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Not merely does Chris Matthews claim that Hillary Clinton was "shocked" to learn that Bill was having an affair with Monica Lewinsky. Matthews can't imagine anybody thinking she wasn't shocked. On today's With All Due Respect, Matthews said "I don't think anybody thought that she wasn't shocked when this Monica thing came about. You just look at her face in the old clips. You can see she couldn't believe it had happened." Of course. After all, Monica is on record in the Starr Report saying that Bill confided to her that he had "hundreds" of affairs before the age of...

Tick, tick, tick…the highly suspicious deal that gave Bill Clinton’s billionaire buddy Jeffrey Epstein a slap on the wrist for paying underage girls for sex may finally be subjected to pubic scrutiny and even overturned, bringing with it the possibility of bargaining against real punishment in exchange for testimony against a bigger fish.  This development is thanks to a court filing on the last day of 2015 that received only limited local publicity.  More on that in a moment. Shockingly, the deal that handed out token punishment to the statutory rapist has been hidden from the public and from...

Bill Clinton deflected questions about Donald Trump's recent criticism of his record and avoided any mention of the GOP presidential front-runner during his first solo campaign appearance on Monday for Hillary Clinton. "The Republicans will have to decide who they are nominating," the former president said in New Hampshire when asked by MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell how he feels about the tone of Trump's attacks against him. Clinton brushed aside the question, noting, "We're trying to win a primary. We're trying to do that first." Trump in the last few weeks has repeatedly hit Bill Clinton for his extramarital affair as...

Let the record reflect that Bubba has officially taken to the stump for Hilz: Mr. Clinton appeared a little rusty, rambling at times during his first campaign rally at Nashua Community College… He talked about his own presidency [ed. of course he did] and the work of his foundation [ed. - I don’t think he really wants to go there; see here for a synopsis of Thomas Lifson’s excellent article on the money laundering scheme], which he mentioned a few times, and about Mrs. Clinton’s ideas and the need to elect a president to fit the times [ed. -...

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton made his first solo campaign appearance in support of his wife's White House bid on Monday in Nashua, New Hampshire, but the female voters standing behind him on stage - and one eighth-grader - were stone-faced and unimpressed. They stood on risers through his 28-minute speech at Nashua Community College, alternating between frowns, grimaces and eye-rolls, even looking uninterested as they applauded a few of Clinton's lines.

Turning Bill Clinton into Bill Cosby: Sorry, conservatives, there's a massive difference between their sex abuse allegations Heaven save us all from conservatives who think they have a "gotcha." And boy they sure think they have one with Bill Clinton and the supposed "hypocrisy" of feminists who don't agree that his wife's career should be derailed because of allegations of sexual harassment and assault made against him in the 1990s. At stake is this alleged unfairness that while some men accused of sexual abuse get in actual trouble for it, Clinton walks around free and even gets to campaign for...

Bill Clinton came off the sidelines of the presidential campaign on Monday, displaying a cautious, controlled style as he sought to aid his wife, Hillary Clinton, in her battle for the Democratic nomination. Making his first solo appearance of the election cycle in Nashua, N.H., he chose his words carefully, refusing to take the bait from Republican front-runner Donald Trump, who last week began invoking the former president's "abuse" of women. That approach carried over into brief rope-line interviews with ABC's Cecilia Vega and MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell. Asked by Mitchell how he felt about the attacks from Trump, Bill Clinton...

During a radio interview on Sunday, Paula Jones, the former Arkansas state employee who notoriously sued President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment, demanded Hillary Clinton personally apologize for "allowing" her husband to "abuse" and "sexually harass" women. Speaking to weekend talk radio host Aaron Klein, Jones slammed Hillary as a "two-faced" "liar" who waged a war on women by trying to discredit "predator" Bill's sexual accusers. "And how dare her. You know what? She don't care nothing about women. Because if she did she would believe what I had to say. She would believe what the other women had to...

Hillary Clinton Shuts Down Heckler Trying to Question Her About Bill's Alleged Sexual Misconduct: 'You Are Very Rude'. Hillary Clinton had no time for a Republican state representative who heckled her about former President Bill Clinton's sex scandals during a town hall meeting in New Hampshire on Sunday. After Katherine Prudhomme O'Brien, a GOP state representative from Rockingham, repeatedly interrupted the Democratic front-runner in an attempt to question her about her husband's alleged sexual misconduct, Hillary finally fired back, "You are very rude, and I'm not going to ever call on you," drawing a huge round of applause from the...

