“It’s news to me”
Update: Monday’s off to a bad start for Madam H.:
Four large American flags came crashing in front of Senator Clinton as she headed for the door. In a controlled panic, the staffers and the Senator attempted to catch the flags before they fell to the ground.
“I think the bases are not weighted enough.” Clinton said as she propped flags back up.
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In case you were unplugged this weekend, here’s a bit of the fun we’ve had with Hillary over Plantgate here and here. Major Garrett at FNC has the latest reax from Hillary on how her garden of planted questioners did grow. Mrs. Smarty-Pants didn’t know nuthin’:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton responded to allegations Sunday that her presidential campaign had planted questions during public appearances.
At a media event in Waterloo, Iowa, Clinton responded to a reporter’s question about two separate incidents, one that occurred this week at a biodiesel plant in Newton, and the other in April on a farm outside Fort Madison, both in Iowa.
“Well it was news to me” Clinton said. “And neither I nor my campaign approve of that. And it will certainly not be tolerated.”
The reporter went on to ask if she knew of other incidents beyond those reported.
Clinton responded saying, “You know everything I know.”
But will the plausible deniability card work as the Norman Hsu case continues to unfold?
And how about those stifled secret documents?
Better watch out. If she keeps having to put on that “It’s news to me” face, she’s going to pull a few muscles.
I love the whole “yes, we did it, but it’s not something we do” defense. Love that:
“It’s not something we do; it’s not an official campaign policy,” Mr. Elleithee said yesterday. “But it is now an official campaign policy that we will not do this moving forward.”
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Then who is she going to fire?
NUTS!
This.woman.sickens.me.
Just wait, her husband will step in and take the blame GRIN. This is why GQ didn’t run the piece on the Clinton Campaign’s rumored in fighting, this is the results of trying to jimmy rig the Media in your own favor. There will be Hillfire to pay, you just watch and see!
jimmy rig the Media coverage in your own favor…typing to fast.
Sounds like a Dennis Green quote,
“They are who we thought they were!”
and the response,
“We let em off the hook!”
and if you believe that, heres someting I’d like to sell ya.
for sale
You have to wonder why Hillary Clinton would need to have planted questions from the audience. She already has Diane Sawyer at ABC to do it for her, Katie Couric at CBS and the whole gang at the Today Show and the whole gang at CNN.
Reason #19996864107333554869784313546878735498 why Hillary Clinton CANNOT, SHOULD NOT, and MUST NOT be elected president of the United States.
The symbolism of this flag fall is highly appropriate. America would come crashing down to socialism, shari’a law, and moonbattery if Hillary is elected.
The art of lying has been elevated to ethereal by this purveyor of BS!.
Hillary’s correct.
We DO know everything SHE knows…..haha!
At least she spoke the truth for once.
Yeah right…… that excuse didn’t work for Bill either!
Clinton responded saying, “You know everything I know.”
Nope. We know a LOT more than you think we do.
You can tell when the Clintons are lying: their lips are moving.
Never tell the truth if a lie will do.
Seems she has much in common with Bush
The Democratic presidential candidates are not perfect people. Clinton is particularly “imperfect”. Still, stack up her imperfections next to those of the major Republican candidates and she’ll be “in the shade”.
Take Giuliani. He cheated openly on his second wife while he was Mayor. This was not a casual act with an intern that he tried to keep secret, but a public humiliation of his second wife and her children (who do this day do not speak to him). He appointed a (then strongly suspected, now indicted) mobster head of the police department and then (nearly) head of Homeland Security. He recently claimed that the US health care system cures prostrate cancer twice as well as the UK system, when the survival rates are essentially the same.
You might favor Republican policies, but don’t claim the Republicans are the party of personal integrity. You might want them to be (as I wish for Democrats), but it ain’t so.
and that would be what snausage?
He has a Ranch and she’s a Hick?
Wow, you know, this defense was lame when Reagan tried it with Iran-Contra, and he was rightly criticized for it. As usual, however, the playing field ain’t nothin’ like level when it’s liberals on the receiving end of bad choices. Guess what, Hill? you ain’t special, your hubby’s no longer president, and everyone’s gunning for your mistakes now, not just our vast conspiracy …
Frankly I find that hard to believe. Just from what i’ve observed of her relationship with the people around her over the past 16 years (not that I’m any closer than what the media reports), I don’t think anyone on her staff takes a dump without her prior approval.
