Posted on 07/28/2002 8:44:02 PM PDT by doug from upland
The American Spectator (March 97) has even a better story about Hillary Clinton. It seems that Hillary, who's had her fingerprints found on all the new scandals that are breaking on a daily basis is trying to fix her public image.
So, to promote the new effort, showing how deeply Hillary cares about children, especially sick children in hospitals, Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington got a call. Hillary Clinton would be coming over soon with children's author Maurice Sendak. Hillary's advance team would be showing up arranging the security and logistics. The team did show up. What they saw horrified them.
The kids in the hospital children's ward really looked sick! Some of them had tubes sticking out. Some had lost their hair to chemotherapy. Some were groggy because of the pain killers they had to take.
Hospital officials were quickly told this would not do. Hillary would look bad in a newspaper photo if she posed with sickly looking children. They were told. "No children that look drowsy, skip bald kids, sick looking kids, or kids with tubes sticking out."
So here's what the hospital actually did. They outfitted a hospital conference room with toys and kids decorations. They ordered hospital staff members to bring in their healthy children who would pose as sick children in photos with the great St. Hillary.
So, on January 10th, Hillary Clinton showed up to Georgetown University Medical Center and read to a bunch of kids with author Maurice Sendak. Had you read the papers or heard the news the next day, you might have been bowled over by her compassion. Actually she demonstrated the opposite. You see the real sick kids, who were originally told they would be visited by the first lady were originally extremely happy and excited at the prospect of her visit.
When they were later told, they were too sick looking to be with the great Hillary, some became deeply depressed. After all how would anyone feel not being good enough for Ms. compassion herself.
Of course the press published the photos of Hillary reading to the cute kids the next day. They just forgot to tell you that Hillary, in the quest of the perfect photo could not bring herself to be photographed with an actual sick child.
The phoney mask of compassion that Hillary hides behind has slipped once again. Just around Purim time too!
The key to this is that the stuff the Clinton's do is so outrageous, it actually freaks the press out and they just cannot talk about it. It would draw such heat, they are afraid and know the story would strain their credibility even though it is true! The Clinton's can be so vile and gross, reporting that stuff only idicts the press and their long standing free ride policy for the democrats because the press sees themselves as the keeper of power balance in this country. If the Bush team ran off just one cancer kid because he was pissing on the podium, that would be a story. But since the Rules For Radicals explains that you become so vile, as to have your opponent even comment on such an event would destroy the opponent, not the radical.
There is also no limit to the human capacity for denial.
And this from someone who loves people profoundly.
For these reasons alone, character is of the utmost importance in public officials and people in power.
FGS
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