Hillary's a liar too! From Media Research:
In his new book, Bill & Hillary: The Marriage, author Christopher Andersen makes several newsworthy revelations, including one about how Hillary hired a private detective in 1982 who determined Bill had current relationships with eight woman, thus directly contradicting Hillary Clinton's claim that Bill was faithful for a ten-year period at some point.
But in morning show interviews this week on NBC's Today and CBS's This Morning, the hosts refused to delve into that or some other explosive areas and challenged his claim that Hillary had a long term affair with Vince Foster. The interviewers preferred to spend much of the interviews talking about the Talk interview. Andersen's many favorable comments about the Clintons and concerns for Chelsea showed he cannot be dismissed as a Clinton hater.
"These statements appear to fly in the face of, to some extent at least, of Mrs. Clinton's latest explanation of how it was between her and Bill for a decade," Brit Hume observed on Tuesday's Special Report with Brit Hume. Fred Barnes recalled: "All these things have been reported before, back in 1993, by the American Spectator. David Brock wrote that piece Troopergate and all this stuff was in there, widely denounced by the rest of the American press and denied by the Clintons I believe, including Hillary, and now we see them in a whole new context now that Hillary has officially declared her husband as having a sexual problem."
-- On Tuesday's Today, as transcribed by MRC intern Ken Shepherd, Couric began by asking: "Are you surprised that Mrs. Clinton has decided to come out and talk extensively about their relationship?" Getting to his book she set him up: "What is new about their relationship in this book and do you think people really care?"
Andersen answered: "Absolutely, I mean I think it's, I'm always asked, 'Is there love here or is it a calculated political arrangement.' And the fact of the matter is both. You know, they've struck this bargain, it's a curious one I mean she is emotionally scarred each time he betrays her. But on the other hand she's never happier than when she can rescue him and he gives her all these chances to rescue him because the balance of power tips in her favor then."
Andersen's sureness concerned Couric: "You know all these things, I'm always constantly amazed that people make these sweeping statements about the state of someone's marriage when truly if you're not one of the major players, i.e., the husband or the wife, there's no way of really knowing or understanding a relationship that's complicated."
After discussing how Andersen found that the Clintons emulate Jackie and John Kennedy, she got to one of his newsworthy disclosures: "You make some sensational claims in the book, some that have been rumored for years now. For instance, that Hillary Clinton had a long standing affair with her law partner and later White House counsel Vince Foster. On what do you base that assumption?"
Andersen defended himself: "A number of things. First of all the observations of many people. They were rather public about it. They were very intimate in public situations as witnessed again and again by people. And she confessed to a fellow named. L.D. Brown, who was a security guard at the mansion but he was also the husband of Chelsea's nanny, his mother-in-law was the administrator of the mansion. He was kind of a confidante of the Clintons at that time in their marriage in the ‘80s, early ‘80s. Hillary said, 'Look, L.D., there are some things you just have to get outside of your marriage.' And she was referring to the relationship with Vince Foster.
Couric was unimpressed: "So that's proof enough for you that they were affectionate in public and that she made this comment?"
Andersen: "Well, it's beyond affection. If you read the book you'll see they're quite intimate and very public about it. I mean obviously Bill is gone much of the time from the mansion and Vince comes to the mansion to comfort her and leaves the next morning and it was just understood by the people around them that this was the tradeoff."
Couric moved on: "Let me ask you the question that so many people are asking each other these days. After they leave the White House, do you think that the President and first lady will remain married?"
Andersen gave a reply favorable to Hillary: "Absolutely, they will never divorce. And a lot of this has to do, we're talking about what is rooted in childhood. People forget that Hillary's mother Dorothy was the product of a bitter divorce. She was farmed out to relatives and she told her daughter, 'Look, you can be anything you want to be. You can be first woman Supreme Court justice or President but you can't be divorced because it will destroy you and destroy your child.'..."
Couric ended by bringing up how "Chelsea has been pretty damaged already, you write, by his infidelities."
++ See and hear Andersen on Today. MRC Webmaster Sean Henry has posted a brief RealPlayer clip of Andersen talking about Foster with Couric. Go to the MRC home page or to: mediaresearch.org
-- Wednesday morning, August 4, Andersen appeared on CBS's This Morning. Co-host Mark McEwen raised Foster and added a mention about fights between Bill and Hillary, but instead of exploring the subject he raised it to challenge the author's sources.
As transcribed by MRC analyst Brian Boyd, McEwen got right to Foster as his first inquiry: "Biggest bombshell in this book I guess is Vince Foster. The fact that Hillary Clinton, you say, had an affair with the long time friend who was also on the staff at the White House, committed suicide, tell us about that."
After Andersen's answer, McEwen fired back: "Vince Foster is not here to defend himself, does that bother you?"
It sounded almost like he was suggesting that Foster should be ashamed of having an affair with Hillary.
Following a few questions about the Talk interview and Chelsea, McEwen raised an item skipped by Couric: "You talk about things that, Hillary throwing things behind closed doors where it would only be Hillary and Bill Clinton in the room. What are your sources for this?"
Andersen replied: "Hillary just mentioned in this article one thing she doesn't like about public housing, and she's referring to the Executive Mansion, is that you're never alone. Secret Service agents, household staff, stewards appear at your elbow. Friends are there constantly. I talked to a lot of old friends from Arkansas and Illinois who are still guests at the White House, they spend weekends with the First Family at Camp David, so all of these basically come from those sources, all these stories."
So what did network viewers miss? Tuesday's New York Post and Wednesday's Washington Times listed all the major disclosures. Here's an except from the August 3 New York Post story on the book by John O'Mahony:
*Details of the Clintons' window-rattling family rows that Andersen's sources say are as frequent as they are violent and foul-mouthed. During one of the fights that occurred after Clinton confessed the true nature of his relationship with Sexgate intern Monica Lewinsky, Hillary slapped her husband so hard she left a red mark "clearly visible to Secret Service agents when he left the room."
Andersen claims that during the same row, the First Lady screamed at Clinton, "You stupid, stupid, stupid bastard. My God, Bill, how could you risk everything for that?"....
*Hillary hired former FBI agent Ivan Duda in 1982 to investigate her husband's extramarital activities. He found that Clinton was seeing eight women "with some degree of frequency." Gennifer Flowers was at the top of the list.
*Hillary insisted Bill be tested for AIDS in 1988. He was HIV-negative but Andersen reports that "someone who claims to have seen" the President's medical records says they reveal he has had a sexually transmitted disease.
It's the reason why the President's complete medical history has never been released, he said.
Anderson also addresses the Juanita Broaddrick rape allegation.
He reports that three weeks after Clinton allegedly forced himself on the Arkansas nurse in a Little Rock hotel in 1978, Hillary strong-armed the woman at a fundraiser.
Hillary grabbed her arm and told her, "We are so grateful for all you've done for Bill, and all you'll keep doing," Andersen writes.
Broaddrick told Andersen she had no doubt what Hillary meant -- "That I was to keep my mouth shut."
Broaddrick told The Post last night, however, that she's not sure now if Hillary knew about the alleged rape -- or was making the point that she knew, or suspected, something was going on....
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Wednesday night Andersen appeared on CNBC's Hardball and Chris Matthews did raise most of these issues.
NBC has posted a lengthy excerpt of the book. Go to: msnbc.com
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