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Bill Clinton should have resigned (says leading liberal publication)
Vox ^ | Nov 15, 2017 | Matthew Yglesias

Posted on 11/19/2017 12:55:09 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose

It was far from the most egregious case of workplace sexual misconduct in American history. But it was unusually high-profile, the facts were not in dispute, the perpetrator had a lot of nominal feminist ideological commitments, and political leaders who shared those commitments had the power to force him from office. Had he resigned in shame, we all might have made a collective cultural and political decision that a person caught leveraging power over women in inappropriate ways ought to be fired. Instead, we lost nearly two decades.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: billclinton; clinton; hillaryclinton; lewinsky; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashills; rossdouthat; weinstein
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I think Senator Gillibrand got her cue from this writer.
1 posted on 11/19/2017 12:55:10 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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I love the way all the progressives are throwing Bill under the bus, now that Hillary is of no use to them.


2 posted on 11/19/2017 12:56:51 PM PST by LydiaLong
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Okay Gillibrand, now call for his arrest.


3 posted on 11/19/2017 12:57:36 PM PST by fhayek
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They aren’t serious.


4 posted on 11/19/2017 12:58:16 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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“...I love the way all the progressives are throwing Bill under the bus, now that Hillary is of no use to them....”

Yep. Very entertaining. They’re like vultures, they’ll eat their own, especially old dead ones and then fly off to puke it all up and go eat some more.


5 posted on 11/19/2017 12:59:26 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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Oh, yeah. NOW they think he should have resigned. Same players. Same game.


6 posted on 11/19/2017 1:00:47 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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All of the self-righteous come out 20 years too late.


7 posted on 11/19/2017 1:01:11 PM PST by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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"Sexual impropriety accusations keep descending on
President Trump, but they land on me!  What's up with that?"

8 posted on 11/19/2017 1:03:35 PM PST by sparklite2 (-)
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absolutely stunning and let’s not forget how Weinstein helped Bill Clinton with legal bills during the Lewinsky fiasco. (Ah need to post this!)


9 posted on 11/19/2017 1:03:52 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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Sorry Dems, but your permanent house guests, the Clintons, have no intentions of leaving the political spotlight. If you try to take them out be prepared for mutual destruction.


10 posted on 11/19/2017 1:04:04 PM PST by dowcaet
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This is all about going after Trump. They’re trying to gain some crediblity because they know they look like hypocrites.


11 posted on 11/19/2017 1:08:03 PM PST by JPII Be Not Afraid
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>>It was far from the most egregious case of workplace sexual misconduct in American history.<<

Maybe when compared to Joe Scarborough.

12 posted on 11/19/2017 1:08:20 PM PST by ex91B10
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To: JPII Be Not Afraid

good point.


13 posted on 11/19/2017 1:09:05 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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But Gillibrand recanted I think.
The writer is Yglesias.
He will say something different in a month or two.
Depends where the wind blows.


14 posted on 11/19/2017 1:10:13 PM PST by buwaya
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Sen. Gillibrand commits Arkancide in 3...2...1...

Don’t cross the Clintons, babe. You’ll suddenly commit suicide by shooting yourself in the head, but manage to do so without bleeding. And I’d avoid Fort Marcy Park if I were you...


15 posted on 11/19/2017 1:12:55 PM PST by VideoPaul
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I love the way all the progressives are throwing Bill under the bus, now that Hillary is of no use to them.


16 posted on 11/19/2017 1:13:26 PM PST by Grampa Dave (It's over for the NFL. They have stage 5 Colin brain cancer, and it's terminal.)
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Day Late, and a Dollar Short.


17 posted on 11/19/2017 1:14:19 PM PST by dfwgator
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I told my wife the night before Clinton was to give his deposition that if he perjured himself he had to go for the good of the country.


18 posted on 11/19/2017 1:14:51 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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EXCERPT/MAUREEN DOWD/NYT/11/19/ 17

Institutional feminism died when Gloria Steinem, Madeleine Albright and other top feminists vouched for President Clinton as he brazenly lied about never having had a sexual relationship with “that woman” — Monica Lewinsky.

