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Still, Inside Cover can't help but recall one of the more disturbing reports to ever grace the pages of the American Spectator, which has unearthed more than its share of disturbing news during the Clinton years.
The Spectator had examined one of Mrs. Clinton's classic kiddie-compassion photo-ops, a January 1997 visit to the pediatrics ward at Georgetown University Medical Center.
The young patients were quite ill and looked it. Several were terminal cases. But word of Mrs. Clinton's visit had all of them delighted and thrilled. She was slated to lift their spirits by reading excerpts from author Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," his award-winning children's book. But, according to the Spectator:
"Alas, the first lady's advance team became squeamish about their boss appearing with kids who weren't looking 100 percent 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.'" Instead, perfectly healthy children of the hospital staff were ushered into a conference room, which had been redecorated as a playroom for the occasion. There the first lady got her photo-op as America's No. 1 child advocate, while the sick kids were left cooling their heels well outside of camera range.
One hospital source told the Spectator that the truly ill children were devastated, having concluded that Mrs. Clinton had deemed them "too sick to be seen" with her.