Lady of 'History': Hillary Clinton Is Again the Eye of a Public Storm

The Washington Post ^ | June 12, 2003 | Mark Leibovich

[tgslTakoma]

Hillary Clinton is laughing a lot, almost unnervingly so given that she's in the midst of reliving some of the most painful parts of her husband's embattled presidency. She is being repeatedly asked this week about such unpleasantness as Whitewater, missing documents and the suicide of a close friend. She is discussing her marriage counseling on national television.

And yet in an interview yesterday afternoon, loud, long and full-throated giggles came rapid-fire from the former first lady. She is asked, for instance, about the mixed early reviews for her just-published memoir, "Living History," some of which call the book detached and unemotional. "Hahaha," goes Clinton. Some people have told her the book is too revealing. "People say, my gosh, why are you telling me these things?" she says.

She is asked how she feels about supplanting Sen. Ted Kennedy as the GOP's favorite Democratic villain. "Hahahaha. . . . It's something that kind of goes with the territory of being me," she says. "Apparently I've raised quite a bit of money for Republicans."

She is asked how often she is asked if she will run for president. "Every interview," she says, letting go her loudest laugh yet. She says she has no intention of running in either 2004 or 2008.

"I should get, like, little Chinese fortune cookie things, and like, just print up the answer on the piece of paper and just pass it out.

"Hahahaha."

[tgslTakoma]

More from the story, about Monday's book-signing event in NYC...

Clinton arrives at Barnes & Noble at 11 a.m. "Hello again," she says to a cluster of about 100 reporters and photographers. They are crammed between the Science Fiction and Fantasy shelves, a few feet from where Clinton will sign books. Her smile is tight and bright. She answers shouted questions, including one about whether she's always been faithful to Bill ("Yes"), and now that that's cleared up she can sell books.

Clinton is wearing a canary yellow pantsuit and crosses her cream-colored pumps under a pine table. In a little more than three hours, using a Mont Blanc pen, Clinton will sign -- by the store's count -- more than 1,000 books with assembly-line efficiency. Each customer will receive a signed book (or two) and roughly 10 seconds of small talk before being gestured away by a store staffer. In the first 10 minutes, Clinton will use the exact greeting -- "Hi, how're you?" -- with 18 consecutive customers, before she breaks her streak with a truncated "Hi" for the 19th.

They actually counted how many times she used a particular greeting? The Washington Post's fawning coverage of Her Heinous is absolutely amazing, even for the Post.

[tgslTakoma]

This one's for you, doc.

[rs79bm]

Has anyone read the reviews of this book on Amazon? I was thoroughly enjoyed to see that most if not all of them stick it to Hillary.

[tgslTakoma]

The good Doctor's been busy this week, kids.

It must be all those organic, nuclear-free tofu burgers he eats at Takoma Park's fine bistros that gives him such energy.

Tofu burgers, the modern-day spinach for our Popeye, Doctor Raoul!

[rs79bm]

Clinton will use the exact greeting -- "Hi, how're you?" -- with 18 consecutive customers

Typical Hillary. In other words, just let me sign your book and then get the hell out. I'm just here for a photo-op anyway.

[JennysCool]

Interesting they focused on the maniacal laugh here, as many FReepers did viewing the Baba Wawa interview. What's up with that?

[RonDog]

Here is an important SHORT EXCERPT from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47263-2003Jun11.html:

...In the parlance of packaging, Clinton is in the process of "reintroducing herself to the American public." Or, to her detractors, she is giving America a chance to get sick of her all over again.

"This woman won't go away," says Raoul Deming, who was protesting Clinton's appearance at a book signing outside a Manhattan Barnes & Noble on Monday. He is wearing a rubber George W. Bush mask and holding a homemade sign that says "Rodham Hussein."

"She's out here trying to rewrite history," he says, and he's not prepared to let Hilla-palooza pass without a catcall or three. He traveled four hours by train from his home in, of all places, Takoma Park...

[billhilly]

The title of this article should have read "Lady" of history, rather than Lady of "History." I am so sick of hearing Hillary referred to as a lady that I get physically sick.

[billhilly]

The title of this article should have read "Lady" of history, rather than Lady of "History." I am so sick of hearing Hillary referred to as a lady that I get physically sick.

[Mr. Mojo]

Hillary Clinton is laughing a lot, almost unnervingly so

Nervous laughter.

