Video: Hillary courts the X-men vote Update: Transcript added
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Ever wondered what it would like to be a fly on the wall at a Hillary Clinton fund-raiser planning pow-wow? Wonder no more. Reader Doug sends this newly-released video of a Senate campaign fund-raising phone conference in July 2000 between Hillary Clinton, Peter Paul, Stan Lee, and Aaron Tonken. Doug’s conclusion: ” It shows evidence of Hillary participating, coordinating, and facilitating a hard money in-kind donation from Peter Paul. It was illegal from the outset. This really is proof of a felony.” I guess we’ll be finding that out soon enough. The videotape was submitted to a California appeals court this week in a civil fraud suit against Hillary and Bill Clinton. This all relates to Hillary’s Peter Paul Hollywood fund-raising fiasco. He’s got a website here. However the case turns out, listening to Hillary in action is quite interesting:
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My favorite line from Hillary Clinton: “Some people think I’m the mutant candidate!” Har-har. I’ll put up a transcript soon. Update: Here it is:
SL: Don’t ask, just accept the thanks!
HC: No, no, whatever it is that you are doing, is it ok that I thank you? (Laughs)
I think it’s tremendous. We’re having a good time trying to help out.
HRC: Well, I’m very appreciative and it sounds fabulous. I got a full report from Kelly uh today when she got back and she told me everything that you’re doing. And it just sounds like it’s going to be a great event!
PP: I think this is worthy of the kind of title that we’re giving it as THE Hollywood gala salute to president William Jefferson Clinton.
HC: Oh, that’s wonderful!
PP: And I think that the community shows up will be a tremendous accolade to the kind of impact that he’s had on Hollywood during your collective administration.
(:51)
HC: Oh I thank you for that. I think that so many positive things have happened and we just have to keep working to extend and expand it. I’m just very much looking forward to it ‘cause I think it’s not only going to be successful, I think it’s going to be fun!
PP: We certainly hope so. And Aaron and all of us are working diligently to make sure that it’s going to be a lot of fun and that you will enjoy it.
HC: Now, I understood that you were going to be parachuting in, Peter, is that wrong?
PP: Yes, and I’m going to be carrying these flares with me—the red white blue—on a parasail. But you have to catch me! (Laughter)
HC: And I heard Stan was going to be shot out of a cannon (laughing)
SL: And towards Europe! It’s the only way they’ll get rid of me.
AT: Mrs. Clinton? You wouldn’t believe. I saved some of the messages from people that are coming. Like Jimmy Smits, Rosie O’Donnell, the Judds. They leave messages that go over five minutes on the machine. The only reason why they’re doing it is because of you. They only care about you. That it means more to them than anything. Like the Steenburgens, Danson are calling from back East. They wanna sell tickets. It’s like the most unbelievable response on your behalf. Isn’t that great!?
(2:10)
HC: Oh, Aaron! Thank you!
SL: I thought myself that it was because we were offering everyone a free comic book but I guess I was wrong.
Aw, I think that’s a big draw myself. It’s certainly the reason I’m coming.
SL: Aha. Bless your heart!
HC: And you know, Aaron, I’m sooo grateful because I know how hard you’ve worked on it because it’s your constant effort and outreach You know, I talked with Cher(?) and she was just great! Said she was really so excited. And I hadn’t talked to her so you must have done a really good job selling it to her.
SL: Well, he tells me it’s because he was promised to him that he’ll be the next Secretary of State!
HC: You weren’t supposed to tell anybody that, Aaron!
(Laughing)
AT: I thought it was our secret.
HC: Well, Stan, what we haven’t told you is that you’re going to be the next Secretary of Defense.
SL: Well, I expected that.
HC: Well, the superheroes are a lot cheaper than the missile defense system.
(Laughter)
SL: Hillary, you’re wonderful!
(3:16)
AT: We’ve got people like Cher and others that have really never done anything before that are like coming out in full force knowing this is for your Senate race, it’s unbelievable.
HC: I’m just thrilled. I’ll check in with you from time to time because I know that putting something like this together is challenging even when people are enthusiastic and looking forward to doing it. It’s still, there’s so much work that’s involved.
SL: But in your case, it’s very gratifying. You know, my wife wants us to move to New York so that we can vote for you.
HC: This is a very good plan!
(Laughing)
(3:50)
Maybe we could get a great migration, a country caravan, of literally tens of thousands of people. I think that sounds like our next big project.
SL: I don’t wanna say that it’s happening, but if you tried to hire a moving van right now in L.A., you couldn’t get one.
(Laughter)
4:18
PP: Well, we did lobby for the X-men vote and all of the X-men have agreed to—because they’re all NY residents—so all the X-men will be voting for you.
HC: That’s great!
(Laughter) SL: Oh, yeah, you’ve got the mutant vote right around the world.
HC: Well, some people think I’m the mutant candidate so I should have it.
