Friday, November 09, 2007
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Clinton Lied About Tip
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Posted by:
Patrick Ruffini at
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So it turns out the Clinton camp didn't tip after all.
Kos is running with this:
Esterday said "nobody got tipped that day," and NPR should have checked with the Clinton campaign before the story aired to see if any tip was left and how it was done. We regret that this was not done. On Thursday, Esterday was sticking by her story.
"Why would I lie about not getting a tip?" she told NPR. She also maintained that her co-workers at the restaurant had not received tips.
A Clinton campaign staffer called on Esterday at the restaurant Thursday after the story aired. The staff member apologized to her and gave her a $20 bill, according to Esterday. The Clinton campaign confirmed that visit. The campaign also produced photocopies of receipts showing $157.46 was paid to Maid-Rite on a VISA card on Oct. 8 for meals consumed by the candidate's entourage. The tip was supposed to have been paid in cash, and the campaign insisted such a payment was made but has declined to make available a staff member who was present at Maid-Rite and left tip money [...]
"Where Hillary was sitting, there was no tip left," Crawford said.
I wonder when they'll update the "Fact Hub"?
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The manager interviewed in the Fox story was not there during the Clinton campaign visit.
I would suggest that it is the Fox story, which failed to speak with any wait staff, that is heavily edited. None of the wait staff got a tip. As to beating Hillary, it is the issues that beat Hillary. Her lack of character and her melt downs under even moderate questions from friendly journalists are only icing on the cake. |
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And if that and the very troubled Kathleen Willey is all we have to defeat Hillary, we are in deep trouble. Very deep toruble.
The most important fact left out of this article (purposely?) is that accornd to FOX NEWS (not NPR) is that according tothe restaurant management, the cointon crowd in fact did leave a $100.00 tip.
who it was distributed to is not their concern.
ON that note, the restaurant manager did not say who tipped out the servers. But he DID say that he was certain they left a $100.00 tip.
there is absolutley no way that hillary's team would be that stupid. And thats got nothing to do with "generosity" or being tightwads.
Its about smart politics.
I dont believe this story. And it deeply troubles me because it appears to be a deliberate and misleading omission of relevant facts by conservative
writer(s) -who should be above deception for policital expediency. Are we that desperate?
I read the The report on the FOX News internet site today (Monday evening) (NOT NPR) FOX also reported that according to the restaurtant management, the clinton entourage also potched in and helped the serving staff with some of their work.
This is a cheap stunt and should be above honest conservatives. .
Read the entire FOX NEWS report-not this heavily edited reprt.
This is shameful reportage.
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lying, manipulative, cowardly, codependent, clueless, enabling, vengeful, paranoid, brittle, intolerant, myopic, socialist B***h tips or not. She must NOT gain the White House. Especially and critically NOT in this Huge Time of WAR.
Nope. Nada. Neyet. Nein. Never. |
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The report you are relying on has been displaced by the facts. Read the article up top. You might get the point yet. |
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Hillary wants to be President, she has a campaign fund of millions. Do you really expect her to remember to tip a waitress making minimum wage and living on her tips? Of course not, because she doesn't care about the little people, oh, wait a minute, that's us! |
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But to act so incompetently about it is ridiculous. How hard is it for the richest, money-awash campaign to go out and give a really good tip? And if they wait staff lost or someone filched it, so what? Give more. I would have turned this into an opportunity to demonstrate how much I care for hard working people by giving a monster tip. JFK, right after his election, went to mass. When they took up the collection, he realized he was fresh out of cash. He quietly borrowed a $20 from his aide - he knew that people would notice if he stifed the collection.
In and of itself, the tip is incredibly mionr. But as a window into the organization that is allegedly under the control of the smartest woman on earth, it is incredibly telling - defensive, petty, dissembling, cheap, awkward, and manipulative. It does not matter if the MSM follows this story or not. The story is only a symptom. It is the pathology underlying the story that is of interest. Just like her pro-illegal alien pandering, just like her question planting, just like her long history of treating those who serve her very badly, we are seeing a Hillary not even Bill can dress up.
