Within three days of the official broadcast of the fax new Clinton Wallace confrontation, media reports citing such “experts” as Yale associate dean, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, were widely distributed (e.g. AP via Yahoo News,"Expert: Public Anger Can Be Refreshing") pushing the slant that Clinton’s assaultive conduct during the interview was a “good thing”
“Is a little tantrum now and then just what's called for?Under the right circumstances, yes, say some analysts of social behavior."It's more important than ever to cut through the clutter," says Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean at Yale's School of Management. ‘All of us are so over-managed these days. Public figures have platoons of protectors. It's more important than ever to show authentic, real emotion.’” reports AP’s national reporter, Jocelyn Noveck
In fact, however, Clinton's conduct on fox was an unlawful act, that follows a long history of assault claims against this former President.
In the now famous, recent, "purple rage" interview on fox news an apparently enraged Bill Clinton leaned toward his interviewer, Chris Wallace, pointed his finger menacingly and went on a rant about Fox, Rupert Murdoch and Wallace's motives. The scene was broadcast and has been digitally replayed throughout the internet. Based upon Mr. Wallace's description of his experience later the same day, "utterly surprised...I felt like a mountain was coming down on me." as well as the video itself, there appears to be strong grounds for a legal civil claim of assault against Mr. Clinton. As noted below, civil assault may consist an act intended to or which reasonably does cause in another person an apprehension of an imminent unconsented unwanted touching (contact) which is neither consented to, excused or justified. Indeed, because Mr. Clinton's wagging finger in fact was poking the papers in Wallace's hand, the additional unlawful act of battery was probably committed.
Within three days of the official broadcast of this confrontation media reports citing such “experts” as Yale associate dean, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, were widely distributed (e.g. AP via Yahoo News,"Expert: Public Anger Can Be Refreshing") pushing the slant that Clinton’s assaultive conduct during the interview was a “good thing”
“Is a little tantrum now and then just what's called for?Under the right circumstances, yes, say some analysts of social behavior."It's more important than ever to cut through the clutter," says Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean at Yale's School of Management. ‘All of us are so over-managed these days. Public figures have platoons of protectors. It's more important than ever to show authentic, real emotion.’” reports AP’s national reporter, Jocelyn Noveck
Such tactics, elitist expert and mainstream media apologist peices appearing days after public disclosure of Clinton’s propensity for violent outbursts, is not new. Clinton has a long history, apparently unique among American presidents, of accululating claims of assaultive conduct, e.g.,
"-A 1969 charge by a 19-year-old English woman ... said Clinton assaulted her.... A retired State Department employee, who asked not to be identified, confirmed that he spoke with the family of the girl and filed a report with his superiors. Clinton admitted having sex with the girl, but claimed it was consensual...;
-In 1972, a 22-year-old woman told campus police at Yale University that she was sexually assaulted by Clinton, who was a law student at the college... ;
-In 1974, a female student at the University of Arkansas complained that then-law professor Bill Clinton tried to prevent her from leaving his office during a conference. She said he groped her and forced his hand inside her blouse...;
-Broaddrick, a volunteer in Clinton's attorney general campaign, said he raped her in 1978; Juanita Broaddrick's claims are corroborated by others who were present and who were told of the rape at the time. At least two others saw her bruises and heard her story immediately afterwards.
-From 1978-1980, during Clinton's first term as governor of Arkansas, state troopers assigned to protect the governor reported seven complaints from women who said Clinton forced, or attempted to force, himself on them sexually.
-Elizabeth Ward... told friends she was forced by Clinton to have sex with him shortly after she won her state crown....
-Paula Corbin, an Arkansas state worker, filed a sexual harassment case against Clinton... -A former Washington, DC, political fundraiser says Presidential candidate-to-be Clinton invited her to his hotel room during a political trip to the nation's capital in 1991, pinned her against the wall and stuck his hand up her dress. She says she screamed loud enough for the Arkansas State Trooper stationed outside the hotel suite to bang on the door and ask if everything was all right, at which point Clinton released her and she fled the room. When she reported the incident to her boss, he advised her to keep her mouth shut if she wanted to keep working... Clinton later paid an out of courst monetary settlement to Ms.Jones and was disbarred for his deceitful conduct during the civil litigation over this incident.
