"Screw em" is a rumor. No audio tape, no video tape

[Markosito]

Some might erroneously believe that audio tape or video tape of Hillary Clinton saying "screw em" referring to Southern workers exists.
On the contrary, this is a story in which a website, the Huffington Post, tells us that one man who wrote a book once said in this book that Hillary Clinton said what she said.

This is what distinguishes this from a real controversy. This is also called "hearsay".

Many things have been said in books. Does it mean they were true? Not at all. audio and video tapes solve this problem.

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Confirmed by two eyewitnesses.

Not hearsay.

[nsd]

6. Actually, now it's three witnesses.

Alan Wolfe heard it too.

link

[tekisui]

2. Has she denied it?

[RazBerryBeret]

3. so if it's not on tape

it's not true?

what have we become....

[Ian David]

4. Yes, there IS a videotape right here...

http://tinyurl.com/2s4x6q

[MadBadger]

5. Two people have backed up that story.

[Muttocracy]

7. Teh Internets tho, is true! Welcome back or enjoy your visit! nt

[cali]

8. my, you haven't been keeping up. tough shit for you

two other people confirm it. Sucks that it's all over, huh?

[AtomicKitten]

9. Ah, huh. Thanks for playing. Drive through.

[LSK]

10. more gotcha bullshit that solves nothing

Why feed this crap?

[Elidor]

11. No one is buying your spin, I notice

Can't blame you for trying. Better luck next time.

Here's more info, for anyone who came in during intermission:

During the past week, Sen. Hillary Clinton has presented herself as a working class populist, the politician in touch with small town sentiments, compared to the elitism of her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama.

But a telling anecdote from her husband's administration shows Hillary Clinton's attitudes about the "lunch-bucket Democrats" are not exactly pristine.

In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach.

"Screw 'em," she told her husband. "You don't owe them a thing, Bill. They're doing nothing for you; you don't have to do anything for them."

The statement -- which author Benjamin Barber witnessed and wrote about in his book, "The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House" -- was prompted by another speaker raising the difficulties of reaching "Reagan Democrats." It stands in stark contrast to the attitude the New York Democrat has recently taken on the campaign trail, in which she has presented herself as the one candidate who understands the working-class needs.

"I don't think really gets it that people are looking for a president who stands up for you and not looks down on you," she said this week.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/hillary-clinton-on-workin_n_97017.html