Posted on 11/26/2007 8:49:28 PM PST by ex-Texan
Hillary Clinton's campaign team are furious that an unsubstantiated rumour of a lesbian affair with her exotic aide de camp Huma Abedin, which has been doing the rounds of 'underground' blogs and websites in recent weeks, appears to have gone mainstream after reports in foreign papers addressed the subject of dirty tricks on the US presidential campaign trail.
The problem started with a report in the London Times on Thursday. 'Hillary Clinton has been accused of having an affair with Huma Abedin,' read the caption under a photograph of the two trouser-suited women (above left) striding across the tarmac to catch a plane. The next day, the Russian newspaper Pravda wrote a similar round-up which concluded: "Hillary and her aide, Huma Abedin, do live together at home and on the road, but the only way to nail Clinton would be to catch them together in a lesbian action."
The rumour of a lesbian love affair appears to have been been started in August 2007 by the New York freesheet, the Village Voice. Although neither the Times nor Pravda made any attempt to claim the story was true, some Americans have taken the reports in two of the world's most famous newspapers to heart. Not least Hillary's own team. "This does not even qualify as tabloid trash... it's ridiculous and reckless," a Clinton aide said at the weekend.
Abedin, who is the daughter of Indian and Pakistani parents and comes from Kalamazoo Michigan, has been an aide to Clinton for some years. The photograph in the Times was taken in 2000. She was recently photographed (above right) in Vogue's 'Age' issue, as an example of a glamorous woman in her 30s with good looks, insider influence and a fabulous address book. She chose two red dresses - by Vera Wang and Oscar de la Renta - for her Vogue photoshoot.
Although the Times, owned by Rupert Murdoch, appears to have caused her some heartache, Hillary Clinton was diplomatic when asked an awkward question in Iowa at the weekend about Murdoch's growing influence in America. The arch-conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch, who already owns Fox News, the New York Post (and its gossip section Page Six, which notoriously went after Clinton's husband Bill during his presidency) and will soon own the Wall Street Journal.
Did Clinton think, the questioner wanted to know, Americans would "lose out democracy" if one person controlled their media? Clinton answered: "There have been a lot of media consolidations in the last several years, and it is quite troubling. It's bad for consumers because you limit choice, it¹s bad for citizens because it limits the diversity we have." But she also made it clear that she wasn't singling out "any company in particular" for condemnation. "I just want to see more competition, especially in the same markets."
What she didn't tell the questioner was that, the Times article notwithstanding, she and Murdoch have developed a close if curious relationship since she became junior senator for New York in 2001. Murdoch even held a fundraiser last year for Clinton's senate campaign and recently bankrolled former nemesis Bill Clinton's global warming initiative.
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Sure looks that way to me. We conservatives don't have to resort to rumors such as: Is Hillary a lesbian? The ridiculous socialist propaganda provides plenty of garbage on which to challenge them.
Which Republican contender has the courage to do that?
I'm sure Mahoney was scared, but I find it hard to believe she would wrestle with a robber to prevent him from getting keys to the safe. It still doesn't answer why no $ was taken. The liberals at the time ridicule conservatives for even asking questions.
Bill was screwing around with a current intern (Monica) in the White House.
Hillary had been caught screwing around with a different intern (Mary Mahoney) who was formerly in the White House.
All the Washington rumors had said was that “An intern who name begins with M was caught in a sexual affair in the White House with Clinton.”
Unfortunately, it looks like Hillary killed the wrong one.
I don't see a denial anywhere in the statement by the Clinton aide.
The HRC warroom staff (all female, pretty much all lesbian) knew that Huma would get drug through the mud sooner or later.
This is all planned. The story was given by HRC staff to PRAVDA to distribute, so that Hillary had an MSM to badmouth that she doesn’t have to look ‘good’ in.
Americans will ‘write off’ stuff from Pravda.
ALso, this is being done over the holiday season. People are very busy, and don’t have time to dote on what’s going on in politics, especially if they are told it is muckraking.
In two weeks, everyone will be ‘tired of hearing about it’, and it will all just ‘go away’.
Then, Huma will be in the ‘do not attack anymore’ category, and the subject of the truth of her being Hillary’s controller for the Arabs will be unapproachable for the MSM.
Hillary openly appointed a bunch of GLBT staff to some positions, and this will all be brought into play to show how Hillary is being ‘unprejudiced’ in staffing, hiring, appointment positions, especially for females.
In the end game, no one will be able to attack the lesbian, Arab spy, gay/lesbian/bisexual issue because it will be an attack on ‘women’.
GAME. SET.
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I believe Abedin has been HRC’s aide since 1999.
“It’s called misdirection.”
Well, at least somebody else sees it.
The LATIMES isn’t sitting on anything but their butts.
They are spreading the rumor that they have ‘info’, as part of the ‘end game’ on putting aside the lesbian question and hiding the Arab controller aspect.
The Drudge Report is being used for the same purpose.
Plus he gets more ‘hits’ off the attention.
Snopes shows the “Clinton Body Count” list as being false.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp
Mary Caitlin Mahoney.
Also look up Susan Thomases. Huma’s predecessor.
Bill’s not the only one that diddles his interns.
Hillary has her own ‘intern school’, or lesbian club.
The rumour of a lesbian love affair appears to have started in August 2007 by the New York freesheet, the Village Voice.
Memo to whomever wrote this: Well, which of these contradictory statements is correct, people? Seems like you British journalists are just as bad if not worse than our American MSM. And what, BTW, is a "freesheet"? (FYI, The Village Voice is farther to the left than just about any publication on any American newsstand!)
The arch-conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch...
...she and Murdoch have devloped a close if curious relationship...
Memo the writers: As Ronald Reagan would say, there you go again! Can't you guys report facts without contradicting yourselves in the next paragraph?
What deception by these Brits! Abedin was born in Kalamazoo, left when she was two years old for Saudi Arabia, and didn't return to the US until she was about 18.
Well, maybe Her Royal Thighness can pretend, and change her campaign theme song to "I've Got a Gal from Kalamazoo." LOL!
If Hillary gets the Dem nomination, all of these questions about Huma Abedin will REALLY come to the surface and even if proven to be much ado about nothing, the thought is still in the minds of the voters.
Having said that, I agree with Dick Morris, for the first time in my life; I think Obama would be the easiest candidate for the GOP candidate to beat.
Snopes is run by a liberal couple who like Clinton.
Ever notice that no one attacked one Ambrose Evans- Pritchard ?
ain’t that the first real water mark on these criminals ?
I had never heard that story about her whacking the Secret Service agent with an ashtray, having been under the impressin that all the ashtray wacking was reserved for her “husband.” Do have any confirmation or corroboration of that story?
Heh-Heh....Bill’s gotta either behave or not get caught for at least 5 years...Heh-Heh.....
I love that the Brit press did this, so she can’t holler, “VRWC”!!!
I can tell you with absolute certainty that Vincent W. Foster, Jr. was “whacked.”
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