ANYTHING that happens in that campaign, Shrillery approves of in advance. That’s my take.
#14, how about you hold your horse accountable for her own screw-ups without trying to rationalize them away? Why the need to obfuscate and deflect
Those lib tactics are getting old.
Sausage, BZ on your programmed BDS answer.
Don’t worry. Hillary’s campaign will give the MSM a list of questions to ask her, which will have nothing to do with any of the skeletons in her closet.
I’m just baffled by the amount of misdeeds done by the Clintons that the MSM just seems to gloss over.
Fixed.
Hillary can always get Sandy Burger to stealthe planted questions back.
She’ll bury the people responsible for this.
(Right next to Vince Foster…)
It scares me to death that someone that is sooooooooo clueless about everything and everybody around her might be elected POTUS. How many times on how many subjects has she claimed not to know anything about anything? Can anyone make a good list. The first I remember is the Whitewater days but bound to be documented incidents prior to that.
In other news, Hillary is shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
/casablanca
There is no truth to the runor that Hillary went into a diner and reccomended the eggplant parm.
Seems to me the real Plantgate story is not how they plant some roses in Hillary’s garden, but how extensive are their (PRESSidental supported) efforts to plant weeds in every one elses garden.
My thought exactly, how appropriate the imagery is.
Crackpot
Hey
This is off topic but is Bill Clinton over his suspension, from practicing Law? His law license was suspend, where in Arkansas, wasn’t “It” definition of “It” his law license, BG after the Monica Lewinsky thingy right? I am fuzzy on whether he can still practice Law legally in America.
Stop it! You’re all just picking on her because she’s a woman. She’s really, really tough and has to put up with people asking questions all day long. Other politicians are never treated like this. These are all diversions when in reality we should be talking about protecting the children!
What was Bill Clinton found guilty of contempt of court or perjury ? what is that a misdemeanor? Look Hillary can claim it has to with the company she keeps SMILE.
Mo Elleithie’s response to all this is pretty hilarious. When the second person, a minister, came forward saying a Clinton staffer tried to plant a question with him, Elleithie said the minister and the staffer had known each other a long time. Later Mitchell (the minister)said that’s not true, that he only knew the staffer’s name. What did Mr. Elleithie have as a response to being caught in another fib?
“I’m not going to comment on what he said,” Elleithee said, referring to Mitchell. “I’m going to discuss what our interpretation is….”
My thoughts EXACTLY!! Someone in the media needs to start compiling a list from her First Lady days up to this point showing all the times she has used the ignorance ploy. George Bush fooled her into the war vote. How in the heck can anyone trust this woman with the most powerful job in the world? She is NEVER in charge when someone needs to be held accountable. I can’t believe people don’t see the pattern here.
OT more: I’m still a little fuzzy on exactly how many things Lawyers have built or lives they have saved. Seems to me though Engineers have built lots of things, and Doctors have saved lots of lives.
Finally someone is making sense. The children need the books and the maps to find the Iraq
Hillary isn’t much of a gardener.
http://monicamemo.typepad.com/weblog/2007/11/plants-and-bush.html
…and that’s just to mention a few!
Well, we all know how she handled her first unscripted question so we know that won’t happen again.
I’ll bet Russerts wrists still sting.
Hillary and WMD= Woman of Mass Deception.
Shade provided by moonbats swinging from the trees (not many trees have leaves on them…It’s Autumn). All the while denying any culpablity about anything that she does.
“Imperfections” that’s royal.
Besides, who here makes excuses for those in Republican party when they screw up? Larry “Happy Feet” Craig, we’ve said good riddance. He’s fighting a fight that no one quite understands.
Guiliani, who here has made excuses for him? More importantly, if you asked Guiliani about his personal situation what do you think the response would be? Would he deny all knowledge of said situation? He couldn’t right? That wouldn’t fly. Why is that Hitlary’s “well it’s news to me” gets her pass after pass with you liberals? It couldn’t be because you are to busy projecting and deflecting, could it?
Try holding her feet to the fire ever now and again. I know she is slicker than snot but go on, give it a try. You can do it.
Holy crud. I come on here at lunch and read back to back trollish remarks.