-Kathleen Willey, a White House volunteer, reported that Clinton grabbed her, fondled her breast and pressed her hand against his genitals during an Oval Office meeting in November, 1993...."(Daniel J. Harris and Teresa Hampton, Capitol Hill Blue)
The history of the Clintons and their political thugs and elitist accomodators using a compliant MSM to both attack Clinton victims (nuts and sluts) and advance pseudo intellectual explanations of why Clinton’s offensive conduct warranted a steadfast defense, are well known. (Saving the country from the radical right wing).
What happens when a member of the Elite left with established MSM creditials gets fed up with Clinton’s assaultive propensities and speacks out? Gloria Allred, noted feminist attorney and celebrity commentator. claimed in a February 1999 program of the Michael Reagan Show that since she spoke out against Clinton, the many requests she was accustomed to receiving from CNN to appear on political talk shows suddenly disappeared altogether. The reason given to her by a booker was that she was anti-Clinton.
In short, as to the Clinton Wallace confrontation, Clinton after-spin, we’ve seem it all before.
The tort of assault consists of an act intended to cause either harmful or offensive contact with another person or apprehension of such contact, and that creates in that other person's mind a reasonable apprehension of an imminent battery. Restatement (Second) of Torts § 21 (1965); Friend § 6.3.1 at 226; Fowler V. Harper, et al., The Law of Torts § 3.5 at 3:18-:19 (3d ed. Cum. Supp. 2003).
The tort of battery is an unwanted touching which is neither consented to, excused, nor justified. See Washburn v. Klara, 263 Va. 586, 561 S.E.2d 682 (2002); Woodbury v. Courtney, 239 Va. 651, 391 S.E.2d 293 (1990). Although these two torts "go together like ham and eggs," the difference between them is "that between physical contact and the mere apprehension of it. One may exist without the other." W. Page Keeton, Prosser and Keeton on Torts § 10 at 46; see also Friend § 6.3.
"I began the interview with 2 questions about Mr. Clinton's commitment to humanitarian causes. His answers were cogent and good-humored.
Then--I asked him about his Administration's record in fighting terror--fully intending to come back to CGI later (as indeed I did).
I asked what I thought was a non-confrontational question about whether he could have done more to "connect the dots and really go after al Qaeda."
I was utterly surprised by the tidal wave of details--emotion--and political attacks that followed.
The President was clearly stung by any suggestion that he had not done everything he could to get bin Laden. He attacked right-wingers--accused me of a "conservative hit job"--and even spun a theory I still don't understand that somehow Fox was trying to cover up the fact that NewsCorp. chief Rupert Murdoch was supporting his Global Initiative. I still have no idea what set him off. Former President Clinton is a very big man. As he leaned forward--wagging his finger in my face--and then poking the notes I was holding--I felt as if a mountain was coming down in front of me.
The President said I had a smirk. Actually--it was sheer wonder at what I was witnessing." - Wallace
Didn't the leftists have a hissy fit over accusation that John Bolton might have yelled at subordinates?
But it's OK to criticize Bolton. After all, he is a radical right winger. /s
was the chief prosecutor of Arkansas, he was running for Governor, and the clintons had a reputation for, for--how shall I put this?--for quickly dispatching anyone perceived to be standing in their way. 
It is unfortunate that the issue of the death penalty for rape suffers historically from a racist context: Extra-legal lynchings and later state-sanctioned executions, both in the segregated South, cloud the legal and moral arguments, with the result being the unjust treatment of all women in our society today.
Connecticut Rep. Chris Shays said on a talk radio show Wednesday that, based on secret evidence he reviewed during the impeachment controversy, he believes President Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick, not once, but twice.
compared to Bob Dole's 43%. That is a huge, huge difference. I don't think you can lay all that at the doorstep of moral values. I think that this president unabashedly and abjectly took the issue of terror and used it to terrorize... white women."
Hillary Clinton's revisionist tome notwithstanding, 'living history' begets a certain symmetry. It is in that light that I make this not-so-modest proposal on this day, exactly 64 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor. 
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