Most of the American people have the politcal attention span of a gnat. the 8 years of Clinton scandals, including impeachment, have faded into a blur, especially since after 9/11 we are in a whole new world. As they are once again reminded of the 8 year mess, they will start to ask themselves, do they want to be subjected to that again. I wrote here in 2000, after she moved to NY.that the BIGGEST problem she will face in the minds of the voters will be if she will allow Bubba back into the WH and into the Oval office? Will she let her brothers stay over..the same ones who were sellong pardons the last days Bubba was in office...? People have to be reminded of the slime quotient.. and this book is the first step in doing that..
Philippe Reines
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In Washington and elsewhere, the devices are referred to as "CrackBerries" because of their addictive quality. Philippe Reines, a 34-year-old Democrat who works on Capitol Hill (and who coined the term "blirting," for BlackBerry flirting), said he went through severe withdrawal after finding that Martha's Vineyard lacked BlackBerry reception. Mr. Reines wandered around the Vineyard for days looking for spots of coverage before begging an airline employee to take his BlackBerry on a round trip to the mainland, where it could send and receive messages. He got 129 new messages, many of them social.
—Jennifer 8. Lee, "A BlackBerry Throbs, And a Wonk Has a Date," The New York Times, May 30, 2004
I hope you prove to be correct ken.
Excellent point that Vanity Fair has '"thrown Hillary a life jacket" by printing the denial.
So how fair and balanced will the article on this book be?
Excellent point that Vanity Fair has '"thrown Hillary a life jacket" by printing the denial.
So how fair and balanced will the article on this book be?
Excellent point that Vanity Fair has '"thrown Hillary a life jacket" by printing the denial.
So how fair and balanced will the article on this book be?
He sounds like a real piece of work. I wonder what Hillary will throw at him (or do to him) should she deem that he was responsible for screwing up her presidential run, if indeed she loses that election. Arkancide?
No jumpin the gun now. Hillary will be forcing people to wear "The Mark" before He will return.
I agree with your thoughts that once the American public is reminded of the Clintons' dubious pasts, the American public will react against the Clintons.
Our fellow freeper AreaFiftyOne has suggested that, however, the American public might not wish to be reminded of the Clintons' WhiteHouse years, and to do so might backfire against the Republican agenda.
The Hillary! campaign is going to be in full attack mode on EVERY book, column, or sound-bite that is critical of Hillary in any way. Hillary has taken a lesson from the Kerry campaign. Kerry, along with his allies in the dying, socialist "mainstream" liberal newsrooms, thought that if they simply ignored the Swift Boat vets they would go away.
Jeeze its stuff like this that give attention to Hillary and make Idiotic people feel sorry for her. This just puts her more in the limelight! I am sick of see her name being put out there by the media every day. I wish they would stop with these books. Sooo many books have come out about her and all they did was give her more attention that she doesn't deserve. That woman deserves to be ignored!
LOL I'm waiting for all the pins to be stuck into me for saying that. LOL
I am sick of her as well. It's as if the media started campaigning for her on Jan. 21 this year. I don't know if she'll ever go away. Blech.
I know. Stupid media keep putting her in the spotlight - Godforbid Bubba dies suddenly can you imagine the funeral procession? YIKES - Hillary in fake mourning!
Parse it. The fabrications in the book are Hillary's. So what she said is true.
Released it too soon. Should have waited until late '07 or mid '08.I, too, question the timing of the release.
When I first heard about this book it was to be released this September. I remember wondering at the time why it was being released so early.
Now, the release has been moved up two months. And now I'm really wondering why.
The Swifties were enormously successful. Emulate success. This ain't it.
Personally, I am quite excited that this book is coming out so early. I am leaving for Europe the day after it comes out and I am looking forward to some good red meat reading on the long plane ride.
AhhhhahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahaha.......
Uh, yes!
So why doesn't she sue?
Don't be concerned about speaking your idea that rehashing the Clintons' dirty 8 years in the white house might backfire on us. It's worth considering.
(and I was reprimanded a few months back for reiterating your idea but not using your Freeper name as well, so I did what I was suppose to do today.)
What's also worth considering is how pro-active the Republican party must be when dealing withHillary because she is a slick slimey snake, and shouldn't be dealt with lightly.
And you're going to read a Hillary derogatory book in public IN EUROPE?
You're braver than I.
Hehe...good point!
Wonder why now all of a sudden she is being referred to in headlines as: Clinton says.... Seems if she is the liberated female and the smartest woman in the world that she says and thinks she is that she would want to be known as Rodham the way she did when billy boy was prez...this woman is not smart...just sly. She likes seeing Clinton in the headlines as people might pay attention thinking it is her HUSBAND...the man of the house instead of her, the housewife. She likes riding the coattails of billy boy and is further proof this woman CANNOT STAND ALONE. She simply CANNOT. She nees a crutch and that crutch is, was and always will be billy boy. Plain and simple.
So why doesn't she sue?
1) Because she knows she won't win?
2) Because a lawsuit might open up a bigger can of worms for her (similar to how Whitewater morphed into many more investigations)?
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