As for who tips, ask wait staff - there are credible studies that show it is hard core dem voting groups who regularly stiff on tips. |
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If Clinton left a big tip, the complaint on the Right would be that she used campaign money illegally - in the same assinine vein as sniggling about $700 haircuts. She can't win in the hypocrite's arena when the Right insists on playing lowball.
And come on, peeps - we ALL know that this was a mistake. The only people who would think - on purpose - to stiff a wait staff of their due gratuity would be some "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" lunatic trying to make a point by using a waitress who can't make a living wage without tips. |
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Its no wonder you kooks lose seats every election! |
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Hillary Clinton shouldn't be president because she may or may not have left a tip at a restaurant. |
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Conspiracy! It was an inside job! Crop circles! Muppets! Run...they're all after you! |
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and he still walking on egg shells...so! what's the big deal. I can't even see people typing about these people.....30 years of a Bush and Clinton it's as if out of 300 million to choose from "we the people" can only find...people hidden in closets, it's not a color thing, hillbilly's of Hollywood pinkie finger things and I save New York. All the while this great union goes to sh!! in a hand basket. The founding fathers put their life on the line to get away from King George and 231 years later.........the King still rules!
Damn this nation has to have the dumbest people in the World cause 179 countries are laughing to the bank while Uncle Sam and the American people don't have a pot to "p" in are a window to throw it out!
Soviet Leader Khrushchev, put it this way…
"You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism out right, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you fall like over-ripe fruit into our hands."
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well, the damn fruit is ripe from San Francisco to Washington D. C.
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The word God is off the coins and Washington's Monument and 10% of 300 million people make the other 90% eat sh!!.
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Only in America......don't improve the wages and the life of people....just keep on buying cheap crap and to damn dumb to realize that is why they in the shape they in now!
Only in America! |
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why anyone is surprised by this? People who are deceitful are also greedy and cheap. I really would have been shocked to hear that she left a huge tip!!
We should also not be surprised to hear about the planted questions. I mean, what do you really expect from Hillary? This is the tip of the iceberg. Everybody wake up or she could be the next leader of the free world. |
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Tell us why this doesn't matter instead of coming here with your hit-and-run comment.
If Hillary did not hold herself up as the champion of the poor, the down-trodden, the common man, etc. this could be a non-issue.
Don't you think it telling that neither Hillary nor the people with whom she surrounds herself thought to leave a decent tip? Face it, leaving a tip just was not that important to them. If it is a priority to take care of people who serve you, a mistake like this simply is not made.
In my world, it is just what I do, and failing to leave a tip just would NOT happen. And to the one who mentioned bad service, I think that is just an excuse for some people to stiff the wait staff. I try to have some understanding. Maybe she is having a bad day. Maybe the restaurant is understaffed. There could be any number of reasons that the service is not as good as I would expect, but I never take it personally, and I would never leave less than 15%. I can honestly say, my children and I nearly always receive excellent, cheerful, friendly service, and the wait staff is always appreciated by us!
Do I think this is a huge deal? No, I do not, but I think it is indicative of an attitude. Hillary and her people failing to leave a tip just shows that service workers (a huge part of the population) just are not that important to them. The people she has chosen to surround herself with are just as uncaring about people as she is. |
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Clinton Staff Planted Question at Forum
TH-An aide for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a Grinnell College student a question to ask the Democratic presidential candidate during a forum this week in central Iowa.
That the question had been planted by the campaign was not mentioned at the event.
“This is not standard policy and will not be repeated again,” the campaign said in a statement issued Friday night. Clinton herself did not know when she called on the student that the question had been suggested by one of her staff, the campaign said.
READ MORE
http://controlcongress.com/uncategorized/clinton-staff-plan ted-question-at-forum
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here.
I remember "Iron Mike" Dukakis in the tank...he looked like freakin' 'Kazoo' from the Flintstones....
