Posted on 10/24/2001 10:14:14 AM PDT by NYCVirago
Fox Newsman Bill O'Reilly says he understands why New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was booed at Madison Square Garden during Saturday's "Concert for New York City."
"She was talking to a blue-collar crowd," the host of Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" said of the almost 5,000 firefighters and police who were sitting front and center. "She doesn't connect with those people and never has."
O'Reilly's agent, Carole Cooper, threw a party for him at Fox on Monday to celebrate the publication of his book "The No Spin Zone" (Broadway Books). The author, who has never been a fan of the junior senator from New York, said Hillary's standing with New York's Bravest and Finest had not been helped by what he called "her wincing" during the speech that President Bush made to Congress on Sept. 20.
"She made faces, and people didn't like that," O'Reilly said. "Not now."
So does the First Lady really want to start a debate about the vilification of police officers? If so, she's either got a lot of chutzpah or a mighty short memory, for the fact is, Hillary Rodham Clinton has collaborated with cop-bashers for some 30 years.
Back in her Yale Law School days, Hillary was party to one especially venomous critique of the police. At that time, she served as associate editor of a student journal which depicted city policemen as racist pigs--literally--and even seemed to glorify cop-killing.
The Yale Review of Law and Social Action was the left-wing journal of that university's law school. Its debut issue, dated spring 1970, lists Hillary Rodham as an editorial board member. She was no figurehead; Daniel Wattenberg, whose American Spectator piece first linked Hillary to the law journal, uncovered a Review source who recalls that Rodham, for instance, gave a detailed, sympathetic critique for an article entitled, "Jamestown 70."
A special double issue of the Yale Review during Hillary's editorial service focused on the legal travails of the Black Panthers. In 1970 and '71, several Panthers stood trial in New Haven for the torture-murder of fellow Panther Alex Rackley. On the same page as an unsigned article describing the police raid on the New Haven headquarters of the Black Panther Party following the murder, the Review ran a cartoon showing hairy pigs, snot dripping from their noses, marching with rifles in hand. As they oink and mutter "kill" aloud, the bubble above their heads has them thinking, "niggers, niggers, niggers."
The same issue has another pig-cop cartoon showing a horribly wounded pig-cop on crutches. He got what he deserved, explains the cartoon text. After all, a pig is "a foul depraved traducer." Yet further on comes a third drawing of a pig-cop, this one dismembered by gunfire. The headline above the decapitated head: "Seize the Time!"--the slogan of the Black Panthers.
... Hillary keeps company with cop-basher par excellence Al Sharpton, who seems to view just about any police officer in a minority neighborhood as a "white interloper" (his phrase). She issues responsible-sounding warnings against pre-judging cops, yet characterizes Amadou Diallo as having been "murdered" (a comment later described as a slip of her tongue). She is building her New York Senate campaign on odes to family values and law and order. So which is the real Hillary?
Her record--campus radical in the late '60s and early '70s, supervisor of the Legal Services Corporation during its most loony-activist phase under Jimmy Carter, and her late 1980s tutelage of the New World Foundation when it played sugar daddy to the hard Left--renders Hillary Clinton's current incarnation as a pragmatic centrist highly dubious. ... Since Mrs. Clinton is the one who registered the complaint about vilifying officers of the law, she ought to explain whether her own views have changed. Or has she just changed her stripes to match political realities--like Bobby Seale, the graying Black Panther who now explains, "I'm not going around saying, 'Off the pig'; You got to meet the climate of the times, man."
And of course you must believe that this would have never happened if it hadn't been for Hillary, right?
Puh-leez - if Bozo the Clown was a senator from New York he could have done the same thing.
Let's, see ...She called the cops murderers.
She made no apology for her delegates who spit on the police honor guard.
She gave no evidence of remorse or concern about the officer taken to the hospital after being injured by her limo.
Perhaps the heroes who booed should instead have just followed her example; called her a murderer, spit on her, and hit her with a limo.
Sheesh, there's no limit to what Hillary's lackeys will do to puff her up!
Splendid idea!!!!!!
Nice try at a spin, though, but Hillary is not the working guy's friend.
His show is great. But he is starting to get under my skin a bit. Too much of the ego going on here. Bill preaches no spin zone. But he expresses himself in such a politically correct manner sometimes it makes me wonder just how much spinning is going on here?
Don't get me wrong, like I said I like Bill. But he really needs to lay off the Hard Copy style of attacking people here who are trying to get things done. Parading people on his show to bring out a cause is one thing. But to sit and just blast people because 5 weeks later life is not running Bill's way...something is not right.
One other thing here...Am I the only one here who thinks we should be laying out money for the next 20 years for these families? WITH ALL DUE RESPECT. I mean that hole heartedly as well. When my father died we had the insurance come in and that was it.
I understand taking care of these families for the next couple of years to help them cope with the massive loss...but are we willing to pay and keep dishing out millions for this? The police and fire fighters families are going to have a ton of money coming in and they deserve so much. My question is though for how long should we pay?
People die everyday. Granted my family members did not die with a building coming down on them. Which is why I am all for helping these people out the next couple of years. But I do not recall people offering millions because my family members died when I was 11. Or offering to pay for my college education.
I think we should have a pay out scale for the next 2 years to help them along. Make sure the orphans or kids who lost one parent in this are protected under a blanket of coverae for college tuition if they want it.
Life moves on. My mother had to go back to her life and take care of her kids and work. So did many others in my family as well. But from some of the stories I have seen on O'Reilly, he had this lady on last night that had not filled out any paper work at all for money although she knew it was there. Huh? She said she hoped someone could help her fill it out now.
I am not trying to downplay this tragedy and what they deserve in light of all of this. But since Bill wants so much to put people in charge here...shouldn't there be a blanket on funds here? I mean how long will it be before all of us are hit so hard in the wallet for this for 10 yrs down the road? Almost 2 billion dollars will be raised by Halloween for this cause. Can we name any other cause in the last 30 years that has gotten this much money? This quick?
Cancer alone with 2 Billion dollars in 5 weeks. My God what that money could do. Heart disease. Aids.
I feel bad for even bringing up this topic but something is nagging me about it here. People have no other choice than to get what they deserve and collect and move on with life. We have no other choice not to.
I agree with O'Reilly that it's disgraceful the the Red Cross, United Way, etc. have not disbursed the money, but I'm not in the least bit surprised. I think people got the impression that these groups were collecting the money simply to pass it out again. The fact is, these are service organizations. They are geared to providing services, not cash. All these celebrities, etc., donating a million dollars apiece to these charities would help more by seeking out the families directly and writing them a check.
Yeah, good photo-op. Not a bad strategy, maybe it would play out in the sticks.
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