VRWC: Ten years young
Bruce Walker at the American Thinker notes that Sunday is the 10th anniversary of Hillary Clinton’s coinage of the infamous term we’ve come to wear proudly: “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.” Yes, it’s been a full decade of bitter Clintonian sniping, acute paranoia, and psychological projection against conservative talk radio, conservative authors, and conservative activists. Time flies, huh?
How amusing that the birthday week arrives as the desperate Clintons redirect their wrath from the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to the Vast Obama-Loving Media Conspiracy. Who are the Clintons’ worst enemies now? Why, the Obama-conspiring Former Clinton News Network and traitorous San Francisco TV reporters who “don’t care about the home mortgage crisis!” Always someone else’s fault. If you’re not with Them, you’re collaborating with their enemies…to kick people out of their homes. Belly flop into the fever swamp and deep-sea dive into sanctimony. That’s the Billary way.
Or, as a certain Democrat in the Clintons’ crosshairs, put it yesterday: “It’s the same old okey-doke.”
Walker reminisces:
Ten years ago Hillary Clinton (then the First Lady) went on television with Matt Lauer and said: “This is the great story here for anybody willing to find and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.”
Thus was born the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Hillary expected serious Americans to believe that the Whitewater convictions (which put a sitting Arkansas governor in prison), the suicide of the Deputy White House Chief Counsel under mysterious circumstances, the unconscionable firing of the White House travel staff, Hillary’s strange acumen in predicting the cattle futures market, an allegation of brutal rape against her husband, the perjury of Bill Clinton in a federal grand jury proceeding, his affair with a White House intern, and the countless other moral debauches of the Clintons were created by some cabal with power greater than the president, the Democratic Party and the huge phalanx of media flacks, fawning Hollywood starlets, militant activists and nihilistic academicians.
The truth, of course, is different. The “vast right wing conspiracy” or VRWC lives on today, and is vast — it includes tens of millions of intelligent Americans who have been systematically marginalized, demonized and defamed in the public debate about America. It has voices because technology, tenacity and innovation gave it voices, in spite of those who hold most of the levers of power in America.
Happy birthday, fellow conspirators. And many more.
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Flashback: In Hillary’s own words, Jan. 27, 1998:
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday firmly denied allegations that her husband had an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Mrs. Clinton blamed the sex allegations on a “a vast right-wing conspiracy” against President Bill Clinton.
She made the statement during an interview on NBC’s “Today” show, where she was asked to comment on accusations and rumors that have caused a political uproar and even triggered speculation about the possibility of impeachment of the president.
“I do believe that this is a battle,” the first lady said.
“Look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president,” Mrs. Clinton said.
The first lady called the sex and perjury allegations swirling around her husband part of an effort “to undo the results of two elections.”
An independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, has expanded his investigation to include charges that the president may have encouraged the ex-intern, Monica Lewinsky, now 24, to lie under oath about whether she and the president had an affair.
“That is not going to be proven true,” Clinton said. She said she was fighting the charges “not only because I love and believe my husband” but for the sake of the nation.
Yes, this same woman, who said those very silly things, wants to be the commander-in-chief of the United States.
She’ll say anything. And it ain’t just VRWC members who comprehend this now.
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Ahhhh, the memories.
Still have a bumper sticker from Media Research Center, stating that I am a proud member! Woo-HOO!
Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me lol.
Better to be a member of the VWRC who is “10 going on 27″ than be Chelsea who is “27 going on 10″ …
Happy Birthday to all members of the VWRC … may you have many many more …
Big opportunity here. If Billary steamrolls their way to the nomination - as they appear to be doing - the American people are going to remember what those years were like and decide whether they want to relive them.
If the GOP were smart, they would be running images of those two in the 1990’s from now to the election.
lol, good one.
On our tenth birthday. We should pause to reflect on our many accomplishments in these first ten years ten years
To list a few
Just thinking back brings a tear to my eye and smile to my face.
Here is a toast ” May our next ten years be as diabolocal as our first ten years.”
And the purpose of the VRWC–according to Hillary–was to install Al Gore in office?
I know that when I’m saying this
I might be making people uneasy
But I don’t like all these people slamming her
For the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
Don’t blame it on Hillary!
I mean, if I was Bill and you were Hillary
I would gladly give up political genius
To have Monica Lewinsky as my very own
Personal Venus
*out*
I know that I’m in good company here.
BTW…what’s up with HOT AIR? Same page for over a week? Did I sleep through another earth-shaking event?
I’d like to join. Can you send someone to give me my secret decoder ring and teach me the secret handshake?
Happy Birthday VRWC. America thanks you.
What, no card card from Hillary and Bill? They must have forgot.
And she is their serious candidate.
Get a brain, people!
As a charter member of the V.R.W.C. I’ve got to say. Where does the time go?
It seems like only yesterday that we were disenfranchising voters, rigging election machines, intimidating minority voters and trying to run Slick Willy out of town on a rail just for having sex.
Good times, good times.