(Laughter)
AT: One other thing I wanted to tell you—a couple people confirmed today that like I’ve never been able to get in all my events—like Brad Pitt and Nicholas Cage—are some of the people coming to give tributes.
HC: Oh, wow. That’s fabulous! Oh, Aaron, this is going to be so terrific. Well, you just let me know if there’s anything that I need to do. And I know you and Kelly talk all the time, so she’ll be the person to convey whatever I need. But I just wanted to call and personally thank all of you. And I’m glad you are all together so I could tell you just how much this means to me.
End of call.
Background on the implications of the tape here and here. Legal opinion on the tape here.
Who is Aaron Tonken? A Hollywood scam artist of the lowest order. I wrote about him several years ago. A flashback:
Tonken is a former street bum with a creepy lifelong attraction to Hollywood stars and powerbrokers. He once cold-called Jackie Onassis and sweet-talked Zsa Zsa Gabor into allowing him to stay at her apartment. He crashed the celebrity fund-raising scene a decade ago and quickly rose to the top. Tonken hooked up with Democratic socialite Denise Rich — ex-wife of fugitive financier and Clinton pardonee Marc Rich — for a lavish charity event in Milton Berle’s honor five years ago; it was reportedly Mrs. Rich who introduced Tonken to the Clintons.
Tonken’s mentor was Peter Paul, a convicted felon who was seeking access to the Clintons on behalf of his business partner Stan Lee (comic-book creator of Spiderman). Paul claims to have underwritten a Hollywood gala for the Clintons produced by Tonken in August 2000. The liberal elite bash — attended by Cher, Melissa Etheridge, Ted Danson, Michael Douglas, Whoopi Goldberg, Goldie Hawn, Shirley MacLaine and John Travolta — was both a tribute to the former president and a soft money fundraiser for Hillary’s New York Senate campaign.
Paul, who partied hard with Bill, Hill, and Chelsea at the star-studded event, alleges that his direct and in-kind contributions worth $2 million were disguised in order to hide his involvement with Hillary’s campaign. He also claims that Democrat officials solicited a contribution from Paul in return for a presidential pardon he unsuccessfully sought for his two prior convictions for cocaine possession and fraud. Paul has since fled to Brazil. He is fighting extradition to the U.S., where he faces an indictment for his role in a $25 million stock manipulation scam involving Stan Lee’s media company.
Meanwhile, Tonken faces a lawsuit by California Attorney General Lockyer alleging that he defrauded charities and their donors, diverted donations to bank accounts he controlled and refused to account for more than $1.5 million in contributions to six charitable events he agreed to produce. The defrauded charitable organizations include the Kids Campaign, the Joan English Fund for Women’s Cancer Research, the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the Betty Ford Center, and Inner-City Games Foundation.
The ripped off charities include organizations supported by celebrities such as singer Rod Stewart, the pop music group *Nsync and the cast of the TV show Ally McBeal.
According to an FBI affidavit relating to the federal mail fraud charge against Tonken: “Tonken routinely made misrepresentations which defrauded the underwriters and donors for these events. To cause donors to contribute to the events, Tonken regularly overstated the amount of underwriting funds that had been raised, understated the cost of producing the event, and promised that celebrities had agreed to appear at the events when they had not.”
Tonken was sentenced to to 63 months in prison for his scheme to defraud donors and underwriters in connection with his promotion and production of charitable events. In a tell-all book, “King of Cons,” Tonken recounted organizing the August 2000 fund-raiser and asserted that both to Hillary finance aide David Rosen and Sen. Clinton knew about his illegal financing schemes.
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If Hillary was a mutant, her mutant power would be a shrill laugh that cut right through any substance in the known universe. A very interesting insight in the inner workings of the Clinton machine.
Think?
Oh Shrillary, your wit is so… non-existent…
Well, that does it! I am NOT watching the second season of, “Who Wants To Be A Superhero?”
And the MSM blackout begins in 5…4…3…2…1
I’m Shocked. Clintons bending the law? SHocked I tell ya.
could this really be true? do you think that hillary’s teflon has worn off? is there a God? one can only hope and pray.. this would be the demise of the Billary Candidacy.
Magneto - Wolverine - Storm - Cyclops - and now……… Widebottom!
( I was going to use Screech, but that’s “Saved by the Bell” territory )
Hillaryland
Doug may believe, “This really is proof of a felony”; however the tape may not be admissable, as part of discovery, if she was not aware that her conversation was being recorded. It would be dam*ing if it was allowed. I watch Law and Order, ya see.
This does look serious (1.6 million is 64 times the allowed calendar year limit for a political donation), but come on, it’s never going to go anywhere.
Why report on this when Paris is reportedly eating prison food?
Hillary wanted 10,000 people to migrate to New York to vote for her! NO wonder she has no problem with illegal immigration!
She was raising $ for her Senate campaign way back in ‘96????????? Talk about long term planning.
And she got Peter Paul to help fundraise? I love his “Mounds” candy bars. LOL
I think 1996 is a typo.. should be 1999????