*puke
Now, I am feeling better. I will go nuclear puke if she gets elected. Scary thought but you can’t deny that there are some stupi_ people out there who will vote for Shillary just because they do not want to vote for Bush.
P.S.
Yes, I know he is not runing. Shillary does not and neither do some of her voters.
cwdancer said it. This is supposed to be “the smartest
woman (notice that’s not intelligent” woman in
America and yet over and over she knows NOTHING!
she sees NOTHING! she hears NOTHING! She’s doing
a Sgt Schultz imitation and it just isn’t going to cut it
if she wants us to believe she is Presidential material.
If she was the only name on the ticket I would write
someone in rather than cast a ballot for H.R. Clinton!!
On November 12th, 2007 at 11:07 am,
…and that is just the short list!
When I read this I got the full effect. a picture of the little gay guy ranting about Brittney Spears. Thanks LMAO
Wow. Another day, another fubar for the minions of Ms. Inevitable. While she suffers the distinction of being the most duplicitous candidate in the field, it boggles the mind to consider why she seems hell-bent on bringing destruction down upon her own self.
C’mon now – Hsugate and dithering about refunding the donations, hiring Sandy Pants Burglar, and planting questions in audiences, just to name the recent idiocy.
If she’s to be the Dem nom, the GOP is just going to have a high old time airing her laundry over and over again. Hillary is the gift that just keeps on giving.
I planted those flags ! My plan worked! I planted them from Chicago, using my super Condista psychic powers!!
I believe the waitress. Hillary didn’t tip and karma caught up with her.
My question to Ms. Clinton is a simple two part.
1. If you have no idea what your campaign is doing, who does, I mean who is in charge?
2. If you cannot control your own campaign, why should we trust your ability to control anything else?
This is just another fine example of believe what I tell you, not what you see me do. The problem is, she is not as good at it as Bubba was. Thankfully:)
I hope Obamination uses this to knock her out of the race.
Sadly, the media is playing this one down…saying, “no big deal”. Well, I beg to differ; when they plant artificial questions, then choose that corrupted person to ask their “planted” question, it keeps legitmate questions from being asked. This is how they keep honest folks from catching them off-guard with real “pinning” questions. BTW, ever notice how Hillary’s eyes get all “big and round” when she’s outright telling lies…she certainly has no “poker” face when it comes to her deviant deceit.
American Flags Foil Hillary’s Attempt to Hide Behind Them. Best Veteran’s Day present ever!
Hillary has a habit of taking credit for anything positive that occurs during her lifetime. She has another habit of portraying disclosed gaffs and indiscretions as some sort of unfolding story that we will all be learning about “together:”
1. After being asked about the two known incidents of question planting in Iowa,
2. After being asked if her campaign has done this before,
3. After being asked, by Matt Lauer on 1/27/98, as to whether Bill had discussed his relationship with Monica Lewinsky,
4. After being asked by Lauer for more clarification on this point,
HerStrategy: When things go well, she is the smartest woman in the room. When things fall apart, she is just a wide-eyed bystander. Something to consider before pulling the lever.
To bad one of the persons they approached in the little question charade said sure I’ll ask, then when it was time to pose the question given, they threw her the old curveball related to something substantial right down the middle.
I call Shenanigans. She didn’t know about it? She didn’t know about Lewinski, didn’t know about Whitewater, didn’t know about the firings, didn’t know about the files…the list of what she didn’t know goes on and on.
For someone who is trying to be the Leader of the Free World, especially in this time of extreme crisis, when we are at war with an entire ideology that has no borders or flags, do people really want someone who supposedly doesn’t even know what goes on in her own household and campaign? How can these people trust her to know how to do anything?
Or, do people want some who is this adept at lying, yet is still so bad at it that she can come up with nothing better than “Duuuuhhhhhh….I didn’t know” when she is caught red-handed?
How about someone who thinks so little of the general populace and her own supporters especially, to have such a lack of respect for them as to think that playing dumb is going to suffice? She actually feels that the ignorance that the Democrats claim that the fly-over states have is actual, and thuis this is the best she can do.
I wish I could say it was fun to watch the queen of mean unravel like this, but instead I am disappointed that it is taking so long. It is time for the Right to take the gloves off and finish her. Hopefully, they are just waiting for her to get the nomination, as once that happens, they can destroy her and completely eliminate her from the race in a way that we will never hear about the Clintons again.
