WND EXCLUSIVE
CLINTON
RAPE RAP LINKED TO NEW POL SEX FIENDS
Weiner, Spitzer,
Filner now benefiting
With Barack Obama
dogged by multiple scandals – from Benghazi to NSA surveillance to rampant IRS
abuses – many Americans are asking whether he can make it through his second
term.
Likewise, with sex
scandals in the news – from ex-congressman Anthony Weiner to former New York
governor Eliot Spitzer to San Diego Mayor Bob Filner – many are asking how such
disgraced leaders can possibly believe they can re-assume positions of power
and public trust.
The approaching
anniversary of one of the most extraordinary presidential scandals in history
may well hold the answer to both questions.
Fifteen years ago,
perhaps the most serious allegation ever levied against a sitting U.S.
president – a nationally televised accusation of forcible rape, widely regarded
by the public as credible – came to light. Yet Bill Clinton not only survived
the allegation, he also survived an impeachment that included other sexually
lurid charges and went on to become the beloved elder statesman of the
Democratic Party.
‘I told him no’
It was Juanita Broaddrick who in 1998
first went public with the story of alleged rape two decades earlier,
reportedly on April 25, 1978. In February 1999, she told her story to a
national TV audience on “Dateline NBC” to Emmy-winning reporter Lisa Myers.
Broaddrick said she
was at a conference in Little Rock, Ark., when Clinton approached her in her
hotel room. He “turned me around and started kissing me, and that was a real
shock. I first pushed him away. I just told him ‘no.’ … He trie[d] to kiss me
again. He starts biting on my lip. … And then he forced me down on the bed. I
just was very frightened. I tried to get away from him. I told him ‘no.’ … He
wouldn’t listen.”
At the time the story appeared, the Washington Post reported
that it had interviewed several of Broaddrick’s friends, including Norma
Kelsey, who “said she saw Broaddrick’s swollen lip and torn pantyhose that
day.”
In “Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine,” author and feminist
Candice E. Jackson devotes an entire chapter to “The Rape of Juanita
Broaddrick.”
After providing the
background to the incident – Broaddrick had volunteered to help in Clinton’s
gubernatorial race and had accepted, albeit reluctantly, Clinton’s suggestion
they meet in her hotel room instead of the hotel’s coffee shop that was
“crawling” with reporters – the author lays out Broaddrick’s chilling account:
She
felt “a little bit uneasy” meeting him in her hotel room, but felt a “real
friendship toward this man” and didn’t feel any “danger” in him coming to her
room. When Clinton arrived she had coffee ready on a little table under a
window overlooking a river. Then “he came around me and sort of put his arm
over my shoulder to point to this little building and he said he was real
interested if he became governor to restore that little building and then all
of a sudden, he turned me around and started kissing me. And that was a real
shock.” Broaddrick pushed him away and said, “No, please don’t do that” and
told Clinton she was married. But he tried to kiss her again. This time he bit
her upper lip. She tried to pull away from him but he forced her onto the bed.
“And I just was very frightened, and I tried to get away from him and I told
him ‘No,’ that I didn’t want this to happen, but he wouldn’t listen to me.” But
he “was such a different person at that moment, he was just a vicious awful
person.” At some point she stopped resisting. She explained, “It was a real
panicky, panicky situation. I was even to the point where I was getting very
noisy, you know, yelling to ‘Please stop.’ And that’s when he pressed down on
my right shoulder and he would bite my lip.”
Clinton didn’t linger
long afterward. “When everything was over with, he got up and straightened
himself, and I was crying at the moment and he walks to the door, and calmly
puts on his sunglasses. And before he goes out the door he says, ‘You better
get some ice on that.’ And he turned and went out the door.” The whole
encounter lasted less than 30 minutes, but it changed Juanita Broaddrick’s life
forever.
When questioned by an
interviewer, “Is there any way at all that Bill Clinton could have thought that
this was consensual?” Juanita Broaddrick answered, “No. Not with what I told
him, and with how I tried to push him away. It was not consensual.” The
interviewer, NBC’s Lisa Myers, pressed for specificity. “You’re saying that
Bill Clinton sexually assaulted you, that he raped you?” Broaddrick answered,
“Yes.”
Broaddrick’s friend
Norma said that when she left their shared hotel room that morning, Broaddrick
had told her that she planned to meet with Clinton. When Norma called around
lunchtime, however, Broaddrick sounded so upset that Norma returned to the room
to find Broaddrick’s lip and mouth badly swollen and her pantyhose ripped off.
Broaddrick told Norma that Clinton had sexually assaulted her.