The Clintons and feminists were outraged when Thomas’s supporters painted Anita Hill as “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty.” Yet that was precisely the Clintonian tack when women spoke up about Bill’s misbehaving.

Time and again, Hillary was a party to demonizing women as liars, bimbos, trailer trash or troubled souls when it seemed clear they were truthful about her philandering husband. She often justified this by thinking of the women as instruments of the right-wing conspiracy.

As I reported in ’98, even some veteran Clinton henchmen felt a little nauseated about the debate inside the White House on a slander strategy for Lewinsky: Should they paint her as a friendly fantasist or a malicious stalker?


BACKSTORY Former Bill Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos, now a anchor for ABC News, wrote in his memoir All Too Human: A Political Education....... Hillary Clinton had to “savage her enemies” during the Lewinsky affair, repeating a pattern from previous scandals involving her husband’s behavior towards women.In 1991, for example, when a woman named Connie Hamzy emerged to accuse Bill Clinton of having an affair with her, Hillary Clinton said, “We have to destroy her story,” according to Stephanopoulos. George then set about arranging affidavits from people who couldback up Bill Clinton’s story: “We’d survived our first bimbo eruption,” Stephanopoulos recalled.


SOURCE: Breitbart.com

The Washington Post recently recalled the pattern of Hillary Clinton’s defenses of her husband against what she called “bimbo eruptions”:

… Hillary Clinton dismissed an accusation made by Gennifer Flowers, the singer who sold her story to a supermarket tabloid after having previously denied an affair. In an ABC News interview, she called Flowers “some failed cabaret singer who doesn’t even have much of a résumé to fall back on.” She told Esquire magazine in 1992 that if she had the chance to cross-examine Flowers, “I mean, I would crucify her.”

The Post noted: “Six years later, Bill Clinton acknowledged a sexual encounter with Flowers.”

It added that when the Lewinsky scandal emerged, in which Clinton had oral sex with the then-White House intern in the Oval Office, Hillary Clinton refused to credit the story of his accuser, choosing to believe her husband’s lies instead.

Hillary reportedly called Lewinsky a “narcissistic loony toon.”

Former Bill Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos, now an anchor for ABC News, wrote in his memoir All Too Human: A Political Education that Hillary Clinton had to “savage her enemies” during the Lewinsky affair, repeating a pattern from previous scandals involving her husband’s behavior towards women.
In 1991, for example, when a woman named Connie Hamzy emerged to accuse Bill Clinton of having an affair with her, Hillary Clinton said, “We have to destroy her story,” according to Stephanopoulos. He then set about arranging affidavits from people who could back up Bill Clinton’s story: “We’d survived our first bimbo eruption,” Stephanopoulos recalled.

Later, Stephanopoulos wrote, he wondered whether he had been “complicit” in Bill Clinton’s behavior “because my defense of Clinton against past bimbo eruptions had been predicated on my belief that he wouldn’t create new ones.” The same might be said of Hillary Clinton. Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News.

His new book, See No Evil: 19 Hard Truths the Left Can’t Handle, is available from Regnery through Amazon. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.


19 posted on 11/19/2017 1:15:20 PM PST by Liz
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Had he resigned in shame, we all might have made a collective cultural and political decision that a person caught leveraging power over women in inappropriate ways ought to be fired. Instead, we lost nearly two decades.

We didn't lose two decades, Matt, you gave them away. We didn't cover for a rapist, you did. And we aren't stuck with his slandering, bribe-taking criminal wife for a default candidate, you are. And a twenty-year-late mea culpa isn't worth the paper it's printed on. The feminists who shielded BJ Billy Clinton and who have suddenly discovered the political expediency of throwing him under a long-past bus are the same fools who steadfastly refuse to recognize the ongoing abuse of women under Islam, and for even less reason. There are no "feminist principles" involved because those died on the altar of political correctness twenty years ago and more.

20 posted on 11/19/2017 1:15:26 PM PST by Billthedrill
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