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NYT On How Hillary “Grappled” With Bill Clinton’s Infidelities: Destroy The Accusers
RedState ^ | october 2, 2016 | Patterico

Posted on 10/04/2016 6:01:26 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

The New York Times Sunday headline reads: "How Hillary Clinton Grappled With Bill Clinton’s Infidelity, and His Accusers." But if you read the article, it turns out that "grappling" with this uncomfortable topic meant "trying to destroy the accusers."

Confronting a spouse’s unfaithfulness is painful under any circumstance. For Mrs. Clinton, it happened repeatedly and in the most public of ways, unfolding at the dawn of the 24/7 news cycle, and later in impeachment proceedings that convulsed the nation.

Outwardly, she remained stoic and defiant, defending her husband while a progression of women and well-funded conservative operatives accused Mr. Clinton of behavior unbecoming the leader of the free world.

But privately, she embraced the Clinton campaign’s aggressive strategy of counterattack: Women who claimed to have had sexual encounters with Mr. Clinton would become targets of digging and discrediting — tactics that women’s rights advocates frequently denounce.

The campaign hired a private investigator with a bare-knuckles reputation who embarked on a mission, as he put it in a memo, to impugn Ms. Flowers’s “character and veracity until she is destroyed beyond all recognition.”

A campaign aide said that Hillary Clinton participated in the decision to hire Jack Palladino, "a private investigator known for tactics such as making surreptitious recordings and deploying attractive women to extract information":

An aide to the campaign, who declined to be publicly identified because the aide had not been authorized to speak for the Clintons, said Mrs. Clinton was among those who had discussed and approved the hiring, which shifted the campaign to a more aggressive posture.

“Every acquaintance, employer, and past lover should be located and interviewed,” Mr. Palladino wrote. “She is now a shining icon — telling lies that so far have proved all benefit and no cost — for any other opportunist who may be considering making Clinton a target.” Challenge Bill and this is what will happen to you. Nasty stuff, and Hillary was fully on board. And it wasn't just Gennifer Flowers whom she helped to attack:

[T]heir first taste of trouble came in a Penthouse magazine story by a rock groupie named Connie Hamzy, who claimed Mr. Clinton had once propositioned her at a hotel in Little Rock, Ark.

Mr. Clinton brushed off the story, saying that Ms. Hamzy had made a sexual advance toward him, George Stephanopoulos, the communications director of the 1992 campaign, recalled in his book, “All Too Human.”

But Mrs. Clinton demanded action.

“We have to destroy her story,” she said, according to Mr. Stephanopoulos. There's much more they could have delved into. If Donald Trump's tax returns from 1995 are news in 2016 -- and they are -- then certainly Hillary Clinton's treatment of her husband's accusers in the late 90s is relevant too.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government
KEYWORDS: bill; bimboerruptions; cheatingbill; clinton; hillary; horndog; infidelity; rapist
Hillary embraced the Clinton campaign’s aggressive strategy of counterattack:

Women become targets of digging and discrediting — tactics that women’s rights advocates frequently denounce.

Is Connie Hamzy a new name in addition to the known victims?

1 posted on 10/04/2016 6:01:26 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Someone should ask Hillary: As a feminist who has fought for your gender throughout your political career, how do you feel about those who claim that gender doesn't exist or is so fluid as to be irrelevant?

NOTE: This was a major issue that came up at the dawn of Feminism in the 60's. It still divides the second wave from the third wave, not to mention causing the few remaining members of the first wave to wonder what Pandora's box they opened.

2 posted on 10/04/2016 6:08:05 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Hitlery’s radical ambition for money and power completely overshadowed Bill’s breeding with anything that got in front of him. Not an issue for her other than for its value to try and make her look like a ‘distressed victim’. What a joke and a lie.


3 posted on 10/04/2016 6:11:55 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

So many contradictions between Hillary’s age of feminism and sanctioning her husband’s horn-dogging / infidelity / sexual harassment / rape.

So many contradictions between Hillary’s age of feminism and Hillary’s support for the muslim treatment of women: female genital mutilation, hijab/burkas, lack of voting rights-driving privileges, marital choice, education, careers, etc.


4 posted on 10/04/2016 6:16:52 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
If Donald Trump's tax returns from 1995 are news in 2016 -- and they are -- then certainly Hillary Clinton's treatment of her husband's accusers in the late 90s is relevant too.

