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March 25, 2008 4:45 PM

Clinton Chats With The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy?

By
Scott Conroy
Topics
Hillary Clinton
The news out of Pennsylvania today was that Hillary Clinton weighed in on the Reverend Jeremiah Wright controversy when she told a newspaper editorial board, "he would not have been my pastor … You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."

But somewhat lost in the hubbub over this latest jab at Obama was the very fact that Clinton was meeting with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial board at all.

Published by billionaire conservative activist Richard Mellon Scaife, the Tribune-Review is known for its opinion page, which tilts heavily to the right. During the 1990s, the paper published a series of stories examining the case of Vince Foster, the former White House Deputy Counsel whose 1993 death was ruled a suicide after several investigations.

The Tribune-Review was at the forefront of conspiracy theorists who speculated that Hillary and President Clinton may have been involved in murdering Foster and covering up his death. As late as 2002, the Tribune-Review published a column suggesting Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations would be tampered due to the Foster "cover-up."

Asked at a news conference this afternoon what it felt like to sit in the heart of the "vast right-wing conspiracy," Clinton laughed.

"It was actually very pleasant … " she said. "I said in the beginning when I arrived that it was obviously somewhat counterintuitive for me to be there, but it was a good discussion."

  • Scott Conroy

    Scott Conroy is a National Political Reporter for RealClearPolitics and a contributor for CBS News.

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by berthaw51 March 28, 2008 4:41 PM EDT
I feel sorry for you folks that just take the media to be the gospel. Research what you hear. Wright is not the monster they are making him out to be. A lot of what he said is true if you do the research. White America has been running this country so they are responsible for how the world views us. Don''t be so quick to condemn without having the facts. I repeat, not that I am for racism but a lot of what Wright said about white America is true. Those that are offended are the ones that can help us to move on as a country toward healing.
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by berthaw51 March 28, 2008 4:36 PM EDT
You don''t choose your family Hillary but you do choose your church. You choose your husband too. Had my husband disgraced me and my country like your ***-addicted Bill did I would have not only divorceed him but never put my self in a situation where I would be in the public eye again. Let the Wright stuff go Hill. You have a truckload of scandals in your past and present. I you folks that would support McCain you better think twice. All he is concerned about it war screw the economy. He will institute the automatic draft. That means your children and grandchildren will be fighting and dying over a senseless war. Iraq is about money and power not the war on terror. Wake up people.
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by anappleadae March 27, 2008 10:02 PM EDT
Blkpresident
I noticed in many of your comments you make sexist statements. Is sexism an issue with you? And if you are a sexist does that not skew your ability to be reasonably rational?
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by anappleadae March 27, 2008 9:50 PM EDT
eshanua
Based on the last two polls and referring to the last poll by gallup; 50% of Hillary supporters would vote for McCain if Obama is nominated, 40% of Obam followers would vote for McCain if Hillary is nominated. Based on these polls neither candidate wins. It is four more years by the Bush zerox.

Blkpresident
Would you dispute that Moses and the Jews were slaves under the Egyptians? Slavery knows no particular race. It seems endemic to the human animal along with genecide. When the word slavery comes to mind most people think of poor black people enslaved by some arrogant white master, which is true, but not stereotypical.
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by missglo March 26, 2008 9:44 PM EDT
Why did she wait so long to make a comment? Was it because, it was her ace in the hole. When she got caught in her lies. Or did it take her speech writers all this time. To come up with something. Who can really believe what she says?
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by shortyduke March 26, 2008 5:50 PM EDT
www.thenation.com/doc/20080331/ehrenreich
I tried to put this on HRC site & they never posted it - guess they don''t want her supporters to know the truth about her "Church".
ENJOY!
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by enaudnella March 26, 2008 3:58 PM EDT
Besscannon,
Why not help Africa when we have helped Iraq, china , latin america. 2 million africans have been ravaged with murder, rape , disease , displacement . Or are you part of the problem Wright is speaking about.........seems like it pushed one of your buttons.
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by blackspirit3 March 26, 2008 2:49 PM EDT
The Tuskegee Syphilis For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. SO PASTOR WRIGHT IS NOT THAT FAR OFF COURSE IN SAYING, AMERICA CREATED AIDS. LETS BE REAL. IF A *** OFFENDER IS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD - DO YOU IGNOR THE POSSIBILITIES OF HIM HARMING YOUR CHILD?
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by taddles-2009 March 26, 2008 2:36 PM EDT
"I don''''t care what the rest of Wright''''s sermon, the fact remains he accused us of deliberately infecting blacks with HIV Aids to eliminate them, He "God Damned America, and blamed us for 9/11.

Posted by besscannon at 10:34 PM : Mar 25, 2008"


Rev. Wright, like many others including Rev''s Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, blamed America for bringing on 911 because of our abusive foreign policies.

There are a lot of articles floating around that claim that a bill H.R. 15090 dedicated money in 1969 for research and development of a retro-virus by the US military and that this virus was tested on black Africans in the early 70''s which led to the present HIV epidemic. Considering the history of experiments by the US government on blacks over the past century, it is understandable that the black community is skeptical with regards to any outbreak of disease that affects them.

Do a little research, it might do you some good.
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by taddles-2009 March 26, 2008 2:01 PM EDT
"Where is it documented that the Scotch and Irish were enslaved before the Africans here in America? You can''''t be serious, right?

Posted by BLKPRESIDENT at 09:38 AM : Mar 26, 2008"

Actually that is correct, white slaves from Scotland and Ireland were here in the states as early as the 1640''s. Scots and Irish were commonly sold into servitude from the Roman era up to the middle 1700''s. After the 1745 rebellion in Scotland many Jacobites were sold into slavery in the southern US states, sold in Nova Scotia and transported to Australia.

Obviously this was not as widespread and endemic as black slavery but it certainly did happen.
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