The Anchoress
From the NY Times, of course: Anti-Clinton Donor Reported as Donor to Giuliani.
Not just a donor to Giuliani but – gasp – an anti-Clinton donor!
The writer, the ever-obsequious Raymond Hernandez has had his head remarkably far up Mrs. Clinton’s backside for years. But this headline, and the story, just cracked me up.
Have you ever read George Soros described as an “anti-Bush donor?” Nah. He was simply a donor! A concerned guy with money! And if he compared Bush to Hitler and stuff – well, that was just politics, right? He didn’t mean nuthin’ by it!
But this fella, Richard Collins — he is much different than Soros, or Jeffrey Epstein or Steve Bing or any of the other profoundly rich people who donated heavy cash to the Democrats specifically because they detested President Bush. They were just making political donations. Collins — he is a nefarious anti-Clinton donor!
It’s one of the things that has fascinated me over the past ten years – the press’ seeming perspective that there are Clintons and Clinton supporters, and then there is the rest of the world, which contains – among other things – anti-Clintites.
Those are very, very bad people, the anti-Clintites. The don’t simply dissent, they actually focus their dissent on the god and goddess in particular. Let them be identified!
All you anti-Clinton people – thou anti-Clintites! Come forth, and be so labeled! Your branding will begin after lunch!
And get this, I love this part of the story:
While the Giuliani camp has no direct connection to Stop Her Now, some Democrats argued yesterday that Mr. Giuliani — who seems poised for a possible presidential run of his own — should disavow the personal nature of the criticisms that the group is leveling at Mrs. Clinton.
Awwwww…that group says mean things about Mrs. Clinton! Giuliani must publicly disavow them! “Some Democrats” (aka, “we in the media”) say so!
Those aren’t the rules for any other politician but for Rudy (or whoever ends up running against Hillary) this will be the additional requirement: all donors must be screened to make sure they haven’t said anything bad about Mrs. Clinton and if they have, they must be disavowed by Giuliani and his whole team. And probably, if he really wanted to prove that he is a good guy and all, Giuliani should return checks to anyone who checks out as a rabid “anti-Clintite!”
This over-protectiveness of Hillary Clinton is not new, by the way, reporter Andrea Mitchell was doing it ‘way back in 2000 when Rudy dared to make a mild joke about Clinton, Mitchell said he was “in Hillary’s face.” You decide:
In a July 6 NBC Nightly News profile of Mayor Giuliani Andrea Mitchell asserted: “His friend and enemies agree he’s brash, arrogant, aggressive — the ultimate New Yorker. A perfect opponent for the First Lady. And today after she opened her exploratory committee he’s already in her face about being a carpet-bagger.”
Giuliani: “You should always explore. Exploring is a good thing. Who can have anything against exploring.”
Mitchell: “Still an undeclared candidate he’s raising money, traveling the state and ridiculing the First Lady’s newfound interest in New York.”
Giuliani joking on the Late Show with David Letterman: “I’m going to get off the plane in Little Rock and I’m going to say ‘I’ve never lived here, I’ve never worked here, I ain’t never been here, but I think it would be cool to be your Senator.’”
Dear God, what a monster is Rudy! Brand him too! Anti-Clintite!
Because you can’t have ugliness in politics, no sir! Saying anything remotely not-positive about Mrs. Clinton, why that’s just ‘way over the top, unconscionable. That would be as bad as say, politicians referring to George W. Bush as Alfred E. Neumam or, you know, someone going too far and calling a politician “a nazi” or, you know, nasty stuff like that.
Hillary Clinton has been treated with kid gloves by the press for as long as she has been in the public eye. Remember the Oprah-esque presser she threw where she wore the pink skirt suit and she and various news gals sat in a chummy circle while Hillary said, essentially:
“honestly, I have no idea how I made $100,000 in cattle futures in one week, from a teensy $1,000 investment. I just gave the check to the guy and he did the deal! I am just a simple woman! No, it never occurred to me to ask how I got such a return! Isn’t that silly of me? Us girls are so silly! You know, I never did think to ask that smart man to make me more money like that, since he did so good the first time! Isn’t the world mean to even ask me about this silly subject?”
And the presswomen around her sighed and said, essentially,
“yeah, Hillary, it’s silly and we shouldn’t even be listening to those old time-wasters, should we? They’re just mean and they don’t understand how great you are, like we do. But don’t worry, Hillary, we’ll protect you! But you know, the pink suit, that’s got to go! Let’s have a makeover! From now on, whenever you want to soften your effect, just wrap a cashmere cardigan around your shoulders! Yeah, right over your suit jacket, that’s fine! Boy, you’re great, Hillary!”
I think it was just about at that point that I began to heave up my lunch and one of my lungs in revulsion at the whole Cult-of-Clinton thing, and took a big step center.
Oh, no! Can it be I too am an “anti-Clintite?” Now that I’ve written that will Rudy (or whoever runs against Hillary in ‘08) have to publicly disavow me and return my piddly-assed check to me, to keep politics from getting too mean?
Our Hillary! She’s bringing decency, sweetness and light back to our poisonous political process! How’d she get to be so damn great? Then again, maybe some of us wouldn’t be so tempted to “mean-ness” if the press weren’t so incredibly deferential as to almost dare us to sneer.
I’m going back to work…
(Post recovered thanks to the wayback machine.)
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