Is Hillary Lying? (New York and American voters need to know)

newsmax ^ | April 27, 2003 | Geoff Metcalf

[TLBSHOW]

Is Hillary Lying?

The recent dustup over author-publisher-defender of the indefensible Steven Brill and his shocking claim that Sen. Hillary Clinton made up records about how she helped 9/11 families is very interesting.

The controversy involves three liberal Democrat sycophants: Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and Steven Brill.

I have often noted that it is not a question of WHO is right or wrong but WHAT is right or wrong. I still hold true to that axiom despite my unbridled antipathy for all three of the players in this neodrama. Give the devil his due.

According to Brill, Hillary Clinton had her staff manufacture/fabricate records of meetings and phone calls to families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to create the fiction that the ice princess was a warm, caring, compassionate representative of constituents traumatized by the epic tragedy of 9/11.

Brill said Sen. Clinton’s staff tried to persuade him that she worked hard to help, and offered "an elaborate story, with an elaborate subtext of memos and phone calls – a long, long story." However, according to Brill, "None of it turned out to be true. ... They gave me documents and phone calls and things like that which just plain never happened."

Subsequently, after five days of “no comment,” Hillary responded. After Bill O’Reilly exposed the story, Sen. Clinton's spokesman Philippe Reines attacked Brill.

"Brill's accusations are completely false and an obvious last ditch effort to jump-start anemic book sales," Reines said. So why didn’t the ubiquitous New York senator speak for herself?

Efforts to exploit and capitalize on the difficulty of 9/11 victims are regarded as a crime lower than a man killing his wife and unborn child on Christmas Eve.

During the Monica Lewinsky mess Brill defended the indefensible ad nauseam. However, reportedly, when Hillary learned he was writing a 9/11 book, he says she actually sought him out and said, "I hear you want to talk to me about your book."

Brill claims after private talks, "She did follow up in one non-off-the-record conversation, urging me that the person responsible for aid to New York City was not Chuck Schumer but Hillary Clinton."

Although my contempt for Schumer rivals revulsion for the Clintons, Chuck is the guy who did the heavy lifting servicing 9/11 constituents … NOT Hillary.

Brill details the story of one family specifically, the Cartiers, who suffered the loss of a relative in the Twin Towers.

"This family had tried repeatedly to get Hillary Clinton to meet with them," Brill said. "And always the staff said: 'Write up a memo. We don't meet with any families unless they write to us first and tell us what they want to meet about.' "

"They said to me the only time families can meet with Hillary Clinton is if it's at a press conference." Or (unstated), I presume, if they have a big campaign contribution check to deliver …

Meanwhile, Brill notes, Sen. Schumer took time out on a Sunday to meet with the Cartiers – "no reporters, no cameras, no nothing." Then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Schumer worked to provide the Cartier family access to Ground Zero and to Fresh Kills, the Staten Island recovery site, so they could search for their relative's remains. Hillary was otherwise occupied.

Brill repeated his allegations on O'Reilly's nationally syndicated "Radio Factor" show. However, when he appeared later on the talk host's TV show, Brill tried to downplay the impact of his account.

O'Reilly told Brill, "I think you're afraid." And he should be … the Clintons play hardball.

But this controversy should be a no-brainer IF the malfeasance of the mainstream media were not epidemic. Basically, we have a contradiction of "he said/she said."

Brill claims Hillary inflated her role in servicing her 9/11 constituents.

He claims her staff fabricated phony documentation of her efforts.

He claims Chuck Schumer worked hard for 9/11 victim families and Hillary did not.

Hillary (through a spokesman) says Brill is lying. Here’s the deal! It is not brain surgery … but it IS important.

To borrow a Drudgism, ABCCBSNBCCNNFoxCNNNewYorkTimesWashingtonPost need only to follow up and confirm or refute the claims made by Brill and the counter claims made by Sen. Clinton. The story cannot be black AND white and it will not be revealed to be any shade of gray.

Either Steven Brill or Hillary Clinton is lying.

