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SPECIAL CLINTON-BASHING EXTRA: On the plane to Chicago today, I was busy reading the New Yorker and came across Nick Lemann's piece on Hillary Clinton. | Even after a massacre, it's still all about her. |
Nick's reporting on this administration has, I think, been easily the best out there, so I hope he doesn't take this personally. But Senator Clinton's response to a question Lemann posed is simply jaw-dropping. In the context of the World Trade Center massacre, he asked her "how she thought people would react to knowing they are on the receiving end of a murderous anger." Clinton's reply: "Oh I am well aware that it is out there. One of the most difficult experiences I personally had in the White House was during the health-care debate, being the object of extraordinary rage." She talks about hecklers and the threat of violence and the rhetoric spewed by radio talk show hosts. I've no doubt these things hurt. Heck, I've had my fair share of the same kind of thing. But to equate that with the murder of thousands of innocent people by terrorists is simply deranged. Or rather, it's just another sign that this woman adds whole universes of meaning to the word narcissism. Even after a massacre, it's still all about her. |