Paul Mirengoff at Powerline on former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne’s book on life in the Clinton White House; I’ve added some emphasis:<\/p>\n
Secret Service agents are, of course, charged with protecting the physical well-being of the president. Byrne says they had discussions about the possibility of having to protect Bill Clinton from Hillary\u2019s physical attacks<\/strong>. He recalls that the couple had one \u201cviolent encounter\u201d the morning of a key presidential address to the nation.<\/p>\n
Byrne also remembers arriving for work one day in 1995 following a loud fight between the Clintons the night before. He says the dustup resulted in light blue vase \u201csmashed to bits\u201d<\/strong> and left Bill with a \u201creal, live, put-a-steak-on-it black eye<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t let anyone tell you that Hillary isn\u2019t a fighter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Mirengoff also adds, after noting the many, er, social provocations Bill presented her during those years:<\/p>\n
For Hillary, her options regarding Bill may have seemed like \u201cfight or flight.\u201d Flight, apparently, was out of the question, given her ambitions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But if it were the other way around (and the subjects weren’t the Clintons), if a husband found a wife\u00a0in flagrant delicto<\/em> and decided to take “direct action” \u00a0against her? \u00a0Society has a term for that; “domestic abuser”. \u00a0 \u00a0It doesn’t matter if one’s wife is sleeping with the entire staff at Jiffy Lube, in your bed, without changing the sheets after; you call a lawyer (and an STD test provider); you don’t hit her.<\/p>\n
That there’s a double standard for women is obvious; that there’s a triple standard for Hillary is – assuming the accuracy of Byrne’s account – a new one.<\/p>\n
And it\u00a0should\u00a0<\/em>be damning – but for Democrats, it won’t be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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