Posted on 06/23/2004 7:39:26 AM PDT by Dems_R_Losers
Bill Clinton's "My Life" was only hours past its official release, and Harvard professor Roger Porter was already getting nastygrams by e-mail yesterday. "Shame," said one person who'd read Clinton's version of a warning supposedly given by Porter, a policy aide in George H.W. Bush's White House, if Clinton were unwise enough to seek the presidency in 1992.
Porter's alleged quote: "The press has to have somebody in every election, and we're going to give them you. . . . We'll spend whatever we have to spend to get whoever we have to get to say whatever they have to say to take you out."
A mild-mannered presidential scholar at the Kennedy School of Government, Porter says there's one problem with Clinton's account of the conversation. "It never happened," he told The Washington Post's John Harris yesterday. "I will attest to you and swear on a stack of Bibles that I never had a conversation with him like that. He's making up the story."
Porter said he did work on a friendly basis with the then-governor of Arkansas on education, and once -- a year before the purported July 1991 conversation -- joked that Clinton should run for president as a Republican because he was too moderate for his own party. Porter, who works with the White House Historical Association, bumped into the former president just last week at the unveiling of Clinton's portrait. There was no mention of the story, which Clinton has been recounting to aides for years. "The fact that Bill Clinton has now repeated this story over and over does not make it true, although I suspect it has now become a legend in his own mind," Porter said.
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I wonder if BC and MM share the same 'fact checking' pool??
Now that's a complete shocker!!
You mean to tell me Clintoon lied???
Do tell.....
It's enlightening, Grammy, to see how the plans to do evil (or good) are carried out ... through the eyes and the mouth and the hands and the heart and the feet ... "Choose you this day whom you will serve, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15
i always like 'My Flies: My sexual escapades of power'
Looks like we're going to need another compilation list, doesn't it?
backhoe, The Confirmed Lies of Bill Clinton??
Clinton's book is over-priced, over-blown, and over the top with lie after lie...At $35.00 retail, it's the most blatant con job by the Clintons to steal yet more money from Americans to stupid to realize they've been duped by the Great DUPER!
Right on, PL. Buy from Barnes & Noble on-line for $21.00, a 40% discount. Received e-mail from B&N yesterday. Let the discounting continue!
I'd wager a whole lot of boxes full of Clinton books were purchased by various labor unions and are sitting in warehouses, gathering dust, as we speak.
You would win that bet. Wonder how many the DNC bought for the RAT convention as mementos?
Howlin, that's one I don't have handy!
( -and there were so many-- where do you start? )
I am posting this question on every thread of Clinton's book....What with that Childish BRACELET that he is wearing??? Anyone know what the meaning is?
Make that three. Apparently he mentions the story about Hillary being named after Sir Edmund Hillary. Unfortunately, Sir Edmund didn't climb Everest until seven years after Hillary was born.
Time to again repeat my all-time favorite Ann Coulter quote:
Liberals simply can't grasp the problem Lexis-Nexis poses to their incessant lying.
"This anecdote alone makes Clinton's entire book suspect."
The purported author of this tome makes the book suspect.
What's the Alan Simpson story ..?? And .. who is Alan Simpson ..??
Geeeee .. maybe a few democrats in congress need to receive that little note! LOL! Nothing like the truth to ruffle a few feathers.
I agree .. and some people just bought it for historic reasons .. not because they are a particular fan or even plan to read the book. The same thing applies to Hillary's book as well.
Perhaps the most revealing passage comes on page 692 in another account of his Starr-crossed days, in one sustained paragraph:
"I was genuinely confused by the mainstream press coverage of Whitewater...One day, after one of our budget meetings in October, I asked Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming to stay a moment to talk. Simpson was a conservative Republican, but we had a pretty good relationship because of the friendship we had in common with his governor, Mike Sullivan. I asked Alan if he thought Hillary and I had done anything wrong in Whitewater. 'Of course not,' he said. 'That's not what this is about. This is about making the public think you did something wrong. Anybody who looked at the evidence would see that you didn't.' Simpson laughed at how willing the 'elitist' press was to swallow anything negative about small, rural places like Wyoming or Arkansas and made an interesting observation: 'You know, before you were elected, we Republicans believed the press was liberal. Now we have a more sophisticated view. They are liberal in a way. Most of them voted for you, but they think more like your right-wing critics do, and that's much more important.' When I asked him to explain, he said, 'Democrats like you and Sullivan get into government to help people. The right-wing extremists don't think government can do much to improve on human nature, but they like power. So does the press. And since you're President, they both get power the same way, by hurting you.' I appreciated Simpson's candor and I thought about what he said for months. For a long time, whenever I was angry about the Whitewater press coverage I would tell people about Simpson's analysis. When I finally just accepted his insight as accurate, it was liberating, and it cleared my head for the fight."
Thanks for that info.
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