Hillary and Wal-Mart
Above is the Board of Directors from the 1988, 25th anniversary, Annual Report of Wal-Mart. We looked it up after reading this from Jonah Goldberg:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) returned a campaign contribution from Wal-Mart while gladly pocketing cash from Paul Newman, Reese Witherspoon and other Hollywood liberals. She even took a wad of dough from Jerry Springer, who made his fortune proving that nothing is too vile to broadcast. Clinton served on Wal-Mart’s board from 1986 until 1992, and in that time the company was hardly any more “worker-friendly” — to borrow a liberal term — than it is today. It’s just a bigger company now, with the same policies she oversaw. When asked if she ever fought for “progressive” policies when she was a director of the company, she replied, “Well, you know, I, that was a long time ago, I have to remember…. ”
Remember indeed. We just bought from Amazon a copy of Sam Walton: Bargain Billionaire, a 1987 A&E documentary featuring Sam Walton and Hillary Clinton. We will report back Hillary’s gushing over the wonderfulness of Sam. It should be quite something since Walton and Clinton are the only credited cast members of the documentary. We’d guess that she has had to forget quite a lot of the praise she had for Sam and Wal-Mart back then.
February 9th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Utterly. Hilarious.
I think it’s in the Arkansas constitution somewhere that the Governor has to be corrupt. Like the speaker of the house in my state. All those years of being the bag woman will come back to haunt her.
Let’s see if this is as important as the elephant dung madonna for us to see from her cheer leaders at the NYT.
February 9th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
I guess we know why the clinton administration , open our markets to China without asking the same.