Posted on 12/17/2007 3:30:22 PM PST by doug from upland
NOTE: I've tried for years to find a nurse or administrator to go on record who was there. If anyone can find that person, you will be doing a great service to your country.
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(Story originally appreared in the American Spectator, March 97)
It seems that Hillary, who's had her fingerprints found on all the new scandals that are breaking on a daily basis is trying to fix her public image.
So, to promote the new effort, showing how deeply Hillary cares about children, especially sick children in hospitals, Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington got a call. Hillary Clinton would be coming over soon with children's author Maurice Sendak.
Hillary's advance team would be showing up arranging the security and logistics. The team did show up. What they saw horrified them.
The kids in the hospital children's ward really looked sick! Some of them had tubes sticking out. Some had lost their hair to chemotherapy. Some were groggy because of the pain killers they had to take.
Hospital officials were quickly told this would not do. Hillary would look bad in a newspaper photo if she posed with sickly looking children. They were told. "No children that look drowsy, skip bald kids, sick looking kids, or kids with tubes sticking out."
So here's what the hospital actually did. They outfitted a hospital conference room with toys and kids decorations. They ordered hospital staff members to bring in their healthy children who would pose as sick children in photos with the great St. Hillary.
So, on January 10th, Hillary Clinton showed up to Georgetown University Medical Center and read to a bunch of kids with author Maurice Sendak. Had you read the papers or heard the news the next day, you might have been bowled over by her compassion. Actually she demonstrated the opposite. You see the real sick kids, who were originally told they would be visited by the first lady were originally extremely happy and excited at the prospect of her visit.
When they were later told, they were too sick looking to be with the great Hillary, some became deeply depressed. After all how would anyone feel not being good enough for Ms. compassion herself.
Of course the press published the photos of Hillary reading to the cute kids the next day. They just forgot to tell you that Hillary, in the quest of the perfect photo could not bring herself to be photographed with an actual sick child.
The phony mask of compassion that Hillary hides behind has slipped once again. Just around Purim time too!
You can’t give up what you never had.
I sit corrected.
I know this is asking the obvious, but did you ask CWA if they have a copy of the picture?
I did not. My guess is that they would have published it if they had it.
“The sick children have enough problems without a visit from the beast”
Darn it.... I was hoping to be first to state the obvious!
Prayer for the sick children but they would be lucky to miss such a dog and pony show.
They must have had some contact for the story. Give them a call. They either have one or could very well know someone who does.
HILLARY’S HYPOCRISY
In January, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton gained much publicity by reading to children on the pediatrics ward of the Georgetown Medical Center. Now, the American Spectator magazine, reports that sick youngsters were barred from the event—that the children shown in the newspaper photos actually were the offspring of hospital staff. Mrs. Clinton’s advance team became squeamish about their boss appearing with kids who weren’t 100% in the pink; in fact, hospital officials were told not to allow any children into the photo-op who were “drowsy, bald, bearing tubes in their bodies, or sick-looking,” the magazine said.
SOURCE: The Washington Times, 3/2/97
Can’t believe the Washington Times doesn’t have a copy.
Doug,
Thought you might find this info useful...
Was watching Die Hard (NYC School/gold heist) last night on Spike tv.
Was saying the lines as they were coming out of the actors mouths (I’ve seen it several times).
Well, now here is the surprise, as the 2 heros were driving in the Yugo, a woman in a VW convert cuts them off. Willis says “Who does she think she is, Hillary Clinton” and his partner’s reply is, “no she’d be the 43rd president” (they were just discussing who the 21st president was.)
I am pretty sure that Hillary was NOT in the original script. This looks like a product placement ad to me.
(was this placement brought to you by the Hillary campaign and approved by her?)
PS: Unrelated?
A federal judge sentenced Hollywood director John McTiernan to four months in prison Monday after refusing to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea to charges of lying to the FBI about his association with disgraced private eye Anthony Pellicano. Judge Dale S. Fischer gave the director of such films as “Die Hard” and “The Thomas Crown Affair” until Jan. 15 to turn himself in to authorities.
Thanks for the info. Yep, it looks like product placement and an ad for her.
Anyone have corroboration of this?
I remember this story from years ago and found it during a search. I don’t know if this has been confirmed. If so, this would be interesting to share with our Dem friends who worship mindlessly at the altar of St. Hildebeast.
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