Washington Times’ McCaslin Gives Platform For Hillary Clinton Death Wish

Last week, in his Inside the Beltway column, the Washington Times’ John McCaslin printed an anecdote about former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe’s son, Jack. In the story, the youngster accidentally runs into then-First Lady Hillary Clinton with a golf cart at Camp David, causing his father to joke, “What a career wrecker, my son kills the first lady.”

Clinton was not hurt in the incident. But in his column today, McCaslin prints the comment of a reader who wishes she had been killed:

Try, try again?

In our previous column, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe told the story about his young son, Jack, accidentally stepping on the gas pedal of a golf cart instead of the brake and running into then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, sending “her flying.”

Mr. McAuliffe’s immediate concern: “My son kills the first lady.”

Fortunately, Mrs. Clinton was able to pick herself up from the ground at Camp David and dust herself off.

Now, Inside the Beltway has received this shortened, one-sentence letter from Kensington resident Roger Johnson: “To Jack McAuliffe: If at first you don’t succeed … “

In the past, McCaslin has taken a much different approach to citizens wishing for the death of public officals. In a 2004 column, titled “Hot Republicans,” McCaslin wrote of a grandmother who had contacted the Secret Service after seeing a woman wearing a “kill Bush” button. McCaslin noted at the time that the Secret Service “frowns upon such expressions of presidential demise, regardless of party or campaign season”:

It’s getting ugly out there.

With less than two weeks before Election Day, Willa Untiedt, a grandmother who lives in Northern Virginia, was in Hancock Fabrics in downtown Vienna to pick up a pattern to make her 5-year-old grandson a red velvet vest.

“Here I am buying thread,” observes Untiedt, “and there is this woman next to me looking at trim who is wearing a button. Now I wear bifocals, so I had to move forward to see this button, and…then I stepped back very quickly. I have learned to keep away from people like that.”

The button read “Kill Bush.”

“She was in my age range,” says Untiedt.

So what did Untiedt do next?

She felt it her civic duty to contact the Secret Service, which frowns upon such expressions of presidential demise, regardless of party or campaign season. The president’s bodyguards went so far as to patch the loving grandmother into Uncle Sam’s new terrorist hot line.

Apparently, when the threat is aimed at Hillary Clinton, McCaslin feels his “civic duty” is to give it a national platform.

You can e-mail McCaslin at jmccaslin@washingtontimes.com.

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