John Forbes Kerry did the same thing in the turtle suit at NASA.... 'Swift-Boated' himself... |
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I remember seeing Dukakis in a tank! What a hoot. That shot alone cost him the presidency. Then there was Richard Nixon wearing a 5 o'clock shadow under a klieg light. Edwards haircut, Bill Clinton's haircut at LAX which closed two runways while Christophe worked his magic (To hell with the traffic controllers workload), John Kerry falling down while snowboarding and blaming it on his secret service protection team all point out to pols completely out of touch with those they supposedly care about.
Give me a break. Hillary missed an opportunity to overtip even if the service was marginal. A $40 dollar tip in this case seems cheap by comparison to the bad publicity. |
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Briggsy
The no tip incident is but another piece of baggage in her campaign. GHWB's ignorance of the grocery scanner is not the best example, yet you wander into the right conclusion by closing with Perot.
Hillary's problems run far deeper. Setting aside for a moment that she is only marginally more experientially qualified than Obama, she has the whole of the Clinton legacy chained to her leg in a radically different media world. And then there are her negatives.
That she shorted a working class woman her tip and then lied about it is in microcosm what is really wrong with her. |
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Briggsy
The no tip incident is but another piece of baggage in her campaign. GHWB's ignorance of the grocery scanner is not the best example, yet you wander into the right conclusion by closing with Perot.
Hillary's problems run far deeper. Setting aside for a moment that she is only marginally more experientially qualified than Obama, she has the whole of the Clinton legacy chained to her leg in a radically different media world. And then there are her negatives.
That she shorted a working class woman her tip and then lied about it is in microcosm what is really wrong with her. |
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Stupidity prevails at TH - the world is as it should be. |
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Good news for Chillary Rod'em, Broom Pilot in Chief:
The Son-of-a-Millworker got booed last night at a John Cougar Mellonhead concert in Iowa. Can you imagine that? How would Janet Reno's Massachusets Bride have faired at the concert?
We know, Piggsy, that you aren't just holding your nose and voting for the bloated sow, you dig Hillary Rod'em and are blogging for her every day here.
Other than the PaulBots, as soon as we have a nominee, we are going to coalesce behind him and kick Frau Rod'em back to Chappaqua. |
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Is that why he was married to 6 women, or was he just generous?
Is it the same tip he showed Jack Henry Abbott, before Abbott let the air out of the waiter in the alley? Was that bad service?
Did Mailer have the same appreciation for Abbott that Truman Capote had for Perry Smith? Or like Mark Foley has for Briggsy and Pancreatic Liberal?
7 out of 8 bloated, alcholic, hedonist, vain, gasbag,"intellectuals" surveyed prefered Hillary Rod'em Rod'em to Babakazama. |
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regarding the coverup (lying) by Clinton is ugly too.
But I tell you, people notice stuff like this.
Most of us who live in America are the "little people". Most of us are only a paycheck or two away from significant financial trouble, if not insolvency. We work hard to support our families, pay our taxes, and pay our bills, and with what's left over put shoes on our kids feet and if we're lucky, help them get an education. If we're really fortunate, we'll be able to retire before we die and not have to eat dog food in the State Home.
And then, like Dottie, most of us who are fortunate enough to be able to eat out in a restaurant once in awhile take special care to tip the wait staff ... because we know they're struggling to get by too, and they can't get by on two bucks and change an hour (restaurant wages). Now if we poor stiffs can tip the waitress, the rich can and damn well better do so too!
Then a candidate comes along who preens and prances and tells us one and all that SHE's the one who works for the Little People. Well, SHE more than any other person in America had better make damn sure that the waitress gets a nice tip.
A $20 tip on a $159 tab is an insult, by the way .. that's only 13%! On a large party, the mininum tip should be double that. What a Piker! I mean, if you're going to lie about it, lie impressively ... say you left her a $50 tip! |
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What it shows - nothing more, nothing less - is Hillary! hasn't lived in a world where people tip their waitress for a long, long time.
That's hardly a surprise - Governor's wife, First Lady, Senator, Presidential Candidate .... these types of people have "people" who are supposed to pay attention to these things (if, that is, the meal's not getting comped in the first place).
