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PAGE SIX: CHELSEA REBUTS MOM'S STORY
New York Post ^
| 11/10/01
| RICHARD JOHNSON with Paula Froelich and Chris Wilson
Posted on 11/10/2001 12:16:49 AM PST by kattracks
Chelsea Clinton - Photo by: AP |
HILLARY and Chelsea Clinton should have gotten their stories straight. It turns out there are glaring discrepancies in their accounts of what Chelsea was doing on the morning of Sept. 11. Appearing on NBC's "Dateline" shortly after the World Trade Center attack, Sen. Clinton told viewers how her daughter had cheated death on that fateful morning.
"[Chelsea] had gone on what she thought would be a great jog," Clinton explained. "She was going down to Battery Park, she was going to go around the towers. She was going to get a cup of coffee and - that's when the plane hit!"
Clinton went on to share her fear and confusion when she could not get in touch with her daughter and didn't know where she was.
"At that moment, she was not just a senator, but a concerned parent," Katie Couric told "Today" viewers the next morning.
As cyber-columnist Matt Drudge reports, the result was widespread media coverage that portrayed Hillary, who was not in New York at the time, as a concerned and distraught mom who had personal ties to the WTC tragedy.
But Chelsea, who had declined to give any interviews, has broken her long silence by writing a first-hand account in Talk magazine. She reveals she wasn't jogging that morning, and was actually miles away from the disaster, safely ensconced in a pal's apartment on Park Avenue South.
"I stared senselessly at the television," Chelsea writes. She notes that she talked briefly with an aide to her mother before the phone lines went dead. She then ventured out on her own to try and find a public phone to call Hillary.
"Looking uptown I saw that every phone in view was surrounded by people. Then I looked downtown, the direction everyone was coming from; I assumed the lines would be shorter and went south. People told me later that I had been 12 blocks from the Towers . . ."
"I do remember standing in line at a phone somewhere and hearing a deafening rumble . . . a man standing next to me in line . . . said that one of the Towers had just collapsed," Chelsea recalls.
Calls to Clinton's office were not returned.
The piece in Talk indicates Chelsea is as politically savvy as her parents. One of her first thoughts was, "I was worried that with the tax cut, we wouldn't have enough money to repair New York and D.C. and to help the families of the thousands I knew must have died."
A couple of hours later, "Once we stopped running I started praying," Chelsea relates. "I prayed for my country and my city. I stopped berating the tax cut and started praying the president would rise to lead us."
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1
posted on
11/10/2001 12:16:50 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
...when we practice to deceive.
2
posted on
11/10/2001 12:29:26 AM PST
by
samtheman
To: kattracks
Born of an unholy marriage, a prop and a pawn, an unwitting spawn.
3
posted on
11/10/2001 12:35:00 AM PST
by
Outraged
To: Howlin
The pieces to this puzzle are extraordinarily scary, the Manchurian Candidate and the Clinton machine...a figment of the devil's imagination.
4
posted on
11/10/2001 12:40:22 AM PST
by
Outraged
To: kattracks
12 blocks....a mile. What a self-serving bunch of bunk. My sister-in-law was in a subway directly beneath the towers when the plane hit. She said the doors were closed and no one was allowed to exit the subway. There was one girl who was so afraid (no one knew why they were locked inside the subway) that she literally began to claw on the subway door. These are the people who have stories to tell. Why on earth would any magazine give face time to a self-serving story from Chelsea? Her mother's lies go without saying.
5
posted on
11/10/2001 12:41:27 AM PST
by
MistyCA
To: kattracks

Yikes! I wouldn't like to bump into that on a dark night.
To: Outraged
and coyote ugly to boot.
7
posted on
11/10/2001 12:52:13 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
8
posted on
11/10/2001 12:58:31 AM PST
by
Aeronaut
To: kattracks
Coyote ugly, true, but kattracks, she can't help it. Look at here daddy Walter H.
To: kattracks
A clinton caught in a lie ??? No way, this is stunning (sarcasm)
To: kattracks
Chelsea's a Two-Burka if I ever saw one.
To: Ann Archy
Now that's funny!!!
To: Mr. Snrub
What I want to know is, which of them is lying, and why? I don't believe incompetence. Is Chelsea trying to gain reputation for being 'honest," for example?
To: Thornwell Simons
Shes only in the "Public eye"for one week and has already stirred up controversy.Get rid of the clintons,all of them!
