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how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor by Mia T, 8.03.05 
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Posted on 01/23/2007 8:39:04 PM PST by Mia T
thx gonzo :)
excellent.
Gives me an idea....
Closed captioning for the thinking impaired whenever missus clinton deigns to lecture us ;)
ping
Chris Matthews has never been a Clinton fan.
His shows during '97 and '98 were not sympathetic to Mr. Bill Clinton, so he's being consistent in exposing Mrs. Bill Clinton.
His animosity toward President Bush kinda makes our memories foggy. ;-)
More free face time, imprinting name time, discussing meaningless issues. Matthews and Williams pre-meditating propagandists propagating the lie named Hillary.
"Let's have a conversation" cohorts.
That 'lets have a conversation' bit is so she doesn't have to answer any questions.....just like when she ran for her senate seat in NY the first time....'lets talk' and I'll listen...but don't ask me any questions....
She is so phoney it's sickening....
Matthews is one of the few libs who saw the Clintons for what they were early on. And called them on it. Consistently, believe it or not. And he still sees Hillary, apparently, for what she is. Good.
Another outstanding post, Sun. Thanks.
ping back to you
Also, Hillary has NONE of her husband's charisma. This inhibits her ability to lie convincingly. Bill could lie to a reporter's face but his charisma and likeability was such that the reporter either wouldn't notice or wouldn't care. ("all policticans do it, Bill's such a nice guy). HIllary lies and comes off as completely condescending, elitist and phony. Even the libs don't like that treatment. Listen to Hillary trying to throw in a scripted laugh or chuckle - it's the phoniest thing you've ever heard in your life.
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how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor by Mia T, 8.03.05
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Indeed. bump
OLD MEDIA OUGHT TO PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO WHAT HILLARY CLINTON DID TO SUSAN SCHMIDT OF THE WASHINGTON POST
…The point is not that Blumenthal is a hypocrite (although he seems to be exactly that). The point is that throughout this book Blumenthal seems utterly incapable of understanding how his own uncompromising, take-no-prisoners defense of the Clintons contributed to the poisonous political atmosphere that he bemoans. Time and again, in the book as in life, he rearranges facts, spins conspiracy theories, impugns motives, and besmirches the character of his political and journalistic foes-- all for the greater cause of defending the Clintons (and himself). Hyde, Kenneth Starr, Hickman Ewing, Lindsey Graham, Tom DeLay-- each was malicious, narrow-minded, bigoted, buffoonish, and anti-democratic. Meanwhile, Blumenthal wonders repeatedly why so many people dislike him. At one point, bizarrely, he suggests it is because he is "intellectual" and "Jewish."
…But it is abundantly clear that distortion is standard fare for Blumenthal. Although there are slivers of truth in most of what he writes, the facts are dishonestly rearranged to settle scores or whitewash his and the Clintons' actions.
…Consider one small example: Blumenthal's effort to extricate himself and Hillary Clinton from a clumsy attempt to build a White House dossier on Susan Schmidt, the Washington Post's most aggressive reporter on Whitewater. Blumenthal's role in this vaguely Nixonian exercise was first reported five years ago in a story by the Post's media reporter, Howard Kurtz. When Michael McCurry, who was then press secretary, learned of the project, he proclaimed it "crazy" and killed it. Instead of admitting his involvement, Blumenthal pretends that he was a passive party. After hearing "constant complaints" about Schmidt's reporting from White House legal aides, he writes, he suggested they "should present the facts to the Post to correct any errors. Beyond that, I never knew about a study of Schmidt's reporting. I asked Hillary Clinton, and she had no memory of anything either."
But others do remember--quite differently, as it turns out. Mark Fabiani, the White House lawyer who ran the counsel offices' "damage control" team, said he recalls getting a phone call from Blumenthal strongly urging him to do a report on Schmidt. When Fabiani didn't follow up, he then got a call from Hillary Clinton's chief of staff instructing him to get moving on the job. This led to the preparation of a lengthy dossier (one that did little to effectively discredit Schmidt, according to Fabiani) and a series of meetings--including one with Hillary Clinton --about what to do with it. The White House lawyers knew exactly what had happened, says Fabiani. "We all laughed about it. We knew [Blumenthal] had called Hillary and told Hillary this should be done. …He was sort of the brooding, omnipresence over the whole thing."
Another more serious example of Blumenthal's malleable relationship to the truth involves his testimony before Kenneth Starr's grand jury…
I wrote about Blumenthal's courthouse deceptions in my own book Uncovering Clinton. So I when I picked up The Clinton Wars I was mildly curious to see how he would handle the subject. Would he show the slightest contrition for his deceptive public statements? Not at all. In The Clinton Wars, Blumenthal recounts in exhaustive, self-congratulatory detail how he turned the table on Starr. …
If The Clinton Wars has any central point it is that the scandals that beset the Clinton presidency--from Whitewater to campaign finance to Lewinsky to Marc Rich--were each and every one of them entirely concocted, from start to finish. This is patently absurd.… Blumenthal's blanket whitewash is close to ludicrous--and sustainable only by erasing huge chunks of the historical record.
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About Whitewater, Blumenthal has this to say: "There was never anything to in the beginning, middle or end." What convinced him? In January 1994, Hillary Clinton called him into her office and told him so. "I believed Hillary Clinton," he writes. "Her telling of the story … sounded convincing; her demeanor struck no false notes."
As for the Lewinsky matter--
it was all very simple: It was about the efforts of rigid, culturally repressed conservatives like Starr to use sex as a "tracer" and a "code" to thwart progressive politics. Remember Vernon Jordan's phone call to Revlon to get Lewinsky a job--
made just days after Clinton's lawyers learned that Lewinsky was on a witness list in the Paula Jones case? There's barely a mention of that. What does Blumenthal have to say about Clinton's famous session with presidential secretary Betty Currie right after he testified falsely in his deposition? ("I was never alone with Monica, right?" he said. "Monica came on to me and I never touched her, right?") He never talks about it.
"It is my serious intent to have written this as a history," Blumenthal recently told the New York Times, insisting that his book was written "dispassionately." But not to belabor the obvious, to write history, you have to have some basic respect for the historical record. You have to make at least some effort at understanding the motivations and thinking of political antagonists--including those you happen to strongly disagree with. Blumenthal has done none of this. His book isn't history; it's one big orgy of political spin.
Insidious Sid
Michael Isikoff, Slate, Tuesday, May 20, 2003
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Great point. It only means the propagandists that feed our heads with the lie called Hillary might have to work a little harder than usual.
If they pull this blindfold over our eyes and it works, they'll be backslapping each other. If not, they won't even expose the pathetic serial liar, they'll continue on (without missing a beat) attacking the person that beat her.
It's win/win for a propagandist until people quit buying what they and their enablers are selling.
"Closed captioning for the thinking impaired whenever missus clinton deigns to lecture us ;)"
Excellent idea. You are a genius.
"Somebody is also paying Toe Sucker Morris to go on the offensive."
I think that Morris came to the realization that if Hillary isn't stopped, she will ruin the country. After all, Morris lives in this country, too.
Thank you, both.
That seems reasonable.
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