Buying Puerto Rico-hillary terrorist sellout

Sen. 'KnowNothing Victim' Clinton Holds News Conference
EFFECTIVELY PLEADS 5TH BY INVOKING SPOUSAL PRIVILEGE by Mia T, February 23, 2001

WASHINGTON- February 22. Sen. KnowNothing Victim Clinton held her premiere press conference today on Capitol Hill, ostensibly to answer questions about the peddling of White House pardons by her brother and her campaign treasurer. Notably absent among the press queries were any about her own involvement not only in those pardons, but in the larger universe of sold pardons--the incipient clinton scandal du jour--Pardongate.

KnowNothing's brother, Hugh Rodham, secured two of the 141 clinton midnight pardons, one for a cocaine kingpin and the other for a snake-oil swindler. Rodham netted a quick $400,000 for his "work" according to various rodhams and clintons and their assorted lawyers. KnowNothing's campaign treasurer, William Cunningham III, himself a law partner of longtime KnowNothing adviser Harold Ickes, helped obtain last-minute pardons for two convicted felons.


LA FAMIGLIA

Displaying a willingness to throw her brother (along with her husband) to the wolves, Sen. Victim Clinton was quick to make a distinction between her big, bad brother's pardon "work" and that of her campaign treasurer, "a fine lawyer and a fine man." The "family" connection of brother Rodham to Clinton rendered Rodham's "work" offensive, whereas the campaign treasurer Cunningham's connection to the senator and her campaign coffers made his securing of two pardons in record time a sterling example of highminded, effective public service.

KnowNothing has apparently not thought this thing through. If the "family" connection makes lobbying for cocaine-kingpin and snake-oil-swindler pardons unsavory for brother Rodham, then the "family" connection makes lobbying for the Hasidim 4 (see Keating 5) pardons even more distasteful for the wife, First Lady and senator-elect. Moreover, pardons for votes is arguably a greater offense than pardons for cash.

EFFECTIVELY PLEADS FIFTH BY INVOKING SPOUSAL PRIVILEGE

KnowNothing specifically declined to answer when asked whether she discussed the pardons with her husband, effectively pleading the fifth. Turning aside questions about the pardon decisions her husband had made, she told reporters they should address those issues with him and his staff. She refused to say whether he should agree to appear voluntarily before congressional committees investigating the pardons. Interestingly, no one asked her whether she would agree to appear voluntarily before those same congressional committees.

I DIDN'T HAVE SEX WITH THAT PARDON

"I did not have any involvement in the pardons that were granted or not granted," insisted Sen. KnowNothing, seeming to forget her presence at the New-Square/Oval-Office schmooze that secured pardons for the four Hasidic felons who set up a phony school in Brooklyn to swindle the government out of millions intended for the poor.


RESURRECTING RUFF

KnowNothing noted that her"best memory" was that she never spoke to her brother or to Mr. Cunningham about the pardons. With variations of "I don't have a memory" and "my best memory, and avoiding the more obvious "I don't recall" and "my best recollection," KnowNothing reprised the Ruffian standard used during the clinton years to commit perjury with impunity.


I GET LETTERS

...or more precisely, envelopes. During her denials of involvement in any of the pardons, KnowNothing made the curious claim: "People handed me envelopes, I passed them on [and never opened a single one. Honest.]"


I AM VICTIM

Reprising the role of victim that enabled her to win a senate seat in spite of low poll numbers, high personal negatives and consistent public failures, the senator peppered her answers about big, bad Hugh (understanding that the subtext was big, bad Bill) with "saddened" and "disappointed" and "heartbroken" and "shocked."

UTTER CONTEMPT FOR THE PEOPLE

This session today was cut short by a staffer when reporters appeared dissatisfied by Senator KnowNothing's lack of candor.

In the end, this press conference full of poses, poll-tested phrases and prevarication was just another display of the clintons' utter contempt for the people. Bill Clinton committed the same error last Sunday in his shameless, lie-filled New York Times Pardongate Apologia.

The clintons' fundamental error: They are too arrogant and dim-witted to understand that the demagogic process in this fiberoptic age isn't about counting spun heads; it's about not discounting circumambient brains.

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[JOWEYPR]

IM puerto rican. Me myself IM againts any kind of terrorism but. WHat hillary was trying to say is: That this people were defending a position of fearness and freedom for puerto rican people. Im sure all american typing here and criticizing acts that go against the USA constitution are not aware of how USA become the strongest country in the world. But let me put it like this, when NAzies where doing that on europe, USA already was doing the same in Puerto RIco. Bombing for freedom!!

[miat1111]

You are confused. The clintons never claimed to support the FALN position or behavior.

What they did was PARDON the FALN DESPITE THEIR UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS WAS TERRORISM SO THAT HILLARY WOULD GET THE PUERTO RICAN VOTE in the 2000 NY Senate race.

The clintons would nail the FALN or any Puerto Rican in a New York minute if it were in their own interest to do so.

The clintons are corrupt, ruthless, self-serving and dangerous. You support them at your own peril. And that of your kids.

[JOWEYPR]

Im not confuse. I can understand your position as an american. BUt im from puerto rico and you dont have clue about what this people was fighting for. That said!! I dont aprove any kind of terrorism but this people werent terrorist. They were trying to achieve something united state try to avoid in Puerto Rico: Independe. How uSA did? Making extortion, intimidation, killing, controling the goverment, and legalizing colonization.

[miat1111]

My point is you are confused about what THE CLINTONS think. They were NOT defending the terrorists. They were BUYING the Puerto Rican vote by pardoning the terrorists. Their justification, that the people who MADE the bombs were not responsible for the deaths, is patently absurd. Even the Dems in Congress didn't buy it. The clintons are self-serving pigs. If they had thought executing the FALN bombmakers would have served their purposes, they would have executed them. (See 'Ricky Ray Rector')

[woodenmajor]

lol ..those democrats sure do like their terrorist pals .

[puertoricoindepencia]

@cualquieraeio it a country to the peple on the iland but in nort america it a colony (bad englis)

[puertoricoindepencia]

@loveangel71 fuk you your a yanki u were born in usa your a yanki im puertorriqueno i was born in puerto rico and raised fuk u they ar hero on the iland fuk u, indipendence is all we wan u yanki fuk wit that i am a nationalista no hacemos terrorismo hacemos libertad (my englis is bad) voy a cagar en la boca de tu madre y voy a encender un bomba en su toto

[ajv51]

The first part of this video is a deliberate distortion. Hillary Clinton was NOT talking about the Puerto Rican terrorists. She was talking about the Weather Underground group led by Terrorist William Ayers.

[loveangel71]

I am Puerto Rican, those motherfucker are disgrace of my people I personally shoot those motherfucker for doing that shit. Fucking disgrace probably paid by Fidel Castro to do those shit. My people fighting for USA for years since Vietnam then those motherfucker screwing everything for my soldiers who died for Puerto Rico and USA.

[clavadormundial]

bombs wut are those things usa drop on other countries candys maricones

[djluna]

It's all propaganda!

[OoooTanya]

Thats the point. The Clintons didnt view what those people did, as acts of freedom. These men were convicted for doing the exact same thing she criticized Obama for WORKING with on a college campus 40 years later..stop making excuses..I understand your down for your people but this isnt an attack on puerto Rico..this is an attack on the contradictions of Hillary Clinton...get off her nuts

[OoooTanya]

Whats that got to do with pardoning criminals?

[cualquieraeio]

Hello Puerto Rico is part of USA.