Hillary’s St. Patrick’s Day Massacre (Frank Rich Does Not Know Why Hillary Lies)

New York Times ^ | 30 March 2008 | Frank Rich

[shrinkermd]

...Which brings us back to our question: Why would so smart a candidate play political Russian roulette with virtually all the bullet chambers loaded?

Sometimes only a shrink can decipher why some politicians persist in flagrantly taking giant risks, all but daring others to catch them in the act (see: Spitzer, Eliot). Carl Bernstein, a sometimes admiring Hillary Clinton biographer, has called the Bosnia debacle “a watershed event” for her campaign because it revives her long history of balancing good works with “ ‘misstatements’ and elisions,” from the health-care task force fiasco onward.

But this event may be a watershed for two other reasons that have implications beyond Mrs. Clinton’s character and candidacy, spilling over into the 2008 campaign as a whole. It reveals both the continued salience of that supposedly receding issue, the Iraq war, and the accelerating power of viral politics, as exemplified by YouTube, to override the retail politics still venerated by the Beltway establishment.

What’s been lost in the furor over Mrs. Clinton’s Bosnia fairy tale is that her disastrous last recycling of it, the one that blew up in her face, kicked off her major address on the war, timed to its fifth anniversary. Still unable to escape the stain of the single most damaging stand in her public career, she felt compelled to cloak herself, however fictionally, in an American humanitarian intervention that is not synonymous with quagmire

[shrinkermd]

Somehow it is the war? They pay this man to say things like this? Pinch, we know you want a defeat in Iraq, but Frank Rich is not going to do it for you. Maybe sell the office building and buy a cable news network.

In the meantime, the Clintons have been lying over and over again since they first appeared on the scene. Only through the good efforts of the MSM have they survived. They are going accompanied by laughter.

[vladimir998]

Rich doesn’t know why a Clinton lies?

Because they can.

Because they’re Democrats.

Because it often works.

[Mark]

Wow! We must have something in common-— see tag line.

[InvisibleChurch]

... and still no one questions her, if she was under fire, why she’d risk her daughter’s life

[Redbob]

“Elisions”

I’ve just learned a new word for “lies!”
Somehow it sounds SO much more elegant than the other words commonly associated with the Clintons:

“Misspoke”
“distortion, exaggeration, half-truth; ambiguity, equivocation; defamation, libel, slander; perjury; bluff, pose, pretense (or pretence); humbug, jive, nonsense; fallacy, misconception, myth; misinformation, misrepresentation, misstatement; deceit”

[Ann Archy]

She has ALWAYS known her constiuents are STUPID and GULLIBLE!!

[Ann Archy]

They said Bill Clinton was the first BLACK President and people didn;t fall on the floor laughing so they thought their dumbass voters would buy anything!!

[OCC]

Only through the good efforts of the MSM have they survived.

Exactly. Lies in print or on audio tape were always "out of context". Its hard to take video out of context. Thank you YouTube!

[kempo]

She lies because there are millions of people who will believe her even after watching the video.

[Jo Nuvark]

Hillary Clinton is a nothing but a dumb blond!

Somebody make it go away!

[bannie]

They’re amoral; and they have no concept of how the rest of us think.

[Charles Henrickson]

LANDING ON A JET PLANE
Tune: "Leaving on a Jet Plane" Original

All the odds are stacked, I'm ready to run
I'm standin' here, holdin' my gun
I hate to call you up to say goodbye
But the battle's ragin', I hear the sounds
The tank is waitin', he's shootin' some rounds
I know there's so much danger I could die

So send me to Bosnia
Tell me they'll be bombin' us
Sniper fire will never get me down
I'm landin' on a jet plane
I don't know if I'll be back again
Oh, Bill, we're on the ground

There's so many shots, it takes my breath
So many times I've cheated death
I tell you now, we just lost a wing
Every combat zone, I pay my dues
Every mission flown is stuff I'll use
Some day I'll throw my pantsuit in the ring

So send me to Bosnia
Tell me they'll be bombin' us
Sniper fire will never get me down
I'm landin' on a jet plane
I don't know if I'll be back again
Oh, Bill, we're on the ground

Now the time has come for battle
My future's not as bright as cattle
I'll close my eyes, while the cannons boom
I'll dream about the campaign trail
When I can tell my wartime tale
About the time I faced death and doom

So send me to Bosnia
Tell me they'll be bombin' us
Sniper fire will never get me down
I'm landin' on a jet plane
I don't know if I'll be back again
Oh, Bill, we're on the ground

[OldEagle]

"...virtually all the bullet chambers loaded..."

Not sure what that means, Frank.

[MetalHeadConservative35]

Frank Rich Does Not Know Why Hillary Lies

she's a democrat, its what theyre paid to do

[mojo114]

Frank Rich has been interviewed many time by Mark Simone on WABC radio. Rich is easily swayed from his opinion by an interview. Frank is a light weight.

[Inyo-Mono]

"...virtually all the bullet chambers loaded..."

Not sure what that means, Frank.

It means he's a Liberal who knows nothing about guns.

[sono]

Frank Rich ... Who cares what this charter member of the effete corps of impudent snobs thinks?

