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'."
What a d!ck.
Remember when Clinton took one of the White House press corps to the woodshed for asking a question 'off script'?
I think it was Sam Donaldson...who I understand apologized and promised it would never happen again. Clinton is accustomed to a much more compiant press-sycophants like Dan Rather. I think this whole incident is very enlightening and shows how our media lives only to serve the Democrats.
That the Lord would render the Clintons, and ALL their minions, totally powerless and useless and nameless and faceless and voiceless and homeless and penniless, and that He would strip them bare before the world, such is their evil, leaving only their immortal souls, and it is for these souls I pray ...
God help us if Kerry gets to the WH.
bmp
The man is unhinged. He said that to the BBC?
Anyway, I certainly hope he does develop a persecution complex regarding anyone who is British - he should have it from Christopher Hitchens anyway. Then maybe he won't come here anymore.
Regards, Ivan
Regards, Ivan
You left out the most important three words from a very apt epitaph, namely "AND THEY DID." 8~)
"The man is unhinged. He said that to the BBC?
Anyway, I certainly hope he does develop a persecution complex regarding anyone who is British - he should have it from Christopher Hitchens anyway. Then maybe he won't come here anymore.
Regards, Ivan"
LOL
I am sure there are some there who will continue to roll out the "red" carpet, and plenty of others in neighboring Ireland.
Considering the BBC's reputation as a Lefty institution, I'm amazed they found the time to expose Clinton as the sociopath he is. They wouldn't do it here in the States but they weren't fooled in the U.K. The words of our Presidential Felon show the nature of the man.
Wonder how Rather feels that his "catch" of the Clinton interview is so trumped by the BBC's interview.
So, from what I understand - we are not to chastise Clinton for his misdeeds (no questions), we are to compare the interest in his misdeeds to the overall "bringing a million home" and decide where and what is printed about both issues?
How come this does not apply to the attacks on President Bush - which are directed by the Democrats?
Start your prayer by asking that the Clintons only be assigned narcoleptics on their protective details. Remember Romania.....
Yes, well, if I can, just for fun, feed his paranoia a bit (presuming he's reading) - Bill, if that's the kind of treatment you're going to receive from the BBC, you're going to find the reception to your book much more frosty from the rest of us. So stop trying to sell your book over here.
PS - your fly is undone. As per usual.
Regards, Ivan
Wasn't there a rumor that Ken Starr could either go with Clintons sell out of our missile secrets to China or the Lewinsky scandal and he chose the most proveable or least sin-sational?
They also show why he and Al Gore got on so well - both of them were rubber room Napoleons at heart.
Regards, Ivan
So when do we get to see the tape?
Any bets as to if ABCNNBCBSPBS will show it or if the NYTWPLATAPetc will discuss it? Fat chance, eh?
Clinton sees himself as a political Jesus, dying on the cross of impeachment for the sins of the Republicans.
Got away with what?? Investigating your shenanigans?
This line says it all. Implicit in Clinton's words is the idea of being victim rather than perp.
So much for "repentance".
When he is caught, he reacts as a boy would react..he blames others...even in the language of a boy...his life is one of "getting away with things", and like a child, when caught, he will only accept some blame, but attempting to make it clear that someone ELSE is doing something worse.
The term "boy" does not, in this case, imply innocence, but instead it properly describes a a shallow sef absorbed person who will not accept responsibility as an adult....
It was in this vein that the book title "Boy Clinton" was penned....Men do not hide behind a woman's skirt ("You'll have to ask Reno about that, I didn't make that call" (WACO)....
A man would not grope a woman who came to him asking for help...a junior high school boy might.
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