Posted on 03/15/2008 8:47:48 AM PDT by doug from upland
Yes, I always found it amusing that Hillary failed the DC Bar exam. She passed the Bar exam in Arkansas, btw. Apparently the exam in Arkansas was/is a heck of a lot easier. What a surprise./s
I was livid when my local rag used CREW as a source in an article a few months back.
and she managed to convince Americans Bill was not a womanizer?
Perhaps, being as how she REALLY was not named after Sir Edmund Hillary, for historical purposes she should be named STONEWALL CLINTON. It fits.
No, I don’t think she managed that one.
Bump
Bump.
From the NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Monday, Nov. 17, 2003 12:03 a.m. EST
Mary Matalin: The Other Pellicano Tapes
With Los Angeles private eye Anthony Pellicano beginning his jail sentence on Monday, Hollywood is on pins and needles wondering about the Pellicano tapes, illegal wiretap transcripts discovered on the celebrity gumshoe’s computer while he was under investigation for a witness intimidation rap.
But those aren’t the only recordings that document the work of the man known as the “investigator to the stars.”
In 1992, when “the Pelican” hired on to do damage control for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, Mary Matalin, then the political director for President Bush 41’s re-election campaign, found herself in the unenviable position of being sought out by women who were linked to Clinton - and threatened into silence by Mr. Pellicano.
Matalin, now a senior White House adviser, discussed the episode in 1997 during a stint as a talk radio host on CBS’s Washington, D.C., affiliate.
“I got the letters from Pellicano to these women intimidating them,” Matalin told her audience. “I had tapes of conversations from Pellicano to the women. I got handwritten letters from the women.”
As recounted in “Hillary’s Scheme,” by NewsMax.com’s Carl Limbacher, the Bush insider continued:
“I got one letter from one of the women’s dad’s saying, ‘This is so horrible. Here’s what they’re going to do to us,’ you know, essentially. It’s not like they said, ‘We’re going to go out there and bust your kneecaps. (It was more like) we’re going to say this, that and the other.’”
Matalin said she first noticed something was amiss when the Clinton campaign announced publicly that there were 19 women who would likely claim some sort of relationship with the Democratic candidate.
“I controlled the money in the [1992 Bush] campaign,” Matalin explained. “And [Clinton damage controller] Betsy Wright announced that she was putting $28,000 on the ‘bimbo’ patrol and on Jack Palladino and Pellicano, the other guy.
“And $28,000 to me, the political director, was four states in the Rocky Mountains. You had a limited budget. I said, how could they spend this much money? How could they basically give up four states to track down ‘bimbos’?
“That’s why it was kind of shocking to me that it must have been a bigger priority than putting money into states for the purpose of winning and that’s why I flagged it at the time. I don’t even remember how many or what kind of women.”
However, even though Pellicano’s tapes and letters offered smoking-gun proof of the Clinton campaign’s heavy-handed attempts to silence the future president’s ex-girlfriends, then-President Bush refused to use the damaging info to save his re-election bid.
Matalin explained: “When I went to my boss in the campaign with this information and then they went to Bush, Bush himself called me up and said, ‘I don’t want to hear it. Don’t even tell me what you have. Throw it all out,’” she told her radio audience.
Luckily for Mr. Pellicano - not to mention Bill and Hillary Clinton - Mary Matalin did as she was told.
Wow! What a bombshell! That clearly explains the Florida couple John and Alice Martin who were just "driving around with a scanner and a tape recorder" and just "happened to hear Newt Gingrich" and recorded it for their grandchild because it was histroy.
ALICE MARTIN: We're going to have a grandson at the end of January, and we were thinking how neat it would be to play this tape for him and him hear the voices of people that we thought were important. That's really all it was going to be is a little tape we put aside and when he was old enough to hear it, he could hear it.
I certainly hope McCain does not make that same mistake. But he gives every indication of doing so.
The Clintons are truly evil.
Well, I hope Obama can take advantage of some of this.
It doesn’t matter. Thanks to Rush Limbaugh she will probably be our next president. God help us all.
Your so right. I’m so damn mad at him I’m spitting nails.
We've always known here on FR that Hillary was much more dangerously prone to this beyond unleashing a few ashtrays.
In a scene from the frenzied Clinton transition after the 1992 election, Bernstein portrays Mrs. Clinton sitting down with top political adviser Dick Morris, musing over what position to take in the new administration. Hillary thought she might make a fine attorney general — until someone remembered the “Bobby Kennedy law” that forbade a president from making nepotism appointments to his cabinet. She thought about becoming White House chief of staff — Bernstein reports that Morris “was one of several people with whom Hillary discussed the question of being chief of staff.” Or perhaps she might be the chief domestic-policy adviser.Anybody who knows their Seinfeld will recognize in this wacky Hillary/Dick Morris scene the echoes of a famous scene from Seinfeld Episode 12: The Revenge. After getting angry and quitting his real estate sales job, George, sitting on the floor in Jerry's apartment, discusses with Jerry some ideas for jobs he might like to have:
Hillary Rodham Clinton: the George Costanza of American politics.
GEORGE: I like sports. I could do something in sports. JERRY: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. In what capacity? GEORGE: You know, like the general manager of a baseball team or something. JERRY: Yeah. Well, that - that could be tough to get. GEORGE: Well, it doesn't even have to be the general manager. Maybe I could be like, an announcer. Like a color man. You know how I always make those interesting comments during the game. JERRY: Yeah. Yeah. You make good comments. GEORGE: What about that? JERRY: Well, they tend to give those jobs to ex-ballplayers and people that are, you know, in broadcasting. GEORGE: Well, that's really not fair. JERRY: I know. Well, okay. Okay. What else do ya like? GEORGE: Movies. I like to watch movies. JERRY: Yeah. Yeah. GEORGE: Do they pay people to watch movies? JERRY: Projectionists. GEORGE: That's true. JERRY: But you gotta know how to work the projector. GEORGE: Right. JERRY: And it's probably a union thing. GEORGE: (scoffs) Those unions. (sighs) Okay. Sports,...movies. What about a talk show host? JERRY: Talk show host. That's good. GEORGE: I think I'd be good at that. I talk to people all the time. Someone even told me once they thought I'd be a good talk show host. JERRY: Really? GEORGE: Yeah. A couple of people. I don't get that, though. Where do you start? JERRY: Well, that's where it gets tricky. GEORGE: You can't just walk into a building and say " I wanna be a talk show host." JERRY: I wouldn't think so. GEORGE: It's all politics.
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