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Amazing Zombie Video

This link is to the utterly bizarre video tribute by Hillary Clinton to Heather Mills—the mentally unbalanced newly ex-wife of Beatle Paul McCartney. Hillary, in a kind of zombie mode, gives a unified field theory tribute to Heather. In this four-minute accolade, Hillary credits Heather, in part, for New York's recovery from Sept. 11, Hillary's decision to introduce an anti-landmine bill, and Hillary's knowledge about life that we must "just enjoy every single minute of this beautiful gift that we've been given." She ends by saying, "God bless you, Heather." (The judge in Heather's divorce case has a somewhat different take on Heather's qualities, saying she is a self-aggrandizer with a tenuous relationship to the truth and an "explosive and volatile character".) The only explanation for this artifact I can come up with is that in a little-known episode Hillary was forced to make this tape while being held hostage by Heather, which must have been a far more perilous situation that Hillary's trip to Bosnia.