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RED-FACED senior campaign aides to Hillary Clinton, reeling from their embarrassing Memogate fiasco, tried to convince journalists that Karen Adler, author of that "call the press, but keep us out of it" advisory, is a young, low-ranking staffer who was acting all on her own.
Nice try, guys 'n' gals.
Adler faxed a memo to members of the campaign's "Jewish Advisory Group," urging them to phone reporters and defend Mrs. Clinton, but stressed that they should "not say that you are calling because the campaign asked you to."
When the stuff - predictably - hit the fan, campaign spin specialists tried to get clear by suggesting in background calls that Adler was a youngster who didn't know any better.
In fact, she's one of Hillary's closest political aides and confidantes - and has been for years.
Salon magazine reported in June 1999, that Adler, "a board member of the United Jewish Appeal Federation, is said to be lined up to solidify [Hillary] Clinton's ties to the huge Jewish community." And Adler was one of only two people to accompany Hillary to a closed meeting last December with officials of the influential Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations (Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, was the other).
Well-connected isn't necessarily synonymous with smart, of course. But Adler's been tight with campaign honcho - and key Clinton strategist - Harold Ickes for years. So you'd think she'd know better. Right?
"Hillary's people are very bright," said a well-connected Democrat yesterday. "But they think everybody else is stupid."
Stupid is as stupid does, says Off the Record.
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LOOK who's chewing on Al Gore's leg: Brooklyn Rep. Nydia Velazquez says the veep's "reinventing government" scheme hurts women and minorities. She says small companies are choking on new rules - endorsed by Gore - that favor large companies over small ones when it comes to awarding $189 billion a year in federal contracts.
Says Velazquez, top Democrat on the House Small Business Committee: "What we are facing here is unintended consequences."
Maybe that's what she is facing. Gore has a different problem: Satisfying hard-core lefties like Velazquez, who view government as basically a money pump, and the taxpayers whose support he's going to need to win this fall.
Bill Clinton was slippery enough to pull it off. Time will tell about Gore.
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PORTNOY's complaint: Ace Philip Morris Albany lobbyist Sharon Portnoy got into the soup 18 months ago when she treated some legislators to $75 dinners and then didn't report it.
The state lobbying commission came after her like hounds from hell, so it's not hard to imagine her thoughts when she opened the Metro section of Wednesday's Times (Page B-7) and saw the full-page ad placed by Local 1199 of the health-care workers union.
There was Gov. Pataki, smiling broadly - as well he might. The union was thanking him for signing off on a huge boost in 1199 fringe benefits (to be paid for, directly and otherwise, by the taxpayers - though that wasn't in the ad).
A full page in the Metro section goes for about $32,000 these days, the rough equivalent of 427 $75 legislative dinners. Obviously, Portnoy doesn't think big enough.
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PATAKI, meanwhile, spent yesterday campaigning for Republican state legislators - in California. New York Assembly Minority Leader John Faso should be so lucky.
E-mail: offtherecord@nypost.com
Behold, the bitch revealed.
Our personal favorite illustrating just how utterly immoral she is was in 1996 when they had their operatives going around calling Bob Dole an "old cripple".
He may not have been an effective candidate, but he didn't deserve that treatment from this vicious bitch and her cur of a husband.
Our personal favorite illustrating just how utterly immoral she is was in 1996 when they had their operatives going around calling Bob Dole an "old cripple"
Not to mention her tactics in '92.
from Bush: Hillary No Jew Hater
In 1992 she actually urged reporters to explore unfounded rumors that then-President Bush was having an affair with longtime aide Jennifer Fitzgerald.
"Hillary's people are very bright," said a well-connected Democrat yesterday. "But they think everybody else is stupid."
Only those that vote for you, Hillary. But, you already knew that.
"...Our personal favorite illustrating just how utterly immoral she is was... when they had their operatives going around calling Bob Dole an "old cripple..."
Thanks for reminding me of that sleazy, slanderous slur!
Whatever his shortcomings as a candidate, Bob Dole was a genuine hero in a long, nasty total war, and he deserved better than being slimed by the Arkansas Hustler/Hillarreah!© and their pack of Media Jackals...
"But they think everybody else is stupid."
Typical Liberal attitude.
For me, one of the defining moments of the 96 campaign was the time when Bob Dole fell from a podium. As I recall, this happened when a railing broke as he leaned on it. Dole got right back up and continued, but the Clintonites and the media took this as "proof" that Dole was too old to be president.
Contrast this with the incident not long after when Clinton tripped and fell and injured his knee. He was on crutches for a while, and the press was gushing over how brave he was to press on with his duties in the face of such adversity. It was truly sickening!
LOL! Hillarreah! The essence of disease and pestilence captured in one descriptive name. Thanks for the laugh, I better clean up the coffee I just spilled...
["But they think everybody else is stupid."]
This is truly the signature line of every senior Democrat operative.
Uh-huh. Low level campaign staffers are often invited to White House state dinners to schmooze with heads of state like Israel's prime minister Barak.
And low-level campaign staffers are often called away from their duties stuffing envelopes to meet with congress and lobby for massive foreign aid packages.
Go ahead hillary. Belittle and ridicule your faithful minions, I'm sure they won't mind being humiliated for The Cause. In fact, because they know you so well, they should expect it.
Go ahead hillary. Belittle and ridicule your faithful minions, I'm sure they won't mind being humiliated for The Cause. In fact, because they know you so well, they should expect it.
I wonder if it was because of behavior like this that somebody leaked the Adler memo to the press. If so, we can probably expect more leaks in the near future.
I wonder if it was because of behavior like this that somebody leaked the Adler memo to the press. If so, we can probably expect more leaks in the near future.
We'd see a whole lot more if people didn't have to consider the accompanying IRS audits and missing cats.
We'd see a whole lot more if people didn't have to consider the accompanying IRS audits and missing cats.
They can't audit the leaker if they don't know who the leaker is. If there are a lot of unhappy staffers, it may be hard to pin the blame.
Sorry about the keyboard but glad you had a laugh over it.
I saw the name Hillarreah!© on another reply here some months ago & have used it since.
Feel free to disseminate it far & wide-- the Klintophilliacs ( Thanx, Bob Tyrell @ American Spectator) among us cannot abide being laughed at--they take themselves so seriously!
And I have never seen a bigger gathering of frauds, cheats, dissemblers, hypocrits, race-baiters and general white trash in my life!
What they have done to cheapen, coarsen and degenerate the Presidency and society in general should be an affront to all decent people.
What they have done to cheapen, coarsen and degenerate the Presidency and society in general should be an affront to all decent people.
That leaves out most Liberals.
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