Yawn: Hillary used Bill to have negative GQ piece killed
posted at 9:06 pm on September 24, 2007 by Allahpundit
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First one to make a Vince Foster joke in the comments is a total hack.
Sad to say but I’m sure this sort of thing isn’t uncommon on either side of the aisle. The Clintons can simply get away with more brazen threats because Slick is, after all, the liberal Jesus. On the upside, here’s yet another publication that will never, ever be allowed to lecture bloggers on the magically sacred precincts of the sacred, magical newsroom.
Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president learned that the men’s magazine GQ was working on a story the campaign was sure to hate: an account of infighting in Hillaryland.
So Clinton’s aides pulled a page from the book of Hollywood publicists and offered GQ a stark choice: Kill the piece, or lose access to planned celebrity coverboy Bill Clinton.
Despite internal protests, GQ editor Jim Nelson met the Clinton campaign’s demands, which had been delivered by Bill Clinton’s spokesman, Jay Carson, several sources familiar with the conversations said…
[A] retreat of the sort GQ is alleged to have made is unusual, particularly as part of what sources described as a barely veiled transaction of editorial leverage for access.
The Clinton campaign is unique in its ability to provide cash value to the media, and particularly the celebrity-driven precincts of television and magazines. Bill Clinton is a favorite cover figure, because his face is viewed within the magazine industry as one that can move product. (Indeed, Green’s own magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, ran as its October cover story “Bill Clinton’s campaign to save the world.”)
Say this much for them. If you pull the lever for Hillary, you know exactly what you’re getting.
Update: Kaus asks a good question: “Could the piece have been as bad for the Clinton camp as the publicity they’re now getting?”
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I’ve heard that laugh once before in my life. Suffice to say it was a very high stress situation and the person was lying through his teeth.
trubble on September 24, 2007 at 9:10 PM
I guess we can hope for some anonymous leaks.
The thing is that the Clintons do it so publicly.
Interesting that at the end of the article, Saunders says:
INC on September 24, 2007 at 9:15 PM
I can’t figure a way to work Vince Foster into this, probably for the best.
That laugh… WOW, it would have been perfect if afterwards she would have said ….. ” And your little dog too !! “
Maxx on September 24, 2007 at 9:17 PM
What is up with her laugh?
terryannonline on September 24, 2007 at 9:18 PM
Hillary Clinton, as her husband Bill, put their own ambitions above the country. There is no “trust” with the Clintons; as in “trust” of a president. Hillary will do anything she can do for herself, as Bill did. Interviews of the candidate Hillary reveal a completely self-centered person who puts herself, and her ambition, center stage. I do not see any patriotism in her whatsoever, on self and self-centered ambition. When she laughs, she laughs at anyone questioning her sense of self. That is key, and illustrative of why she will lose.
IntheNet on September 24, 2007 at 9:20 PM
I hate it when people try to laugh off (Hillary) or get mad (Bill) about being confronted. It tells me they aren’t used to being held accountable for things they say/do, let alone being confronted.
I think her and her husband’s careers are nothing but shady.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119025305222133413.html
El Guapo on September 24, 2007 at 9:21 PM
She is laughing all the way to the bank. From Tyson on up to Hsu, they are total thieves.
bbz123 on September 24, 2007 at 9:22 PM
It is amazing how far one can get on a little education, and a whole lot of blind ambition.
d1carter on September 24, 2007 at 9:24 PM
Really?
Do you know of any Repub, or Dem for that matter, who could get a magazine like GQ to roll over like this?
Or get Disney to edit a major movie, and then sit on the DVD release, even at a great loss of revenue?
Remember, the Monica story would have been killed by the Clintons until hat boy a hold of it.
For all the talk of the “chill wind” of neocon-ism crushing dissent, nobody plays in the Clintons’ league.
billy on September 24, 2007 at 9:28 PM
the screen cap fits perfectly.
Zorro on September 24, 2007 at 9:30 PM
billy wrote:
I just got back from Iraq, and i served there with a fella who was near 40, ready to retire, and he commented that no president has ever had more Marines, Soldiers, and Secret Service members dissappear, get murdered, or die from questionable, undetermined causes or apparant suicides than Bill Clinton.
I found a site talking about this but i dont know its reputation or reliability. Can any of you all help?
El Guapo on September 24, 2007 at 9:34 PM
I called this one. She will be “gagglingly pleasant” in the interview, I said. Notice that her eyes don’t smile when she does. Watching her smile reminds me of watching Ahmed Bedier smile.
Connie on September 24, 2007 at 9:34 PM
Besides the fact that it was fake? I can’t stand listening to her voice. It is flat and even if she is yelling to her fans, there is no honest emotion in it.