[Texas Eagle]

Which brings us back to our question: Why would so smart a candidate play political Russian roulette with virtually all the bullet chambers loaded?

That's easy. It's because the truth is more damaging to her candidacy than being caught in a lie.

[O Neill]

Why would so smart a candidate play political Russian roulette with virtually all the bullet chambers loaded?

Apparently he sees Hillary so desperate as to feel compelled to put the 6-shooter to her head knowing that, at best, only one chamber is empty.

[O Neill]

One out of six is pretty long odds...

[TornadoAlley3]

[O Neill]

That little Bosnian girl should be known as the Yellow Rose Of The USA...
God bless her!

[The Great RJ]

Did Rich sleep through the 8 years of the Clintons’ in the White House? How could he forget that I never had sex with that woman finger wave and Hillary’s blaming a “vast right wing conspiracy”? How about Hillary’s I can’t remember testimony in White Water or how she had no idea about her cattle futures bonanza? Both Clintons are liars just that Bill is so much better at it than Hillary.

[Lancey Howard]

Because they can. Because they’re Democrats. Because it often works.

Because it works with Democrats.
What the Clintons (and most Democrats) have never figured out is that their lying does NOT work with normal, decent human beings.

[vrtom]

and Hillary’s blaming a “vast right wing conspiracy”?

I'm blaming a "vast Hillary conspiracy".....

[Canedawg]

Frank Rich trying to write about the Hildebeast is akin to Brittany Spears trying to explain Paris hilton.

[Stentor]

Why would so smart a candidate play political Russian roulette with virtually all the bullet chambers loaded?

He really should consider the truth of this presupposition.

[malia]

Why chelsea was taken to Bosnia — answer — to help her mature.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993690/posts

Hillary, Why Did You Go To Bosnia In The First Place?
cashill.com ^ | 3/27/2008 | Jack Cashill
Posted on 03/29/2008 12:02:02 PM PDT by Sioux-san

[Republic of Texas]

She lies because she is a liar. She cannot do anything but be what she is.

[Puzzleman]

Only through the good efforts of the MSM have they survived.

So true! This whole "sniper fire" story should really have been focused on the MSM rather than on Hillary. It shows the difference between what people believe (that Hillary was dodging bullets, etc.) and reality. The shocking disparity is really commonplace. In my opinion, the media create this disparity daily to protect the Democrats on the one hand and demonize the Republicans on the other.

How great that the internet has finally exposed one instance of this appalling distortion.

[iopscusa]

Let’s understand one thing about why a Clinton lies? The Elephant in the Room is the Clinton’s have been able to lie only because the MSM has enabled them to escape responsibility for lying. The MSM knows that is the only actual answer and the Leftist/Liars will never admit their role but a lot of more rational Americans will see the truth and the MSM will reap it’s rewards.
Liars to the Left of me...Hilldog is toast!

[Maceman]

She and Bill lie because the NYT and its ilk have failed to call her on it for 17 years, or at least defended it as “no big deal.”

[mewzilla]

Pantsuit On Fire

[Baynative]

ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!

I love the emphasis added by the accompanying photo.

[Enterprise]

Rush was going over just how lame this was, and I was thinking along the same lines.

First, she did a huge dis-service to all those in our military who really HAVE been dodging sniper bullets. Hillary's Walter Mitty complex was thoroughly laughable. Hell, the next thing we know she'll claim that she personally helped fish Vietnamese refugees out of the waters after the fall of South Viet Nam.

Second, our military personnel take great pride in their ability and dedication to protecting the Commander in Chief and his family. For Hillary to make a statement that she had to dodge sniper fire was unforgivably insulting to the military and their professionalism. These people would take a bullet for the President and his family without hesitation. In the event of trouble she would have been physically bundled up and removed from the area in a flash. The military personnel would not want the stain of having something dreadful happen to the CIC or his family on THEIR WATCH! Yes - Hillary is a dumb blond - a PATHOLOGICALLY dumb blond AND a CONGENITAL LIAR!!!!

But something the author referenced was outstanding nonetheless. The existence of YouTube gives the lazy jackass MSM headaches. If they won't do the job of disproving outrageous claims, YouTube will, and they will be forced to begrudgingly report what they tried to suppress. The message to the MSM is becoming painfully clear to them - DO YOUR JOB OR ELSE!

[Jo Nuvark]

[... Yes - Hillary is a dumb blond - a PATHOLOGICALLY dumb
blond AND a CONGENITAL LIAR!!!! ...]

You describe Hillary’s STOLEN VALOR beautifully. Great post!

[Jo Nuvark]

Well done!

[imintrouble]

I have been waiting for what happened this morning on one of the television scream-fests....

Hillary is out of money.

It’s always about money - the lack of it - the raising of it - and need for it -

What do these Clinton’s do - eat it?

I remember her campaigning for their new home in New York so she could represent a certain district and people paid for it (their friends - do they really have any?).... and the Marc Rich pardon - maybe she could ask old Mark for some bucks....

The woman is a criminal - there is no other way to put it and if anyone thinks she should be president of our nation - I think our international reputation in the world will sink farther into the quagmire it has become.