Hillary! is the candidate. She should have more on her mind than "make sure the waitress gets tipped" - in fact, if she's involved at that level of detail, it's a NEGATIVE (are we going to repeat Carter making out the schedule for use of the tennis court?).
The story says whoever was managing the event for Hillary! didn't take care of the little people. It - that one of her people screwed up - is an embarrassment to a candidate who regularly professes her care & concern for them.
That's about the extent of it.
And for you lefties who are having a fit about the attention it's getting - yes, some folks are making too much of it .... but it was still one of yours who stiffed the staff. Ya'll ought to have the decency to be embarrassed. |
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"The positive result is that
all the campaigns will be sure to tip generously from now on.
Not even election day yet, and the HRC Administration is already improving life for working people."
I suppose you really think this helps Ms. Wide Load, in the same way that "Let them eat cake!" cemented Marie Antoinette in the hearts of her starving people?
You may be on to something there, y'know! Briggsy, you dems really have your finger on the pulse of the poor working stiffs, don'tcha!
I still remember well how the MSM piled on to Bush 41 in the 92 campaign, when he acted surprised at the use of scanning technology in the grocery check-out lane ... the storyline was, "Look how out of touch this guy is relative to the little people!"
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, the old saying goes.
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affliction. He loved and championed 'The People' in his 'Republic of Virtue', known to history as The Terror, but had no stomach for the people.
Vladimir Ilyich, known as Lenin, had similar qualities when it came to the 'proletarians' he was supposedly leading to the communist utopia.
You've nailed a trait very common on the Left. The
hoytie-toyties always know best for 'the folks'. Here's an excellent current example: Having learned absolutely nothing from the wreckage of State Socialism in the West, much less the pathetic carnage of Socialized Medicine in Wetern Europe and Canada, Hillary and her clones(most of them wealthy)now want to try it here on The People!
A POX on all Utopians.
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This is really a tempest in a teapot. Sheesh folks there are so many differences between Hillary and the Republican canididates that we should be able to come up with something better than "she stiffed a poor waitress.
Neither Hillary or ANY of the caniditates tip. That is what their go-fers and staff is for. If someone on the staff forgot to leave at tip, he or she should judt own up to it.
Like most political storms this one is more about the "little white lie" that has become talking point for Hillary's opponents.
On the other hand, maybe the waitress did not deserve a tip. Bad service? |
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More frightening is the fact that RCP and even Ras. have polls which show that some doltish Republican women are supposedly lured into voting for the Hildabeast. While tipping will not tip them to do that, what would? Hil is a female? Ugh. If one is female and wants a strong woman to lead, protect, actually be a force in the world, why not wait till an American Thatcher, Golda Meir, or a past American like Claire Booth Luce and Jeanne Kirkpatrick comes along before one goes off the mental reservation to support a woman of no experience, no CEO understanding, no military or foreign policy understanding and is a socialist pacifist? For Pubs or Independents or even thinking Dem females to salivate over Her Highness is downright loony. |
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Speaking as one of the illiterati, I am supposed to sleep well at night knowing that HRC did not have a job briefing with her minions regarding how to handle eating/tipping while dining on the campaign trail? Sure doesn't give me a warm/fuzzy when I think of her handling affairs of state!
Predictable that the loons-of-the-left blow it off as insignificant. Since when is character not a leadership trait? I forgot, it is the same rationale as hiding behind freedom of speech. It is only free if you agree with them. Otherwise, there is no freedom of speech. |
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It was not intentional. Come on. They should bill the mean and tip on the credit card. Because there is no service charge, a tip is not optional. It's expected (at least to 15%). But the staff forgot and did not tip.
But it is not that Hillary told anyone not to tip, it is something that frankly did not cross her mind. Wait staff being paid? Hillary is indifferent, until of course she is facing an embarassing situation. Rather than say, oops, she lies about it.
It is the lie that shows the window into Hillary's character. It is not pretty. |
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Because it's a largely anonymous act between you and your wait-staff, tipping is a window into one's civic morality.
