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Summary: From the Nuts who Brought you the Arkansas project!
Review: If you love obsessed, nutty, conspiracy-mongering, rightwing fruitcakes who have no lives...you'll love this book!Sure to be bought in bulk by conservative Political Action Committees, and front groups to beef up its "sales" figures! If you buy it now, you're crazy. Just wait a few weeks, and you can get it for a dollar from the "Conservative book club." My suggestion is that you spend your money on that Cialis or Levitra prescription you've been eyeballing for the past few months, instead. Oh wait. maybe this book serves the same purpose! My bad.
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Summary: Hillary?
Review: Intriguing story, however you might think of Hillary. Even so, after reading through the entire book, I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone. So much spin.
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Summary: Must-Read, the Antidote to Hillary's "Living History"
Review: It is rare that you come across a political book that reads like a first-rate novel. Madame Hillary is an amazing blend of good journalism and historical analysis. It reveals the extent to which the Democratic Party has been taken over, lock, stock and barrel, by the Clintons and their allies. It delves into the machinations of the Clintons, showing how they are struggling to remain dominant (and sometimes, just revelevant) as John Kerry and other Democrats temporarily sieze the limelight. This book has some nice literary touches. It is also rooted in a deep understanding of American politics. I hope this book someday serves as a touchstone for future historians struggling to understand the hidden story of our times.
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Summary: Right Wing propaganda
Review: Just more unproved speculations that are being passed off as facts..Can you imagine what could be said about George W. Bush if the moderate left stooped to the level of this crap.
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Summary: Important read for any political junkie
Review: LISTEN UP all you political Junkies out there in America, There is something rotten in the capital and her name is Madam Hillary. This book should be required reading for any politcal junkie. It exposes the truth behind the most powerful senator in the nation. This book will make your blood curdle because this stuff is so true what she is doing. I am not a conservative but when you look at who we have running Kerry or Bush. Bush looks more appealing. The question will she bide her time and run in 08 assuming that Bush wins or will she accept the VP nomination. Whatever the case maybe, this is a must read and it will tell you just how power hungry she really is. All those PACS and what not. She is a real threat not to be taken lightly. Unless you want to wake up one day and say president elect Clinton again. R. Emmett Tryyell is doing a service to the public by writing this book it is funny and scary at the same time. So for any political Junkie out their READ IT.
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Summary: A Real Eye-Opener!
Review: Madame Hillary is terrific. It's incisive, often funny, and even a little frightening reading about a power-grabbing, money-grubbing woman who aims to become President of the United States. It details the labyrinth of Political Action Committees, and organizations (media network, think tank, monster political organizations) that Clinton money is creating. Obviously, Madame Hillary is building an army. The only question is whether she will run this year as the vice presidential candidate, or bide her time. This is an important book for anyone interested in politics and worried about who could sit in the Oval office. It's a real eye-opener.
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Summary: Must reading for current event buffs
Review: MADAME HILLARY
THE DARK ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE This is probably the most focused and serious book I've read by Mr. Tyrrell. He clearly suppressed his considerable talent for amusingly limning the Clintons as the clowns that they are to deliver instead a steady, updated, and well-informed account of what they are up to and why we need to remain concerned with their machinations. The Clintons takeover and manipulations of the Democratic Party are described well and documented early in the book. The Clintons today, as demonstrated by Tyrrell and Davis, bring things to the Democratic Party that allow them to shape it and perhaps even control it. Namely, these things are star status among the liberal true believers from the gays to the feminists to the muddle-minded suburban housewives, connections to Hollywood, and more important in the today's Democratic Party than the other things, they bring money. Hillary is a major player at collecting it and distributing it to those who play the game she wants them to play. This doling out of funding has made her a player who is, in the words of the authors, "Steering the Senate." Hillary's quick emergence to high power and other examples in the book about someone whom most of us never thought could get elected to the US Senate should cause us to take seriously Tyrrell's suspicions that Hillary is aligning herself to move back into the White House. The Clintons efforts to take further control of the Democratic Party can be seen in the information and examples the authors offer up. Some of these examples provided of how they are doing this are their setting up of a Left Wing Think Tank [the Center for American Progress], their advocating and supporting the setting up of openly left wing TV and radio, Hillary's HILLPAC and Hill's Angels, their ties to Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe and billionaire left-wing Bush hater George Soros, their ties to union leaders like John Sweeney President of the AFL-CIO, their continued hold on the greatest Hollywood fund raisers, and Bill Clintons ability to motivate black voters are just a few of the topics the authors discuss in their outline of the Clintonian techniques for controlling the party. In their chapter "Livid History," the authors provided information of particular interests to me. Here Tyrrell and Davis reviewed Hilary's 8 million dollar book Living History. Tyrrell and Davis recount all the reckless and gratuitous mendacities Hillary tried to put behind her in her version of history as she described it. As the authors see it, Hillary tackled these controversies to assure her political viability and to make her political rise all the more possible, so she spun stories about the scandals that have surrounded her and her husband. ... To set the record straight, Tyrrell and Davis perforce deftly debunk Hillary's portrayal of Watergate, Travel Gate, Foster Gate, Cattle Futures Gate, Trooper Gate, Monica Gate, and Pardon Gate, to name a few. The authors depict Hillary as a sort of Left Wing John Bircher able to crank out weird conspiracy theories in order to avoid accountability and to distract people from the truth. Then there are the names that bring back the memories of the tawdry years when the nation was unable to purge itself of these two "coat and tie radicals" as Tyrrell likes to call them. There are Craig Livingstone, Betsey Wright, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Vincent Foster, and Monica Lewinsky to name a few. Hillary may want us to forget about these people and other scandals, but as the authors point out she couldn't resist trying to have the final word in her book with ridiculous accounts that the authors prove to be self-serving lies. They also remind us of the Clinton tactic for dealing with scandal, which in brief was "1) Vigorously deny a given charge. 2) Question the motives of an accuser or any accessory to the charge (reporters, prosecutors, victims). 3) Or recast the charge in a sweet or melancholy way: "Oh, how sad," or "I don't know if I can go on." 4) Vilify anyone still interested in the charge as an obsessive, a Clinton-hater, a sucker for "old news"..." The authors point out how quickly Hillary has been forgiven and given newfound respect. Those who only a few years ago were finally on to the Clintons after pardon Gate and their stealing from the White House as they left Washington for New York even now look the other way and show respect to Senator Clinton when she demands explanations from President Bush. This collective amnesia is yet another reason to take seriously Tyrrell's concerns that Hillary might be actually able to mount a successful campaign for president. There is much more to this book, and I hope it receives the audience it truly deserves. All Americans concerned with current events should read this book.
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Summary: Vitriolic Regurgitated Politcal Misogyny
Review: Men who feel threatened, by a smart, politically savy and important American leader, like to attack Hillary for the usualy pathetic reasons. She is a threat to them on a visceral level as a man. Ignore this book. It is sad drivel of, and for, the weak minded.
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Summary: Hillary's Long March.
Review: Most conservatives are completely baffled by the Hillarymania of today's liberals. A recent poll illustrates that she remains a highly polarizing figure among the American electorate. Should she run in 2008, the right will have no trouble turning out its base as 48% of the population hold an unfavorable view of her. Her road to victory will be formidable, but the Clintons have encountered numerous challenges over the years and emerged victorious time after time. It is undoubtedly for this reason that R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (with Mark Davis) decided to write Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House.
Their account is a brief political history of the woman who could be queen. It is also an attempt to warn us of what may happen should she seize power. This biography gazes into the future and is terrified by what may be.
The "Madame" in the title refers to China's Madame Mao who was known as "the white boned demon." Tyrrell does not accuse Hillary Clinton of being a demon but does believe that the respectable person presented to us by her PR department does not in fact exist. Senator Clinton is a "Coat and Tie Radical" who has never forgotten or disowned the revolutionary ideas of the 1960's. Society exists for her and her kind to reconfigure.
As the allusion to Madame Mao may have informed you, this book is not an objective account of Hillary's life. It is written from the perspective of a warrior in the Clinton Wars and there is nothing equivocal in its narration.
As Editor in Chief of The American Spectator, R. Emmett Tyrrell's experiences with the Clintons were legion and none of them produced pleasure. He recounts a story when he ran across Bill in the Jockey Club. He decided to ask him a question. The former President responded with annoyance and a very pathetic temper tantrum. Yet Tyrrell notes that it was Hillary's cold stare, as opposed to Mr. Clinton's babyish whines, that truly unnerved him.
Madame Hillary will not appeal to anyone on the left or moderates in general as there is little diplomatic or uncertain about its tone. Tyrrell has seen all he needs to see from the former first lady and, while he admits that she has made great strides in her political skills, he fears for all of our futures should she become president.
