Posted on 06/22/2004 8:22:54 AM PDT by kattracks
The BBC has published excerpts from an interview with ex-president Bill Clinton set for broadcast tonight in Great Britain where he interrupts a discussion about his book and reportedly "wags his finger and gets visibly agitated" at BBC "Panorama" host David Dimbleby.Asked why he started his affair with Monica Lewinsky when he knew he was already under investigation by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, Clinton railed: "Let me just say this. One of the reasons he [Kenneth Starr] got away with it is because people like you only ask me the questions.
"You gave him a complete free ride. Any abuse they wanted to do. They indicted all these little people from Arkansas, what did you care about them, they're not famous, who cares that their life was trampled. Who cares that their children are humiliated."
Continuing to berate Dimbleby, Clinton complained:
"Nobody in your line of work cared a rip about that at the time. Why, because he was helping their story. And that's why people like you always help the far-right, because you like to hurt people, and you like to talk about how bad people are and all their personal failings."
The ex-president blamed the media for spending so much time on the scandal that turned him into the only elected president in U.S. history to be impeached, telling Dimbleby:
"Look, you made a decision to allocate your time in a certain way, you should take responsibility for that, you should say 'yes, I care much more about this than whether the Bosnian people were saved, and whether he brought a million home from Kosovo'."
You mean the war in Kosovo which violated Just War Doctrine?
This is just tooooooooo funny.
Wonder if Nixon ever wrote these words, when the hounds from hell were after him.
Link to five segments of Clinton's BBC interview:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3829799.stm
Boy, he's such a whinging baby.
Because we all know the media never attacks anyone on the Right for their "personal failings"...
Those hounds of hell included one younger and even uglier rat attack dog named Hitlery Von Clinton.
OMG, where to begin? Bill Clinton is the most self absorbed person to ever walk the planet.
They indicted all these little people from Arkansas, what did you care about them......
Amazing... Little people ..... Amazing. Like the govenor, etc. Amazing that he can't seem to say it was his behavior that help get them indicted.
Exactly and we do reap what we sow. Just this bunch used their training under their action to make sure they did not make the same mistakes as Nixon did.
Nixon was a "saint" compared to this lawless sick bunch of perverts.
Yeah, that's the BBC. Helping the far right whenever they can.
He'll never accept responsibility for his actions because he is an abuser (sex)and abusers ALWAYS turn the blame on someone else...it's the presses fault, it's Ken Starr's fault...He is a pathetic human being!
The term for Clinton, invented by Mary Matalin, "Boy Clinton", is so on target....Clinton is a child...a spoiled child...a BOY....
Up until the end. On his tombstone: THEY WERE OUT TO GET ME. He's so pathetic. Expect more of these tirades as the bad book reviews keep rolling in. This just might be fun after all.
Kudos to David Dimbleby...!!
FRegards,
We had a million hostages in Kosovo?
He cared so much about the Balkan War that he had Monica service him while he discussed troop deployments with Congressman Sonny Calahan.
Clintoon's legacy was to make Lewinsky a verb defined as a BJ.
"The term for Clinton, invented by Mary Matalin, "Boy Clinton", is so on target....Clinton is a child...a spoiled child...a BOY...."
I totally disagree, "a spoiled child" is one who has never been given instruction or discipline. While Clinton may indeed have been raised that way, that description of "boy" gives the hint of innocence and there is nothing innocent about this "snake in the grass".
Well, speaking of caring about little people, I only have two words:
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