Crooked Claims About Clinton
paul.imagePaul: I decided, well, maybe I should reach out to Bill Clinton to work with us and be a rainmaker for the company when he left the White House. I could accomplish my objective by becoming a major contributor to the party. ... My interest in supporting Hillary Clinton was specifically to hire Bill Clinton.
The video cuts to shots of various fundraising events – for the Democratic Party, for Hillary Clinton, for Al Gore – as well as a photo of Hillary Clinton with her arms around Paul and his wife. Then Hillary is on stage at the big gala, thanking Paul and his business partner, Stan Lee, co-creator of such characters as Spider-Man and the Hulk when he was at Marvel Comics.
The uber-event – $1,000 a ticket, $25,000 per couple if you wanted dinner – was to benefit New York Senate 2000, a joint committee consisting of Hillary Clinton's campaign committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the New York Democratic Party. Paul claims on camera that by producing it, which he later says cost him nearly $2 million, he sealed the deal he wanted: Bill Clinton promised to work with him after he left office. (Paul has said in other venues that Clinton was to be paid $15 million in stock and cash for representing the company.) But Paul offers no evidence in the video to support this claim. He said in an interview with FactCheck.org that nobody witnessed his conversations with Clinton about this and that he had nothing in writing.
A Tangled Web
Three days after the fundraiser, we learn in the video, The Washington Post ran a short item revealing Paul's felony record; Hillary Clinton's spokesperson, Howard Wolfson, first said her campaign would accept no contributions from him, then two days later corrected himself to say it would return the single $2,000 check it had received from Paul. As for Paul's production of the gala, Wolfson said it was an in-kind contribution.
"The Clintons now had to pretend that they did not even know who Peter Paul was," says an unidentified man on the video. Paul told us the man is Doug Cogan, who coproduced the film with him. Cogan is a conservative Republican and a San Bernardino County, Calif., commercial real estate broker who is a believer in Paul's cause.
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Posted By: HILLARY! UNCENSORED @ 02/12/2008 7:38:35 PM
Comment: We are up to about 5 million hits. She just got decimated in Virginia, Maryland, and DC. Absolutely decimated. I guess the drive-by hit piece didn't have the desired effect.
Posted By: HILLARY! UNCENSORED @ 02/12/2008 1:26:15 AM
Comment: http://www.newsweek.com/id/109431 The drive-by hit piece by Viveca Novak is debunked.
Posted By: HILLARY! UNCENSORED @ 02/08/2008 11:52:34 PM
Comment: re performance of Cher- Viveca contends that Cher was not solicited by Hillary and that someone else had done that. Lack of knowledge about this case should be embarrassing to her (but it apparently isn't). Yes, Aaron Tonken indeed made the initial request. But there is more to the story. What Viveca did not tell you is that two of the performers, Cher and Diana Ross, required a direct phone call from Hillary. Hillary called both of them (she admitted on tape talking to Cher) and sealed the deal. Without Hillary acting as the closer, they would not have performed. Yes, she absolutely solicited them. The other performers were not solicited directly by her.