Ex-Prez Blames Republicans for Boos

NewsMax.com ^ | 4/11/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Ex-President Bill Clinton blamed Republicans for the boos he got Wednesday night at a birthday concert for country singer Willie Nelson at New York's Beacon Theater.

"The place went wild when [Clinton] was announced," reports Friday's New York Post Page Six. "There was loud booing and yelling."

Several callers to WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg Show who attended the event described the scene afterward. One quoted the ex-prez as complaining, "I see the Republicans are here tonight."

Another saw a fellow concertgoer who stood up, booed and gave Clinton the finger - prompting security to escort him out of the hall.

The Post confirmed Clinton's Republican comment, adding that he "seemed angered" at his reception.

The remark riled the crowd so much, said the paper, that when Nelson returned to the stage, he asked if everyone was all right.

The concert was taped for a Memorial Day airing on the USA network. "No way will they include the Clinton booing in the broadcast," predicted Malzberg.

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[Liberal Classic]

Pshaw, I'd pay good money to boo him.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Hillary Clinton has ZERO chance of ever being elected president of the United States.

I agree 100%. It would be fun to see her get squashed like the bug she is.

[spodefly]

[Congressman Billybob]

Following up on your comment, I am looking forward to the day when Billyjeff Clinton is dragged down from his self-built pedestal of lies and sand, and his head is dragged through the streets (politically speaking, of course), and the people beat on it with their voter registration cards. In the meantime, booing the b*stard whenever he appears in public will have to suffice.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, now up on UPI, and FR, "I Believe" (1957-2003)

Latest book(let), "to Restore Trust in America."

[Enduring Freedom]

The Clintons are the fundamental cause of America's partisanship and class warfare.

These anti-American scumbag charlatans threaten our national security far more than Saddam. The Clintons should be contained by all necessary means, including the relentless pursuit of indictments for past and present crimes.

Despite the humiliation of the Rich pardons, the theft of White House chattels, the Lewinsky disaster, the rape and intimidation of countless women, these dysfunctional snakes still have influential Media Fedayeen infesting the countryside.

The Bush admin doesn't yet understand that evil lurks too in America. It must be confronted, and soon.

I await the coming War on Democrats. From Jesse Jackson to the Clintons, America needs to lose these treasonous punks, and fast.

[seams2me]

...and when the gunsmoke settles, we'll sing a victory tune
and we'll all meet down at the local saloon

We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces, singin
whiskey for my men, beer for my horses....

I read that when Toby asked Willie to do a song with him, he said "what's it about" and Toby told him it was Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses" Willie said "that's all I need to hear. Just name the time and place".

Then Toby expected Willie to record his portions of it separately and then it would be mixed in the studio, but here came Willie to the studio and said, oh no, we're doin' this together.

The video of the song was filmed at Willie's ranch.

[Lauratealeaf]

I've got that album. It's really good.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Mr. President, as a independent who (stupidly) voted for you in 96 I have only this to say : "F#ck off".

[familyofman]

"It is the boos that were civil -- the cheers that were rude. "
A very interesting point of view, and argument. No, I don't smile pleasantly at anyone who would kill cats and hang them from the front porch. I have seen a marked decline in the overall population of what I & family consider to be "proper" behaivior. Blame it on Rock & Roll, breakdown of the family, bad ju-ju...but, people just aren't as nice to one another as they used to be.

As I said earlier - I must be a Precambrian-con, or just plain old fashioned - but society is much to coarse in a lot of respects these days.

[iopscusa]

Yeah let's forget BC as soon as the rope is around his neck.

[MightyMouseToSaveThe Day]

Oh, come off your high horse. RESPECTABLE people don't get booed and jeered. Clinton earned every single one of those boos with his contemptible, impeachable behavior.

[Kevin Curry]

As I said earlier - I must be a Precambrian-con, or just plain old fashioned - but society is much to coarse in a lot of respects these days.

Clinton is simply reaping a bumper crop of the coarseness he sowed. The law of the harvest prevails again.

[GB]

Oh, I don't know. I guess it's because I don't start screaming "burn the infidel" every time his ugly mug appears on TV, or sit around thinking "now if we just do this, we can put that orange jumpsuit on him." I rarely think about him, to be quite honest, until he comes out into public again and sets everyone off here. But hey, if you want to spend your lives waiting for Clinton to die so you can dance on his grave, more power to you. Have at it. I prefer to concentrate on the man ... and I do mean MAN ... we have in office now, and on getting him re-elected and on getting a few more GOP senators (preferably some with some bigger coglioni than some of the folks up there now, who are less interested in the majesty and prestige and tradition of the Senate and more interested in doing what it takes to enact the will of the people who put them in there) so G.W. can do what needs to be done domestically.

[bvw]

When you see Clinton -- picture Kate Wiley's cat hanging, dead, hanging from her porch. If you meet him, picture him wiping off his sunglasses, leaving Mrs. Broaddrick, raped, bloody lipped on a motel room bed by her State's Attorney General (Clinton), with him saying as casual as Friday "Put some ice on it, baby."

That will help you do the right thing, the polite thing, the well-mannered thing, the very civil thing!

And if that is to cheer him, to shake hands with him, to display any happy face, and affability towards him ... why you'd be a calloused rude cad for so doing. Be a man and show him his due.

[GB]

William Rusher said a while back that there has been no potential presidential candidate in the history of this republic more destined to be absolutely annihilated in a national election than Hillary Clinton. She doesn't have Bubba's political skills, the ability to make someone sincerely believe that he "feels their pain" when of course in truth he could care less. You look at Hillary and you can see the anger just seething in her. There is not one likeable characteristic about her. She'll scare everyone outside the Trotskyite left absolutely to death.

[GB]

Go for it, if it makes you feel better. Just don't forget the important business at hand ... re-electing G.W. Bush and cementing our hold on the House and Senate so he can actually get something done domestically. We can't change what happened in the years 1993-2001. We darn sure CAN change the future.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

As long as either of the Clintons can talk and manipulate behind the scenes, they are dangerous people.

[GB]

He's not deserving of one microbe, one atom of empathy. And as I said, he'll answer to a higher authority than the judicial system of the U.S. someday for what he did to this country. But it seems to me that the best way to hurt a megalomaniac like Bubba is to ignore him and make him irrelevant, not hang on his every word.

[Coop]

Oh, I don't know.

Well, I do. If you use the shrill call of the leftists (Can't we just move on-n-n-n-n??!??), don't be surprised if people, rightly or wrongly, mistake you for a Clinton apologist.

I'm not sure why you accuse me of obsessing over the steaming pile of manure between two Bushes. I mentioned that particular person without getting even remotely upset. As a matter of fact, my focus was on his rabid supporters. I barely even thought about the thoroughly corrupt, pathologically lying, disbarred, impeached rapist.