In an op-ed about Hillary Clinton, Peggy Noonan asserts without evidence that the Clinton campaign is behind a pro-Hillary site called hillaryis44.com:
But there is another side of the Clinton campaign, and I found some of it this week. It is a new Web site called HillaryIs44.com. It is rather mysterious. It does not divulge who is running the site, or who staffs it. It is not interactive; it has one informative voice, and its target audience seems to be journalists and free-lance oppo artists.
And it reads like The Warrior's Id. Hillary "took on" a journalist this week and "beat him into submission." Bloomberg has "stripped himself of allies" in "New York's cutthroat politics." "Expect stormy days ahead for Bloomberg," who will wind up "lonely." Republicans "will attempt to rip him to shreds." "A May surprise announcement will be met with mounds of research accumulated over the next 11 months."
In tone the site is very Tokyo Rose.
Encouraging readers to send in "confidential tips," its primary target and obvious obsession is Barack Obama...
This appears to be the subterranean part of Hillary's campaign, the part that quietly coexists with the warm, chuckling lady playing the jukebox with her husband. It coexists with the Maya Angelou part, the listening tour part, the filmed parts.
It is the war room part. I suspect the site is a back door to that war room.
...[I]f Mrs. Clinton's aides want to understand better her likability problem, they should look at this site. It's dark in there.
Note all the insinuations that Clinton's campaign is involved with the site: "[T]here is another side of the Clinton campaign, and I found some of it this week," "This appears to be the subterranean part of Hillary's campaign," "I suspect the site is a back door to [Clinton's] war room." But there's no evidence that any of these suggestions are true. The website states "We are not affiliated with the Hillary For President Exploratory Committee, or any official Hillary Clinton organization in any way" and the domain is registered anonymously. In short, Noonan is asserting a connection based on sheer speculation.
Noonan is an experienced politico. No more, but no less, valid than hundreds of others. She smells Hillary behind the "Hillaryis44.com", and may very well be right. Joe Klein denied for months that he was the author of "Primary Colors." Doesn't mean that Hillary's wrong to try anonymity; instead, it is just how the game is played these days.
Posted by: Bill Peithmann | June 24, 2007 at 11:41 AM
Judging from the site, I'd say the writers of "Hillaryis44" seem too dumb to be actually working for the Clinton campaign.
Posted by: AP | June 24, 2007 at 07:57 PM
Noonan is a political hack. She doesn't care about facts or evidence. Smear Clinton? Why that's her reason for living? Only an idiot would believe that the Hillary camp is behind Hillaryis44.com. Noonan is certifiably so.
Posted by: Ralph | December 08, 2007 at 11:21 PM
What is the "Keating Five"?
Posted by: dorothy swanson | February 20, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Hillary & Bill are two sinister characters who had a taste of power & as a result have become two power hungry & money hungry people. They talk a good game and many have seen through them. Many people commented on c-span indicated on the 8th of June 08. I do not think Hillary would have won the election, Obama or no Obama. Bill Clinton a former Prisident could not save Hillary from her Dark side coming through, & Chelsea could not inspire her peers. So Hillary's supporters became older women and RACISTS who think they are voting in a COLOUR contest not an election. While their country & its economy & their housing markets have come into recession & oil prices are sky rocketing. Hillary Clinton inspired RACE hate, racial divide, and all the negatives in America political past and have no place in the future. If Hillary runs again the kind of damage she has done will only come back to haunt her. Hillary was the only one who used RACE in her campaign. The Republicans stayed away from that in fear of ailianating Black votes, Hillary was too stupid in that regard and too disrespectful of Black Americans to ever re-capture their imaginations again from what I can see, I would be shocked if Hillary got the place of Vice President. McCain would have all the attacks on vedio to use against both Obama & Hillary. Hillary's style of campaign had no professionalism in it, because they lack after thought, of what if I don't win. She knew she never wanted OBAMA as VP, because she had Bill Clinton lined up as VP, and Chelsea lined up for a super job some where turning Governing America into a family business. The Clinton Dynasty, setting the road map, for a JEB BUSH & then Chelsea Clinton. Americans don't know what a lucky escape they had.
Posted by: Daphne Kenward | June 09, 2008 at 06:27 AM