[rs79bm]

"I should get, like, little Chinese fortune cookie things, and like, just print up the answer on the piece of paper and just pass it out.

"Hahahaha."

Yea, ha ha. Good one Hillary.

[Duramaximus]

"People say, my gosh, why are you telling me these things?"

Because your are a hypocrite, a liar, a cheat, a fraud, a phoney, a criminal, and you deserve to be locked up for the remainder of your life, breaking big rocks into little rocks.

[RonDog]

See also, from:

Hillary Potter Flies into the Walmart, VA
to Meet the DC Chapter of the FreeRepublic
Been There, Freep It, Got the Tee Shirt | 6-11-03 | bmwcyle

Posted on 06/11/2003 7:10 PM PDT by bmwcyle

Hillary Clinton enemy of the State arrived at the Fairfax County Fairlakes Wal-Mart store. She rode in her big black smoked glass limo hoping to sell her lies one more time. The line was out the garden department and into the side parking lot.

I arrive at the shopping center to see a long line of about 50 people standing in line to drink the Kool-Aid and get the book of lies signed by the Witch...

-- snip --

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

[Cicero]

I was in that very same Barns & Noble on Wednesday--picking up some science fiction paperbacks. I guess I missed her.

There was a leak in the ceiling and water all over the floor, new since my last visit there, about 20 feet from where she was doing the signing. I wonder if there's some connection?

As Hillery would say, "Hahahaha."

[Mr. Mojo]

I am so sick of hearing Hillary referred to as a lady that I get physically sick.

Hillary probably winces as well whenever she hears it. Feminists despise that word.

[Flora McDonald]

This woman is absolutely painful. I would rather have a migraine than read about her.

Can you imagine: a United States Senator that giggles under stress?

[spokeshave]

Coupled with excessive head bobbing

[Randjuke]

"Somebody told me the other day that there's something like 279 hours a day of nationally syndicated conservative right-wing talk radio," Clinton says. That compares "to about five hours a day of so-called progressive talk radio. And there's a statistic that, like, 22 percent of Americans get their news from that source."

I'd like to see her source for this. Shouldn't she be busy with her job instead of this crap?

[DoughtyOne]

That's what people do when they have nothing but contempt for the people they meet.

[jhw61]

Wouldn't it be nice to greet her with one of those death grips she slapped on Juanita Broaddrick...."thanks for all you've done for this country Hillary."

[softengine]

I wonder, if we all would shut up about Hillary (not just this time, but every time she steps out from under her rock), if maybe she wouldn't loose some of her significance/'popularity'<\puhleeeze\>/power.....?

[Carolina]

I agree with you. Lady implies dignity, refinement...not at all descriptive of this witch.

[Miss Marple]

Look what's coming out next week! Heheheheh.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Clinton is wearing a canary yellow pantsuit

She looked like a school bus.

[RonDog]

See also:

After-action Report DC Chapter FReep of Hillary in DC
June 12, 2003 right here | me

Posted on 06/12/2003 1:58 PM PDT by BillF
Fresh from their victory over the liberals at Hillary's Wal-Mart book signing in Fairfax, VA last night (one Clinton Kool-Aid drinker said that our presence in Fairfax destroyed their celebratory mood), the DC Chapter of Free Republic assembled troops at the Hillary Clinton book signing at Capitol Hill today. 

The daring raid into liberal-occupied Capitol Hill had strategic surprise.  As liberals were caught flat-footed again and they were able to mount only feeble resistance, the FReep was yet another triumph.  Details will follow, but this is posted now to get the thread started.  Your humble correspondent also has video and audio that should be added to this thread in the next day or so.

Our honor roll for this gathering of eagles:
Angelwood, Doctor Raoul, Kristinn, Jimmy Valentine's brother, LisaFab, NaystoShays, Staytrue, tgslTakoma, and BillF...

-- snip --

(click here for a LARGER image)

(L-R)Lisa Fab, NaystoShays, Angelwood, and Staytrue

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

[John Lenin]

"Apparently I've raised quite a bit of money for Republicans."

The GOP should start right now with a campaign to defeat Her Heinous, they should use Hillary like the RATS used Newt Gingrich to raise money. Who are we lineing up to run against the witch ?

[Randjuke]

and after the book signing...

[jhw61]

How about Tweety Bird... "I Tawt I Taw A Puddy-Tat"

[RonDog]

See also, from:

Hillary Clinton Book Tour Calendar
--Freep Her Heinous Coast to Coast This Summer
The Internet | Monday, June 9, 2003 | Kristinn
Posted on 06/09/2003 6:47 PM PDT by kristinn

Summer's here and the time is right for freeping in the streets!

