Know-it-all Hillary “didn’t know anything about” Bill’s Weather Underground pardons
She’s ready to lead from Day One. She’s got the experience. The know-how. The best staff. And the best minds.
But somehow, Hillary Clinton was never made aware that her husband had pardoned members of the terrorist Weather Underground–whose ties to the Obama camp she denounced at the ABC debate last week. Can I get a cackle up in here?
Who calls bullcrap?
Newsday cannot suspend its disbelief and deconstructs Hill’s claim:
In an interview yesterday, Hillary — whose connection to President Clinton’s 2001 sentence commutations for two members of the Weather Underground has become an issue since she tried to raise questions about Obama’s acquaintance with another ex-Weatherman — told “Inside Edition” that she “didn’t know anything about” the 2001 clemency case…
…If it’s true, it means that she got the worst briefings in the world when she was running for Senate in 2000 and the clemency issue was hot in Rockland County, and it means that Chuck Schumer didn’t even bother to mention the issue to his fellow NY senator-elect/ First Lady after promising the widows of two dead cops to fight against one of the clemencies.
Here’s the chronology:
On October 19, 2000, as Hillary was hunting for Senate votes throughout New York, Rockland County’s biggest paper, the Journal News, ran a front page story reporting that imprisoned radical Susan Rosenberg — linked to the 1981 Weather Underground Brinks robbery that left two Nyack cops dead — was seeking clemency from Bill Clinton.
The next day, the widows and fellow state and local police attended a memorial service for the two dead cops at the site of the killings. Also in attendance: Sen. Chuck Schumer, who in that fall was frequently campaigning with Hillary. According to another front page story, on Oct. 21, he made a pledge to the widows to fight the clemency: “I intend to take our opposition as high as I can in government.”
On December 16, 2000, after Hillary became New York’s Senator-elect, the paper did another Page 1 story about an upcoming 60 Minutes episode on Rosenberg’s clemency application. It included a quote from one of her new constituents, Diane O’Grady, wife of one of the dead cops: “This is a woman who has taken lives.”
On December 17, 2000, the “60 Minutes” piece on Rosenberg’s case and clemency request ran.
So, Clinton — in her effort to avoid being connected in any way to the case — now says she knew nothing about it. Nobody briefed her, either while she was running or after she was elected, on an emotional hot-button issue that intersected her husband with her constituents. Her husband, who invited her to sit in on a White House meeting with another group of Rockland County residents seeking pardons for four Hasidic members of their community, never so much as mentioned Rosenberg.
Chuckie Schumer, for once, isn’t talking.
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Stupid is as stupid does…
It worked for B Ho…why not give it a try.
Horseradish!
She didn’t know about his appetite for interns, either. Nor did she have any clue about Vince Foster’s papers and the Rose Law Firm records.
Someone walking around with their shoulders in the air, saying DUH!, is not eligible for the White House — only the outhouse where that kind of crap belongs.
LOL.
Anyone want to take bets on how long it will be before we have video evidence that she did know?
I’ll start with 2 days…
If ignorance truly is bliss, she’s got to be one happy camper!
And she wants to answer the phone at 3 A.M.? Throw back another shot Hillbillary.
If I had a memory as bad as hc seems to have I would have an Alzheimer’s test asap. They have a few drugs to help her memory condition.
L
Now that’s funny ACHEFTY
i’m sick of this ‘have it all ways’ campaign she’s running. by her own account, she’s been a principle in all that went well in the Clinton administration, and either 1) absent or 2) a victim of vast conspiracies when things went awry.
i still haven’t a clue as to why she was elected Senator of NY…when she was the first lady from Arkansas. and since being a Senator, i have no idea what she’s done since.
i know experience and results mean nothing to liberals, but to us outside the DNC, it’s hilarious to watch her carefully critique Obama’s resume.
As Veronica Corningstone said, “no, there’s…no way that’s correct.”
EDIT by See-dub: Whoops, never mind, my link goes to the FALN pardon, not to the Weather Underground pardon. Sorry, wrong terrorists.
