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April 21, 2007

Hillary Turns Tricks


If a “hoe” is someone who turns “tricks,” then Hillary Clinton must be the highest paid one in America and, also, right up there with John Kerry as one of the most bald-faced hypocrites.

Colbert King, a black editor at the Washington Post, says, “From Clinton, Hip-Hop Hypocrisy.”

Put me in the camp of those who implore Sen. Hillary Clinton to give it back -- "it" being the reported $800,000 that's sitting in her presidential campaign coffers thanks to a fundraiser hosted in her honor March 31 in the Pinecrest, Fla., home of a huge Clinton fan who refers to himself as Timbaland….

You would not be reading about Clinton or about Timbaland -- who entered this vale of tears 36 years ago in Norfolk under the name Timothy Mosley -- were it not for the fact that he is a well-heeled hip-hop producer and noted performer of the kind of misogynistic and denigrating lyrics that informed Don Imus's derogatory comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team….

… [I]t must be asked why she was down in Florida making nice to -- and pocketing big bucks from -- a rapper whose obscenity-laced lyrics praise violence, perpetuate racist stereotypes and demean black women.


Colbert then presents some of Timbaland’s lyrics, gross, racist, derogatory, degrading, violent dribble.

Hillary appeared today at Rutgers, in full hypocrisy saying:

"Will you be willing to speak up and say, 'Enough is enough,' when women or minorities or the powerless are marginalized or degraded?" Clinton said in her speech to about 700 people at a university forum on women and public leadership. "Will you say there's no place , if there ever was, there certainly isn't now , for disrespect or bigotry to be seen as funny?"…

Referring to Stringer and her players, Clinton said, "They are living, human markers of our progress in this country, how far we have come, and how much farther we have to go together."

"She and her players have shown us the difference between bravery and bravado," Clinton said.

And, Hillary has shown us the difference between a hypocritical “hoe” and someone fit to be president.

UPDATE: "Captain" Ed Morrissey weighs in Saturday morning, with "Hillary Pandering To The Pimp Culture."

Bruce Kesler | Apr. 21, 2007 | 12:17 AM