Showing posts with label Monica Lewinsky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monica Lewinsky. Show all posts

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Vicious Sid's State Department

The big find in the first dump of emails from Hillary Clinton's secret email server, aside from a few insulting comments about Cuban Floridians, is the fact that The New York Times was on to a much bigger story in May than it realized.
Sid Blumenthal, the former Clinton hatchet-man from the 1990s, was not just sending Secretary of State Clinton briefings about the situation in Libya, but was briefing her about nearly every corner of the globe. Though barred by President Obama's minders from any official job in the administration, vicious Sid had constant access to Clinton.
Blumenthal's sense of self-importance in these communiques is as absurd as his undue influence over Clinton is scandalous. Under the centered, all-caps header of "CONFIDENTIAL," he offers up one assessment after another of British, Iranian, Italian and Afghan affairs as if he were some kind of mobile CIA station chief.
At one point, he asked (or politely demanded) that the secretary expedite a hiring at State. He passed messages from former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, now the head of an African energy company, seeking access to America's chief diplomat for a business pitch. The emails also hint that he and Clinton had very frequent phone conversations. Who knows what sort of bad advice they contained? Was he the mastermind behind the botched reset with Russia?
The public learned from a New York Times report in May that Blumenthal had extensively advised Clinton on Libya, where he had financial interests that he now refuses to discuss. He would pass along often erroneous information. Clinton would remove his name and then pass his rumor-filled memos to senior officials at State as something from "a contact," as though they were credible.
Blumenthal was reliable as a friend, rather than as a source of information. He was loyal to Clinton, and in Clinton-world that's the golden ticket. He was put on the payroll of Clinton's family foundation, to the tune of $120,000 per year. George Stephanopoulos's donations apparently went to a good cause.
This international man of mystery schtick is a far cry from Blumenthal's real role in the life of the nation. He was a Clinton sycophant, brought into the White House in times of crisis, who would lie and defame freely to preserve the illusion of an ethical Clinton White House.
His greatest accomplishment came in the late 1990s, when he told reporters the lie that Monica Lewinsky was a slutty stalker who had demanded sex and even threatened (in the manner of Potiphar's wife and Joseph) to blackmail the poor, innocent President Clinton. He made the mistake of peddling this and his plans to smear alleged sexual assault victim Kathleen Willey, to the late Christopher Hitchens, who made the entire conversation part of the public record.

Monday, November 18, 2013

Obama-contra Column: Obamacare isn’t Katrina. It’s Iran-contra

Reagan's televised address apologizing for the Iran-contra scandal and Obama apologizing for the Obamacare rollout / AP
Reagan's televised address apologizing for the Iran-contra scandal and Obama apologizing for the Obamacare rollout / AP
BY: 
Of all the analogies being drawn between the calamitous rollout of Obamacare and other government muck-ups throughout history, one deserves a closer look. What’s happening to Obamacare right now isn’t this president’s Iraq war, or his Hurricane Katrina, or his Lewinsky moment. It’s his Iran-contra scandal: a complicated and controversial policy dispute that involves deception, a hostile Congress, and the bludgeoning of presidential credibility. Iran-contra marked the end of the Reagan Revolution, and it’s not hard to see how the implementation of Obamacare might mark the end of the Obama Revolution as well. A boy can dream.
The analogy rests on the following similarity between presidents Reagan and Obama: For much of their time in office, the two men were more popular than their policies, and enjoyed higher personal approval than job approval. Ronald Reagan was always more popular than tax and spending cuts, and Barack Obama has been more popular than Obamacare and the stimulus. Reagan was hard to dislike. Obama is too, or so I’ve been told.
The news in 1986 that the Reagan administration had violated the arms embargo against Iran and traded weapons for hostages, with the proceeds of the weapons sales going to the anti-Sandinista insurgency in Nicaragua, threw the White House into disarray. The subsequent investigations into what exactly happened distracted Reagan and his team and damaged the president’s reputation. It’s hard to recall, especially as Reagan himself was never fully implicated in the scandal, but his approval ratings fell to a second-term low of 47 percent in the Gallup poll and his personal favorability fell as well.

Saturday, October 26, 2013

HILLARY CLINTON TO RECEIVE AMERICAN PATRIOT AWARD

FROM WHO?? THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF STUPIDITY??  YOU HAVE TO BE FREAKIN KIDDING ME!!!!!!

Hillary Clinton is set receive the National Defense University Foundation' American Patriot Award.

According to the Washington Examiner, the award ceremony features five co-chairs: "Madeleine Albright, who served as Secretary of State under Bill Clinton; former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who spent two years as Clinton's White House chief of staff; ...Vernon Jordan, who became a household name when he attempted to cover up the Monica Lewinsky scandal by getting the then-White House intern a job; [and] former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman and George W. Bush's former Secretary of State Colin Powell."
Previous award recipients include "three failed presidential candidates"--Sens. Bob Dole (R-Kan.), John McCain (R-AZ), and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). 
Ironically, Clinton receives the award on November 14, which is around the time 60 Minutes is running a special detailing its attempts to "get to the truth about what happened in Benghazi."

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