To: Thornwell Simons
What I want to know is, which of them is lying, and why?Do you seriously believe that Chelsea thought about the Bush tax cut on hearing the WTC collapse? They are both lying. It's all bullsh*t.
To: Thornwell Simons
Honest and clinton dont fit in the same sentence.
To: Ann Archy
The Freeper ladies are the hardest to please. LOL!
17
posted on
11/10/2001 1:27:38 AM PST
by
dennisw
To: kattracks
""I stared senselessly, " writes Chelsea
That's easy to imagine.
To: kattracks
That their stories don't match isn't surprising. The Clintons and their brethern seem to continuously spew inane and not-really-well-spinned propaganda that doesn't sync with either reality or each other. Had their tall tales matched, you'd have to suspect collusion.
There's no doubt that these people are the epicenter of a lot of this country's pathology and, for that reason, I hope we don't let up on them.
19
posted on
11/10/2001 1:42:33 AM PST
by
pt17
To: samtheman
"
...when we practice to deceive.""But you don't have to go through hell if you can learn to lie real well!"
20
posted on
11/10/2001 1:44:19 AM PST
by
albee
To: albee
These three goons have lied and dissembled so much that they can't keep their lies straight.
To: Clinton's a rapist
Man, I can't decide if that picture is "clock-stoppin' ugly" or "train-stoppin' ugly...."
22
posted on
11/10/2001 1:58:14 AM PST
by
backhoe
To: backhoe; *clintonscandals
NDX--
23
posted on
11/10/2001 2:01:01 AM PST
by
backhoe
To: cardinal4
Honest and clinton dont fit in the same sentence.Sure they do.........
The
Clinton's are NOT very
honest.
24
posted on
11/10/2001 2:11:49 AM PST
by
Elsie
To: backhoe
Settle for the clock,the train can come later.
To: kattracks
and coyote ugly to boot.I have a coyote that wants a hunk of your ass!!!
;<)
Eaker
26
posted on
11/10/2001 2:18:28 AM PST
by
Eaker
To: backhoe
Man, I can't decide if that picture is "clock-stoppin' ugly" or "train-stoppin' ugly...."Comet-stoppin' ugly"!!!!
Eaker
27
posted on
11/10/2001 2:20:29 AM PST
by
Eaker
To: kattracks
Web Hubble's son, Chelsea, will never cross the Klintons.
28
posted on
11/10/2001 2:31:47 AM PST
by
KCKTXAM
To: Clinton's a rapist
My thoughts exactly. I happened to turn on Fox News when it happened -- a time I've rarely every watched TV. The last thing on my mind was Bush's tax cut.
I think both are lying.
29
posted on
11/10/2001 3:06:54 AM PST
by
Dante3
To: kattracks
Words can't describe the filthy clintons use of anybody and anything to advance their political careers. Even their own child is fair game for public lies and manipulation. Could it be that two pathological liers nurtured someone that tells the truth ?????? This should raise whole new discusions for the environment versus genetic debate.
30
posted on
11/10/2001 3:06:54 AM PST
by
SSN558
To: KCKTXAM
This is so typical. Who cares where Chelsea was when the Tower's fell???? Who cares where she is now???? They are pond scum. And she is really, really, ugly. I am sorry, but she is.
31
posted on
11/10/2001 3:10:04 AM PST
by
kassie
To: Outraged
Are you a writer? If not, you should be. You have a succinct way of getting to the point. :)
32
posted on
11/10/2001 4:29:24 AM PST
by
Samizdat
To: kassie
Why is it your fault that she's ugly? :)
33
posted on
11/10/2001 4:31:04 AM PST
by
NYpeanut
To: kattracks
Thanks for ruining my breakfast. She is honing in on surpassing Amy Carter as the ugliest first daughter, ever. She does look more and more like Web every day.
To: kattracks
Gads, she is one butt-ugly POS.
35
posted on
11/10/2001 4:41:50 AM PST
by
lawdude
To: kattracks
By the time chelsbilly tells this story to her grandchildren, she will the only one who survived by jumping from the roof.
36
posted on
11/10/2001 4:44:55 AM PST
by
mombonn
To: Ann Archy
":Chelsea's a Two-Burka if I ever saw one."
Ya, one worn forward and the other reversed, just to make sure!
37
posted on
11/10/2001 4:45:30 AM PST
by
lawdude
To: kattracks
I cannot believe she "went to find a public phone." Doesn't she have a cell phone? Also, I thought she had secret service protection. Don't they have phones? Yes, it is always about the Clintons.
