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Posted on 11/28/2001 3:48:43 AM PST by kattracks
New York Senator Hillary Clinton has reportedly refused to attend a single funeral or memorial service for any of the victims of the World Trade Center disaster unless it was a major media event.
"We sent both Sen. Clinton and Sen. Chuck Schumer letters asking them which services they attended and which families they visited," Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly reported late Tuesday.
Sen. Clinton's office ignored FNC's letter and repeated phone calls, "most likely," said O'Reilly, "because the only events we know she attended were three highly publicized memorial services."
In marked contrast to Clinton's stonewalling, Sen. Schumer's office said they had attended 10 services and promised to provide a list of each one. New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Gov. George Pataki have attended hundreds of funerals for WTC victims.
Anthony Gardener, who lost his brother Harvey in the World Trade Center and has become an advocate for the victims of the disaster, told FNC that he contacted Clinton's New York office twice but got no response.
"I invited her to come and be on our board of advisers to help us with the nonprofit support group that we created, WTC United Family Group," Gardener told O'Reilly. "I never had any feedback from her office, not even an assistant to an assistant or anyone."
Gardener said that he knew getting Mrs. Clinton to help would be "a far-fetched thing. [But] I just thought she might be eager to help."
Associated Press reporter Beth Harpaz, author of the Hillary 2000 campaign chronicle "The Girls on the Van," said that Mrs. Clinton snubbed WTC victims because they didn't vote for her.
"Her core supporters and the main victim groups of 9/11 are pretty much two distinct groups," Harpaz told O'Reilly. "You know, we have a lot of male-dominated professions here, firefighters, cops, Wall Street, a lot of suburbanites, a lot of political conservatives."
Harpaz also suggested that Mrs. Clinton couldn't attend many funerals because "she's been busy in Washington" and she also feared being booed again, as she was at an Oct. 20 concert for WTC victims.
Visibly angered, the Fox host shot back:
"If I were the senator of New York, I would have tried to attend as many of those funerals and memorial services as I could. And if they booed me, they booed me. I'd get down on my knees and say a prayer for that dead person and then I would go and leave."
Three high-profile events Mrs. Clinton attended were a memorial service at Yankee Stadium a week after the attacks, a similar event at Ground Zero in early October, and the funeral for New York City Fire Department Chaplain Father Mychal Judge, where she delivered the eulogy. All three services were televised.
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What an idiotic comment. I bet many of the people for whom Rudy attended funerals didn't vote for him. It's not about politics. It's about 'your fellow human being.' Oh wait, she's not a human being.
O'Reilly left this Clinton Apologist (O'Reilly's name for her) speechless. It was beautiful.
I saw this show last night - YEAH for OReilly!!! Don't I recall that Hildabeast wasn't too busy with her senator duties that she attended a fund raiser in upper NY - isn't that when her van hit the policeman when he tried to stop them from running a roadblock?????? Inquiring minds wants to know!!!!
This really is horrible. It goes to character.
And what is this crap about blue collar workers all pro-democrat, that the republican party is the party of the rich elites? Firefighters and policemen ane emergency workers are RICH? Hardly. They are decent, HARDWORKING people who RISK THEIR LIVES for slugs like hillary.
I'm sorry. But this woman makes me want to vomit.
And as for the jerks who voted for her, YOU GOT JUST WHAT YOU DESERVE.
A woman so obsessed with power and so overwhelmingly full of arrogance that she just doesn't have time for events that don't shine the light of publicity on her characterless self. If the EVENT does not directly benefit hillary in terms of publicity or donor money $$$$$$, that pig is not going to be there. Just ask the police guard seriously injured by the van in which ol hillary was riding. She could not even BRING HERSELF to get her fat butt out of the van and see if this human being was OK. That takes a certain type of character. A really selfish, cold character. Astounding.
Golly.....if the name isn't katie couric or matt lauer or charley gibson or some other shallow, liberal arse kissing nutcase, ol hillary is not going to show. hillary can only go to scripted events because REAL people cannot abide her selfishness and mean-spiritedness.
I am already in a particularly FOUL mood today.
I CHALLENGE YOU TO FIND ONE PERSON FROM NEW YORK ON FREE REPUBLIC WHO VOTED FOR THIS FREAKING ASS SCUMB BITCH?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHE WON BECAUSE THE RICH JEWISH VOTERS IN STATEN ISLAND AND THE PHARKIN DEMONCRATS FROM UPSTATE NEW YORK BOUGHT THE DAMN ELECTION FOR HER........PLEASE STOP THE GENERALIZATION.
BTW, I heard a news report this morning saying that President Bush #1 will go to England to attend a Memorial for the 9/11 victims & that it is his first diplomatic mission since he left the Presidency. I bet it is eating bubba alive!!!! (as opposed to monica, sorry sometimes I can't help myself)
Remember when bubba was first elected, he made a point of telling how he consulted Nixon regarding foreign policy? Five will get you 10 that Bush #2 hasn't picked up the phone yet during this time of National Crisis. Hee-hee!
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