Hillary uses the “J” word.

Source: National Review
Published: 7/18/00
Author: Jerry Oppenheimer

By three A.M., it was all over: Clinton had lost by a mere six thousand votes. He, Hillary, and Fray went back to Fayetteville in their cars; Addington went home to nurse his sorrow in silence. The others, though, particularly Hillary and Paul, were cut from a different cloth. When in doubt, slug it out.

The minute Paul walked into the back room at the Fayetteville headquarters that night, Hillary hit him between the eyes. She was angrier than Paul had ever seen her.

“You f***ing Jew bastard!” she screamed.

Hillary had cursed him out plenty of times before. But this was the first time she had used a religious slur, and it hit hard. It was not something he would ever forget. “I promise you it happened. It created a chasm I never really overcame.” he said.

Paul Fray was actually a Baptist ? later on he would train for the seminary at Ouachita Baptist University. But his father was Jewish, the son of immigrants, and Paul was very proud of his roots. “You don’t talk about my forefathers. I come from Cohens (the high priests, in Jewish law). My dad used to tell me, ‘Son, do you realize what we are, what tribe we’re from? You need to understand, that’s your heritage.’”

His immediate reaction, of course, was to explode back. “‘You can’t talk to me like that.’ I let her know that in no uncertain terms.” Bill Clinton, Mary Lee, and campaign worker Neil McDonald were also in the room at the time. Both Mary Lee Fray and Neil McDonald confirmed Paul Fray’s account.

“Yeah, it’s happened,” acknowledged McDonald years later. “Heat of the moment and all that. You have to realize where Hillary’s from. And Paul does have some Jewish in his background.” The fight raged on, with McDonald posted at the door to keep out any curious staffers. According to various reports, a few ashtrays were heaved, the blue language flew, as Paul and Hillary blamed each other for everything that had gone wrong in the campaign. Mary Lee, defending her husband, brought up some of the problems with Bill and women; Bill for the most part was quiet, letting Hillary handle the combat. In the end, exhausted, everyone filed out quietly ? there was nothing more to say. The chance of any further working relationship between the Frays and the Clintons had pretty much been reduced to ashes.

But Hillary’s attack on Paul’s Judaism would continue to reverberate. There had been too many witnesses for it not to get out. “I never asked Bill point-blank about that statement back then, because it really wounded the s**t out of me,” said Paul. “He thought it was one of those things, you blow off, go on. I’ve heard him say, ‘If anything was wrong, forgotten and forgiven, no big deal, heat of the moment. A pretty violent exchange occurred ? so what.’”

But for Paul, the cut went too deep to forget. “Hillary can be a sweet girl, but she knows damn well that has wounded me for years. I’ll go to my grave with it.”

One nasty epithet, slung in anger, hardly defines a person. And Hillary has always had a tendency, when enraged, to go for the gut. “Hillary always knows what buttons to push,” said one person who knew them both well. “There aren’t many things in life she does that aren’t calculated. Everything is thought out. She looks at the enemy and decides which kind of weapon to use. Do I use intellect and talk this through? Or do I get down, use the sort of weapon they understand? And with Paul, it’s temper and words. So she was doing exactly what he understood.” Unfortunately, this was neither the first nor the last time Hillary would use such a slur. Bill Becker, the local head of labor (since passed away), sought Paul out to ask him about it shortly afterwards. “He said, ‘How could that damn woman be that stupid?’” recalled Paul. “I said, ‘Well, I think it’s a question of her having a little bit of a problem.’”

State trooper Larry Patterson ? who along with trooper Roger Perry went public in 1994 with stories of Bill’s sexual escapades in the governor’s mansion ? later also reported in a taped interview produced by a conservative group that he heard both the Clintons tell ethnic jokes and use ethnic slurs. Oddly enough, they had a habit of slinging these slurs at each other, he said ? “Jew bastard,” “Jew mother f***er” being the most common ones used.

Paul, struggling to understand, thought Hillary’s anti-Semitic slur might have something to do with her father, who had worked in fabrics his entire life, and had undoubtedly had dealings with Jews in the garment industry, particularly early on when he worked briefly in New York. “I think he was possibly ostracized by them, that he didn’t feel he’d been treated fairly by them,” he said. A blunt-spoken man, Hugh Rodham would have voiced his sentiments freely, Paul speculated; Hillary, he thought, may have grown up hearing such comments.

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