It has long been rumored that Hillary doesn't take too kindly to anyone crossing her, and when they do it's usually not a pretty sight. That rumor has come to fruition with this story from the reliable Politico site, in which Hillary forced GQ magazine to spike a story discussing dissension in the Hillary camp:
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.
There was once a time that a magazine had editors and journalists with backbone who would run the story regardless of what they were threatened with. If the story was sourced well, then there was no fear of any legal retribution. That died when Michael Isikoff's piece on Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky was witheld by Newsweek and Drudge ran with it launching him into the stratosphere. The liberal media became the personal mouthpiece of successful Democrats and it helped give rise to blogs such as the one you are currently reading. People wanted new forms of inforantion and the MSM's reluctance to report the good and bad about people like Clintoncontributed greatly.
Hillary will indeed be the nominee and eventually will have to answer straight-forward questions while trying to lurch back to the middle from the far-left position she has staked in the primaries. It will be interesting to see if any of the leading liberal media outlets have the guts to challenge her or if it will be left to traditionally centrist or conservative outlets. My guess is the latter.
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. You know I'm so tried of the liberal media crap. The only media that are out and out liars is the so called conservative media. 98% of cable news conservative and everyone of them have lied about the stories they air. Thank to Mediamatter.com they so clips of all the lies. There is not such thing as a liberal media--But there is the conservative media. And I quit listening to them. I don't want to hear all the lies and hate.
Dancerpl2 at 3:55AM on Sep 25th 2007
2. Not worthy being President with such issues as you mentioned.
KaM at 12:35PM on Sep 25th 2007
3. SHE IS LEADING THE POLL.....PROBABLY THE NEXT PRESIDENT....AMERICANS ARE NO FOOLS....THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING.....
gt at 7:15AM on Sep 25th 2007
4. Can't think of a better candidate! She's got the brains and Bill - a great combination!
barbara at 8:12AM on Sep 25th 2007
5. RECORDS SET
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
* According to our best information, 40 government officials were indicted or convicted in the wake of Watergate. A reader computes that there was a total of 31 Reagan era convictions, including 14 because of Iran-Contra and 16 in the Department of Housing & Urban Development scandal. 47 individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine were convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes with 33 of these occurring during the Clinton administration itself. There were in addition 61 indictments or misdemeanor charges. 14 persons were imprisoned. A key difference between the Clinton story and earlier ones was the number of criminals with whom he was associated before entering the White House.
Using a far looser standard that included resignations, David R. Simon and D. Stanley Eitzen in Elite Deviance, say that 138 appointees of the Reagan administration either resigned under an ethical cloud or were criminally indicted. Curiously Haynes Johnson uses the same figure but with a different standard in "Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years: "By the end of his term, 138 administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever."
STARR-RAY INVESTIGATION
- Number of Starr-Ray investigation convictions or guilty pleas (including one governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton business partners): 14
- Number of Clinton Cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 5
- Number of Reagan cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 4
- Number of top officials jailed in the Teapot Dome Scandal: 3
CRIME STATS
- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
- Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122
SMALTZ INVESTIGATION
- Guilty pleas and convictions obtained by Donald Smaltz in cases involving charges of bribery and fraud against former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and associated individuals and businesses: 15
- Acquitted or overturned cases (including Espy): 6
- Fines and penalties assessed: $11.5 million
- Amount Tyson Food paid in fines and court costs: $6 million
CAMPAIGN FINANCE INVESTIGATION
- As of June 2000, the Justice Department listed 25 people indicted and 19 convicted because of the 1996 Clinton-Gore fundraising scandals.
- According to the House Committee on Government Reform in September 2000, 79 House and Senate witnesses asserted the Fifth Amendment in the course of investigations into Gore's last fundraising campaign.
-James Riady entered a plea agreement to pay an $8.5 million fine for campaign finance crimes. This was a record under campaign finance laws.
CLINTON MACHINE CRIMES FOR WHICH CONVICTIONS WERE OBTAINED
Drug trafficking (3), racketeering, extortion, bribery (4), tax evasion, kickbacks, embezzlement (2), fraud (12), conspiracy (5), fraudulent loans, illegal gifts (1), illegal campaign contributions (5), money laundering (6), perjury, obstruction of justice.
BLACKMANVISION at 10:40AM on Sep 25th 2007
6. Another fiery arrow, in a quickly filling quiver, to be fired back at her later. A lot of flames are seen on the horizon.
Larry at 12:12AM on Sep 26th 2007