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Posted on 01/12/2008 6:43:11 AM PST by tje
NASHUA – A top Clinton adviser faces charges of aggravated driving while intoxicated after city police caught him speeding through Greeley Park a day before the state primary.
Sidney Blumenthal, longtime friend and senior adviser to presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. was allegedly driving a rented car north on Concord Street at a speed of 70 mph when Nashua Police Sgt. Mike Masella decided to stop it at about 12:30 a.m. Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nashuatelegraph.com ...
Release the news on the slowest news day.
A couple of 24 hour news cycles and all is forgotten
Karma’s a b!tch, Sid, although this is just a small taste of what you really deserve.
BEFORE the Primary and it;’s just getting reported today!! If this had been a REPUBLICAN, it would have been front page news and changed the election!! The Clintons have their minions EVERYWHERE in the media!
MUGSHOT PLEASE!!!!
This will probably not be picked up by the wire services. But if it had been a Republican advisor.. we’d be hearing about it non-stop.
Journaliztic malpractice.
Now hillary can look like a good nanny by summarily, publicly, chastising and humiliating another disposable entity.
Sid had a hard day guys give him a break. Can you imagine manipulating the vote fraud that went on to give Hill a victory. He had to make sure all those people shipped into the state for her rally the night before had lodging and rides to the polls on election day.
He was only doing this “for the Children”.
Their intentions are as pure as the wind driven snow.
70 in a residential neighborhood is OK if you have good intentions....
70 in a 30. That’s very bad.
< Also known for lying on the courthouse steps re what he had just said in court....if I recall correctly
Caught by the vast right wing conspiracy. ;~))
this happened BEFORE the primary yet it wasn’t released until late last night??
sheesh... even teddy was quicker then this...
and they complained about Cheney waiting 14 hours to report bad news.
“Sidney Failure”
Thanks.. though I did do a search...
tooo funny...
Had to stick it in my Photobucket account to make it display...hmm.
Anyway, here is where he was. Pretty heavily settled. What an idiot.
Question for the mods: The other thread has (Blumenthal) or some such in the title. Does that affect the search?
Thanks! I’d love to see a copy of the police report...
Sid vicious!!!
gets His Just deserts!!!!!
Sidney Blumenthal served as assistant and senior adviser to Bill Clinton from August 1997 until January 2001. His roles included advising the President on communications and public policy as well as researching information in the general media about the White House. Because of Blumenthal’s previous career in journalism he was able to pass on positive stories about the Clinton White House (from state and local sources) that were otherwise missed in general mass circulation. His role in the White House was significant enough for him to be crucial in the legal proceedings of the 1998/1999 Impeachment of President Clinton.
During the investigations by White House independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Blumenthal was called to the Grand Jury to testify on matters related to what Clinton had told both Blumenthal and his senior staff in regard to Monica Lewinsky. It was on this occasion that Blumenthal was accused by the independent counsel of seeking to discredit the office of the counsel by passing stories to the media about Starr and his aides. The resultant statement by Blumenthal on the steps of the Grand Jury about the freedom of the press after his testimony resulted in a public fall of support for Starr and his investigations of the President.[5]
Nevertheless, the leadership of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives felt that enough evidence existed in regard to the Paula Jones case and Lewinsky for impeachment proceedings to begin in December of 1998. After the House Judiciary Committee and the United States House of Representatives impeached Clinton on December 19, the matter then passed to the United States Senate. Blumenthal was one of only four witnesses called to testify before the Senate. (Although no live witnesses were called, the four were interviewed on videotape.) Blumenthal’s testimony addressed the key “lie”: that Clinton was allegedly pressuring Betty Currie and Blumenthal himself to state that it was Lewinsky who initially pursued Clinton, not vice versa. Lewinsky herself stated that she was the one who instigated the relationship. With the assistance of other evidence and arguments, the Senate acquitted Clinton of perjury and impeachment proceedings ended.
Blumenthal also served as key organiser and supporter of the Third Way conferences, aimed at creating a movement for progressive governance throughout the world. He was present at the two original conferences, both in the U.K. and America in which he became friends with the newly elected Labour leader Tony Blair.
[edit] Aggravated DWI arrest
On January 7, 2008, Blumenthal was arrested for “aggravated DWI” in Nashua, New Hampshire. The arresting officer indicated that the officer followed Blumenthal’s car for a mile and a half, and clocked its speed at 70mph in a 30mph zone—more than twice the legal limit. Blumenthal refused to take a Breathalyzer. Blumenthal also failed a field sobriety test. “Aggravated” DWI carries a mandatory sentence of at least three days behind bars, under New Hampshire law.[6]
[edit] Blumenthal v. Drudge
In 1997 Blumenthal instigated a libel lawsuit against Internet blogger Matt Drudge (as well as AOL, who had hired Mr. Drudge) stemming from a report in which Drudge reported that Blumenthal beat his wife and was covering it up. Drudge retracted the story later, saying he was given bad information, and according to the opinion in Blumenthal v. Drudge, 992 F. Supp. 44 (D.D.C. 1998), he later publicly apologized to the Blumenthals. Blumenthal then filed a $30 million libel lawsuit against Drudge. After a long process, Blumenthal dropped his lawsuit and paid a settlement amount to Drudge. In his book, The Clinton Wars, he comments on how he was induced to settle because he could no longer financially afford the suit. He agreed to a settlement that required him to pay $2,500 to Drudge’s attorneys to resolve the matter for “family and financial reasons”.
The case was widely seen as portentous because of its First-Amendment and libel-law implications for journalists. [7], [8]
Good bio...
I find it hard to keep track of all the clinton felons. Need a score card kind of like those playing cards for Sadaam.
Keep watching. Even now the Clinton Democrat Machine is reaching out to contacts going back to 1991 to gather and reaffirm dirt on any NH prosecutor or judge who may be involved in the case. Watch for Sid Vicious to get off with a slap on the wrist. It will probably be reduced to careless and negligent driving. Sid will be working with Sandy Burglar behind the scenes within two months. He will be motivated by gratitude to do filthy dirtywork for Clinton Inc. until the day he dies.
Are you able to edit the Wikipedia entry? Something should be added about how the incident happened on Sunday and was only reported widely the following Saturday, further illustrating the power of the Clinton Machine over the media.
Those FBI files may come in handy once again........
I have no idea
Did he leave a body in a park? If not no big deal.
This isn't his first offense for DUI.
Leni
This happened the day before the elction, but it is not released until now.
You are to good. Wish I could do that. Why don’t you setup a class sometime. I would attend.
Ruh roh.
At least he wasn’t talking on his cell phone. Then Hillary would have cried.
LOL!! Gee, wonder why we haven’t gotten a look at Sid’s....?
That’s HIILARYARIOUS!
“viscous”
I guess I was a little too fast with the spell-checker.
lol
Damn, I wish Drudge was going to be on sunday!!!!
And, thanks to the internet, it's much more difficult for the MSM to consign stories to the memory hole :)
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