Comment #39 Removed by Moderator
To: kattracks
You mean one or both are lying? Why, why, I am shocked and dismayed. How shall I ever get over this?
40
posted on
11/10/2001 5:04:58 AM PST
by
ladtx
To: Clinton's a rapist
Is it me, or does she look like Howdy Doody's sister?
41
posted on
11/10/2001 5:06:19 AM PST
by
ladtx
To: motherof 3
"Clinton" and lies go together. What sticks in my craw is her ridiculous and insulting attempt to discredit Bush. "I prayed that our president would rise to lead us." Lord, it makes me what to shake the immortal crap out of her. What gall, the daughter of the worst person EVER to be president, praying for an obviously competent man to "rise." As I said on other threads, the story here shouldn't be about Chelsea's/Hitlary's lying, it should be about how Chelsea condemed those who blame America for the attacks and the fact that her father did exactly that in the speech to his alma matta -- a mistake made bec she wrote what she did BEFORE her father's speech but it did not come out until AFTER her father's speech. What a slap in the face -- to be condemed by your own daughter. That's what the media NEEDS to focus on.
To: mystomachisturning
Why on earth would any magazine give face time to a self-serving story from Chelsea? Her mother's lies go without saying. Katie Couric gave an interview to someone from Talk magazine, and Chelsea supposedly approached them. Then both Katie and the woman just gushed at her writing talents. Strange Couric did not mention the contradictory accounts. I am with you. I smell a rat.
To: motherof 3
I cannot believe she "went to find a public phone." Doesn't she have a cell phone? Also, I thought she had secret service protection. Don't they have phones? Yes, it is always about the Clintons. From all other accounts I've heard/read, cell phones were not working that morning. However, the article states that she was in a friends apartment and had just talked with an aide to her mother. Going out to find a public phone doesn't make any sense...especially the part about heading toward the WTC. Other stories I've read talk about the mass of humanity moving away from the scene and people getting caught up in the crowd and carried with it.
Both of these stories are pure BS. One is designed to make Hillary! look like a concerned parent, the other to make Chelsea appear to be brave and fearless. I ain't buying either one. Hillary! was probably the one thinking about the tax cut and how she could blame Bush if there wasn't enough money to aide NY because of it. Chels was probably cowering under the bed in her friend's apartment, begging her Secret Service detail to keep the bad men away!
To: motherof 3
Even the medieval horse-riding Northern Alliance have cell phones!!! What a LIAR...maybe the Secret Service WOULDN'T give her their cell phones to cal her mommy cause she called them PIGS one toooo many times. And her father DIDN'T call her to see if she was ok EITHER??? Notice Hill DID NOT call Chelsbilly. They do not care a rat's as$ about her except as a PROP.
To: kattracks
I need to quit clickin' on to these Chelsea threads. I'm sick of all things clinton.
To: Samizdat
Nahhhhhhh, I just prefer intermittent extemporaneous ranting spontaneously.
47
posted on
11/10/2001 7:03:05 AM PST
by
Outraged
To: Ann Archy
"And her father DIDN'T call her to see if she was ok EITHER???"
I read on another thread that the Hildebeast claimed she didn't know whether Chels was dead or alive when the disaster happened. And she (Hill) talked to Bill on the phone, and she didn't know how to break the news to him that Chels was unaccounted for, so she lied and told him that Chels was fine. So-- I guess if Chels had turned up dead after that, Hillie would have had some 'splainin' to do to Bill about why she told him everything was okay with their daughter!
These Clintons couldn't tell the truth if their lives depended on it. They're all liars. How many lies have they been caught in? Lying is such a habit with them, they don't even compare notes with each other to get their various stories straight before they spew them! Incredible.
48
posted on
11/10/2001 7:34:42 AM PST
by
Nea Wood
To: mystomachisturning
Was she locked in the subway train or the station? (Both would be an horrific experience).
And you are right...those are the stories to tell, not some pampered little ex-first daughter with a detail of SS Agents following her while she is in a daze opining about the Bush tax cuts in the light of an attack on our nation.
To: kattracks
Looks like Chelsea's going into the family business. I wonder if she'll start out small - like setting up a three-card monte table at Oxford or will she move directly to bank and real-estate fraud? Maybe she'll set up a boiler room operation or get involved in internet stock fraud...
50
posted on
11/10/2001 7:44:25 AM PST
by
garbanzo
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