Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:59:00 -0700 From: spooner@mail.doitnow.com Subject: [lpaz-repost] Media Silent on St. Pat's Day Assault by Hillary's Goons To: lpaz-repost@onelist.com, free-libertarian@egroups.com
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>From: "Duncan Long" <duncan@kansas.net>
>To: "Duncan Long" <duncan@kansas.net>
>Subject: Media Silent on St. Pat's Day Assault by Hillary's Goons
>Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:39:37 -0600
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>Sunday March 19, 2000; 11:31 AM
>NewsMax.com
>
>Media Silent on St. Pat's Day Assault by Hillary's Goons
>
>It was the ugliest public incident in the entire seven-plus year history
>of the Clinton administration; certainly ugly enough to fatally wound any
>candidate's bid for higher office.
>
>But 48 hours after United States Senate candidate Hillary Clinton's
>security entourage attacked at least six reporters during New York City's
>St. Patrick's Day parade -- throwing some out of the way, pushing others
>to the ground -- not a single mainstream media outlet has reported the
>assaults.
>
>As crowds jeered the first lady with raucous chants of "Go Back to
>Arkansas" and "Where's Monica?" her bodyguards swung into action,
>according to one radio reporter who described the scene just hours after
>it happened:
>
>"The Secret Service just lost their minds," reported WABC Radio Network's
>Glen Shuck to local New York talk jock Sean Hannity's drivetime audience.
>"Agents literally were pushing press to the ground. I mean, they just
>started pushing and shoving; female camera people five feet tall were
>getting thrown to the ground, cameras flying." (See: Hillary's Secret
>Service Agents Rough Up Reporters as St. Pat's Day Crowd Boos)
>
>Though Shuck was one of six reporters roughed up by the first lady's
>security detail, he was the only one who was assaulted and went public
>with the news. Newsmax.com has been unable to learn the identity of the
>female camera operator attacked by Clinton's goons -- nor the whereabouts
>of whatever film she shot.
>
>Though local WABC newsman George Weber covered the Secret Service violence
>at every newsbreak -- at one point even contrasting their use of force
>with Mrs. Clinton's own stand against police brutality -- none of Shuck's
>account made it to his own network's 6:00pm report. ABC News failed to
>mention the assault of their own reporter -- even on their own website.
>
>Attempts to reach Shuck late Friday were unsuccessful.
>
>Some observers suggested that Mrs. Clinton's Secret Service detail had
>become nervous as the media swarmed the candidate at the outset of the
>parade. But in fact, they reacted violently at several points along the
>parade route, Shuck said.
>
>The notion that Mrs. Clinton's bodyguards were acting out of concerns for
>her physical safety was further undermined by a videotape shot by a local
>CBS News camera crew.
>
>As boos and jeers erupted from the St. Patrick's Day crowd, film showed
>one of Hillary's bodyguards as he raised his hand in an attempt to cover
>CBS's camera lens. CBS's on-the-scene reporter complained, "What could be
>classified about this? Who does she think she is?"
>
>Mrs. Clinton, who has made no secret of her hatred for reporters,
>frequently looked nervous and uncomfortable as she marched down New York's
>Fifth Avenue, observers say. Though CBS's local news affilliate carried
>tape of the Secret Service attempt to censor the booing crowd during both
>their 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. broadcasts, they made no mention of reporters
>being assaulted.
>
>The Clintons' relationship with rank and file Secret Service is known to
>be strained. But several past incidents suggest that Mrs. Clinton may have
>surrounded herself with handpicked G-men who are willing to exceed the
>bounds of normal Secret Service protection.
>
>During a 1996 fund-raising swing through Arizona, local reporters
>complained that Mrs. Clinton's security detail was interfering with press
>coverage that posed no physical risk whatsoever to the first lady.
>"Reporters at the Monday afternoon speech were kept at arm's length from
>the first lady by Secret Service agents, who warned the press not to yell
>out questions," reported The Arizona Republic at the time.
>
>Hours earlier, the Supreme Court had rejected a White House bid to keep
>some of Mrs. Clinton's Whitewater records sealed.
>
>Incensed by the abuse of both the presidential security detail and the
>First Amendment, Arizona Rep. Matt Salmon complained to the Washington
>Times, "It appears (the president) has targeted the Secret Service to
>silence his critics. The Secret Service is paid to protect the president
>and his family from physical harm, not to protect them from tough
>questions."
>
>In January, minutes before Mrs. Clinton made her much publicized
>appearance on David Letterman's "Late Show," CBS staffers used threats of
>Secret Service retribution to discourage heckling. "Put your politics
>aside," the crowd was told, according to one source present. "This is a
>comedy show -- no booing, no shouting. And if you don't listen to us you
>can talk to the Secret Service."
>
>In 1998, violence was visited on White House critics when Philadelphia
>union members wearing "Teamsters for Clinton" T-shirts beat-up protestors
>who marched outside a fund-raising dinner attended by the president.
>
>Though reports of the Philadelphia assaults ricocheted across the Internet
>and talk radio within hours, the reaction of the mainstream press mirrored
>its cover-up of Friday's St. Patrick's Day violence, with only Fox News
>Channel reporting the Teamsters attack.
>
>On Friday, something very dangerous to the democratic process took place.
>People whose job it is to report the news were not only physically
>assaulted by government agents working for the Clintons, those same people
>have been silenced by their media bosses.
>
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Vin Suprynowicz, vin@lvrj.com
"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -- John Hay, 1872
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken
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