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Clinton Cover-Up Unveiled
The Washington Post ^
| 6/6/03
| Al Kamen In the Loop column
Posted on 06/06/2003 6:14:19 AM PDT by Gothmog
Four years ago, the Agency for International Development put up a spectacular exhibit -- a virtual shrine -- to then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in its headquarters lobby at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center.
Loop Fans may recall there were a dozen photos -- some as large as 3 by 5 feet -- of Clinton traveling to Third World countries served by AID programs. The centerpiece was a bronze plaque affixed to the wall that is 6 feet wide by about 9 feet high with an excerpt from a speech by her about "expanding the circle of human dignity to encompass all human beings. . . . "
Below that there was this from former AID administrator J. Brian Atwood: "May all who pass through these portals recognize the invaluable contribution to worldwide development made by the First Lady of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton." At the time, word was that even Clinton was a bit taken aback by this puffery.
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The rest of the story proceeds to report that the display had been changed with more appropriate material. But,
"Asked to comment, Sen. Clinton's press secretary said: 'They can paper over history, but they can't rewrite it.'"
What sickening chutzpah -- first the attempt at deification and then the comment about 'rewritting history.' Just who has a book coming out Monday attempting to rewrite history? Could it be .... Satan?
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:14:19 AM PDT
by
Gothmog
To: Gothmog
This cover-up cost a bit more than the one down the street at the Justice Department, where an offending statue of a bare-breasted woman was discreetly covered by blue curtains -- an American-style blue burqa, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd called it -- at a cost to taxpayers of only around $8,000. In other news in the world of Art, Michialangelo's David is being fitted for a pair of men's briefs, sponsored by Hanes, the brand that fits. And the painting of Venus de Milo has been refitted with a bikini. Can't bear to think of someone seeing an undressed human; that would be obscene.
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:36:04 AM PDT
by
Hodar
(With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
To: Mia T
Ping.
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:42:34 AM PDT
by
Graewoulf
To: Hodar
I've always been amazed that the $8,000 figure hasn't been challenged. After all, it's from the
NY Slimes.
Funny how ole Driving Miss Dowdy has that number front and center, but never bothered to check on what is the going rate for a sculpted 6' x 9' plaque, probably ordered from one of the First Poofters friends.
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posted on
06/06/2003 7:12:59 AM PDT
by
texas booster
(TAG - Tag Arbitration Group - we judge your lines!)
To: Graewoulf; Gothmog
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posted on
06/06/2003 7:29:56 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
To: Mia T
Will the "hilly and billy" national show caputure a Pulitizer Prize for hilly's new book?
Her new book might sell better if she changed the title to: "It Takes a Village of Whimmen to Raise my Husband -- I Sure Couldn't do it!"
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posted on
06/06/2003 7:39:36 AM PDT
by
Graewoulf
To: Gothmog
SPOTREP
To: Gothmog
Loop Fans may recall there were a dozen photos -- some as large as 3 by 5 feet --The Clintons seemed enamored of those gian photos. They used to have them in the vistors' entrance to the WH where the tours gather -- larger than life sized photos of Bubba, Hitlery and The Chels --- ugh! Really ugly.
To: Gothmog
"What sickening chutzpah -- first the attempt at deification and then the comment about 'rewritting history.' Just who has a book coming out Monday attempting to rewrite history? Could it be .... Satan?"
Beautifully stated and worth repeating!
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posted on
06/06/2003 8:21:47 AM PDT
by
windchime
To: afraidfortherepublic
The Clintons seemed enamored of those gian photos. They used to have them in the vistors' entrance to the WH where the tours gather -- larger than life sized photos of Bubba, Hitlery and The Chels --- Say, doesn't that remind you of the larger-than-life statues and portraits of Saddam scattered all over Iraq? The clintons probably would have liked to have placed more huge photos of themselves all over the place, but were restricted by what they had control over at the time. Telling. Very telling.
To: cyncooper
The Clintons seemed enamored of those gian photos. They used to have them in the vistors' entrance to the WH where the tours gather -- larger than life sized photos of Bubba, Hitlery and The Chels --- Say, doesn't that remind you of the larger-than-life statues and portraits of Saddam...
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Or Stalin, or Lenin, or Mao?
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posted on
06/06/2003 9:15:16 AM PDT
by
yankeedame
("Born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.")
To: windchime
Thanks. You are obviously one of the more intelligent and discerning Freepers, ha ha ha.
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posted on
06/06/2003 9:34:49 AM PDT
by
Gothmog
To: Gothmog
"Asked to comment, Sen. Clinton's press secretary said: 'They can paper over history, but they can't rewrite it.'" How ironic.
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posted on
06/06/2003 9:39:25 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Gothmog
Could it be satan?
Is the sky blue in NM?
Is the Pope Catholic?
Is Babs Striesandfart a rank hypocrite?
Does Dilldo do it in the woods?
Is the undynamic duo Commie?
Have their felonies been cheered by
mobs of mindless sycophants to the great hazard of the Republic?
Are they sucking up to the puppet masters for whatever crumbs of AntiChrist/Global Govermnet Tyranny power they can beg, grab, claim to have originated or steal?
Is her unroyal lowness, her hideous heinous--Bwitch Shrillery Antoinette de Fosterizer de Sade--a rabid, treasonous, hyper-dangerous, power-mongering megalomaniac?
I rest my case . . . and pray for the day when God will case their rest--in His most fitting way, at the time.
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posted on
06/06/2003 9:47:54 AM PDT
by
Quix
(HEBREW VOWEL ISSUE DISCUSSED, SCHOLARS N JUNE BCD search for TRUE HEAD TO HEAD COMPARISON CONTINUES)
To: cyncooper
This reminds me of Fletch Lives. when he is riding around with the tv evangelist on the golfcart at bibleworld and the evangelist says, "do you think I use too many pictures of myself" to which fletch says "it worked for the ayatollah"
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posted on
06/06/2003 9:48:57 AM PDT
by
russdawg
To: Hodar
I think all such would be silly.
But when we are on the brink of what will be common behavior in a few months to a few years--hetero, homo and probably beasty sex of all kinds in broad daylight in parks far and wide across the western world . . .
I suppose some excesses on the conservative side are somewhat understandable.
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posted on
06/06/2003 9:49:59 AM PDT
by
Quix
(HEBREW VOWEL ISSUE DISCUSSED, SCHOLARS N JUNE BCD search for TRUE HEAD TO HEAD COMPARISON CONTINUES)
To: Graewoulf
Great book title. Thanks.
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posted on
06/06/2003 9:56:06 AM PDT
by
Quix
(HEBREW VOWEL ISSUE DISCUSSED, SCHOLARS N JUNE BCD search for TRUE HEAD TO HEAD COMPARISON CONTINUES)
To: yankeedame
Say, doesn't that remind you of the larger-than-life statues and portraits of Saddam...
Or Stalin, or Lenin, or Mao?
Q: PRECISELY--Creatures of scales slime together.
Thanks.
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posted on
06/06/2003 9:59:49 AM PDT
by
Quix
(HEBREW VOWEL ISSUE DISCUSSED, SCHOLARS N JUNE BCD search for TRUE HEAD TO HEAD COMPARISON CONTINUES)
To: Gothmog
And ready to give a compliment when one is due!:)
To: Quix
My spelling of "Whimmen" was PC, but the first two letters were not.
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