When in a large crowd at Spark's in NYC it's easy to pick up the tab and leave 25% because you would never walk in the door if you weren't knee-deep in cash.
But when your Hillary it's a small gathering and especially at a low-end eatery such as MIaid-Rite, it doesn't advance your image among friends or the press to conspicuously tip, in fact, she may well have felt that there was no political downside to stiffing the staff, after all, to use the phrase from Leona Helmsley in a different context, they're the "little people."
It recalls the adage that says a person's character is best revealed when dealing with someone who can do absolutely nothing for him, which, of course, is the modern version of the Christian notion that, "Whatever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto Me."
Best,
Phil Mella
http://clearcommentary.townhall.com
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http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/26285/
and of course, he always tipped generously. |
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You are right, I messed up on that one. Sorry. |
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She doesn't like people. Actual "people". Lower case "p" people.
Oh, she'll talk about doing all sorts of things for...The People. But regular people with name tags on their waitress uniforms.
Eh. They should just count themselves lucky she graced their unwashed presence and then took their hard luck stories to embellish a campaign speech.
Sorry, but I have to be suspicious of anybody who so obviously doesn't like people devoting themselves to public service.
It just doesn't jive. It suggests of other motivations.
She is the Richard M. Nixon of the Democratic Party. |
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You and that pesky S/A86 keep my severely neoconservatized bones laughing. Thanks, Boy-yos! |
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strangeness, he was known as a big tipper. |
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Norman Mailer died. I liked the Executioner's Song a lot. It is a great novel.
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2815238 Here is Norman Mailer and Rip Torn getting in a fight that may have been real. |
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Those of you who are ranting that this is not important are simply kissing the buttocks of Hillary Clinton. If it is so unimportant, why bother to post?
I have five children, and we enjoy eating out like everybody else. I know how hard waitressing is (I put myself through college doing it), and I know they do not make nearly enough money for the work they do. I always make sure to leave a generous tip (usually between 20-25%) because I think a party of six is a high maintenance table (drink refills, food ordered, etc). All of my children know that the waitress is to be treated with the utmost respect, and she is to be tipped. But what do I know--I'm just a mean, stingy conservative.
Hillary, on the other hand, claims to care about the "little people." She claims we should do things to help them (but what she really means is the taxpayers should do something to help them, and not her personally). The truth is that a story like this shows her true character. She thinks waitresses are unworthy of her concern, and people exist to serve her and should be happy to do it. Wasn't she the First Lady who treated the White House staff in a disgraceful manner? All I have to say is what Hillary says and what Hillary does are two VERY different things!
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You think I am "bad"?
Then please do not explore my response to you on the thread about, Sarkozy's speech". |
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Mechanically Blind:
You dimocrat chimps have a funeral to attend: Norman Mail has finally died, and this time he isn't kidding.
All of the cognoscenti of your ilk, your pod, your cell will be there simultaneously rending their clothing and washing down brie with white whine. Don't miss it. It is sure to be as relvant, uplifting and fashionable as the Paul Welfare bacchanale.
Don't let the hatch hit you in your bloated keysters on the way out. |
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to the bone. Bad, do you hear? Really rotten. ;-))
Plumber: Good point. And Southern Methodist U. is the seat of Jihadism. Good that the nitwits have their priorities accurate and in order. A-Mazin'. |
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people who actually serve her--even to the point of common courtesy--what makes anyone think she will do what is right for anyone else?
I see this as an omen. She even takes money away from the lowest paid among the working class...
Her spokesman claims to have left $100 tip... Then claims to have returned and left a $20 tip... Not clear...
We'll probably never get the full story; but here's where using a credit card would have made everything really, really easy to document... |
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...story as inferred by a few folks here----is it not fascinating how many keystrokes have been contributed to it?
LP, PL, IP, whatever, has even taken the time to post twice---whew!
Of course, the world would not be complete without sage words and wisdom from Liberal's Pathetique. |
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PL probably thinks that the Columbia School of Journalism is a hotbed of radical conservative thought.