The smartest woman in the world….. YEA RIGHT ! HAHAHAHAHAHA….,,
Hillary says she never knew that brother Hugh Rodham was paid $250,000.00 by the families of two guys seeking pardons from Bill Clinton. She actually thinks that brother Hugh was being paid for his expertise as a government lobbyist. She also says she knew nothing about the pardons for people in the FALN terrorist ring. I believe that some of the people pardoned may have been involved in the plot to assassinate President Truman. Some of them were involved with the criminal gang Los Machateros. It is interesting that nobody in the MSM wants to investigate the Puerto Rican independence terrorists who Bill Clinton pardoned. These people were worse than Ayers. These people were pardoned to placate some politicians in the PuertoRican community in NYC who would then solicit votes for Hillary. Her “I knew nothing” defense to everything has usually worked. Thank the Lord that there was videotape of her Bosnia trip.
chill out.
this will turn out to be a ‘misstatement’.
The kettle could not be reached for comment.
lgm doesn’t seem to be around. Let me take a crack.
Hillary Clinton is a better American than Cindy McCain. She served her country in etc. etc.
Can you just imagine the indignant outrage over a conservative candidate caught in so many lies and unscrupulous dealings?
Funny that the two Dem candidates still have public support.
Lemme see now; She didn’t know about Bill having affairs with interns, she didn’t know about a FBI liason stealing files for them, she didn’t know about furniture that was stolen, she didn’t know that they made a completely safe landing in Bosnia.
But, she learned enough as First Lady to be President?
Hmmmmmm. I’m sure there’s some logic there someplace, but I can’t see it.
Reporter: So you didn’t know anything about the Weather Underground?
Hillary: Look! Over there! Snipers in the hills! (runs away)
it’s never a misstatement. a misstatement implies they bear responsibility.
no…you simply misunderstood. you see? you’re too stupid to understand…this is why you need them to lead you.
#10 bloghooligan wrote:
I know we disagree about pretty much everything else, but I totally agree on this (I was just about to write the same thing, in fact). If the cornerstone of your campaign is that you were essentially co-president during your husband’s two terms in office, then how did this escape your knowledge? Or, for that matter, your input?
A traveller wandering on an island inhabited entirely by cannibals comes upon a butcher shop. This shop specialised in human brains differentiated according to source. The sign in the shop read:
Artists’ Brains $9/oz
Philosophers’ Brains $12/oz
Scientists’ Brains $15/oz
Republicans’ Brains $19/oz
Democrats’ Brains $2,000/oz Upon reading the sign, the traveller noted, “My those Democrats’ brains must be popular!” To which the butcher replied, “Are you kidding! Do you have any idea how many Democrats you have to kill to get a ounce of brains?!”
She probably doesn’t know about Bill and his promise to fix the tax code either.
Okay, I made that up. How would she know the difference?
Michelle - Oops, typo:
Hillary Clinton, the Sgt. Schultz of the Democratic party candidates.
“I Know Nothing”
She didn’t know about Monica either. That’s two 800lb gorillas in the room she didn’t notice.
The difference is that Schultz was usually on the side of the prisoners, which is why he “saw nothing” when he knew it would get them in trouble.
Hillary has lattice-work blinders. She can only see the stuff that will make her look good.
nyk, don’t start agreeing with the board on this. Everyone knows that Hillary is a “gateway” topic that will eventually lead to experimentation with harder, more dangerous agreements. Before you know it you will be lying in a gutter, jobless and friendless screaming “SECURE OUR BORDERS!” and “WHY WON’T HANNITY RETURN MY CALLS!”
Who is managing this campaign?
She won election because she agreed to meet the primary requirement for most of those who vote for a Democratic candidate. She promised to meet their “self interests”.
She has been prevented from delivering on those promises by the administration and the vast right wing conspiracy.
#28 chapoutier wrote:
I don’t have a problem. Why…I can stop whenever I want! Really…
This is exactly the reason why the Weather Underground story will go nowhere…both BHO and Hillary know better than to bring up a subject that will just end up hurting both of them. Better to let sleeping dogs lay than to stir up more controversy.
Karl Rove - didn’t you get the memo?
BREAKING NEWS!!!!
