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Posted on 12/18/2001 2:09:10 PM PST by Pipe Dog
Hillary: I've Gotten Used to Being Booed
Since launching her bid to become New York's senator, Hillary Clinton says she's been booed by crowds so many times that she's now gotten used to it.
Asked about an incident where she was booed off the stage at Paul McCartney's Oct. 20 concert to honor firefighters and police killed in the Twin Tower attacks, Mrs. Clinton told the New York Times Sunday Magazine, "I've gotten used to being in situations in political life, either vicariously or on my own, where that just happens sometimes."
Clinton described the humiliating heckling episode as "part of the healing process" in the wake of the World Trade Center attack.
"(The firefighters and cops) can blow off steam any way they want to," she added. "They've earned it."
The former first lady has also been publicly booed at New York City's St. Patrick's and Israeli Day parades as well as at her own New Year's Eve Millenium celebration on Washington, D.C.'s Mall.
Clinton campaign biographer Beth Harpaz, author of the book, "The Girls on the Van," recently told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly that Sen. Clinton hasn't attended any funerals for constituents killed in the 9/11 attacks because she's afraid she'll be booed.
And while she wasn't heckled or jeered during her first visit to Ground Zero on Sept. 14, one on-the-scene source told NewsMax.com that firemen and cops refused to shake her hand.
The Times profile also revealed that Mrs. Clinton's obnoxious eye-rolling during President Bush's address to Congress just days after the 9/11 attacks was more typical than previously known.
"Her aides insisted it had nothing to do with the president," reported Timesman Frank Bruni.
"But when I later saw her at a Senate budget committee hearing, she silently and reflexively shook her head and rolled her eyes almost every time one of the economists who were testifying mentioned Bush's tax cut."
Hillary Not Blaming Bush for 9 /11 Anymore
Just a month ago, New York Senator Hillary Clinton was blaming the Bush tax cut for the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. But not anymore.
During a Nov. 11 interview with CNN's Jonathan Karl, the former first lady insisted, "If we hadn't passed the big tax cut last spring, that I believe undermined our fiscal responsibility and our ability to deal with this new threat of terrorism, we wouldn't be in the fix we're in today."
Since then Mrs. Clinton has apparently thought better of her intemperate remarks, especially since the last thing her financially beleaguered state needs is to insult the man who controls the purse strings.
In an interview published in Sunday's New York Post, Clinton saw things differently.
"I support (Pres. Bush's) leadership," she proclaimed. "I believe his strong hand and words have helped to unify the country and give us the resolve to go forward in this war against terrorism."
There's a pattern here, Hill....get used to it, especially if you go into flyover country when you make your ill-fated presidential run....
Why, gee golly goshers..........how could this be? VH1's replay of the event clearly showed that the crowd heartily cheered her when she took the stage!!!
Ahem.
Nothing phony about response to Hillary at fete
Hillary's delegates spit on and taunt Police Honor Guard at her Convention
Hillary Booed at Concert for NYC
An email to the Drudge Report (re: Hillary Being Booed by Heroes)
FINALLY ARTICLE MENTIONING HILLARY GETTING BOOED
Somehow I think you're right. New Yorkers "just don't learn" or so it appears.
"Anti-Shrillary" BUMP!
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