Yes, my error. Just fixed! It was July 2000.
Nothing will come of this of course because it’s only illegal if a Republican does it.
On June 22nd, 2007 at 12:11 pm, captivatedem said:
Doug may believe, “This really is proof of a felony”; however the tape may not be admissable, as part of discovery, if she was not aware that her conversation was being recorded. It would be dam*ing if it was allowed. I watch Law and Order, ya see.
I’ll settle for a conviction in the “Court of Public Opinion” if it means she won’t be elected!
She will get away again. Why is the MSM ignoring this? Even Fox News ignores it.
Wasn’t there some proof floating around out there of Hillary being involved with wiretapping Bill’s political enemies? I think Sean Hannity did a show about that a few weeks ago. What ever came of that? Isn’t that what Nixon resigned over? (Watergate) It seems every time you turn on the T.V. or radio, the Clintons are neck deep in some sort of illegal activity. This solicitation of “hard money” is just another example.
“the tape may not be admissable, as part of discovery, if she was not aware that her conversation was being recorded”
Which law(s) you have in mind there, Max?
Speaking in general I know many states have what’s called “one party notification” on recorded phone calls.
I.E. it’s legit if any one party to the conversation is aware it’s being recorded. I’m not sure how-if that applies here, though.
But I’m guessing the fella bringing this has mulled over it’s legal kosherness.
Here are some interesting facts about the Clinton administration.
I can’t believe that all of this could be a coincidence.
Michelle, you may want to edit the transcript - you have HC and HRC, which I assume are both referring to the mutant candidate
Shrillery will have the case go before Judge Susan Illston and then the case will be tossed. Yet Libby is heading to jail. Sad Sad sad.
There’s a lot to be said for who people associate themselves with. There’s no way that I’m buying Hillary didn’t know about the dealings of Tonken and Paul, she would have to much intel for that.
It’s odd that this doesn’t get any press, but that Dan Rather could run a story during the 2004 election campaign that was based on falsified documents about President Bush’s military service. It seems that the accusations against Hillary are a bit more serious, especially considering they could result in felony charges.
On a side note: Could Hillary Clinton be any more disengenuous???
I’m surely outing myself as a comic book geek, but I can totally see her as the Black Canary in Justice League of America!
A Clinton commits a felony???? Is anyone really surprised? Maybe she will lose her law license just like Bill.
I heard the Clintons whacked Tony Soprano.
Ok, this is so sad! I am OBSESSED with x-men and marvel comics! thats retarded though, i can’t imagine Logan walking up to the poll and voting for hillary. wait, he can’t vote, hes canadian! storm, i could see it…
this is just very depressing. not depressing enough to boycott marvel comics though!
All those countless issues of Captain America under his belt… and still, Stan Lee doesn’t know any better than this?
Why not just cut to the chase and campaign on behalf of Doctor Doom or the Red Skull while you’re at it, Stan…?
It’s difficult to say how damaging this will be to her campaign. Can anyone really expect her to serve jail time for this? Unfortunately, I don’t think so. If this will damage her campaign, do we want it to hurt her during the primaries or in a general election? Would it be better to have a Clinton nomination or an Obama nomination?
Hillary…the reverse “Magneto”…she repels everyone who has a spine made of anything but jello.
Wow…the great Stan Lee.
Spider Man and his Amazing Friends!!!
spacen said:
It would be much better to have an Obama campaign because he is an amateur on the national stage of politics. His latest gaffe about the 10,000 deaths in Kansas is just one example. He will continue to put his foot in his mouth when he receives the Dem. nomination because at that time he will have to campaign for the Presidency not just the Dem. nomination.
If you’ve seen some of the faces that Hillary has made over the last decade, that she is a mutant is no real surprise. Now, whether she caught it from Bill or not…
DocattheAutopsy: Why report on this when Paris is reportedly eating prison food?
The MSM isnt going to burn what they have worked and lied so hard to promote
I’m a comic book fan too, and have two blogs specially for that (here and here), but I don’t and would never see Hillary as Black Canary. Mainly because Dinah Lance has more brains than Hillary and is actually more apolitical than her. What I would see Hillary as would probably be Queen Bee, or Spiral, or even Mystique or Destiny!
Michelle, please do what you can to get this news spread out as best as possible, because Hillary is truly awful, and neither Stan nor anyone else should be wasting their time with her! I’m appalled at that too. They shouldn’t be getting involved with politicians.
I’ve heard that intense gamma radiation emits from her eyes when she gets mad. You really don’t want to make HER angry. She can throw lamps and phones at supersonic speed, and detect a rival with super-sensitive hearing, and avoid the grasp of law enforcement like plastic man.
Per MMs’ link to ejfa.org : ” Worst of all, this evidence was withheld from a federal court, a grand jury and the FEC for five years, thwarting all federal investigations into Hillary Clinton’s misconduct.”