“Hilllary Caught in another lie”
Yawn.
It is getting so deep in my office while reading this that my watch just stopped working!
The best anti-Hillary ad would be a video tape of her statements on how heavily involved she was in the Clinton administration juxtaposed with video tape of the 50 or so times she has made statements that she didn’t know anything about specific things that happened then.
I am simply amazed at how Shilery can tell one lie after another and the people just keep turning out to support her, and I include some family members as well, so I’m not biased.They don’t have the faintist clue about what she’s about. It’s like someone has put a vaccuum cleaner to their ears and sucked all of the common sense out of their feeble brains. The same for Obummer, but I’ve been on his case all week and sort of gave Shilery a pass, but when she says she didn’t know about the pardons, I just had to get my 2 cents worth in. Surely some miricale will happen between now and November to wake my family members and the rest up. I sure hope so.
Clinton didn’t know about the pardons. Obama was shocked to learn his mentor hated America and was an anti-semetic racist. These candidates seem to have a high level of selective ignorance.
Ok, Hillary. Forget the WU for a moment…how about FALN? Wanna claim ignorance on that one?
Give it a rest guys, she’s been working hard and is tired. She probably just misspoke again. Quit picking on the poor woman. /sarc
My only advise to all my fellow Malkinites, stock up on popcorn, the conventions are going to be great viewing this year.
NYK #21
You are absolutely right. Now, Obama needs to start hitting on her lack of credibility. He have her a pass on Bosnian snipers for the most part, but this load of crap from Hillary provides the opening to attack her. I’d hit it hard about how she can’t have it both ways, and start nailing on the veracity issues. If this were a prizefight, now is the time for Barack’s trainer to say, “Wake the F up! Do you want me to stop, this thing? (Slap), NOW GET IN THERE AND FIGHT!!!”
She was tired.
“Your terrorists are worse than my terrorists!”
“Are not - yours are worse!”
“Are too!”
“Not!”
#41 mistressjustice wrote:
Exactly. Obama’s camp *has* to go as negative as she consistently has. And frankly, after developing a very serious distaste for the Clintons (who’a thunk it even a year ago? Not I…), I hope he draws blood.
Sorry. My preview feature isn’t working for some reason…
Of course, she didn’t know about the pardons. Everyone knows she was out in California, taking SEAL training. She was offered, on graduation, an immediate instructorship, but she had to fly back to D.C., so she could lead an important foreign policy meeting and make some very crucial decisions.
Forget the pardons. The biggest hypocrisy here is Hillary condemning Obama for associating with current day Ayers and Dorhn, who are now just your common every day communist college professors living off the public teat. Obama can reasonably argue that he didn’t know what they were guilty of so long ago.
Not Hillary.
Both she and Bill were hip-deep in the same antiwar movement that spawned the Weathermen. By all accounts, she was pretty radical herself back then, including a job with a San Francisco law firm with card-carrying communist partners. Bill went to Europe and engaged in anti-American rallies and even went to Moscow (why he went or what he did there has never been adequately explained.)
There is no way that Hillary did not know who Ayers and Dohrn were all along, and probably was quite sympathetic to them in those days.
Needless to say, she has not changed her views since then either. Universal government supplied health care, press censorship, indoctrination of the young in government schools back in the 1960’s would have been called communist ideas. All that’s happened is the left-wing counterculture is now grown up and in control of our universities, our media and much of the bureaucracy that rules us.
What did Bill do in Moscow? I have it on good authority that there are some hot, zoftig babes there.
I’m really never inclined to agree with you Aloha Guy, but post #43 is objectively really funny.
Weird typo:
“Brinks robbery that left two Nyack cops dead —”
Well, no. I take that back. A typo is usually accidental — you know… a slip o’ the
lipfinger (on the keyboard).Nyack? No way typing that was accidental, but then what the heck is it?!?!
Dude, the name of the town is Nyack, NY. It’s on long island iirc …
quick wiki check shows it to be upriver of the city in actuality …
Who are you going to believe, Hillary or your lying ears?
