SHOCKER: NYT Slaps down Hillary's "Living History"

NYT | 06/10/03 | NYT

[nightowl]

NYT gives Hillary's "Living History" a real slap in the face (review). I don't know how to post it, but I would appreciate it if someone would. It's a great read and it will do your hearts good. Maybe the NYT's is really changing. NOT.

[goldstategop]

I do know Howell Raines wouldn't have let a negative review of Saint Hillary anywhere near the New York Times.

[ladyinred]

Really? I don't post either, so hopefully someone else will!

[MEG33]

They'll probably have it reviewed favorably by another critic.Isn't the NYT always fair and balanced??!!

[ladyinred]

Thanks for posting this!

She shrugs off travelgate as "the first manifestation of an obsession for investigation that persisted into the next millennium."

This from a woman who hired private investigators to go after political enemies! What a hypo---crite! (the beginning of that word just must stand alone in the case of Hillary!)

[goldstategop]

Saint Hillary, the Eternal Victim.

[Free ThinkerNY]

When you're a sociopath, it's always someone else's fault.

[11B3]

The Ankle at her best: self-aggrandizing, delusional, revisionist history. Typically Clinton.

Doesn't anyone notice how much nicer it is to not have a new scandal every week at the White House? How many Elians have we had? Or Wacos? Ruby Ridges? How about "suicides" of cabinet members or close associates of the president? Any allegations that this administration has sold out our national defense secrets to our number 1 enemy for campaign cash? It doesn't matter if President Bush did absolutely nothing during his first term (instead of dealing with REAL problems at a pace that no other administration has ever faced), - at least he has brought pride, honesty, and integrity back to his office. Rather like having to clean up after a cheap, sloppy, and loud hooker who did nothing more than defile the nation as well as the position of president. Although we aren't liked worldwide, we are at least feared now. I'll take fear over false friendship any day.

[jnarcus]

trucks spraying DDT? SOrry folks Hillary has done it again most of the mosquito abatement was done over stagnant water and with Malathion the toxin of choice...some pwoplw just HAVE to lie even when the truth is easier

[PianoMan]

Michiko Kakutani is among the finest book reviewers IMO. She would not agree with the politics here but she is not afraid to review bluntly. I remember her trashing a release of Toni Morrison's, to the apoplexy of the PC factions of the literary community. Tom Wolfe also game in for a good, and IMO appropriate, dressing down for the structural weaknesses in his last novel.

The one part of the Times arts section that is always worth a peek is Kakutani. The classical music, the dance, and most of the film articles, by contrast, are utter bottom-drawer fishwrap.

[MEG33]

I agree.

[nopardons]

This, THIS, in the N.Y.Times book review section ? How the TIMES have changed. Pun fully intended, though the case is wrong ( should be " has " , when referring to the paper ).

Are they iceskating in HELL ? LOL

[A CA Guy]

The only thing eternal regarding Hillary might be regarding an eternal flame reserved for her eternal future.

[Busywhiskers]

Please.... somebody make it shut up. I HATES IT! I HATES IT!

[nopardons]

I've been reading the N.Y. Times book review section since I was 10 years old. Don't ask my age; however,I'll admit to that being many, many, MANY decades ago. They don't review books by people they don't like, unless they smear them. They have NEVER, to my knowledge, printed an adverse review of ANY lefty's book. They've pushed , PUSHED lefties' books and yes, occassionaly have damned one or two with faint praise.

This review sounds as though it was written by a fair minded reviewer. That, inandofitself, is particularly unusal for the Times.

[Cate]

Oh great, another myth about conservatives. That we hoard food and save small scraps of cheese and half eaten olives. This book is sooooo stupid. My grandsons Dr. Suess are much better written and make more sense, sam I am.

[MEG33]

Thanks for the tip on the book reviewer.

[Fawnn]

...where neighborhood kids thought it was fun to pedal through the haze of town trucks spraying DDT in the summer twilight....

Methinks Hillary is confusing passages in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring with her own childhood. (I seem to recall that description also matches an actual scene in a recent novel or film, but can't recall exactly where, perhaps in Rebecca Wells' books(?).

Not having read Hillary's book, perhaps the reviewer was quoting a passage where Hillary quotes Charles Rush's October 1, 2000 copyrighted sermon: "When I was a child in the South, one of our favorite past times in the summer was riding our bikes in the evening behind the trucks that sprayed clouds of DDT to kill mosquitoes. I swear I never once heard a parent suggest we shouldn’t ride right behind the truck, let alone come in doors, or organize a protest against spraying in general."

(Evidently Chicago and southern parents thought differently. Here on the west coast of Ohio, my mom made us stay inside when the town sprayed for mosquitoes. Just my luck: I remained "safely" inside and I'm the one with massive allergies while Hillary is out "conquering" the world.)