To: Bill who wrote (65178 ) 1/24/2000 9:36:00 PM From: jlallen Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 67261
Hypocrite! What a surprise! (not)newsmax.com Hillary Wanted Bush Grilled on Sex Life Last week, when Buffalo talk radio host Tom Bauerle quizzed senate candidate Hillary Clinton about her alleged affair with Vince Foster, the First Lady protested, "I think those questions are out of bounds." She even told Bauerle she hated him for daring to ask the question. But Mrs. Clinton had a completely different attitude during her husband's 1992 presidential campaign, when she felt besieged by questions about his affair with Gennifer Flowers. As noted by Barbara Olson in her landmark Hillary biography, "Hell to Pay," Mrs. Clinton complained to a Vanity Fair interviewer at the time, "I don't understand why nothing's ever been said about a George Bush girlfriend." Then she added for good measure, "I understand he has a Jennifer, too." Clearly, First Family sex questions were well within bounds back then, as long as they suited Hillary's purposes. Worse still, the same mainstream media that now tut-tuts its disgust over radio host Bauerle's allegedly gauche behavior didn't miss a beat in answering Hillary's call. Stone Phillips, then with ABC News, put the "Jennifer" question directly to President Bush during an exclusive "Prime Time Live" TV interview in the closing weeks of the campaign. Bush refused to dignify Phillips' query with an answer. Why should he? No one, including "Bush's Jennifer" (former State Department employee Jennifer Fitzgerald) had so much as hinted in public that there was anything untoward about their relationship. In fact, Fitzgerald pointedly denied the rumor through a statement made via her mother. That stands in marked contrast to Mrs. Clinton and Foster, who were witnessed in physically compromising situations by Arkansas State Troopers L.D. Brown and Larry Patterson. Not to mention longtime Clinton family friend and onetime top White House aide David Watkins, who blew the lid off Hillary's Foster fling in a