What about the hundred grand her brother got from that carnival dude? Did she not know about that one, too?
de pig inna pantsuit…. oh just think about her runnin yo life…. and bubba spending yo taxes on condoms…
sooooieeeeeeeeeeeee
Thank you mistressjustice, I try.
So much for being “uniquely qualified” to be in the White House.
The smartest woman in the world? WOW, she really has grandiose delusions.
How can it be that BHO and Hitlery are the two Demoncrats to choose from? Its like I’m living a Rod Serling episode of The Out Limits, too freakin weird to comprehend.
Could you even imagine an Obama/Clinton ticket? It IS going to happen folks, mark my words right here and now. Its almost like I would love to see it as it would be the best reality TV ever produced! The bigoted Obamas in the “White” House and the Ex Pres as the VP’s hubby. However it would be an utter disaster for our country.
Wouldn’t you just LOVE to be in some of the meetings? Its just to bizarre for your brain to process. They would end up kicking Butthead Bill out of meetings and ban him from the White House as he would think he is running things. MO and Hitlery would be ripping each others hair out and God knows what else. Can you even imagine the possibilities? LMAO
Barbara Olson was killed on 9/11/01 when one of the hijacked planes crashed into the Pentagon. She wrote, “Hell to Pay: The unfolding story of Hillary Rodham Clinton” and “The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House” (published posthumously). If you’re not sick of the Clintons, these books will remind you why you should be.
I think most of you recognize the quote “there are none so blind as those who refuse to see.”
I think this applies to those who will defend and support Curly Clinton, Larry McCain, and Mobama no matter what they say or do.
Wellllll… it is possible she was so busy coordinating pardons for cash through her brother and others…that these just slipped through the cracks.
On the other hand, is she now admitting she was made aware of the other pardons when they were being made?
Like for Rich? the FALN?
Who was responsible for terrorist pardons anyway back then? Perhaps when Schmuckie finds his voice, it will be to announce his investigation into that!
Uh huh.
I am overwhelmed at Hillary’s ability to claim “experience” when so much of what she does is shown factually false. Worse, she has the most convenient ability to overlook bad news from her hubby’s presidency.
The fact Libs are still supporting either Hillary or BHO at this late stage of the campaign shows they are either in extreme denial or that have BDS so bad they cannot cast a rational vote.
Hillary has many flaws and misdeeds to her credit:
missing Rose Law firm billing records;
travelgate;
communist health care plans;
sitting on Walmart’s boards and later critiseze the company;….
Being as big hearted as Bill Clinton, I will forgive her transgressions and vote for her, on one condition:
She has to promise that she will help every single American -legal and illegal, Democrat and Republican - turn a $1000 investment into a 100K portfolio.
That way, two of the serious problems facing the nation will be solved: Deficit (remember the capital gains tax on 99K profits) and dependence on Social Security.
No no no… it’s not lies and misstatements, it’s nuance. And conservatives just aren’t elite enough to get nuance.
See?
One change in the world that you will see with a Obama/Clinton ticket, is the crossing out “destroy America” on signs in the Middle East, replaced with “Vote Democrat” signs. There might even be a democrat rally in Damascus or even Tehran with a new video from Osama.
Let’s see……
I could vote for McCain…(Keating 5)
I could vote for Hillobama…(not much difference between them, really)
Are these people the best we can come up with?
Maybe we should forget about securing the southern border and work on the placement of a fence around Washington D.C.
Pathological lying is the most loathsome of all behavior. No wonder people detest the Clintons so much. They’re just the worst people alive.
Let me synopsize. She “REMEMBERS” landing under sniper fire in Bosnia.
She doesn’t “REMEMBER” Constituents whose husbands were gunned down by Weathermen Underground, seeking and recieving pardons from her Co-President husband.
And she wants to be our latex salesman??
You all know Hitlery will be given ANOTHER “pass” for lying AGAIN. How stupid can some people be? I’ve lost count of the number of blatant lies she’s told since her days in Little Rock to NYC. As jlibertarian #67 said, both she and Bill are pathological liars. Anyone who would consider either of them fit for any job is probably just like them. Although I have not followed Obamarama’s “stellar” career, my gut tells me he’s the same as the Clintons.