Nevada\’s John Ralston has provided us with a guest editorial about Hillary Clinton – the real Hillary Clinton as opposed to the gossamer image created and nurtured by her adoring media fans.
It seems Ms. Clinton is going to make a speech at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas (UNLV). And she has a stipulation or two in her contract which must be fulfilled or she will not be coming.
Now, I will let Mr. Ralston, who provides news and analysis weekday nights on KSNV-Channel 3, tell you about those stipulations, and what he (and I, and maybe you) thinks about them:
“Theprice of Hillary Clinton\’s scheduled speech and UNLV fundraiser couldbe going up. Las Vegas Review Journal, which obtained Clinton\’scontract with the UNLV Foundation, reports in addition to herspeaking fee of $225,000, Clinton is demanding a private jet, apresidential suite and adjoining rooms for her entourage, and Clintonrefuses to mingle with the common folk. She wants to approve anymedia types attending the event.
“Andnow, a word about royalty. We don\’t have kings and queens in America,or at least we shouldn\’t. But when I see the red carpet UNLV isrolling out for Hillary Clinton in two months I start to wonder.Unless you\’re a mindless partisan, the details of that contract withthe UNLV Foundation should disturb you. They were uncovered, as Isaid by the RJ\’s Lara Myers, and published over the weekend. Thecontract reads as if Hillary is being given the, yes, royaltreatment. Now it is bad enough that the UNLV Foundation folks agreedto that outrageous $225,000 fee as students struggle to make endsmeet.
“Butthe contract they signed shows they were willing to agree to terms noself-respecting institution would. She wants a private jet, apresidential suite, rooms for staff, and, get this, all cell phonecharges for everyone paid for. Oh, and if the $225,000 is not enoughUNLV has to spring for a stenographer, and no one gets to see thetranscription except — Hillary. No media coverage at all, nostatements, keep the rabble out of the room. The contract also saysHillary is not — and this is in all caps — endorsing the sponsor.That is, she does not want anyone to think that she actually likesUNLV. No one can take a picture of Hillary and post it to Facebook ortweet it unless, of course, you get her agent\’s permission.
“Igather UNLV held firm on a provision that no one was allowed to lookher directly in the eye and that men were supposed to bow and womencurtsy before her. I don’t know who should be more embarrassed,Hillary or UNLV? I only have one question: Who gets to hold her crownwhile she speaks?”
That, folks, is the real Hillary Clinton. Are you impressed?
But I beg you to be fair. After all, as Ms. Clinton has told us, she and Bill were dead broke after leaving the White House, and even today she\’s not “really well off”.
Between this, and Clinton\’s astonishing lack of any accomplishments over the decades she has been in the public eye, it is amazing that anyone would consider voting for her.
But, then again, the world is full of amazements, isn\’t it?
