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Article: First anti-Semite?(Commentary)(Op-Ed)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2000
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Hillary Clinton is a liberated woman. Everybody knows that. But sometimes she needs a little traditional help. In defense of his wife over whether she called a long-ago aide a "[blankety-blank] Jew bastard," President Clinton offered an odd reassurance:
"She might have called him a bastard. She's never claimed that she was pure on profanity. But I've never heard her tell a joke with an ethnic connotation . . . She's so straight on this, she squeaks."
Parsing this president's pronunciamentos is always crucial, so when he tells us she's straight "on this," is he telling us to be wary of everything else? Hmmmmmm. And who said anything about an ...