DanVanSmak - That sounds so familiiar, is that adapted from an old Barenaked Ladies song? About Yoko Ono?
A badge of honor that I proudly wear. It kills the other side when we adopt their taunts and turn it against them.
Happy Birthday to us, indeed!
I’m still waiting for my VRWC membership card, secret decoder ring, and directions to the local meetings. As we used to say in my active duty days, “fun flies when you’re doing time.”
As far as “she who must not be named” becoming the CINC many of the GIs I work with are considering a mass exodus from military service rather than serve under a Clinton administration again. The worst day of my life was my retirement when I had to accept the retirement certificate with the “Rapist in Chief’s” signature on it. I think my Siberian Husky is part of the VRWC too, because the next morning she had carried it out of our office/computer room and had chewed on it in the backyard. I was torn between punishing her or giving her a treat. She got a very nice treat that morning. Good dog, good dog.
I too am a card carrying member of the VRWC!
She made me sick then and the liar still makes me sick. She’s as slick and lawyer greasy as her lying spouse.
Boomer, I hope your Husky had all of his shots before he chewed on BillyBoy’s signature. With him, you literally don’t know where that’s been!
No need to detail the alternative meanings for the term C-in-C in a Clinton Administration!:-)
Yeah, Monica was a “Republican Plant”.
There are a few Arkansas/Greased pig jokes in there somewhere!
Tom Brokaw says he has many conservative and republican friends that are going to vote for Hillary if the VRWC doesn’t stop the nasty bi-partisanship. Shame on us!
Maybe conspiracy was the wrong word. How about vast right wing mobilization? Wingers came out in droves to do everything in their power to thwart Clinton (Bill). The investigated and harassed everyone he ever interacted with including all his childhood friends.
They demonized him in the press, creating that famous Clinton polarization. Remember, Clinton himself was a centerist (OK, to the left of wingers). He passed welfare reform, cut spending (OK, restrained spending), balanced the budget (a formerly Republican idea), passed NAFTA. All these things made libnuts like me angry.
We should celebrate by demanding that the Barret Report finally be released to the public, unredacted and in it’s entirety. It’s time for the transparent government that the Dems say is missing.
lgm does not remember how the Democrat establishment tried everything under the sun to smear and slander Presidents Reagan and Bush41 for 13 years non-stop. Teddy (hiccup) Kennedy tried to enlist Yuri Andropov (head of KGB, then Soviet Premiere) to star in a Mondale campaign ad in 1983 to reassure the American people Reagan was lying to them about the “Evil Empire”. Just relax and vote Democrat, Americans, nothing to fear.
That worked brilliantly, didn’t it? Maybe it helped Mondale carry Minnesota.
Clintons #1 and #2 have always been leftists in the classic ’60’s mold. The whole “Third Way” business was a clever way to paper over the embarrassing excesses of ’60’s radical socialist McGovernites, who were soundly defeated in general elections repeatedly, and had become a liability to Democrat Party power.
You can thank Speaker Newt Gingrich for Welfare Reform and the balanced budget. The Democrat Party wailed when he signed it, but he had no choice politically, because Newt had him in a box.
The bottom line is, Clinton has always been a lefty, but he’s been perfectly willing to sell out any beleifs he might have held for some short term political gains. No principals, besides winning power and then holding on to it at all costs.
Michelle, there’s a wonderful characterization of extreme narcissists in Dennis Doren’s book “Understanding and Treating the Psychopath” as being “preoccupied with perceived challenge”. That’s what’s at work in Hillary’s perception of a “vast right-wing conspiracy”. Can we afford to have such a disordered person as our prez? This member of the VRWC thinks it would be a horror.
You guy’s that have admited to being a part of VRWC, are having you names taken down by Markos, lgm, sausage and the other troll’s. You know this is a secret why aren’t you talking in code.
HBD, VRWC
Yes, Clinton did sign nearly all ten points of the Republicans’ Contract with American into law, but only after he, Hillary and Carville had decimated the Democrat party with their Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and Health Care Reform initiatives, ending the Dems’ forty year run and ushering in a Republican sweep of both houses of Congress and most every state house in the country.
I almost forgot:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EVERYONE - TEN YEARS and GROWING!
RaisedRight: you are correct. That’s a snippet of a parody of the old BNL tune, Be My Yoko Ono, that I wrote when HRC ran for her Senate Seat here in NY. When you think about it, Hillary IS Yoko Ono. Without Bubba, she wouldn’t be a Senator or a viable presidential candidate. That’s why Bubba’s statement that she should leave him was so laughable; it just worked out that, at the time (if he really said this at all — and that’s a BIG if), he had no idea that he’d become the playboy ERRRRR! leader of the free world.
Anyway, for your edification, here’s the full version of the Yokie song:
If there’s someone you can just sit down,
Then do so.
And if there’s someone you can just shout down,
Then do so.
You can be my Hillary Clinton
You can pander to me wherever I go
Be my (be my)
Be my (be my)
Be my Hillary Clinton
Oh no
Well, isn’t it beautiful to see two people
So much in love.