LOL - 'the press' is in the tank for liberal elites. They don't give a damn about fairness, truth or being professional in their occupation. The press wants Hillary elected. Period.

Conservatives who subscribe to a newspaper are doing the equivalent of sending Hillary Clinton a donation every week.

5 posted on 10/04/2016 6:20:10 PM PDT by GOPJ (Voter Fraud: White liberal elites working with the Black Underclass to nullify the American people..)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Hillary didn’t destroy them because she wanted to defend her husband .. she really didn’t care .. the only thing she wanted to defend was THE FANTASY THAT SHE AND BILL HAD A NORMAL RELATIONSHIP.

THEY DID NOT HAVE A NORMAL HUSBAND AND WIFE RELATIONAHIP; HILLARY PREFERS WOMEN (and Bill blabbed that several times).


6 posted on 10/04/2016 6:21:30 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

The decrepit old bitch only grappled with Bill’s “bimbos” when they posed any type of threat to his (and, by proxy, her) political ascent.

She gouged eyes, fish-hooked, and bit ears until the “bimbos” tapped out and Bill and, by proxy, she) was free to snatch the next office.


7 posted on 10/04/2016 6:21:40 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Carter...Reagan...Bush...Clinton....Bush....Carter....BUSH? / CLINTON? STOP THE INSANITY!)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
How about HILLARY's infidelities, huh?

Mary Mahoney, who ended up shot through the skull.

8 posted on 10/04/2016 6:28:21 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Bill raped and assaulted women!! Is there one bit of doubt here?


9 posted on 10/04/2016 6:28:45 PM PDT by WENDLE (Hillary never made an honest dollar!!)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Re : Post #7 ~

That ‘grappling’ B!tch!! GRRR!

Grapple defined :

Any of various grasping devices having hinged tines or jaws that close around an object or load, used especially in lifting or dragging heavy items.

The act of grappling.

A struggle or contest in which the participants attempt to wrestle with each other by clutching or gripping.

A struggle for superiority or dominance.


10 posted on 10/04/2016 6:35:29 PM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." (Thomas Jefferson))
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Re : Post #7 ~

That ‘grappling’ B!tch!! GRRR!

Grapple defined :

Any of various grasping devices having hinged tines or jaws that close around an object or load, used especially in lifting or dragging heavy items.

The act of grappling.

A struggle or contest in which the participants attempt to wrestle with each other by clutching or gripping.

A struggle for superiority or dominance.


11 posted on 10/04/2016 6:35:29 PM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." (Thomas Jefferson))
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To: CyberAnt

Whether Hillary was ‘available’ to Bill is not at the heart of the issue.

Bill is a horn-dogging sex-addict and the power trip of his political positions enabled him to hunt down women.

Who would want to exchange bodily fluids with that? Hillary would expose herself to all the funk of all Bill’s infidelities and then all the other men those women had been exposed. Let’s do the math ... dozens?...hundreds?

Her political partnership and aspirations for them prevented her from divorcing Bill. Bill had so little self-control he was unable to with stop himself even when he reached the White House. He’s an addict. They crave power. She was mad that he was dumb enough to get caught.


12 posted on 10/04/2016 6:40:59 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

So .. I see you won’t admit that she prefers women ..???

I never was sure until I heard what Bill said, and I’m not going to repeat it .. because it’s gross.

However, nobody would say such a thing about their spouse if it wasn’t true.

You can deny it all you want .. but ...????? America is not ready for a Lesbian in the WH.


13 posted on 10/04/2016 7:02:46 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: CyberAnt

She very well may prefer women if all those rumors are true.

There’s that uber wealthy artsy lesbo colony she frequents outside of SF - Half Moon Bay Area, that’s a fact.

If it was uttered by Bill, it may not have an ounce of truth, he lies like a rug. But, claiming she’s a womanizer would serve to garner sympathy for him as he attempts to justify his infidelities and insatiable sexual appetite.


14 posted on 10/04/2016 7:20:31 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

You may be right about Bill, but what he said, was a real shocker to me.


15 posted on 10/04/2016 7:32:18 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Women who claimed to have had sexual encounters with Mr. Clinton would become targets of digging and discrediting — tactics that women’s rights advocates frequently denounce.

Yet a tactic that the NY Times and MSM gladly joined in on and, continue to do so.

16 posted on 10/04/2016 7:35:38 PM PDT by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Political alienation of affections only allowed for Hillary.


17 posted on 10/04/2016 9:28:30 PM PDT by Scram1
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