Chuckle for the day:) |
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"...hard news stories of great importance to the nation." Boy, I agree with this. Next you'll tell me there was once a story about Bush senior's character and grocery store scanners. Like I'd believe that too!! C'mon it's just "... Hugh (er Ruffini) trying to rouse the rabble, so to speak." |
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Don't you love stories like this? How stupid can they be? |
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Hillary has hired professionals to help her "triangulate", "compartmentalize", "deflect" and to "parse", all designed to create an air of inevitability about her election. Big money is paid for these services. Hillary must appear "Presidential". The Smartest Woman In The World (a moniker bestowed upon the Witch of Arkansas by the now discredited MSM)has, with her capped teeth and heavy trailer park make-up, resorted to planting questions, soliciting the services of the less fortunate without so much as leaving a "tip", and shame of shames, lying about her action directly in the face of those slighted. Wait, didn't this all happen before, I seem to remember a Clinton shaking his finger in my face and assuring me "I did not have sex with that woman". I get it now, when a baby is born in Arkansas they undergo a surgical procedure where the baby's integrity is removed and replaced with a crass, corrupting, imperative to lie. |
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PL+LP continues to prove his powers of simple observation and basic reasoning. The Main Stream Media Newsies are "as right wing today as they were Liberal 3 decades ago."
The old looks like a duck saying doesn't apply here for our brainy lefty: "If it looks Left in the media and talks Left and slants Left and votes left overwhelmingly--Well, then, IT MUST BE RIGHT WING." PL+LP, 4:35am...
No doubt a product of our gov't schools. Scary. |
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You know what, I think this is just a blog story at this time. It hasn't seeped into the corporate MSM, and in fact, Daily Kos is a liberal site. It will probably make it in there, although right now, the corporate MSM is more focused on some ginned-up questions at an HRC news conference.
The broader comments in my post above are true, of course, but in this case, its just Hugh trying to rouse the rabble, so to speak. |
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...is a pathetic joke. The tabloid fury with which they cover the Clintons, added with the breathless and florid nonsense from the Right, is as disgraceful as it is lame. Any Democrat will have to break through this filter to get elected. The tabloidization of the news is made to order for the Republican party. Combined with the "for profit" ethos of modern news rooms, and well paid celebrity journalists, the media today is as right-wing as it was liberal three decades ago. You guys are in the cat-birds seat. Too bad your worldview and policy ideas are so second-rate. Otherwise you would wallop us every time. One thing the American voter cannot deny, despite the mockery the MSM makes of the electoral process, is that this generation of Republicans is not cut from the same cloth as prior generations. This generation of Republicans cannot govern. But again, between talk radio, Foxnews, and the broader corporate MSM, the Republicans should never lose an election.. |
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This whole thing was just stupid.
This whole issue is a matter of character, and the Clinton campaign showed it's true character by trying to cover up and refute the allegations that were made.
If the Clinton campaign had just come out and said, "Hey, we screwed up. We thought that we had paid the tip, but since the waitress says we didn't, here's the $100 bucks. No harm, no foul." Then the Liberals would be correct when saying this was a non-issue.
But what was the Campaign's first reaction? It's first reaction was to deny and refute. Hillary is worth millions of dollars and has a Senate paycheck worth around $160,000 /yr. Her campaign has been recieving around $20- $40 million a quarter, and no one from the Clinton camp thought to just hand the waitress a hundred bucks and issue an apology for making a simple mistake?
Like I said, this isn't an issue about a tip to a working woman. This is an issue about Hillary Clinton's and her campaign's character, and neither entity showed very much of it. |
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Deal...no imperiousness.
Don't get me wrong. I make no judgements on what you claim about the current Imperial Presidency, for I think I knoweth not enough. I merely say that I agree with you that it is important to select the next one with that criteria in mind--how likely she is to trample over others.
And as far as "pearl-clutching", I learned the hard way back in my fighter-squadron days (yes, true, true) that when you screwed up, the hardest way to get the incident behind you was to try to avoid your rightful licks.