Standing side by side through every scandal
You could conceive of.
But now that she’s in New York
She’s still not too ashamed to gravy-train
Off a man who feels up other women
All the while he feels you pain
You can be my Hillary Clinton
You can pander to me wherever I go
Be my (be my)
Be my (be my)
Be my Hillary Clinton
Oh no
Oh no
Here we go
Her run is just one big pun
Oh no
Here we go
As Hillary says:
“It takes a village to raise a child!”
I know that when I’m saying this
I might be making people uneasy
But I don’t like all these people slamming her
For the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
Don’t blame it on Hillary!
I mean, if I was Bill and you were Hillary
I would gladly give up political genius
To have Monica Lewinsky
As my very own personal Venus.
Back in the mid-nineties, I was still in high school and would have been the poster boy for liberal politics. Then I got swallowed up by the vast right-wing conspiracy and was brainwashed into believing right-wing lies.
Or maybe I just grew up and realized liberal politics was utter sh*t and unworkable in the real world.
Happy birthday one and all! Gosh, we made Bill do all that bad stuff? We have more work ahead.
Even our youth are involved
http://www.moonbunnyscomics.blogspot.com
Because if we don’t teach our children to be members of the Vast Right Wing conspiracy…who will?
Political cartoons galore!!!
C’mon Michelle, admit it. You’re secretly rooting for a Clinton victory in November. Hillary and Bill in the WH for 4 or 8 more years would be about the best thing that could ever happen in terms of driving up traffic to this site and HotAir.
These days I’m not quite so big of a Bush fan as I used to be, but thinking back on those Hillary days which make my skin crawl, it’s a somber reminder of the extent to which Bush has restored the dignity of this nation. What awful days those were: A demanding and ulta partisan first lady, as opposed to a true lady in Laura Bush. The politics of destruction played out with a ruthlessness Stalin would have admired. Vince Foster’s poor corpse laying face down in the cold leaves, simply coincidentally on the day the whitewater story broke. And let’s not forget the genuine humiliation we felt as a nation when President Bill Clinton, cornered only by the genetic evidence of his horrendously irresponsibly greedy lust for young women, finally confessed to having an affair on political hallowed ground with a girl young enough to be his daughter - after dragging her name through the mud for months.
Boy, those were the days, eh? And now Hillary, taking the personal low road as usual, has the unmitigated, shameless gall to try to force that whole sordid scene upon the world again only this time in a world on the brink of crisis.
Unbelieveable. Shameless. Disgusting. There are no expletives low enough to do that woman justice.
*VRWC sekret gang sinez!*
Its hard to believe that its been 10 years since the VRWC was launched, and just think, el Rushbo had been on the air for 10 years when comrade clintons made the VRWC remark.
If wanting less government, lower taxes, and enforcement of our nations laws makes me a member of VRWC-Then I am proud to be part of it.
GSP
Rule 1 for total power. Create any enemy (real or imagined) and direct the people’s attention toward it, and away from you, as you snip away their liberty in the cause of fighting it. Chavez is a good example of today. At the time, the VRWC was her “enemy”. Today it’s Obama.
There! I fixed it for them. I guess they had missed that typo.
tre said:
You can see the handshake here about 7:10 into the video (towards the end of the demonstration of government housing).
lgm said:
As DBNinKY noted, we can thank Newt for that (until Gingrich’s fiscal conservatism began to interfere with the K-Street Project agenda for which the Vast RINO Conspiracy joined forces with the Leftist MSM to take him down, but that’s another subject).
_______________________
“After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and the sincerity of Hollywood.”
-Fred D. Thompson
Hillary should be more concerned with her and Bill’s vast ocean of b.s.
ahhh the great VRWC…
Got my brother a membership for his birthday a couple years ago. T-Shirt and everything.
Thought my sister was going to have a hissy fit and fall in it.
Good times
Leathernecks and Devil Dogs were meant to be derogatory labels, but the Marines wear them with pride.
1) Actually that is a better term. The growing number of people who turned on Billary were mostly driven by their (the Clintons) actions. It is/was a reaction.
2) No. Clinton portrayed himself as a centrist. He is only centrist compared to Hillary, but so is about 85-90% of the rest of the country.
3) Even the Democrats have admitted welfare reform is very succesful. I can understand at the time but why would it still upset you?
Carrying your home state. Something Gore wasn’t able to do.
Change the time-frame to early 80’s and that’s the same thing that happened to me.
Yes. Michelle is soooo narcissistic that the election is only about how well mm.com & Hot Air will do.
Sorry Michelle, we hid it as long as we could but your secret is out.
Compare this to Reagan refusing to remove his coat in the Oval Office.
I want to change my moniker to VRWC so it can be my day. Oh, wait, it is my day! I’m so happy.
I think Michelle would be considered a founding Platinum Member.
One of those political groups should make hay with this important birthday.
Thank you my fellow right wingers and Happy Birthday to you also, with many more to come.
Little thing called “tongue in cheek” Kaos…just havin’ a bit ‘o fun my man. Maybe lighten up just a tad.