Connie on September 24, 2007 at 9:37 PM
From the article:
Bill’s been hanging out with interns again.
pedestrian on September 24, 2007 at 9:37 PM
I haven’t heard rumors about service members – everyone else maybe, but not that, specifically.
Connie on September 24, 2007 at 9:40 PM
Your associate was drinking a little much koolaid.
How would he know?
What type of military job would give that kind of window?
Given the Clinton’s less than warm relations with the military, why would they possibly entrust military folks with access to that kind of knowledge?
This falls into the NAU, Truther, Who shot Kennedy conspiracy stories.
Bradky on September 24, 2007 at 9:41 PM
Must be a wonderful world the Clintons live in,
an article in GQ,and the threats start.
Let’s all remember Hillarys World,she claimes,
what was it,oh ya since she was 3 or was that 4 years old
she wants to be President of the United States.
And for Hillary one of the accessories won’t be a shiny
broche,but the Nuclear FootBall with all those codes!
canopfor on September 24, 2007 at 9:41 PM
Bradky
not a given window. but finding things out here and there from local medias that CNN or Fox wont touch. Being stationed in Ar-Kansas, and other places where things like that happen – the local media does cover it more than mainstream. My stint at FT Bragg saw better coverage of the special forces suicides than CNN’s. Plus hearsay from fellow comrads.
I also was stationed a former honor guard member who claimed that when ever Hillary was around anyone military was “not to be seen”. In otherwords get out of the hallway or room and dont come back until she’s gone.
These aren’t “he said that he said” accounts, for me at least. They were first hand experiences. But then again, my talking about it now makes it “he said he said”.
But i learned from highschool way back, there is usually at least 1/3 truth to all rumors.
El Guapo on September 24, 2007 at 9:47 PM
clarify! i was stationed WITH a former honor guard member not “I also was stationed a former honor guard member”
sorry
El Guapo on September 24, 2007 at 9:49 PM
This is the same reason we haven’t heard anything about Hsu in the press. For all the crowing about the integrity of the press, they are basically money hounds. They’ll do anything for the money. They have no ethics.
I can’t say I blame them, there are tons of things I do just for the money. . . but I don’t claim to be absolute moral authority either.
If Hillary wasn’t married to Bill, she’d have a lot more hit pieces out on her. That’s why she’s going to be tough to beat in the Democratic primary. For the general, just explain to people that she is going to raise taxes more than any president in history and she’ll lose.
Hillary Clinton – she’ll raise your taxes.
Hillary Clinton – she knows what to do with your money better than you do
Hillary Clinton – never met a tax she didn’t hike. . . etc. etc. etc
ThackerAgency on September 24, 2007 at 9:51 PM
And what was it that the Clintons did to get the Truth about 9/11 docu-film censored? They sure raiised a stink about what a lot were saying was fact.
El Guapo on September 24, 2007 at 9:51 PM
EXACTLY!!! Not to be redundant….
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119025305222133413.html
El Guapo on September 24, 2007 at 9:53 PM
Ah, the cackling ugly witch whore…
So much intelligence in one place I’m astounded…
I’m surprised she’s still alive…
tele64 on September 24, 2007 at 10:09 PM
I think if you examine the statistics for periods of war you will find that the suicide rate increases. How did the Clintons cause that?
The 25+ years I was in the military taught me to take the stories from comrades with a big grain of salt. Most of us saw very small bits and pieces of the big picture and some made for good stories and speculation.
You are correct about how the military in general felt about the Clintons, I agree. But this doesn’t lend any credence to what you originally said about the number of deaths and its direct relation to the Clintons.
Bradky on September 24, 2007 at 10:13 PM
Nomination is not coronation.
See you in November.
Asher on September 24, 2007 at 10:15 PM
Hillary killed the “Path to 9/11″ DVD. Now she kills this GQ article. People are really afraid of this woman.
SoulGlo on September 24, 2007 at 10:20 PM
Wow….a perfect cover. Sandy had the GQ article in his socks not the NIE report.
Limerick on September 24, 2007 at 10:31 PM
Not having access to Billy Jeff=loss of revenue for a print company.
Whores have better ethics.
bbz123 on September 24, 2007 at 10:42 PM
Good point, especially with Ahmi in toww and all that self-righteous lefte talk about freedom of speech, of the press. The timing is horrid for this ‘abortion’.
I said today on another thread that her laugh was truly hysterical (I mean that in psychological terms, not as a comedic act). The lady who analyzes body language on O’Reilley said that the Glacier was very conceipted by laughing like that, and for so long, including other facial moves…
Indeed. She acted very sure-footed yesterday, as if she’s president already. The American people don’t like anything regal (tea party not for nothin’).
