Matt Drudge July 14, 2000
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BOOK CHARGES: HILLARY CALLED AIDE JEW BASTARD
**World Exclusive**
**Contains Graphic Description**
Hillary Clinton has angered Jewish voters in New York and nationally with her controversial support of a Palestinian State, and her startling embrace of Yasser Arafats wife.
Questions remain, and the debate intensifies, as to whether she can win the crucial Jewish vote in New York as she wages a neck-and-neck battle with Congressman Rick Lazio, who has made the Jewish question a campaign issue.
Now, as the race comes down to the wire, a new book is set to explore the first ladys feelings about Jews and anti-Semitic sentiments held by certain Rodham family members.
Biographer Jerry Oppenheimers new book STATE OF A UNION: INSIDE THE COMPLEX MARRIAGE OF BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON will not be released by HARPERCOLLINS until Tuesday, but the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal:
In one particularly shocking passage in the book, Oppenheimer quotes a campaign official who describes an angry attack by Hillary in which she screams at him, "You fucking Jew bastard!"
Two sourced eyewitnesses confirmed to Oppenheimer that they heard the verbal assault.
[Sources tell DRUDGE that Dick Morris is not the campaign official.]
"One anti-Semitic slur slung in anger hardly defines a person, and Hillary has always had a tendency when angry to go for the gut," Oppenheimer writes.
But, unfortunately, according to UNION, that was neither the first nor the last time Hillary had used such a slur. And there is a darker side to the story.
In probing Rodham family roots, Oppenheimer writes that Hillary paternal grandmother was known for her violent antipathy toward Jews and Catholics, something Hillarys father heard while growing up.
Oppenheimer discovered from family sources a vein of anti-Semitism that was sparked after Hillarys maternal grandmother got married for the second time to a Jew, a Chicago businessman named Max Rosenberg.
According to the book, Hillarys mother, Dorothy Rodham, held a life-long grudge against Rosenberg, and made Jewish slurs, according to an on the record family member quoted by Oppenheimer.
When asked about Hillarys Jewish connection and the Rosenberg marriage, Hillarys brother, Tony, told Oppenheimer firmly, "It was no big deal. In our family, with my brother, myself, my sister, my mother, my father, were not Jewish in any way, shape or form."
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The book, which ranked #5,360 on the AMAZON sales list [7/14 12:00 ET], caused immediate anger inside of Hillary Clintons campaign office.
"This is malicious trash written by a former NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporter!" one campaign staffer said after being read excerpts from the book.
"Oppenheimers work came in well-sourced," countered a publishing insider. "His intense study of Hillary hurts, cause it is factual."
Paul Fray, The Arkansas man who accused Hillary Rodham Clinton last month of uttering an anti-Semitic slur in 1974 has passed a lie-detector test
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Arkansas State Trooper Larry Patterson - "Hillary frequently used the expression Jew B as recently as the 1990s - Both Clintons made anti-Semitic remarks, as well as slurs against African-Americans
David Kendall, Bill Clinton's attorney - "Kendall has other clients besides the first family. He also represents the National Enquirer
Texas Governor George W. Bush said Thursday night that he doesn't believe Hillary Clinton hates Jews, even though five witnesses have come forward in the last week to confirm that she repeatedly used anti-Semitic language over the years.
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Mel, the only thing I can tell you, is you should run for president.