PUBLIC NUISANCES: Picture This/ Democrats Found Guilty
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Picture This WASHINGTON ELL, IT IS STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has only been in the race for the presidency a short...
...My publisher was willing to pay a reasonable fee to brighten up the book’s dust jacket...
...He is Hollywood’s idea of a hero...
...Wilson’s wife was a CIA employee, the Libby trial has been a farce...
...This past autumn I attended former President Bill Clinton’s 60th birthday party in Toronto, where I enjoyed myself immensely...
...He lied when he suggested that he went on a mission there at the request of the vice president...
...Democrats Found Guilty WASHINGTON I. LEWIS LIBBY, Vice President Richard Cheney’s former chief of staff, has been found guilty of lying and faces many years in prison...
...Libby was not held accountable for anything of the kind...
...Then there is this lubricious whopper deposited in the Washington Post by the tireless Mr...
...I am coming to like this man, but then I liked Clifford Irving, the great hoaxer who wrote the bogus Autobiography of Howard Hughes...
...From the moment we discovered that no crime had been committed in revealing that Mr...
...Is it at least feigned sympathy...
...Picture This WASHINGTON ELL, IT IS STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN...
...Barack a large following among members of the Nudists for Peace crowd...
...We were obviously having a grand old time at her husband’s birthday party, and as one can see from her recent employment of “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy,” Hillary tends to bear a grudge...
...Wilson: “If you take the time to look at the testimony, it makes very clear the extent to which senior officials within this administration embarked on a disinformation campaign, the justification of which was to cover up the lies they said in the first place...
...Ironically the Times’s editorial, written just before the 2000 election, was not an endorsement of Mrs...
...As my date of publication grew nigh (the book came out on March 20), I grew apprehensive, for neither the photographer nor Clinton’s office responded to our request to use the picture...
...That sounds like a Hollywood movie to me...
...In fact, I would not be surprised if Hillary herself was responsible for putting the kibosh on this picture of us two guys together...
...He is a night owl and rarely sleeps very well when he does go to bed...
...It even stood by him after it was clinically demonstrated that he had lied to them and to the nation (that dratted DNA sample) with a lie that was perfectly gratuitous: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky...
...Though Obama had nothing to do with Geffen’s objurgations, the Clintonistas insisted he disavow them and return money Geffen had raised for Obama...
...So desperate has Hillary become that she is again speaking of the existence of a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy...
...Here is but another example of the Clintons’ making a ham-fisted response when gallantry would have served them well...
...Libby’s life has been ruined, what is the Democratic leadership’s response...
...This is the party that supported the most mendacious president in American history through eight years of lying...
...Now that Mr...
...It was a reminder that political discord can be adjourned when “Happy Birthday” is in the air...
...I thought this would be a winning picture to print on the jacket of a book I have just written on Clinton’s adventures in retirement, rather provocatively titled, The Clinton Crack-Up...
...The dustup did not redound to Hillary’s favor...
...But in the photograph he looked happy...
...Why on earth would Clinton be so rude...
...Bill and I were actually photographed standing next to each other, smiling and relaxed...
...I myself recently experienced the Clintons’ excitable nature, as Robert Novak reported in a recent column...
...There was not a trace of bad blood between us, despite my controversial appraisals of him...
...The New York Times memorably summed up her vices in an October 22, 2000 editorial: “The investigative literature of Whitewater and related scandals is replete with evidence that Mrs...
...It reminded the citizenry of the heavy-handed politics of Senator Clinton’s past...
...Wilson...
...How better to illustrate the universality of his exertions than to show him partying with me...
...Perhaps he wants to save the picture of us for a W Obama, after Hollywood mogul David Geffen expressed perfectly sensible misgivings about the Clintons...
...An undercurrent of unease seeped into press coverage of the controversy...
...Of course, the Clintons always do...
...That is what the last independent counsel, Robert Ray, said about her too...
...Now the Clinton team is in a fever about her slippage in the polls and about the drift of Democrats away from her to other candidates...
...According to a Senate inquiry, this mellifluous gasbag lied about findings regarding the Iraqis’ pursuit of uranium in Niger...
...There is another deception for you...
...First her lieutenants made that ferocious lunge at her rival, Sen...
...She has clearly been less than truthful in her comments to investigators...
...Yet on the outer fringes of the Democratic Party there is the moron vote, which believes in such stuff...
...Journalists and Democratic politicians seemed to sense that once again the Clintonistas had gone too far...
...That the farce continues as our troops are engaged in defending our national security abroad is contemptible...
...Mrs...
...Pelosi is as extravagant a liar as Mr...
...In all three lies he got caught...
...Clinton is famous for it...
...Today the moron voters are leery of Senator Clinton for her attempts at centrism...
...Joseph C. Wilson IV, his tormentor, has been found guilty of lying, and out in Hollywood they are going to make a movie of his life...
...And, to be honest, I have a warm spot in my heart for Bill Clinton...
...Yet, he has emerged as a liberal icon...
...In fact, the Democratic Party’s frontrunner for the presidential nomination, the former president’s wife, Hillary, is a renowned liar and a bully to boot...
...Then at the very last minute and at considerable inconvenience to us came the reply...
...I do not know who this Mr...
...As our happy faces beamed into the camera, there was not a hint of stress on either face...
...Frankly, I am not terribly surprised that the Democratic leadership’s response to the conviction of a Republican for perjury would be an avalanche of lies...
...They predictably overreact and it gets them into trouble, avoidable trouble...
...Perhaps she will get a movie too...
...The photographer wrote that Clinton’s office was rejecting us...
...special place at the Clinton Library, but that would not preclude allowing the picture to grace my book...
...The above-cited lies might remind us of that...
...Clinton has energetically traveled the world, speaking, making public appearances, and hauling in mounds of money...
...He also apparently lied when he said his wife was a covert CIA operative...
...Libby’s conviction as just another opportunity to hobble this wartime president to recognize how contemptible they are… or what arrant liars...
...If so, she was the CIA’s station chief in Georgetown (as in D.C., not Guyana...
...When she visited this paranoia on the country in 1998, she became the butt of ridicule...
...Clinton’s senatorial opponent but of her...
...Wilson that he has left no DNA trail marking his lies...
...We shall see, I believe, many examples of this boorishness from the Clintons in the campaign ahead...
...Admittedly he looked a little pallid in the photograph, but he has looked pallid through much of his retirement...
...Is it dignified silence...
...The testimony unmistakably revealed—at the highest levels of the Bush administration—a callous disregard in handling sensitive national security information and a disposition to smear critics of the war in Iraq...
...Yet, one would not expect the Democratic leadership that took Mr...
...Here is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: “It’s about time someone in the Bush administration has been held accountable for the campaign to manipulate intelligence and discredit war critics...
...He had a cheerful smile...
...MAY 2007 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 75...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton has only been in the race for the presidency a short time and already she has introduced into the campaign her characteristic hints of the bizarre...
...The testimony does nothing of the kind...
...Hampshire is, but he probably has 74 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 2007 R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR...
...Clinton has a lamentable tendency to treat political opponents as enemies...
...It is fortunate for Mr...
...PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...So she dredges up her bizarre charge: “If anybody tells you there is no Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, tell them that New Hampshire has proven it in court...
...We obviously were enjoying ourselves...
...And again he lied when he claimed that his report on Niger was circulated at the highest levels of government...
...Not at all, it is more lies...
...Now scrutinize House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s response to Libby’s fate: “This trial provided a troubling picture of the inner workings of the Bush administration...
Vol. 40 • May 2007 • No. 4
