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10.9.07 @ 12:01AM

MAKING HEADLINES
Re: Philip Klein's Hillary Slaps Iowa Voter:

Bad headline. Very bad headline. I read it as a literal slap.
-- Yaakov "Jim" Watkins

The headline of Philip Klein's recent article, "Hillary Slaps Iowa Voter," accomplished the purpose for which it must surely have been intended -- it provoked me to click the link to see what had happened at Senator Clinton's campaign event. But reading the article, I discovered something interesting: Hillary did NOT slap an Iowa voter. She argued with him. You could even say that she "lost her cool" with him. She did not slap anybody. I don't think that even putting the word slap in quotation marks would have provided a fair representation of what actually happened.

Occasionally, people who don't already hate Hillary Clinton read the Spectator. If the content they discovered in it seemed fair, or at least subtle, the magazine might persuade some outside its traditional following to genuinely consider the views expressed within. That's not going to happen when a piece is written and headlined in such a dishonest way.
-- Willis Sparks

Philip Klein's article was a disgrace, beginning with the headline and the first sentence. Mr. Klein appears to be a Hillary hater without an ounce of objectivity. I guess that comes from a fear that she is going to crush her Republican rivals.

Keep up the Hillary bashing from the right, it only helps to solidify her lead among Democrats and Independents. And with their party identification dropping like a rock, right wing Republicans and American Spectator writers just don't matter.
-- Joe Scaccia
Pasadena, California
P.S. If it wasn't for Drudge, you guys would never be heard from.

As an Iowa voter, and lifetime Iowan, I was very offended by Hillary Clinton's comments and behavior. I also was raised in the same area of Iowa where the questioner asked a completely appropriate question. I don't blame him for responding negatively to Hillary's responses.

I believe it clearly shows how Hillary Clinton thinks: she is the smartest person to serve as President and she arrogantly believes that the voters are only there to rubber stamp her aspirations to the Presidency. You can fool some of the voters some of the time, you can fool all of the voters some of the time, but you can't fool all of the voters all of the time.
-- Alfredo V. Alvarez

I find it hysterical that you think that an audience in Iowa would applaud Senator Clinton (and they DID applaud, by every account including your own) for "screaming" at a young, innocent questioner whom Hillary Clinton "bitch-slapped" right in front of them.

This is the problem with Republicans. The audience APPLAUDS Clinton and the GOP talking point is, "Clinton in trouble!!!!" Yet she keeps beating every Republican candidate in head-to-head polling.

I smell another Thumpin'.
-- "freespeak"

It is possible to fact check HRC's statement that she had indeed been asked that same question at three other locations?
-- Mike Reardon
Woodlands, Texas

"It was an insult.... It was basically calling me stupid."

It seems Mr. Rolph finally understands the entire premise on which radical socialism is based. YOU ARE TOO STUPID TO MAKE ANY DECISIONS FOR YOURSELF.

Sorry it took you so long to get it, Mr. Rolph.
-- Jay W. Molyneaux

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