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Posted on 03/22/2006 7:59:48 PM PST by nycfree
March 23, 2006 G.O.P. Challenger to Clinton Inflated Résumé, Records and Interviews Suggest
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
When Kathleen Troia McFarland stepped forward as a Republican challenger to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, she was a relatively obscure figure with two intriguing claims to fame: She had worked on President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" speech and had been the highest-ranking woman at the Reagan Pentagon.
But interviews with former Reagan administration officials and a review of documents show her claims were not entirely accurate. Though she helped write the "Star Wars" speech, its most famous passage — the one that announced the anti-ballistic missile program — was actually written by the president himself and his top national security advisers, according to two senior advisers to Mr. Reagan and a review of the literature and news articles of the period.
And while Ms. McFarland, who is known as K. T., was a close confidante of Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, serving as his speechwriter and spokeswoman for several years, there were two women with higher ranks in the Pentagon during virtually her entire time there, according to information provided by the Pentagon and the McFarland campaign.
Ms. McFarland's biography has already emerged as an issue in the Republican primary. Her rival, John Spencer, a former mayor of Yonkers, has asserted that she inflated her position by claiming that she held the equivalent civilian rank of a three-star general while in the Pentagon. Ms. McFarland's campaign said that she had claimed only to be the civilian equivalent of "a two-and-a-half-star general." In a recent interview, Ms. McFarland said she had never claimed authorship for the section of the "Star Wars" speech announcing the President's Strategic Defense Initiative, a passage known among Reagan advisers as "the insert."
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The NY TIMES protects the beast.
I didnt read the article, but if she did inflate her resume then she shot herself in the foot. But like I said, I didnt read the article.
exactly.
This isn't even a non-story.
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She also claimed to be named after Sir Edmund Hillary -- years before anyone had heard of him.
That's because like millions of other Americans, you realize the NYT's is not worth your time. The chances that anything you read is actually accurate are slim to none, so why bother.
As Rush says, when reading an article in the N.Y. Slimes: "What if this were really true!?"
It depends on what one means by "marrying well."
Why is this in breaking news?
"It depends on what one means by "marrying well."
marrying someones who's coattails she could ride is what i should have said. heh
As a professional recruiter, I'm here to tell you that everyone "inflates" their resumes to some degree. This is pure nit picky b.s. and an obvious hit piece by the NY Times.
If they had any desire to seek the truth about any candidate for public office, the NY Times would have long ago published Hillary Clinton's college thesis. That one paper alone would have been the end of her.
them FBI file suuure come in handy
Amen
<< Hillary .... was an attorney who married well >>
????
Care to rethink that suggestion?
BUMPping
Well...gee....looks like she's fighting FAIR then......LOL
But interviews with former Reagan administration officials and a review of documents show her claims were not entirely accurate. Though she helped write the "Star Wars" speech, its most famous passage — the one that announced the anti-ballistic missile program — was actually written by the president himself and his top national security advisers, according to two senior advisers to Mr. Reagan and a review of the literature and news articles of the period.
WTF! NYT's? what is this? Is this a parody?
Yes...and along with this we can also be certain that Al Gore invented the internet and the Moon is made out of green cheese. It must be true if the Slimes says so because their track record has been so accurate. Talk about liars!
As would I.
This is much ado about very little.
In any event, I'm for John Spencer.
As far as I can see, K.T. McFarland is a complete lightweight, with nothing to recommend her. I don't know why the NY Times is bothering with this kind of hit piece. It's not as if hillary needs to order Sulzberger to take the woman down. She hasn't a prayer of beating hillary.
We can only hope that Ms. McFarland hasn't done other horrible things such as gaming the commodities market to the tune of 100 grand...
or having someone ghost write a book on how to raise children, taking credit for it, and apparently stiffing the genuine author...
or swiping furniture and china from the White House.
Nah, no person could be that evil.
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If you want to get an idea of where Snopes.com stands, they still list this with an "Uncertain" color rating, although the text says "Probably Not". If you read their writeup, you have to chuckle at how they do everything in their power not to call Hildebeast a liar on this one, but in the end, had no choice. They brushed it aside saying, "it's difficult to view the claim that Hillary Clinton was named after Edmund Hillary as anything but a little white lie concocted for a special occasion." -- and that follows 6 paragraphs of how it COULD be possible.
Anyone who has taken the time to see how Reagan wrote his speeches knows this is not out of the ordinary. His speeches were amalgams of his and other people's text.
Don't make a mountain out of a mole hill!
That was my exact same thought. We will see much more of this.
LOL!!! It's all so very true, to each their own reality. Exactly, how the Clinton's operate in any moment to moment basis and whatever group, cause, or concern.
You are so right. I do not believe that the NYT expects people to read every word and actually think for themselves. They are preaching to the choir.
and her aim wasn't that good either
I have no idea who this KT lady is but she doesn't deserve to be treated like this by the MSM.
Even without this crap, its going to be a cake walk for Hillary.
Why?
Because its obvious that there is no republican leadership and grooming of real candidates for the big political positions in NY. What the hell is going on with the GOP in that state?
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> In any event, I'm for John Spencer.
Oh, I agree. But it would appear that the Times, by running this little smear piece, also is for Spencer.
This is from "KT's" site:
For KT McFarland, the call to service came early.
At age 18, while at college on scholarship, she took a parttime job at the White House in the typing pool on Henry Kissinger's National Security Council Staff.
By the time she graduated at 21, she had moved up to become Kissinger's personal research assistant, and one of the few female professionals at the White House.
A decade later, after breaking historic barriers as a female professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, KT McFarland became the highest ranking woman at the Pentagon. As Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under President Ronald Reagan, she traveled throughout the United States and abroad as Pentagon spokeswoman. She was part of the Reagan team that restored America's defenses and put in place the policies that ultimately won the Cold War.
My thought was that as an alumna of the Reagan administration McFarland is more experienced in Washington, is herself a wordsmith, and is probably a lot smarter than the mayor of Yonkers, and she would prove a stronger candidate against Her Thighness. NYT wants a Republican Hillary can crush like a bug.
WhenThere, fixed it.Kathleen Troia McFarlandHillary Rodham Clinton stepped forward as aRepublican challengerDemocrat candidateto Senator Hillary Rodham Clintonfor the then open NY Senate seat, she was a relatively obscure figure with two intriguing claims to fame: Shehad worked on President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" speechwas mariied to President Bill Clinton andhad been the highest-ranking woman at the Reagan Pentagonwas married to President Bill Clinton.
Vince Foster might disagree.
Hitlery attacking someone for lying.
Good comedy.
It is prerequisite to becoming a Democrat politician that one has to be in the top 10th percentile of lying, socipathic phonies.
she always had status as a futures trader
ah, politics.
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