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To: erasmus605
"Guarantee if this was about either Bush, it would be a huge joke "He's too dumb to use email" etc."

G u a r a n t e e d, for sure.

Rush mentioned yesterday that 'Newsweek's' (or was it 'Time'. . .) latest sympathetic story on Bill has him laboring over his latest memoir. . .has to do it 'longhand' as he does not know how to use computer. . .

18 posted on 01/27/2004 10:28:10 AM PST by cricket
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To: cricket
Rush mentioned yesterday that 'Newsweek's' (or was it 'Time'. . .) latest sympathetic story on Bill has him laboring over his latest memoir. . .has to do it 'longhand' as he does not know how to use computer. . .

That TIME piece is posted today, and for those with eyes to see, it reveals right in it that he has a ghost writer, though the fatuous reporter doesn't seem to "get it". Stupid or willing dupe? You decide:

Bill Clinton, The Bard of Chappaqua

Excerpt with the CLUE:

To hone his memories, Clinton has been sitting for long interviews with Ted Widmer who was a White House speechwriter and is now a history professor in Maryland. The two talk about Clinton's boyhood — his late mother, Virginia Kelley, saved everything — and Clinton then uses the transcript as the basis for his writing which he does on yellow legal pads. Clinton has told friends that he wants his memoirs to be like the riveting bestseller that Ulysses Grant wrote and that helped restore his tarnished reputation. (He's also said that he wants to avoid the kinds of tomes that Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson wrote after their presidencies because they had a pompous tone that missed their real voice.) There is no ghostwriter. Then Clinton goes over the sections with his editor, the legendary Bob Gottlieb, formerly of The New Yorker.

24 posted on 01/27/2004 10:47:37 AM PST by cyncooper
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