Questioner calls Bush 'the bastard,' Hillary Clinton smiles

Over the weekend there was an as yet little-noticed incident in Bridgeton, Mo., just outside St. Louis. Sen. Hillary Clinton addressed a town hall meeting there and was taking questions from the audience.

One elderly woman rose and was asking the Democratic candidate about a rumored economic union among the United States, Canada and Mexico that is widely discussed, feared and abhorred among conspiracy fanciers. The woman said the president planned to implement the secret agreement in 2010.

Then the woman called the president "Bush the bastard."

The Democratic crowd immediately roared its approval.

Sen. Clinton nodded her head slightly and smiled.

Then, she proceeded to ...

answer the question, saying "there's not a lot of truth to it." Our colleagues over at the Swamp have posted Glenn Thrush's detailed account of the incident, which you can read here.

It'll be interesting to see if Clinton's silent assent to that crude comment arouses as much criticism and controversy as last year when a Republican woman in South Carolina asked Sen. John McCain about Clinton, calling her "the bitch."

At the time, CNN showed a video clip of the incident and strongly criticized McCain for not admonishing the woman, although the candidate did say belatedly that he respected the New York senator.

-- Andrew Malcolm

Comments

[Misty M]

As usual with a Democrat, they can say & do what they want and get confronted by NO-ONE! I am sick & tired of the DIRTY politics that the Dem's are encouraging around them. When will our country finally have enough and step up? Let's get us a Republican President who isn't invested in the legal or illegal hispanic businesses. Let's wrestle the House & Senate away from the Liberal-crats and fix our country once & for all.

[Bill]

Yeah, just keep holding your breath for the hue and cry from the MSM over this outrage...

[hsing lee]

In a SANE world, one which didn't allow cousins to marry like you do in the USA, George W Bush's parents, who ARE cousins, should never have been married in the first place... everyone knows that when cousins marry, they produce inbred morons like GW.

So even if he's not a bastard in the strictest sense of the word, he SHOULD be one, and would be one, if Southerners weren't so gung-ho about incest...

Peace

[Jan]

Andrew Malcolm, the problem is, most of the world calls Bush a lot worse than "a bastard."
So... Do you think she would lose votes or GAIN votes with more publicity?

[Michael Tremblay]

As if this should surprise anyone. You know, you would almost think there is an element of bias in how the media reports the news. Oh, wait! They continuously remind us that there is no bias in media! How stupid of me to think that - I think I will have some more kool-aid....

[vivian bennett]

Democrats are never called on the carpet for what they say, why should we start now?
We do live in 2 americas, the vindictive democrats and the republican.

[zippy]

What should we call her husband, or her. How rude, so she wants to be Presdient and now she demeans the office as well. They should the class of the Bush Family. Oh, it took a Bush to clean the Clinton mess.

[AJ]

C'mon, we all know the rules are different for each party.

Modern day democrats sees no fault in themselves or their views.

We are all humans, and none of us are right all the time.

[DJH]

Don't make any bets on whether or not the media will even acknowledge this happened, in fact don't be surprised if they haven't made this woman a 'hero of the journalist corp'. With the amount of mis-information or lies by omission from the media it's hard to tell what is and isn't true anymore.
Thankfully, for those of us smart enough and willing enough to search it out, the truth is always available.

Too bad the media cant do it's job and stop trying to push an agenda. Integrity and pride mean nothing when it comes to ideology I guess.

[Truth: The Anti-Newshound]

"It'll be interesting to see if Clinton's silent assent to that crude comment arouses as much criticism and controversy as last year when a Republican woman in South Carolina asked Sen. John McCain about Clinton, calling her 'the bitch'."
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Please, what planet are you on? You know darn well that the mainstream media, an adjunct to the Democrat party, is never going to show Hitlery in a bad light (while they love to do the same to Republicans).

Eh?

[jJanie]

Does this mean I am free to address Hillary as Bitch?

[Joseph]

She knows intimately of bastards, she married one. Good thing the word vagina did not appear!

[Randall]

Hello, Pot, ...meet kettle.

[john a]

sort of like listening to dick chaney address a member of the senate.

[PNW Trojan]

DELIGHTED! The Times backed Obama...usually, we see the Times backing the worst of the Party Stooges...the Freak Left's choice here, on the Left Coast. But Cal has gone down hill for far too long, and that, is laid at the Democrats' door. Too impotent to beat 'Bush the bastard' as one Bridgeton, Missouri lady correctly put it, Pelosi, Feinstein (once, a GREAT moderate) and Boxer + a slew of local yokels, that have sold Cal to Mexico. Of course even as a Republican, I'm isgusted with, and revile Bush, Rove, DeLay, Cunningham et al, the lying, duplicitous thieves of the Freak Right. I want a solid individual in the White House to balance BOTH corrupt freak fringes. Bloomberg would be IDEAL, but I would welcome Obama over geriatric McCain (zzzzzz) but please folks... we saw the sleaze of Clinton BEFORE electing him 2x! Let's prove to the world we're NOT idiots, too stupid to be trusted with being a bastion of Democracy, and KEEP Hellary the Hun out of the White House. Sadly, women politicians have proven to be no better, no less trustworthy than the men. If not Bloomberg, then, OBAMA!

[CLAY BENJAMIN]

HOW CAN ANYONE CALL PRESIDENT BUSH A BASTARD WHEN HE HAS A BIOLOGICAL MOTHER AND FATHER AND THEY ARE MARRIED TO EACH OTHER? AM I MISSING SOMETHING HERE?

[James]

Hmmm.. that's sort of got a nice ring to it... "The Bitch and the Bastard: You Decided 08".

The irony here is that elections should be about ideas which are in response to common issues we face as Americans. Name calling and/or agreement therein undermines the process. A one party dominated government is not in the interests of any American as it only stimulates swelling pride and arrogance which leads to corruption. This corruption has been seen in both parties - neither are immune.

Tangible results should be the metric by which politicians pass or fail. Them them state their goals for the nation, and be thus measured as a indicator of their performance. Too logical? Maybe. But at least we'd be spared the melodrama of being sold salacious news not worthy of print.

[Angry Citizen]

Dam right she agreed, the president is a bastard. Makes me side with her even more.

[joe markovich]

Hillary was called a bitch and that is totally disrespectful but to defame the president of the country and the senator smiles is an order of magnitude worse. shame on those adultswho can't do any better than a foul mouthed rapper.

[Michael]

of course it'll be the leftists and feminists that'll decide what is civil and what isn't

[Michael]

of course it'll be the leftists and feminists that'll decide what is civil and what isn't

[Tim1979]

As a conservative backer of Senator McCain, I don't see this story as anything more than a blip on the radar screen. Political campaigns get hot and heavy, and when an audience members surprises everyone with a moment of blue-language candor---and a candidate may smirk or chuckle, as a knee-jerk reaction and against their better judgement. In the end, though, who cares? Much more important that all of us get back on track and have a vigorous, civil and constructive debate about the issues that matter to us all.

[doug]

This woman has NO class! She AND Obama are media creations, and neither have a chance to see the Oval Office.

[Mark Smith]

For the love of god. Is this the most important thing for you to write about and for LAT to put on the front splash.

No wonder journalism is so little respected.

[no socialist USA]

a vote for any democratic nominee will result in us collectively taking several steps toward a socialist country. i do not want higher taxes. i do not want bigger government. our government is not here to provide us services. it can barely provide us with what it is supposed to provide us with! our freedoms, our security, our sovereignty. take a close look at how much freedom and security you have left. and after you take your rose colored glasses off and wipe the tears from your eyes, maybe you can clearly see thats not all these people want to take from you.