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…or at least not in our liberal newspapers:

Jeanine Pirro Blasts Hillary’s Party for Ex-Klansman

“New York Senate hopeful Jeanine Pirro is blasting 2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton for throwing a birthday party tonight for Klu Klux Klansman-turned-Senator Robert Byrd at the home of a civil rights pioneer.

“It’s outrageous and shocking that Senator Clinton and her Democrat colleagues would choose Frederick Douglass‘ house to honor Senator Robert Byrd, who has a history of involvement with hate groups and has used racial slurs publicly,” Pirro spokeswoman Andrea Tantaros told the Associated Press.

Byrd joined the Klan in 1943 and rose the level of Kleagle before being unanimously elected to the office of Grand Cyclops. He claims to have resigned a few months later. But in 1946 Byrd wrote the Klan’s Grand Imperial Wizard to express his support.”

I would sure love someone to ask why Hilary held a birthday party of a Klan member at the home of one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, fighting to end slavery. However, if someone looked at her record of hypocrisy, it really makes perfect sense.

A few examples:

Bill and Hillary Clinton have spoken in favor of the estate tax, and in 2000 Bill vetoed a bill seeking to end it. But the Clintons have set up a contract trust that allows them to substantially reduce the amount of inheritance tax their estate will pay when they die.

Hillary, for her part, has written and spoken extensively about the right of children to make major decisions regarding their own lives.

But she barred 13-year-old daughter Chelsea from getting her ears pierced and forbid the teen from watching MTV or HBO.

The New York Times headlined its report “Hillary Clinton Sides With New York Dairy Farmers on Milk Price Cartel,” a protective spin that all but obscured the real import of her decision. It left an impression on casual readers that Hillary was standing up for farmers, a comfortable fit for her political profile.

In fact, the milk cartel — otherwise known as the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact — is a creation of government bureaucrats and farm interests to artificially drive up the price of milk, a commodity that is crucial to the health and well-being of the nation’s children, whose champion Hillary purports to be. The real rationale behind the milk cartel is to protect inefficient Northeast milk producers against the more efficient producers of the Midwest who — if market forces were allowed free play -– would drive down the price of milk and make it more available to those who can afford it least.

More stories here:

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American Daily
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Pacific News: Hillary condoning Bill’s behavior baffles feminists