Posted on 05/21/2004 3:22:18 AM PDT by Liz
Clinton has been phoning pals with pieces of prose.
Friends of Bill Clinton better start screening their calls. The former President is feeling chatty.
For weeks, Clinton has been holed up in his Chappaqua home as he and Knopf editor Robert Gottlieb saw and chisel the 900-page autobiography titled "My Life."
The book is apparently going through its final buffing this week, and the former Oval Officer has been reaching out to pals to give them tastes of his prose.
They never know when he'll strike.
Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.) was sound asleep at 6:30 a.m. this week when the phone rang. It was Sen. Hillary Clinton.
"She was very apologetic about calling me at home," King tells us. "She said the President needed to check some facts."
King, one of four Republicans who voted against Clinton's impeachment, had heard from the ex-President a few weeks earlier. "He called me on the House floor. He was very serious - shuffling papers, like some editor was watching over his shoulder."
But during this wakeup call, King says, Clinton was "in a more expansive mood. He was pumped."
"He didn't seem like he needed to check facts so much as try out what he'd written on somebody. He was like a guy with a new Cadillac," says King, who worked with Clinton on the Northern Ireland peace initiative.
"[Clinton] said, 'That sounds good, doesn't it?' I said, 'Yeah, it sounds great.' ... It sounded just like him. He certainly was proud of it."
King, who has written two novels, added, "He's going to be the best book promoter the world has ever seen."
"Sorry, no can do. I gotta clean out the garage."
Wonder how many times he had to do a fact-check with Larry Flynt.
Boy, there's a nightmare - get a wake up call and it's Bill Clinton in a chatty mood on the other end of the phone. I'd have to strip the phone wires out of my house after that.
He is the plague, who would call the person who personally destroyed his own party.
Thank the good Lord for caller ID!
Fact check what, a joke only one must be noted , Lies Lies all Lies
Clinton ego ping
Heheh....beautiful zinger. I guess Gennifer, Paula, Moanica and the rest of the girls all got calls. LOL.
If King had any nads, he'd've hung up.
I guess the Hotsy-Totsy Escort Service also got a fact-checking call from Billy's editors.
Probably stayed on the line out of morbid curiosity.
If that's not Fresh Hell, I don't know what is.
I'm sticking with my explanation :)
OFS Obsessed Fan Syndrome. (Would a teenage girl in the 60's have hung up on John Lennon?)
Sounds like Ol' Bill's been tootin' them long white lines again.
LOL.
I still think this was ghostwritten.
So HilLIARy has King's home phone number.
From his FBI file, no doubt.
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