An ABC News reporter asked Bill Clinton whether his past is fair game in the 2016 presidential election. Clinton appeared flustered and unsure what to say... Finally, Clinton said, "The Republicans have to decide who they want to nominate."

Personally I’d much rather be discussing Hillary Clinton’s email server and all of the goodies which have rolled out of the contents therein or the response to Benghazi, her lack of any identifiable accomplishments or her numerous flip-flops on every topic under the sun, but I have a feeling that we’re going to be hearing a lot more about this as the year rolls onward. At a town hall in New Hampshire this week, yet another person took exception with Clinton’s supposed support of women and the “rape epidemic” on America’s campuses, bringing up her husband’s various relationships (for...

Hillary Clinton has been counting on the GOP's purported "war on women" theme to generate votes. The tacit assumption has always been that her husband’s pattern of sexual exploitation and even violence toward socially less advantaged females could be disregarded by the public, as it was during his impeachment ordeal of the 1990s. But important changes have happened in the intervening decades, and a nightmare scenario threatens to unfold: 1. Attitudes toward male sexual advances, particularly toward subordinate females, have changed, with the r-word (rape) now held to apply to situations short of written consent to sexual relations. 2. The...

This is my response to a man who wanted to know why I asked the questions as rudely as I did; Thank you for asking what I was so concerned with. I appreciate your interest. It all started when I saw Juanita Broaddrick give an hour long interview on Dateline NBC to Lisa Myers in 1999 where she said she was raped by Bill Clinton in 1978. You can find a video of it on Youtube. I believed her so when Al Gore was running for president, I asked him if he believed her too because I was shocked that...

-snip- I remember it as though it was yesterday. I only wish that it were yesterday and maybe there would still be time to do something about what your husband, Bill Clinton, did to me. There was a political rally for Mr. Clinton's bid for governor of Arkansas. I had obligated myself to be at this rally prior to my being assaulted by your husband in April, 1978. I had made up my mind to make an appearance and then leave as soon as the two of you arrived. This was a big mistake, but I was still in a...

Juanita Broaddrick is blunt. First, there was the accusation of a rape committed by then-Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton-the man Arkansan Broaddrick was supporting for governor. Broaddrick described the incident this way to Lisa Myers of NBC: "Then he tries to kiss me again. And the second time he tries to kiss me he starts biting my lip... He starts to, um, bite on my top lip and I tried to pull away from him. And then he forces me down on the bed. And I just was very frightened, and I tried to get away from him and I...

Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton faced a loud heckler in a New Hampshire town hall on Sunday who brought up Bill Clinton's controversial sex history. The confrontation came one day before the former president is scheduled to campaign for his wife in the state. The heckler was Republican State Rep. Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien, who brought up Juanita Broderick and Kathleen Wiley, two women who accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault. At the town hall in Derry, New Hampshire, Prudhomme-O'Brien interrupted Hillary Clinton three times before finally being addressed by the presidential candidate. "You are very rude and I'm not never ever...

Bill Clinton isn't heading back to the campaign trail until Monday, but Hillary Clinton faced some shouted questions about his past conduct on Sunday. Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien, a Republican state representative here who has made a name for herself confronting candidates, repeatedly heckled Clinton during her first town hall of 2016, telling reporters after the event that she wanted to confront Clinton about claims of sexual assault by the former president against Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says attacks against former President Bill Clinton's sexual history are not fair game for politicians looking to defeat his wife and Democratic primary front-runner Hillary Clinton. "I think, you know, we have enormous problems facing this country, and I think we got more things to worry about than Bill Clinton's sexual life," Sanders said Sunday on ABC's "This Week." Republican primary front-runner Donald Trump has recently made the sexual allegations against Clinton an issue in the White House race. Sanders said Trump would be better off focusing on serious issues facing the nation, like climate change.

Dale L. Bumpers, a liberal governor and four-term Democratic senator from Arkansas who came out of retirement in 1999 to make a passionate closing argument defending President Bill Clinton against removal from office in a Senate trial, died on Friday at his home in Little Rock, Ark. He was 90. His death was confirmed by his granddaughter Linn Bumpers. Mr. Bumpers was part of a generation of moderate Southern Democrats, among them President Jimmy Carter, who emerged in the late 1960s and the ’70s. He always said his proudest achievement had come early in his career when, as a small-town...