Posted on 07/06/2004 7:46:35 AM PDT by george wythe
Before his memoir "My Life" was released last month, ex-President Clinton announced that he wasn't interested in settling any scores with his old enemies.
That will come as news to Washington Times editor Wes Pruden, top talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and Fox News Channel chief Roger Ailes, each of whom are skewered in Clinton's book.
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In quotes extracted from the 957 page tome by the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz, Clinton blasts all three as wild-eyed right wingers who targeted him for his goodness.
"Typical Clinton," Pruden told Kurtz. "That was my father, who's been dead 25 years.
But Clinton must be thankful to one KKK member. Though he doesn't say so in his book, Clinton has to be grateful to former Klansman, Senator Robert K. Byrd, who played a pivotal role in saving his presidency by not voting for a his removal during the impeachment process.
Actually, the report in question came from a financial newsletter that had been circulating on Wall Street hours before Limbaugh picked the story up.
"I never reported that there was a murder," the top talker told Kurtz. "I played up what was being said by others and what was going around and I played up the climate because it all fit in."
The respected financial newsletter which Rush quoted was edited by a former member of the Federal Reserve.
The newsletter quoted Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan as having told his staff during a weekly meeting that Foster had been killed, that his body had been rolled up in a carpet and moved to Fort Marcy Park.
Moynihan's office later denied the story. [Interestingly enough, FBI analysis later found numerours microscopic carpet fibers of numerous colors on all of Mr. Foster's clothing and undergarments.]
The source of the ex-president's irritation?
While head of CNBC, Ailes supposedly "accused the administration of a cover up 'that includes . . . land fraud, illegal contributions, abuse of power . . . suicide cover up - possible murder.'"
Of course, this isn't the first time Ailes, Limbaugh and Pruden have been attacked by the grudge-bearer-in-chief.
In a Feb. 2003 "Today Show" interview, Clinton slammed the GOP "media machine's . . . sympathetic newspapers and sympathetic cable programs," and complained about Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly by name.
No wonder Clinton's publisher Simon & Schuster wouldn't send O'Reilly a review copy.
To The Thing: PUT SOME ICE ON IT
Not a very forgiving man, is he?
It fits.
Clinton is the turd that won't flush ... who really gives a good tinker's damn what he thinks?
LOL! I didn't know that.
Funny how they all 'ignore' his role in Iran-Contra-Mena..... Clinton as Attorney General (the top Arkansas cop)..... and Clinton (Gov. of Arkansas)
& The trail of bodies from Mena to the White House...
If you can stand to watch, Bill Clinton will be on the Diane Rehm show. It will be simulcast on C-SPAN. I'm curious on his Edwards take. Looking for truth through his lying body language.
unfortunately, the media.
a.k.a. "i42"
Thanks for the heads up, but I don't have a strong stomach. I will have to pass. Nevertheless, please keep us informed of his reaction, since Hillary must know that a Kerry/Edwards win will be detrimental to her presidential ambitions.
Does this make his Veep choice racist as well? Al Gore's father opposed the Civil Rights Act. Why would Clinton pick such a divisive figure as a running mate
And why didn't Clinton use his influence as governor to cut the Confederate flag from Arkansas' flag? Didn't he appreciate how offensive that is to some folks? :/
Bill Clinton is one of the most pathologically sick public figures in the world today.
Diane Rehm: Will you be campaigning for Kerry/Edwards?
Clinton: Hillary and I will both be doing what ever we are asked to do.
He is doing a reading now. I can't take any more.
Clinton is proving the wisdom I learned in the Navy is gender neutral.
It's easier getting in than out. Alternate wording, It's harder to get rid of a skank than to get with one.
There is also the closely related wisdom, never date a chick you meat at a stoplight.
I hope that Edwards gets into the habit of double-checking his airplane before taking off.
I went back. He is blaming the Reagan Administration for supporting Saddam while Saddam was using WMD. Then he says a lot of people were angry with GHWB for not staying the course after the first Gulf War. Haven't heard him take any responsiblity. Not holding my breath.
Presidents...politicians...with secure, positive career legacies don't have to care what the press says about them. Reagan never worried. Clinton clearly does.
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