Posted by
Gabrielle Cusumano on Friday, January 25, 2008 7:58:16 PM
[...]"Morris used this as a reason that Hillary Clinton would not make a good President:
Take that as an index of character and personality. Do you want a president who completely and utterly, makes out of whole cloth, not an exaggeration, fabrication, makes something like that up in order to bond more closely with the rescue workers, the cops, the firemen who booed her offstage?"
"Hillary’s comments as quoted from a transcript of the Dateline piece :
Senator HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON: She'd (Chelsea) gone what she thought would be a great jog. She was going down to the Battery Park, she was going to go around the towers. She went to get a cup of coffee and--and that's when the plane hit.
PAULEY: She was close enough to hear the rumble.
Senator HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON: She did hear it. She did."
Excerpted from:
Chelsea Clinton's September 11th experience
http://www.wnyc.org/blog/lehrer/archives/000064.html
www.911familiesforamerica.org/wp-content/uplo...
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On our show last Friday, Dick Morris said Hillary Clinton is lying in saying her daughter Chelsea was near the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Senator Clinton made the comments in an interview she gave a week after the attacks and Morris says Chelsea contradicted her mother in her own article five months later. The former aide to President Clinton and now syndicated columnist uses this to attack the Senator’s credibility.
But on closer inspection of both Clinton’s accounts, the truth is a little more nuanced. Chelsea wrote that she was watching television in a Union Square apartment when the planes hit, but was in the World Trade Center’s vicinity when they actually collapsed. Senator Clinton seemed to indicate Chelsea was there “when the planes hit,” seemingly confusing this with the event that happened an hour later.
On September 17th 2001, Hillary told Jane Pauley on NBC’s dateline that Chelsea had gone on “what she thought would be a great jog” and that she was going to go around the towers. She followed this with, “and then the plane hit,” leaving the impression that Chelsea was jogging downtown at the time of the collision.
In November, 2001, Chelsea wrote an article in the now-defunct Talk magazine about the day’s experience, and this is where the contradiction arises. Based on press reports of the article, Chelsea doesn’t mention anything about a jog, but she talks about seeing the plane hit the tower on television in the apartment.
Morris took this to mean that Chelsea’s story turns Hillary’s on its head, making Hillary an outright liar and on our show last Friday (and in his book), Morris characterized Hillary’s comments like this:
‘Chelsea decided it would be a great day for a morning jog and she jogged around the towers of the world trade center. She heard the airplane hit, she heard it she did. And she was saved because she had ducked into a coffee shop.’ Now we know that’s a lie. Chelsea 5 months later wrote an article for Talk magazine saying she was home in her apartment.
With these comments, Morris says you get the impression that Hillary’s account puts Chelsea downtown when the planes hit. Here are Hillary’s comments as quoted from a transcript of the Dateline piece he refers to:
Senator HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON: She'd gone what she thought would be a great jog. She was going down to the Battery Park, she was going to go around the towers. She went to get a cup of coffee and--and that's when the plane hit.
PAULEY: She was close enough to hear the rumble.
Sen. CLINTON: She did hear it. She did.
PAULEY: And to see the smoke...
Hillary doesn’t mention anything about Chelsea being “saved” by the coffee shop, but the mention of jogging so close to the planes being hit, might suggest Chelsea was in more danger than she actually was.
Also, Morris says Hillary is referring to the planes hitting when Hillary says, “she did hear it,” but the rumble they refer to is more likely to be the towers collapsing than a planes’ collision. (and there is always the possibility that NBC edited out comments in between).
At the time of Chelsea’s article, Matt Drudge made a big deal of this by quoting Chelsea as saying she was “miles from Ground Zero -- when she learned of the attacks!”
But Chelsea did write that she was downtown when the towers actually collapsed (“12 blocks away”). She had over an hour to get from Union Square (where she saw the – presumably second – collision at 9:03 AM ) to lower Manhattan (where she was when the towers collapsed at 10:05 AM). Mapquest estimates the distance at 2.1 miles.
For more of this excerpted article go to:http://www.wnyc.org/blog/lehrer/archives/000064.html
And for His Part
www.coxandforkum.com/archives/06.09.26.Clinto...
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"During the period from 1997 to 1999, as Bill Clinton struggled to keep from being impeached and removed from office for perjury and obstruction of justice, and while he worked to keep a lid on the Chinagate scandal, al-Qaeda metastasized into a deadly international threat to America.
In 1998, while al-Qaeda plotted and bombed American targets, Bill Clinton held but two cabinet meetings: One to lie to his cabinet, the other to confess his lie after it was confirmed he allowed Monica Lewinsky to leave the White House with her blue dress covered in his s-men after an
or-- s-x session. " Excerpted from:http://www.dcchapter.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=57
The Truth by Those Who Wrote What They Saw
Rememberance Archives of all Live Threads on September 11, 2001
"Bookmark this thread, and bump it from time to time when the nation and the press seems to forget why we need resolve in the face of evil, and recall the horror and fury." (paraphrased) Excerpted from http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/620413/posts:
Free Republic ^ | 9-11-01 | FReepers
Posted on 02/02/2002 12:08:43 AM EST by Starrgaizr
World Trade Center
*** PLANE CRASH - WORLD TRADE CENTER ***
Plane Crashes into World Trade Center
SECOND PLANE FLIES INTO OTHER TOWER!
2nd Explosion in other World Trade Tower Building - 2nd Airplance =Terrorist Attack?
AP: 737 PLANE WAS HIJACKED AND CRASHED INTO WORLD TRADE CENTER
President Bush calling this a Terrorist Attack
First Wire Reports on World Trade Center Attacks
Possible Explosion at Pentagon - NBC News
Third plane? Also Pentagon hit!
Flash - Another explosion next to World Trade Center
TOP OF WORLD TRADE CENTER JUST COLLAPSED!
WORLD TRADE CENTER COLLAPSES!!!!
BBC: Palestinian Groups takes "responsibility"
UNCONFIRMED: Another hijacked plane
Second Tower just went!!!
FReeoples Bar & Grill // Thread 165 -- EMERGENCY THREAD
Hijacked plane crashed
US TERROR BOMBING PHOTOS - (slow-many images)
Please pray for us
Excerpted from: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/620413/posts