Tea Party group faked Hillary Clinton sex video
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A well-heeled Tea Party group fakes a video of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton having sex with a panda as projected entertainment for its July, 2012, FreePAC convention in Dallas, according to an investigative story in Mother Jones, which broke the Mitt Romney 47 percent speech tape last fall.
The video was made but never shown.
In the video, a female intern at FreedomWorks played the part of Clinton, wearing a pants suit, while another dressed up in a panda suit wearing a Bill Clinton mask. In the video, FreedomWorks executive vice president Adam Brandon wakes up, walks down the hall, and in a dream sequence sees the nations top diplomat performing oral sex on the panda.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
The video was shown to FreedomWorks staffers, whose objections carried the day.
How was that not some form of sexual harassment? And there were going to be thousands of Christian conservatives at this this thing. This was a terrible lack of judgment, a former FreedomWorks staffer told Mother Jones.
Fr! eedomWorks has been wracked by controversy and rivalries in recent month. Its chairman, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, resigned from his $500,000-a-year position last fall following a feud with the groups $320,000-a-year president Matt Kibbe, with whom Brandon is allied. Armey was given an $8 million golden parachute in the form of consulting fees to be paid in $400,000 increments.
Armey and Kibbe had collaborated on the 2010 book: Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto. Armey was once chairman of the economic department at North Texas University.
The fake video underscores a political problem for right-wing groups and whats often called the conservative entertainment media. For years, these groups and such media outlets as Fox News and the New York Post demonized Hillary Clinton. The Drudge Report specialized in running unflattering photos of first lady-turned Senator-turned Secretary of State.
Over the last four years, however, negative opinions of Hillary Clinton (and Bill Clinton, too) have plummeted in the polls. Hillary Clinton left the Secretary of States office as the most admired public figure in America, even the most admired woman in the world. with a 61 percent approval rating in an ABC News/Washington Post poll.
With a prospective presidential candidacy in 2016, how will the political right demonize her again?
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