…
David Broaddrick recalls that her lip was “black” and “mentally she was in bad
shape.” Broaddrick told three other friends soon after the attack, all of whom
vouch for her story.
Broaddrick said she
didn’t talk about her experience earlier because she just didn’t think anyone would
believe her. Clinton attorney David Kendall denied Broaddrick’s allegations,
characterizing them as “absolutely false.”
After the NBC broadcast aired, a public opinion poll by
Zogby International showed that most Americans either believed Clinton was
guilty of the 1978 rape of Broaddrick or said more information was needed to make a true
judgment.
‘Good historians’
Today, news headlines
almost daily include political sex scandals, including these recent instances:
·
Ex-congressman
Anthony Weiner is running for mayor of New York City despite his obsession with
electronically sending graphic sexual images of himself to young women.
·
Former
governor Eliot Spitzer, running for New York City comptroller, ignores recent polls showing 59 percent of New Yorkers view
him unfavorably. He fell from power after public revelation that he patronized
prostitutes.
·
San
Diego Mayor Bob Filner, a Democrat, like Weiner and Spitzer, has vowed to “get help” for his “problems” – he’s accused of bullying,
badgering and abusing women – but then cut out of rehab after only one week.
Illinois-based
clinical psychologist Dr. Dathan Paterno blames the arrogant attitude displayed
by today’s politician-perpetrators directly on Clinton.
“Modern-era
politicians like Weiner, Spitzer and Filner are nothing if not good historians.
They merely have to recall the survival of their patron sinner Bill Clinton and
realize that all scandals are eminently survivable – for liberals, that is. All
that is required is for the leftist band of brothers – media, political allies,
and the voters who most aggressively and eagerly suck at the government teat –
to distract, rationalize, and minimize,” Paterno said.
“Then the power
carries on, transfers and remains,” he said. The men who use and abuse women in
these ways retain their power and money. Only the victims are left broken, and
in debt and depression. Their voices are quiet.”
When it comes to
alleged Clinton victims, Broaddrick is hardly alone. The list of women who
accused Clinton of sexual misdeeds reads like a beauty pageant lineup,
including: Elizabeth Ward, Miss America 1981; Sally Miller Perdue, former Miss
Arkansas; Gennifer Flowers, an aspiring singer and nightclub performer; Monica
Lewinsky, a Beverly Hills prep school daughter of a divorced doctor and
reporter. Each had life experiences that led to a vulnerability that some say
predators can identify.
WND reached out to
many of the women in the Clinton saga, all of whom had one thing in common:
They still are trying to put the ordeal behind them.
One, who did not want
her name to be used, said Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin, Weiner’s wife and
close assistant to Hillary Clinton, aren’t “standing by their men” as is
commonly said. Rather, they’re standing on the heads of the women their
husbands have victimized.
The worst thing that
could happen to women in America who have been similarly victimized, she added,
is for Hillary to be elected president.
Her fear of what the
media have done to her personally, emotionally and financially is the reason
she does not want to talk any more and does not speak publicly.
She said the Clintons
have fundamentally changed the way media cover politics.
‘The biggest victim’
David Spady, a California-based
political strategist, said the advent of Hillary Clinton vying for president
means more of the same.
“When Hillary Clinton
got away with blaming a ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’ for Bill’s indiscretions,
it set the stage for politicians like Filner, Weiner and Spitzer to simply spin
their way out of trouble with female voters by becoming victims.” Spady said.
“If Hillary were
elected president,” he added, “the biggest victim would be the truth.”
The author Jackson
agrees, citing Clinton tactics such as “assembling a smear team to attack a
grief-stricken widow (Kathleen Willey), threatening a reporter for her research
into an Arkansas health care scandal, and hiring private investigators to bully
an ex-flame’s family members.”
She sees an
“undeniable link” between the Clintons’ liberal beliefs and misogynistic
behavior. She further views Hillary as the “eager accomplice that might one day
occupy the Oval Office.”
“If Hillary is
elected,” said one of the women allegedly victimized by Clinton, “these men
will continue to use their power and money to hurt women. Hillary was complicit
in all of the intimidation, terror and cover-up that happened to these women,
and the women abused by politicians since then have the Clintons – both of them
– to thank. That’s just how the Clintons, and now the Democrat machine, roll.”
Meanwhile, as Barack
Obama scoffs that his own scandals are “phony” and disgraced public servants
like Weiner and Spitzer confidently pursue high office, the man who blazed
their trail – Bill Clinton – now sits at the pinnacle of the Democratic power
structure.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/clinton-beating-rape-rap-paved-way-for-others/#jUmJeI08RrHAesAx.99
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