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

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On November 27, 2014 @ 1:44 pm In The Point | 10 Comments

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.


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