NY Times Reviews 'Condi vs Hillary'

NewMax ^ | December 25, 2005 | Carl Limbacher

[Kaslin]

Hillary Clinton is most certainly not the scheming, bitter, partisan portrayed in Dick Morris and Eileen McGann's bestselling book "Condi vs Hillary," which the New York Times derides in a Sunday book review as "a Fox News fairy tale."

Times Washington correspondent Robin Toner insists that the Morris-McGann tome is more parody than reality, dismissing their claims that Hillary is filled with "rage" at Republicans; along with the assertion that Clinton, "at her core . . . believes in income redistribution."

So when Mrs. Clinton bellows - as she did at a Democratic fundraiser in 2003 - that she's "sick and tired" of Republicans impugning her patriotism - or claims that the Bush tax cuts were partly responsible for the 9/11 attacks, as she told CNN in Nov. 2001 - that's not rage or partisanship, but merely reasoned and rational debate [at least in the Times' book].

And to call Mrs. Clinton a redistributionist would simply be unfair - even of she did tell a San Francisco fundraiser last year that if Democrats win the election, "we're going to take things away from you for the common good."

The Times is also not amused by the up close and personal view of Clinton offered by Mr. Morris, who reports:

"Surprisingly, this tough, combative, sharp-tongued woman often broke down in tears during her time as first lady. Quite often, her tears were mixed with anger, as they were at various points with me, George Stephanopoulos and Rahm Emanuel."

This reflects poorly, says Toner, not on Mrs. Clinton - but rather on Morris, whom, she insists, "clearly has some unresolved issues with Hillary Clinton."

Never mind that pro-Clinton biographer Gail Sheehy offered similar observations about the former first lady's anger management problem in her own book, "Hillary's Choice."

Or that even one-time Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers complained after leaving the White House that Hillary frequently "got really angry."

"The president didn't really attack people personally, [but] Mrs. Clinton sometimes did," Myers recalled in a 2000 interview with PBS.

"Not only would she sort of humiliate you in front of your colleagues or whoever happened to be around, Hillary tended to kind of campaign against people behind their back, and that was certainly my experience."

Sounds like Mr. Morris isn't the only former employee who has "unresolved issues" with Hillary.

[Robert A Cook PE]

McCain has the (liberal) media's love and attention (now).

He will keep that love and attenion (but only over REPUBBIE opponents)until he becomes a (perceived or real) threat to Hillary.

Then, they (his MSM supporters) will kill him.

[jmaroneps37]

Little Dick is wrong more than john zombie and that's hard to do. He is still living off the 96 election which we lost and he didn't win. He's just another member of hannity's dog pound.

[colonel mosby]

Morris is a nut.

If Hillary runs in the primaries, she'll be blown out completely.

The Rice scenario is also a joke. Outside of foreign policy, nobody knows what she stands for, yet these eager RINOs can't wait to get her on the national ticket.

National politics is becoming like the Hatfields and the McCoys. It doesn't matter what your party stands for anymore, as long as the party you have traditionally affiliated with is victorious.

No wonder we can't dismantle the federal leviathan.