Former First Lady, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton ('Rat-NY) will be touring the country this summer promoting her memoirs, Living History.

FReepers from coast to coast will have the opportunity to exercise their First Amendment rights to peaceably assemble and freep her like a rented mule...

-- snip --

See also, from http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/8944/:

Hillary Clinton, Senator and former First Lady, signing copies of Living History

• 6/9/03 11:00 AM at Barnes & Noble – Fifth Ave. New York, NY.
• 6/13/03 7:00 PM at Borders Books - S. Broadway. White Plains, NY.
• 6/16/03 1:00 PM at Hue-Man Bookstore - Frederick Douglass Blvd. New York, NY.
• 6/20/03 7:00 PM at Book Revue - New York Ave. Huntington, NY.
• 6/23/03 12:30 PM at Borders Books - Walnut Street. Philadelphia, PA.
• 6/23/03 7:00 PM at Barnes & Noble – Honeygo Blvd. Baltimore, MD.
• 6/28/03 4:00 PM at Book Passage - Tamal Vista Blvd. Corte Madera, CA.
• 6/29/03 11:00 AM at Vroman’s Bookstore - E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, CA.
• 7/11/03 3:00 PM at Bookends - E. Ridgewood Ave. Ridgewood, NJ.
• 8/12/03 5:30 PM at Left Bank Books - North Euclid. St. Louis, MO.

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

[ladyinred]

I wondered too about the laugh. I think it is because she is viewed as such a cold you know what, that this is part of the remaking of her image, done deliberately of course. Perhaps her Hollywood producer friends coached her? (Harry &Linda)

[lodwick]

It's so tough for soul-dead folks to laugh correctly.

[goodnesswins]

In about 6 months she's going to be really depressed, as all the adoration will have gone out of her bubbleheaded fans....they'll be on to something else....Bubba's book, maybe, I don't know, but I do know that people like these get what's coming to them, eventually.

[RippleFire]

Sounds like she's been ingesting some of Bill's stash. He's gonna be pissed!

[Xthe17th]

He is wearing a rubber George W. Bush mask and holding a homemade sign that says "Rodham Hussein."

Raoul, PLEASE tell us that was a Hussein mask and the stupid and leftist media simply refuses to distinguish between Sadham and Dubya.

[CyberAnt]

I don't think it's nervous laughter - I think it's more like "I fooled them one more time" laughter!!

[lizma]

"Apparently I've raised quite a bit of money for Republicans."

I can't catch my breath!!! She's telling the truth!!

[pooh fan]

"I should get, like, little Chinese fortune cookie things, and like, just print up the answer on the piece of paper and just pass it out."

Oh good grief!! A grown woman using the teenage, valley-girl-speak 'it's like...' in a public interview! It just shows you what that ivy league education was worth.

[Mo1]

She is less prone to visible anger than her husband. She gives opponents little satisfaction this way.

That's because all she ever does are puff piece interviews ..

I can't believe this article came from the Post .. HAHAHAHAHA

[sauropod]

And what about NPR and Pacifica radio (to name just a couple)? That is 48 hours a day of far left radio right there!

[sauropod]

All,

I will most probably be out of the country for the 6/23 event at the Barnes and Nobles (Think this is the one at White Marsh Mall at the Avenue). Can someone set this one up? Here is a sterling opportunity to continue the tradition of sweeping out the filth with their own broom ;-).

[Slyfox]

LOL

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The title of this article should have read "Lady" of history, rather than Lady of "History."

Her title should be: "The Most Despised Whore of Babylon"

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

She looked like a school bus.

A school bus wreck, IMO.

[nutmeg]

ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[8mmMauser]

A cackle! It is a witch's cackle. Close your eyes and imagine a wicked witch dropping kiddies into the boiling cauldron and insert the sound of her cackle. Bone chilling.

A parody of Hitlery as a witch would be complete with a genuine recording of her cackle. I cannot erase from my mind the association of her actual cackle with the image.

[nuconvert]

No,Hill, you should like, "HaHaHa", tell the truth for a change.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Hahahahahhahahahahaghaghag what an evil witch.

[anniegetyourgun]

And I just wish they'd call her 'history'.....

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

ya know ha ha ha ha ha HAG!