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Washington Times op-ed asserted Hillary Clinton is "bisexual"

In a Washington Times op-ed about former President Bill Clinton's memoir My Life, titled "Harry Potter and Bill Clinton: 'My Life' should be titled 'My Lie,'" Jack Wheeler, identified by The Washington Times as publisher of www.tothepointnews.com, asserted that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is bisexual.

Wheeler wrote of Bill Clinton's memoir:

All of that stuff about Hillary being mad, making him sleep on the couch, going to marriage counselors for a year, yada yada, is all made up. They have had a pact for decades: He gets to fool around with women, and she gets to fool around with women (plus the occasional man like Vince Foster).

Yes, she's bisexual -- I disclosed that in an infamous Strategic Investment column in January 1993, and Dick Morris publicly revealed it a few years ago. You knew that, right?

According to a March 18, 2000, article in The Express, headlined "Hillary in Lesbian Slur," Wheeler spread the bisexual story during Hillary Clinton's 2000 run for the U.S. Senate. According to the newspaper, Wheeler was quoted in The National Enquirer as saying, "My sources indicate that Hillary is bisexual and fools around much more than her husband." The newspaper identified Wheeler as a Republican party strategist and a ferocious Clinton critic.

In his Washington Times op-ed, Wheeler went on to compare Bill Clinton (whom he called a "charmingly lovable rogue who can lie through his teeth and get away with it") with John Kerry (whom Wheeler called "Hanoi John"). Of Kerry, Wheeler wrote, "There is nothing lovable about John Kerry -- pompous, arrogant, stentorian, pretentious and so un-handsome he looks like a cross between Herman Munster and Gomer Pyle."

What's to argue with? If she wanted to make it public she'd have announced it by now.

It'd be surprising if the topic ever came up to her face and then I'd expect her to "shake her finger."

It's disgusting that the right is so filled with hate that they have to make up stuff like this. What's an even greater shame is that there are idiots out there who will believe it.

I love bisexuals and gays so it's not a hate filled allegation in my book.

As do all of us, what James is saying is that it is terrible that the right wing will make up anything on our leaders to demean them.

I'm not a Hillary fan. I could crawl all over Bill though.

LOL!

If she weren't so competent and admirable I could at least dislike her. She is, after all, married to my dream boat.

Who do you think is better looking: Al or Bill?

Bills charisma makes him better looking but if I were looking at two photographs objectively I'd say Al.

Thank you Chris that is exactly what I meant.

Well the allegations are certainly wrong on two points.

1) Instead of having a well thought out discussion based on facts and on why someone may not like her policies. They have to resort to gossip, rumor-mongering, and attack someone's integrity.

2) The means on attacking her integrity demonstrates the intolerance towards bisexuals and gay people still prevalent in our society. If we truly reached a point in time towards overcoming our bias towards gays and bisexuals, then this would not even be an issue.

With that said, I am not a huge supporter of Hillary Clinton, but if she really was bisexual I really could careless. Its more important to focus on her policies and how she carries out her job as a Senator, rather then her sexuality.

I agree with you 100% Leftist.

I, too, couldn't care less if Hillary is straight, gay, bi-, or a hermaphrodite. I used to think Hil was okay until I heard her backpedaling to support her vote on the Iraq resolution. She and Bill have both supported this war too strongly, IMO, and I'm not comfortable with their views on this. But whether Hillary likes women and/or men or is totally frigid is irrelevant to anything. Her husband was a philanderer, but he was a damned good president.

And for the record, Al is better looking than Bill, although both were pretty hunky.

Washington Times Takes It a Slur Too Far

The Washington Times is owned by fringe religious leader Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who, in addition to having been saluted by members of Congress, has spoken rapturously of the mass extinction of gays and called on Jews to apologize for killing Jesus.

Despite all that, Moon's newspaper has from its start in 1982 earnestly aspired to journalistic respectability. Though the Times' political coverage is routinely and transparently slanted, the newspaper does do a decent job with non-political news, and its editorial page, while relentlessly conservative, isn't any more over-the-top than that of the generally well-respected Wall Street Journal.

In short, despite its ownership and its partisan tint, the paper could make a legitimate argument for being included in a list of voices to be taken seriously. Right up until today.

The Times officially jumped the shark this morning, running one of the most repugnant and ugly pieces of commentary we've seen any place other than a men's room wall.

In an op-ed <http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040629-090643-9704r.htm>, Jack Wheeler, publisher of a website billed as "the oasis for rational conservatives," compares women readers waiting in line all over the country to get their copy of Bill Clinton's autobiography signed to "prostitutes waiting for their abusive pimp"; he takes a swipe at "Hanoi John" Kerry as someone who "looks like a cross between Herman Munster and Gomer Pyle"; and he asserts that, as part of a deal with her husband, "bisexual" Hillary Clinton gets to fool around with women, as well as "the occasional man like Vince Foster."

We hesitate to even call anyone's attention to this rabid hackery, but when it appears in print in a publication that aspires to be considered a legitimate part of the national conversation it's hard to ignore. So, while we shouldn't have to say this, we will anyway: Ad hominem attacks, rumor-mongering, and character assassination qualify neither as political discourse nor as satire. The Times may be trying to march fitfully toward respectability, but it just found its way into a very deep ditch. And the more pieces it runs like this, the harder it's going to be to get out.

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