Virulent? Hardly. Once again, if Mrs. Clinton's campaign does not provide the fodder, I myself will not go foraging for it. But on the other hand, if something is served up on a silver platter, I intend to dine. |
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Quoth the New York Times:
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"Ms. Esterday said she did not understand what all the commotion was about.
“You people are really nuts,” she told a reporter during a phone interview. “There’s kids dying in the war, the price of oil right now — there’s better things in this world to be thinking about than who served Hillary Clinton at Maid-Rite and who got a tip and who didn’t get a tip.”
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It's rare when the actual person you're trying to "protect" calls the virulent anti-Clinton people out so simply.
The pearl-clutching concern about the Clinton campaign's tip-giving policies and how "character counts" will continue up until Hillary wins the election, and beyond. Townhall will, I'm sure, document every "scandal" and loudly protest every gaffe and misstatement, forgetting "BDS" ever existed.
Better, as if by divine power, Townhall will re-discover the need for strong checks and balances to the Imperial Presidency. Gosh, I sure hope we don't have a White House that pressures intelligence agencies to supply it with selectively-chosen information!
Or, more simply, "You people really are nuts."
http://www.themechanicaleye.com
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It is an indicator of HRC's:
Arrogance
Lack of Credibility
Lack of Concern for those making minimum wage
She is as phony as the day is long - there is not a sincere bone in her body.
Character counts - we go on all day about this issue and that, but if a candidate lacks character, he/she will not handle the difficult new issues that they will face. HRC lacks character - so did her husband - but he could fool people into thinking he had it, she cannot. |
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Soothsayer,
I point you to the following quote from Conrad, The Shadow Line:
"...a man should stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience, and all that sort of thing. Why--what else would you have to fight against?"
Neither the good colonel, nor KGK, nor Townhall, nor you, nor myself stiffed a working stiff. The Presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton did. Period. Full stop.
Those are the facts, and I suggest you deal with them as a person of integrity does. In the grand scheme of things, does it matter? Only if a candidate perhaps has an image of being imperious to start with--certainly not the case here, no?
You can attack all you want in a way characteristic of someone who cares more for election results than on standards of behaviour, but that does not change the fact that Mrs. Clinton's campaign messed up, and it was of their own doing--not KGK's, not Bat Guano's, not Townhall's.
Credibility is like a checking account. When you put good money on a bad fight, not only may you lose the money, but you may find others somewhat unwilling to take your checks when you care to make downpayments on other fights in the future.
Finally, while the facts may still be in some question, $20 is 12.7% of $157.46, so not only did they stiff her, but some college grad decided that making it up via an undertip was good enough for the rustic. I wasn't there--perhaps Esterday's service was actually lousy and undeserving of a tip, but it seems to me that when you are campaigning in the public eye there are certain indiginities you have to put up with, so that your enablers do not have to make snarky comments on blogs when you mess up.
Unless you truly are imperious, that is, in which case, "let them eat cake". With $20.
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The Clinton campaign's explanation that they paid the tip 'in cash' is just plain baloney.
When you're using a credit card to pay for a business expense, you just simply add the tip to the payment on the credit card.
That's how everyone does it.
If one of the staffers were to pay the tip IN CASH, they would have ABSOLUTELY NO receipt or paper trail to document a campaign expenditure.
I mean, are we supposed to believe that one of Hillary's little junior staffers was going to pay the tip on a $160 meal out of their own pocket...and do so without getting reimbursed via documentation ?
Baloney.
The Clinton campaign is LYING.
By the way, their alleged "$20 tip" on a large party that accrued a $160 bill is...c-h-e-a-p !
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Thanks for the covering hard news stories of great importance to the nation. |
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Today, Hil and her campaign got caught planting a question at an Iowan rally. She promised on her Bible not to do it again. |
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doesn't tip. What's wrong with this plebe anyway? Why didn't she just bow when Hilliary graced her greasy spoon with Her presence?? |
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