Posted on 06/23/2004 5:58:45 PM PDT by perfect stranger
According to the front page of the New York Times – so it must be true! – the release of Bill Clinton's latest round of lies, "My Life," has "many of his old antagonists ... gearing up again." Among many others, MSNBC's Bill Press said the book was "bringing all the Clinton haters out from under their rocks. I mean, they're salivating because they get another chance to get into all of these issues."
We're not salivating with anticipation – that's drool as we fall into a coma.
Since Clinton was impeached, liberals have been trapped in a time warp. They just can't seem to "move on." Books retelling Clinton's side of impeachment – only since the decadent buffoon left office – include: Joe Conason's and Gene Lyons' "The Hunting of the President: The 10-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton" (endorsed by America's most famous liar!), David Brock's "Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative," Sidney Blumenthal's "The Clinton Wars," Joe Eszterhas' "American Rhapsody," Joe Klein's "The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton," Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Living History," and now, the master himself weighs in with "My Life."
As far as I know, conservatives have produced one book touching on Bill Clinton's impeachment in this time: In 2003, National Review's Rich Lowry decided it was finally safe to attack Clinton and thereupon produced the only Regnery book with Bill Clinton's mug on the cover that did not make the New York Times' best-sellers list. That's how obsessed the Clinton-haters are.
Now there's even a documentary version of liberals' Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy fantasy, "The Hunting of the President." O.J. had more dignity.
If we're so obsessed with it, why do they keep bringing it up? OK, uncle. You win, Mr. President. If I buy a copy of your book, will you just shut up once and for all, go away, and never come back? It will cost me $35, but, judging strictly by weight, that isn't a bad price for so much cow manure. At 957 pages, this is the first book ever published that contains a 20-minute intermission. Readers are advised to put it down and read a passage from Clinton's 1988 Democratic National Convention speech nominating Dukakis just to stay awake. This thing is so long, he almost called it "War and Peace." Or, I suppose, more properly, "War and a Piece."
Considering how obsessed liberals are with turning their version of Clinton's impeachment into the historical record, it's interesting how these books spend very little time talking about Clinton's impeachment. In lieu of discussing the facts of his impeachment, Clinton simply makes analogies to grand historical events – events notable for bearing not the remotest relationship to his own sordid story.
Clinton claims, for example, that conservatives decided to target him in lieu of the Soviet Union after the Cold War ended and conservatives needed a new villain. In other words, Clinton is equating himself, in scale and importance, to the Soviet Union, the global communist conspiracy and the Marxist-Leninist Revolution. Nope, no ego problem there. ("My Life" was Clinton's second choice title, after the publisher balked at naming the book "I Am God, and You Are All My Subjects.")
Alternatively, Clinton claims conservatives hated him because he represented "the '60s." As is now well-known, four lawyers, toiling away after hours and on weekends, worked quietly behind the scenes to propel the Paula Jones case to the Supreme Court and bring Monica Lewinsky to the attention of the independent counsel. All four of us were 5 to 8 years old when Bill Clinton graduated from Georgetown in 1968. (Actually, it was the '70s that I really hated, but that's another column for another day.)
So I'm pretty sure it wasn't our anger about "the '60s" that inspired feelings of contempt for Bill Clinton. It must have been something else – some ineffable quality. Let's see, what was it again? Ah yes! I remember now! It was that Clinton is a pathological liar and sociopath.
If Clinton wasn't the Soviet Empire or "the '60s," then he was Rosa Parks! Clinton actually compares his battle against impeachment to civil-rights struggles in the South. Haven't blacks been insulted enough by the constant comparison between gay marriage and black civil rights without this horny hick comparing his impeachment to Selma?
And that's when Clinton is even talking about his presidency. From what I've heard, roughly half of Clinton's memoir – hundreds and hundreds of pages – is about every picayune detail of his life before becoming president. Through sheer force of will I shall resist the urge to refer to this book as a "blow by blow" account of Clinton's entire miserable existence.
Most presidential memoirs get right to the president part, on the assumption that people would not be interested in, for example, Harry Truman's deal-making as Jackson County executive or Jimmy Carter's initiatives as a state senator in Georgia – let alone who they took to their junior high school proms. When Ulysses S. Grant wrote his memoirs, he skipped his presidency altogether and just wrote about what would be most interesting to people – his service as a Civil War commander.
But Clinton thinks people are dying to read 900 pages about his very ordinary life. He views being president as just one more episode in a life that is fascinating in all its stages because he is just so fascinating as a person – at least to himself. In a perverse way, it's utterly appropriate. What actually happened during the Clinton presidency? No one can remember anything about it except the bimbos, the lies and the felonies. Fittingly, in the final analysis, Clinton will not be remembered for what he did as president, but for who he did.
Why wont this guy just go away?
You're in violation of FR rules, Section 6, Section 2, subsection 4-6.
Just listening to Ann on H and C on FoxNews.
Colmes wouldn't read the title. I looked at a refreshed FR screen, and there it was.
lol.
Now the lady Dem commentator is saying its about sex and Monica, blah blah blah.
CLINTON and his spinners have dug the issue back up!!!
Every few months the Clintonites are on-air rewriting and spinning. They are trying so desperately to alter the Clinton legacy.
But, that legacy is in stone: Monica and Impeachment.
Bubba was running late, in getting this to the publishers. It's easy to see why. If the publishers weren't in an election year, and pressed for time, I wonder if they would have chopped the book down.
Glocks Rocks wants a picture of the author--pronto!
That was fast....
With every public appearance he seems to be less and less in control of himself. Just spewing whatever comes to mind without any consideration for the truth.
We have a Dim ex-President rehashing his tawdry sex life and his schizo ex-Vice-President still smarting over 2000. They just need to MoveOn.
I want to see them both in a full-blown (oops!) meltdown.
I agree. He is getting more defensive and angry, and he can't keep track of his lies. The more he talks, the less appealing he is.
Figures, no Moby, only dick.
This line just cracked me right up.
This is telling, also.
After the NYTimes, Newsweek and WashingtonPost negative reviews, some of the Clinton luster is starting to fade.
Can it be stretched until 2008 for Hillary to wait and benefit for a Presidential run? Can Hillary take the chance that Kerry could win?
Hillary has a lot of decisions to make---soon.
He also realizes that he will only be remembered for Monica. Reagan will always be remembered for winning The Cold War. Bubba is just a footnote in history.
Hannity tells Kirsten Powers, Demo Strategist, that, if they lose this election, they are out of power for a whole generation.
{She looked like she had been hit on the head.)
Just wait until the next time that Bubba is seen with a floozy on his arms. Hillary will file for divorce and get the sympathy vote. They will both blame it on the VRWC.
Parot Colmes tries to get all the talkingpoints said.
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