Entelechy on September 24, 2007 at 11:18 PM
Blackmail, chumming up to illegal donors, it won’t matter…she can do anything and her minions will follow.
right2bright on September 24, 2007 at 11:20 PM
Seeing that picture on the front, I think I can see now why Bill was attracted to Hillary in the first place.
km on September 24, 2007 at 11:58 PM
Bradky
None of the service members or secret service members’ deaths i was talking about was in a war or battle environment.
These guys are dirty. and the tip of the iceberg’s evidence surfaced when Bill went off on Chris Wallace and then tried to stop and then edit/censor a documentary that could show him in a bad light.
El Guapo on September 25, 2007 at 12:30 AM
El Guapo,
How could you know this if you are relying on heresay and don’t even know the names of the people who allegedly committed suicide.
Take a look at
http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp
and you may recognize some of the stuff your associate was referring to. Note that it is all false.
The Clintons aren’t saints but if people are going to expose them for criminal/unethical activity it would be better to leave garbage like this behind – it simply isn’t true.
Bradky on September 25, 2007 at 1:04 AM
ughhh.
Her cackle will haunt my dreams. So cold…so very cold…
PaisleyCow on September 25, 2007 at 1:22 AM
she laughs like that every time she’s confronted with a hard question, every time. there is no way she’ll be able to keep this up throughout the whole campaign.
reporter: So, if you have all these reforms in mind, why didn’t you fight for any of them as a leading Senator in the Democratic majority? If they’re so important, why promise you’ll fight for them only once you’re President, what have you been doing the past few years?
Hillary: HAHAHAHAHA, good one, man.
reporter: Um, that wasn’t a joke… Um, okay, moving on, why do you want to force a healthy twenty-year old kid to get health insurance before you’ll let him get a job? Do you feel your activist work in your youth was seriously harmed by lack of a workable health plan?
Hillary: HAHAHAHAHA, no seriously, dude, stop, you’re killing me. I’m tearing up over here, stop it, stop it, please.
reporter: …. um, i’m still not joking, ma’am. whew. okay, how about this: poised to be the first woman President, your campaign is working to portray you as a feminist icon. Yet many analysts, right and left, view the Democratic response to the sexual harrassment claims against your husband as the death-knell of modern feminism. They argue that you and the women of your party, in defending your husband, the most powerful man in the world, and attacking the alleged victims of his advances, desecrated the feminist cause at the altar of naked political power.
Hillary: HAAAAA! HAAAAA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I can’t speak, I – hold on, hold on, deep breaths, okay. I just love you man, I love you. Great deadpan. It’s like Hedberg never died, you know? I mean, really, you should look into an HBO special or something, you really crack me up. HA!
reporter: okay, fine, i give up. how many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Hillary: That’s not funny!
AdrianG on September 25, 2007 at 2:04 AM
Welcome back, and thanks for your service.
ReubenJCogburn on September 25, 2007 at 3:08 AM
The Fairness Doctrine at work.
So, they stopped the sale of the DVD of the ABC miniseries about Slick Willie’s screw-ups. Now this.
A vision of things to come.
madmonkphotog on September 25, 2007 at 9:05 AM
Good grief! Talk about shrill, that’s a laugh made in hell.
Why didn’t she just thumb her nose at the camera. It would have been less obnoxious.
petefrt on September 25, 2007 at 9:18 AM
The original photo of Hitlerly on sidebar that leads to the video clip is something that tells us more than we want to know.
Bill’s length and width, which can be confirmed by Ms. Lewinsky or others close to these perverts, of the amount of bull she can spew.
MSGTAS on September 25, 2007 at 9:36 AM
I don’t think it’s about fear — I think there are just so many of her mindless minions working for those guys. (How did her campaign find out about the GQ piece in the first place?) Peanut butter & jelly, ebony & ivory, favortism & mullah.
My thoughts exactly. I just cannot imagine a world where I have to wake up to that coming from the White House everyday. Like fingernails down a chalkboard.
Numenorean on September 25, 2007 at 9:57 AM
My dog concurs. His favorite newspaper photo has always been BJ Clinton’s.
To Poop On.
[moving product]
fogw on September 25, 2007 at 10:40 AM
I can’t get the cackle out of my brain!!!!!!!!
I’m not surprised at the Klinton’s approach to negative press. At least no one had to die, right?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on September 25, 2007 at 12:54 PM
Has anyone ever gotten close enough to try to rip her face off? Like in that tv movie “V”? It’s like she’s an alien desperately trying to “pass” as human, but just can’t quite pull it off.
safarial on September 25, 2007 at 1:44 PM
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