If You Want Hillary Clinton, You’re Going to Need Crudite, Humus and $300,000

Image: Clinton Signs Copies of Hard Choices in Virginia

If you thought Obama was an egotistical, pompous control freak… apparently you haven’t seen anything yet. It took less planning to go to the moon than to get Hillary Clinton to speak at UCLA.

When officials at the University of California at Los Angeles began negotiating a $300,000 speech appearance by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the school had one request: Could we get a reduced rate for public universities?

The answer from Clinton’s representatives: $300,000 is the “special university rate.”

How generous.

In fact Hillary Clinton spoke at the University of Nevada for $225K and $275K at the University of Buffalo, so Hillary is lying. As usual.

And what did UCLA, subsidized by taxpayers, get in exchange for that?

Luskin told a university official to make sure the event raised at least $100,000.

That’s what an investment in Hillary looks like. You’re lucky if you get back 1/3 of what you put in. But meanwhile Hillary had more demands than a rock star with a nose full of cocaine and fame.

Top university officials discussed at length the style and color of the executive armchairs Clinton and moderator Lynn Vavreck would sit in as they carried on a question-and-answer session, as well as the kind of pillows to be situated on each chair.

Can you imagine life for Hillary Clinton’s illegal alien help? Or life for her interior decorator?

Clinton’s team rejected the podium planned for her use during her 20- to 30-minute speech, setting off a scramble on campus to find a suitable podium and rent a new university seal to match.

If only Hillary Clinton put as much thought into securing the Benghazi mission, which remained structurally unprotected, as she did into picking out the right podium.

And every possible comfort for her convenience.

Her representatives asked for a case of still water, room temperature, to be deposited stage right. They also asked that “a carafe of warm/hot water, coffee cup and saucer, pitcher of room temperature water, water glass, and lemon wed­ges” be situated both on a table on stage as well as in another room where Clinton would stand for photos with VIPs.

For the green room, Clinton’s representatives requested: “Coffee, tea, room temp sparkling and still water, diet ginger ale, crudité, hummus and sliced fruit.” They also asked for a computer, mouse and printer, as well as a scanner, which the university had to purchase for the occasion.

And then probably had to be ceremonially burned. Even when getting a medal, it would be lese majeste to hang it around the royal Clinton neck.

When university officials decided to award Clinton the UCLA Medal, Clinton’s team asked that it be presented to her in a box rather than draped around her neck. That request was sent to the university’s chancellor, Gene Block.

Lippert replied: “I can either have the jewelers box open or closed, in case the Chancellor doesn’t want to risk opening it.”

And the transparency was truly epic.

When an online survey asked the public what questions should be posed during a 40-minute question-and-answer session, university officials noted in e-mails that the majority of the suggestions were about the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

Clinton gave permission for the university to record the event, but “for archival purposes only.” For public distribution, Clinton’s speaking agency approved only a two-minute highlight video to upload to YouTube. “Please make sure it is available only for one (1) year from the date of posting.”

And once you paid a whole bunch of money to have your photo taken with Hillary Clinton, you better be waiting for her, you filthy peasants.

Lippert wrote to colleagues that Clinton’s representatives wanted the group shots “prestaged,” with participants assembled and ready to take the photographs before Clinton arrived “so the secretary isn’t waiting for these folks to get their act together.” Reiterating the request, Lippert added, “She doesn’t like to stand around waiting for people.”

Gives “Ready for Hillary” a whole new meaning.

  • Hi there

    Is the speech about the 1 percenters? And how the Koch brothers are destroying America?
    I used to think that Hillary was lying and pandering to the Elizabeth Warren crowd when she spoke “in short-hand” about businesses not creating jobs.
    Now I’m rethinking this. No business is employing Her Idiocy. And she manages to get many people to work for her, especially illegals to serve her Humus. She’s the perfect tyrant, enviously guarding her power.
    She might be more stupid than untruthful. But it’s a tough call.

  • DVult

    You couldn’t pay me to listen to this dreadful woman’s speech.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    Hillary is so revolting and picayune and demanding, that, were I a Democrat desperately casting about for a replacement candidate for the White House in 2016, I’d nominate Queen Victoria. Or Cleopatra.

  • Texas Patriot

    Let’s face it. If Jeb Bush can’t make an astonishing left field comeback with an amazing last minute victory, HC is going to be our next President. But don’t think Team Clinton is standing still. By this time next year, they will be positioning Hillary as the next Teddy Roosevelt, Barry Goldwater, and George Patton who has graciously agreed to come out of retirement to save America and the Free World from sure and certain death and destruction at the hands of ISIS and the Islamic State.

  • VHG1

    Just another repulsive, ugly, demented, illogical leftist hag who is in it for the money and to see how many people she can make miserable in a day with her overbearing big bottom, thigh clanging demands!

  • Chris Gait

    And the UCLA Medal is presented for:

    1. Being an ineffective carpet-bagger senator and tossing that responsibility for a failed bid at the presidency?
    2. Being a dangerously incompetent secretary of state, destroying our relationships with allies and opponents alike and getting four people killed?
    3. Having a husband who was serially unfaithful and backing him up, spitting on other women and herself in the process?

    All of the above I imagine. The medal is as worthless and meaningless as a Nobel Peace Prize, so it doesn’t matter what it is awarded for.

    Hope the people nominally paying for their children to get an education at this university enjoyed paying for all this instead. Sounds like they got a great deal.

  • Atikva

    Why in the world would anyone “want” Mrs. Hillary-Benghazi-Abedin Clinton?

  • garyfouse

    A public event at a public university should be open for filming by anyone. Some universities still have not gotten the message and if they violate that right, the lawyers should be calleld in.

  • bigjulie

    It seems some wag said that when Palm Springs put a ban on “plastic bags” they had to make an exception for Cher. It would be a good Idea to extend that exception for Hillary Clinton, as well!

  • watsa46

    If we want many more Islamists in the US, the right candidate is Hilary C.