"Madame Hillary would, in her wildest dreams, undoubtedly relish a presidency that was an unending left-wing rampage, a national Cambodian re-education camp for anyone caught wearing an Adam Smith necktie or scarf. Such `extremists are the enemy, after all, composing the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy that must be scotched if Clintonian America is to be saved. She would install an all-woman Cabinet to thumb her nose at the patriarchy...With Hillary now making all the appointments, why not have a Cabinet full of short-haired harridans and crypto-Marxists from assorted left-wing hothouses?"
She is one of the most important people on our planet and Tyrrell believes this outcome is not due to chance. He depicts her as an individual consumed by ambition and a lust for power. Her personality is colored by an overwhelming need to control others. She is a "self-promoting dynamo" and a "self-regarding existentialist." What steps she takes (and over whom) are irrelevant. The ends always justify the means. The author asks Dick Morris about her private life and he relays that she doesn't have one. Hillary is an example of a life whose essence is to make the most of the political opportunities that are encountered.
Madame Hillary is a well-written work and a general good use of one's time, yet it is by no means a comprehensive history of the junior Senator from New York. If that's what the reader is looking for I'd recommend Barbara Olson's Hell to Pay instead. Although, as far as producing entertainment and arguments for the conservative faithful, there are few better or more timely offerings available than this strident book by Emmett Tyrrell.
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Summary: Hillary's Long March.
Review: Most conservatives are completely baffled by the Hillarymania of today's liberals. A recent poll illustrates that she remains a highly polarizing figure among the American electorate. Should she run in 2008, the right will have no trouble turning out its base as 48% of the population hold an unfavorable view of her. Her road to victory will be formidable, but the Clintons have encountered numerous challenges over the years and emerged victorious time after time. It is undoubtedly for this reason that R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (with Mark Davis) decided to write Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House.
Their account is a brief political history of the woman who could be queen. It is also an attempt to warn us of what may happen should she seize power. This biography gazes into the future and is terrified by what may be.
The "Madame" in the title refers to China's Madame Mao who was known as "the white boned demon." Tyrrell does not accuse Hillary Clinton of being a demon but does believe that the respectable person presented to us by her PR department does not in fact exist. Senator Clinton is a "Coat and Tie Radical" who has never forgotten or disowned the revolutionary ideas of the 1960's. Society exists for her and her kind to reconfigure.
As the allusion to Madame Mao may have informed you, this book is not an objective account of Hillary's life. It is written from the perspective of a warrior in the Clinton Wars and there is nothing equivocal in its narration.
As Editor in Chief of The American Spectator, R. Emmett Tyrrell's experiences with the Clintons were legion and none of them produced pleasure. He recounts a story when he ran across Bill in the Jockey Club. He decided to ask him a question. The former President responded with annoyance and a very pathetic temper tantrum. Yet Tyrrell notes that it was Hillary's cold stare, as opposed to Mr. Clinton's babyish whines, that truly unnerved him.
Madame Hillary will not appeal to anyone on the left or moderates in general as there is little diplomatic or uncertain about its tone. Tyrrell has seen all he needs to see from the former first lady and, while he admits that she has made great strides in her political skills, he fears for all of our futures should she become president.
"Madame Hillary would, in her wildest dreams, undoubtedly relish a presidency that was an unending left-wing rampage, a national Cambodian re-education camp for anyone caught wearing an Adam Smith necktie or scarf. Such 'extremists are the enemy, after all, composing the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy that must be scotched if Clintonian America is to be saved. She would install an all-woman Cabinet to thumb her nose at the patriarchy...With Hillary now making all the appointments, why not have a Cabinet full of short-haired harridans and crypto-Marxists from assorted left-wing hothouses?"
She is one of the most important people on our planet and Tyrrell believes this outcome is not due to chance. He depicts her as an individual consumed by ambition and a lust for power. Her personality is colored by an overwhelming need to control others. She is a "self-promoting dynamo" and a "self-regarding existentialist." What steps she takes (and over whom) are irrelevant. The ends always justify the means. The author asks Dick Morris about her private life and he relays that she doesn't have one. Hillary is an example of a life whose essence is to make the most of the political opportunities that are encountered.
Madame Hillary is a well-written work and a general good use of one's time, yet it is by no means a comprehensive history of the junior Senator from New York. If that's what the reader is looking for I'd recommend Barbara Olson's Hell to Pay instead. Although, as far as producing entertainment and arguments for the conservative faithful, there are few better or more timely offerings available than this strident book by Emmett Tyrrell.
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