This is, or should be, a big deal. If a U.S. senator (allegedly with aspirations to run for the presidency) has lied AND manufactured false supporting documentation to buff up a tarnished public image … AND has exploited the tragedy of constituents AND attempted to diminish the laudable efforts of her Democratic colleague, New York and American voters need to know.

If a prejudiced fourth estate is incapable of exploring facts that may contradict its preconceived opinions and personal wants ... it is not worth a bucket of spit.

[EggsAckley]

Is Hillary Lying?

Are her lips moving?

[b4its2late]

Is Hillary Lying?

More appropriate question - IS HILLARY TELLING THE TRUTH?

[timestax]

Hitlery must be shown the door!

[Bogey78O]

The more apt question is what is Hillary lying about?

[stylin19a]

The sad thing is, Chillary's original answer, something to the effect that... now is not the time for some politician to be involved with the families, they should be allowed to grive in private..was wonderful and would have stood the test of time.

[stylin19a]

grive=grieve

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Is Hillary Lying?

Are her lips moving? - My thoughts exactly!

[doug from upland]

This story cannot die. What can we do about it? Hillary has to be stopped yesterday. We are running out of time.

[Pharlap]

In all the bruhaha over what Hillary Clinton did or did not do for the 9/11 families, we tend forget that she was scheduled to attend the single most important hearing of her career on the morning of 9/11. The Senate Education Committee was holding a hearing at which Mrs. Bush was to testify. The media was there in force. When the planes hit, the hearing was called off. The Chairman (Ted Kennedy) and Mrs. Bush were at the Capitol and addressed the media. No Hillary Clinton. According the the New York Times (some months later), she just doesn't miss hearings, especially one as media important as this one. When the hearing was held (in late January, 2002), Hillary was there early and posed for photo ops with Mrs. Bush. Why wasn't she there on 9/11? Was she advised (say by the husband, he was in Australia at the time) not to go? Since Hillary has never explained her not being there, it is appropriate to ask: "What did she know and when did she know it"?

[sirchtruth]

The more apt question is what is Hillary lying about?

The more apt. question really is what is Hillary NOT lying about?

[green team 1999]

Is Hillary Lying?-Yes! ,no doubt about it.

[Iris7]

It would be so wonderful if the liberal media would follow up on this. They won't unless it becomes an internet scandal.

[FairOpinion]

What I would like to know is what is in Hillary's thesis at Wellesley college, that she had sealed.

O'Reilly was interviewed by Tim Russert yesterday, and he mentioned this. It is the first I heard of it.
Student theses are always public, anyone can read it, except Hillary's.

Why is Hillary's sealed?!

Is it her "Mein Kampf" of how she is going to achieve power and turn the US into a socialist country?

I am surprised that in all these years, nobody brought it up or demanded that she unseal her thesis, which should be public.

[FairOpinion]

"Why wasn't she there on 9/11? Was she advised (say by the husband, he was in Australia at the time) not to go? Since Hillary has never explained her not being there, it is appropriate to ask: "What did she know and when did she know it"? "

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I didn't know about this, but you are right, it is curious, Bill being in Australia and Hillary not showing up at the Capital on just that day.

[BluH2o]

Hildabeast & her husband the former rapist-in-chief lie as easily as most people breath. If Brill states there's a major flaw in what Hillary reports to have done immediately after 9/11 to help constituents that were victimized by this tragic event ... then rest assured the witch, once again, is lying.

[TLBSHOW]

Liberal Republican congressman Sherwood Boehlert says be civil to Hillary Clinton on his govt web site and sides with democrats and rats and a liberal newspaper. Does he not know Hillary is a liar and protects a rapist?

BARF ALERT.....

Proud of Being Civil to Hillary


http://www.house.gov/boehlert/oneontastarl0307.htm

[Mark]

She is just ahead of her time. Afterall, she was named after a famous mountain climber before he ever climbed that mountain.

[Cannon6]

Does a bear s*** in the woods?

[TLBSHOW]

NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON

Stormer classic with all truth about the commie rats in America like Hillary Clinton!