Hillary's History (P.J. O'Rourke reviews 'Living History')

The Weekly Standard ^ | 07/14/03 | P.J. O'Rourke

[Ditter]

I was too sleepy to read Ann's book last night (I don't want to miss anything). lol I am going to get started later today.

[eureka!]

Best review yet. Wonderful...

[Vaduz]

it does make for a good charcoal starter.

[jla]

PJ O'Rourke takes off on Hillary Rod 'Em Clinton

[foreshadowed at waco]

Boring others is a form of aggression, and Hillary attacks her public with the weapon of brutal dullness. Ms. Clinton has led a busy, meddlesome life from an early age. "I was elected co-captain of the safety patrol. . . . This was a big deal at our school."

This quote encapsulates Hillary for me...like Al Gore and his pocket protector/ hall monitor high school persona, Hillary was and is a dweeb...almost makes me understand why Bill can't stop himself from waving his wand at anything cute that passes by...and the bar for cute when compared to Hillary didn't have to be that high...someone breathing with a shred of personality would leave her in the dust.

[patriot_wes]

I always knew this woman was brilliant!

[MeekOneGOP]

Uh, haz anybahdy
seed hillary ??

Uh, nevah mind!
Ah found 'er !!

More bump images HERE !

[JOE6PAK]

.."Not that the book isn't supposed to sell. And I understand it's selling nicely. I do not begrudge Hillary and her publisher their profits. The money will allow them, per Dante, to visit the fifth cornice of purgatory, where avarice is atoned, whenever they can get family leave from the ninth circle of hell where they'll be eternally tortured for spreading false doctrine. The free market is a good thing".

BRILLIANT..

PRICELESS.

[spodefly]

Best Review Yet BUMP.

[SevenDaysInMay]

"...History..." proves that the unindicted XY 42 has not had a high colonic in her life.

She is an admirer of Lenin's politics for the people, "compelling State interests", and utopia, under penalty of law. Hillary actually fears another young woman ignored by The Party leader.

The three things we ever need to know about Hillary is her "The Party is the nation", that she does not recall while under oath, and The Party's JBTs' slaughter of innocents at Mt. Carmel announced the Clintons' Rules of Engagement for The Village which fails to recognize Clintons' Devine Right.

[Wondervixen]

I'm guessing she HAD to litigate when her first attempt at racketeering ("Drop your suit or your rear end will be in the next batch of cans") didn't work?

[Dajjal]

Vituperation is supposed to be another of Hillary's salient features. But she spritzes, rather than splashes, acid and then only on the dead, the powerless, and Ken Starr. Hillary calls Bill's mother "Virginia Cassidy Blythe Clinton Dwire Kelley" and eulogizes her as "an American original--bighearted, good humored, fun-loving"--by which she means a drunk. "I didn't use makeup," declares Hillary, "and wore jeans and work shirts most of the time. I was no Miss Arkansas," but "no matter what else was going on in her life, Virginia got up early, glued on her false eyelashes and put on bright red lipstick, and sashayed out the door."

Damning stuff. But the junior senator's insults are preferable to her compliments. Hillary's friend Jean Houston "wraps herself up in brightly colored capes and caftans and dominates the room with her larger-than-life presence and crackling wit, . . . reciting poems, passages from great works of literature, historical facts and scientific data all in the same breath."

ROTFLMHO!!!!

[CaptainK]

I was really laughing during the first half of this piece and then it kind of slowed down but it was a funny. Did she really fail the DC bar exam the first time? One of the 100 greatest lawyers? One of the smartest women in the world?

Imagine how different the world would be if the smartest woman in America had passed the DC bar? I doubt she would have gone to the back hills of Arkansas with a luminous career in Washington beckoning her. Bill probably pounce on her failure with guarantees of passing the Arkansas bar since he had so many political connections down there. After all, clueless, quasi-feminist women willing to be a pawn for a politically ambitious sexual predator, don't come around that often.

[Gritty]

P.J. O'Rourke must have a cast iron stomach, terminal insomnia, free cases of scotch and a large retainer to plod through this collection of feckless lies and pomposity.

I can't wait until he wades through bill's upcoming lying, self-promoting screed and gives a first hand report. I know I won't be reading that one either. One has to be either well-paid or a complete masochist to read a book by either of these creeps.

[ought-six]

My God, I knew she was shallow, but hers is an intellect that not only does NOT cover the surface, but doesn't even dampen it. And her hangers-on and adorers say she is the smartest woman in America?????? Spare me!

[ought-six]

Watch, she'll blame this swill on her ghostwriters. But no one will believe her. There isn't a ghostwriter with an education above the third grade who would write this badly.

[ought-six]

"I didn't use makeup," declares Hillary, "and wore jeans and work shirts most of the time. I was no Miss Arkansas,"

Maybe this is when she started to shave her underarms and use deodorant.

[lindsay]

l was in Nottingham England some years ago when Torville and Dean won the gold medal for figure skating.They are from Nottingham.City Council has a special room for the Queen to wash her hands and do her other queenly duties when she visits the city..l saw the toilet paper and even got to use some.l sat on the Royal Throne as well.The Sheriff of Nottingham was a family friend and gave us access to the Royal john.

[Allan]

bump

[Sonny M]

The author points out just how egotistical the woman is, even worse than I expected.

You want to know ego. I was talking to a liberal friend of mine, saying there is a story about how Hillary, when she was in the 6th grade, wrote a 29 page autobiography on herself, 12 years old, writing about herself for 29 pages. My friend freaked saying it a lie, its not true, etc. I was honest and said I can't say if its true or not, it could be a lie, the source isn't credible. My little liberal friend was happy, untill I told her where I got that story from.

Its in Hillary's book, she is the one who says it.