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Bill Made Her Do It

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Gandelman at the Moderate Voice explains why it’s OK for the secretary of state to get irked and verbally spank an African college kid. Apparently it’s because she has had to put up with Bill for all these years, but got elected to the Senate despite that* and because she’s a great secretary of state. Once you get past all the gaffes and that Iranian election thing, plus whatever the heck the administration is trying to do with Israel, I guess. Also, because she was probably jetlagged. Humiliating earnest foreign college kids in that context is laudable for its honesty, and more pols should do it.

I dunno about you, but I can’t wait for some Russian or Iranian plant to start really goading her with something other than some obscure World Bank thing no one ever heard of.

“Why does your husband murder the aspirin factory with missiles?”  

Something like that. Or “What are the thoughts of Joe Biden, through your mouth.”

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* No cruel remarks about how the Chicago native who spent most of her adult life in Arkansas got elected to the Senate from New York, please.

Pawn Swapping

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The UK Daily Mail offers a version of the back story on Bill’s North Korean rescue mission from assorted unnamed insiders, as well as details on the captured journos’ capitalization plans and a depiction of embarrassingly amatuerish behavior that is said to have got them in this mess in the first place.

Meanwhile, in Iran, the mullahs are toying with its three American journos/hikers, suggesting a link to the election protests, and no doubt trying to figure out how they get an ex-president and which one it will be. Reuters. I bet Jimmy would be pretty easy, and kind of fun to humiliate some more, given the history, but if the mullahs want to one-up Kim, they pretty much need a Bush.

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In peril in Pyongyang? How jailed female journalists were in greater danger sharing a plane with Bill Clinton


The story has all the ingredients of a Hollywood blockbuster. Two beautiful girls in peril, an evil North Korean dictator holding them captive and, riding to the rescue, Slick Willy himself, former President Bill Clinton.

As journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee collapsed, sobbing tears of joy, into the arms of their relieved families after being pardoned from a sentence of 12 years’ hard labour in North Korea, their palpable relief was perhaps enhanced by the flood of lucrative film, book and interview offers that came pouring in.

The pair had been arrested on the North Korea-China border last March, accused of illegal entry and spying.

Then, last Wednesday, the silver-tongued Clinton burst back on to the global political scene by flying to the world’s most secretive state for what its regime described as ‘sincere and exhaustive discussions’ with leader Kim Jong Il.

Little over 24 hours later, the diplomatic mission apparently a huge success, Clinton was on a flight back to California with the women in tow to be greeted by the world’s media.

As of last night, the bidding war for the first interview with the two heroines had reportedly reached ‘the mid six figures’. Book publisher HarperCollins is said to have offered a cool $1million for a ‘warts and all’ account of their life during 140 days ‘behind enemy lines’.