I can dream, can’t I?
Lt. Col. George Custers flag fell to the ground on his first bivowack out of Ft. Abraham Lincolin Neb., on his way to the Little Bighorn, (true story). It was a bad omen for Custer, maybe a good omen for us.
aj – Thanks for your recipe. (I’ll try semi-sweet instead of milk chocolate.)
lgm – Clinton got a pass because “it was only sex”, or “that wasn’t really sex”, or “it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is”. Guiliani’s family life shouldn’t bother you a bit.
Awe geee…Guiliani cheated on his second wife, and you are all bent out of shape about it, claiming he cannot be trusted to run the country because of it. Wow, how hypocritical of you. After all, it was YOU guys that declared that to be a private, personal issue that has nothing to do with being President. When Bill was raping, groping and getting afternoon quickies in the Oval Office, you all came unglued that people made such a big deal about it, and that it was nobody’s business.
then again, Billy-Bob was also a draft dodger who left the country and protested against the united States on foreign soil. At the time, you people all said that military service, especially actually dodging the draft, should have no bearing on whther or not someone could or should be President, and we can’t hold that against someone who actively spoke out against the military and now wanted to be their Commander in Chief. then, Bush got out of the Guard legally and early after serving and you guys have been having fits ever since.
So tell me, which way is it going to be? Either disown your god, based on all the things you are holding against Bush and Guiliani, or shut the heck up about it. You cannot have it both ways, hypocrite.
As for her being perfect, no, no one is perfect. The problem is, she thinks she is and so do her supporters. She is a lying, cheating, condescending low life scum who has carpetbagged her way into the Senate after her own home-state refused her. She has ridden her husbands coat tails as long as she could, and now that she has to actually go on her own merit, she just can’t hold up. You can defend her all you want, but it doesn’t make her a good, honest person. In the race of the front runners, she is the least trustworthy of the bunch, and followed closely by Edwards. So rationalize away, but the facts are what they are, and facts mean a hell of a lot more than your emotional diatribe.
I wish Hill would pull a few face muscles. She sure must be stifling a lot.
re: 57
RetFireman, you’d better hose off out, because you are on FIRE.
You’re right. There’s some serious hypocracy coming from the moonbat side of the spectrum.
Just remember: A progressive pays when he gets caught with his hand in the till, a conservatives pays when he gets caught with his pants down. So naturally, Bubba gets a pass on his infidelity while Rudy does not.
In addition, as citizens of the world, the left is hostile to the very notion of patriotism, so naturally Bubba gets a pass on draft-dodging; while W, as a conservative, depends heavily on the flag-waving vote and is thus vulnerable to the chickenhawk smear.
#42TXRose, the image of Shrillary in a WWII German helmet saying “I know NOTHINK” is absolutely hilarious. That would make a great T-shirt!
“Well it was news to me” Clinton said.
Yes, bad news for you Mrs.Clinton. Just one more piece of bad news in the long string of mishaps that surround her. None of it, of course, being her fault.
Flag falls for Veterans Day… Hmmm, mysterious ways indeed.
If a flag falls in front of and on a Democrat, does she win the Presidency?
Me thinks not.
Remember politics fans, planted questions are a Clinton M/O. I remember during the ‘92 race an incident in which Bill Clinton was “interviewed” by a “reporter” on current prices. He was asked the price of a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, etc. He answered the questions quite accurately. It was to portray him as “in touch” with the common guy. This was during his “I feel your pain” era. The brief clip was shown on all the news outlets (naturally). The “reporter” turned out to be a campaign worker and the questions were all scripted. None of this came out until after the election (again, naturally). Fast forward to another Clinton, in another campaign, but with similar tactics. Any questions?
Maybe the flags falling was an omen. Remember in the movie Omen, when Mom took Damien through the drive through zoo, and animals went nuts?
Maybe something evil about Hillary tipped over the flags.
Hillary, Imus is back in 19 days, and counting down. I think he might have some questions for you, and some answers. 77WABC 6:00 A.M. eastern standard time…it is my hope that he devotes a whole show or more to Senator Hillary Clinton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIt6k8xj6Qo
Faux-tox?