Posted on 11/18/2004 8:08:30 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004 10:30 p.m. EST Bill 'Captain Queeg' Clinton Threatens Peter Jennings
A paranoid-sounding Bill Clinton threatened ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings in an interview broadcast Thursday night, in a bizarre rant about his impeachment that laid bare the ex-president's persecution complex.
"You don't want to go here, Peter," Clinton warned, after Jennings told him that historians ranked him second to last of all presidents in terms of moral authority.
Squinting his eyes, an angry Clinton seethed, "You don't want to go here. Not after what you people did. And the way you - your network - what you did with Kenneth Starr. The way your people repeated every little sleazy thing he did. No one has any idea of what that's like." The amazing exchange came after Clinton at first claimed he didn't care about the verdict of historians.
"I had more support from the world when I quit than when I started," he claimed. "And I will go to my grave being at peace about it. And I don't really care about what [the historians] think."
Immediately, Jennings challenged Clinton, all but calling him a liar.
"Oh, yes you do . . . Excuse me, Mr. President. I can feel it across the room. You care very deeply."
Jennings' challenge sent Clinton into a thinly veiled rage, prompting him to threaten, "You don't want to go here, Peter."
The full exchange went like this:
JENNINGS (Discussing rankings by presidential historians]: They gave you a forty-first in terms of moral authority - after Nixon.
CLINTON: They're wrong about that. You know why they're wrong about it? They're wrong about it.
JENNINGS: Why, sir?
CLINTON: Because we had $100 million spent against us in all these inspections . . . In spite of it all, you don't have any example where I ever lied to the American people about my job, where I have let the American people down. And I had more support from the world when I quit than when I started. And I will go to my grave being at peace about it. And I don't really care about what they think.
JENNINGS: Oh, yes you do.
CLINTON: They have no idea . . .
JENNINGS: Excuse me, Mr. President. I can feel it across the room. You care very deeply.
CLINTON: No, no. I care. In care. You don't want to go here, Peter. You don't want to go here. Not after what your people did. And the way you - your network - what you did with Kenneth Starr. The way your people repeated every little sleazy thing he did. No one has any idea of what that's like.
Didn't Klintoon threaten some other reporter shortly after 9/11.
Somebody should inform Bill that he no longer controls the IRS.
More importantly and probably overlooked by medical people is the fact that once you have been on death's doorstep but managed to move away from it, you tend to become more introspective and contemplative for awhile. It wears off.
I know this from first-hand knowledge.
Haven't read the entire thread, but I'm watching the show now and Bubba is a congenital liar (just lied about Sudan and bin Laden - you can see it in his body language). He sounded like OJ promising to look for the real killer.
If you like....you can freepmail me this in the morning....cause I would like to start my Friday off with a little Klintoon ridicule.
Neither of the other two scandal-beset Presidents (Grant and Harding) seem to have been personally involved in the wrongdoings of members of their administration so I don't think either of them would rank below Clinton.
now THERE!
what I've been trying to say in a hundred words - you put in a nutshell.
That's exactly what went down.
Our new hero Peter Jennings!
Compared to dan Blather???
IMO much of the reported concern about "moral values" in the last election was perhaps not so much about obvious issues such as gay marriage and abortion, but instead about more general factors such as integrity (politicians seeking power instead of seeking to do what's best for the country), fidelity (to your spouse and to those with whom you served in a war zone), and human respect (not savaging your opponent with vicious accusations of lying and corruption) - this is way over the left's heads......
Duly chastised, heh heh.
I really got a kick out of watching Petah interview Jean Keri. He looked so uncomfortable and out of place asking what to him were some real zingers of the Massachusetts Bolshevik. To us they were little more than nerf balls but..... His timidity came from a lack of conviction in what he was doing. You're right of course, Petah will never be able to ask the really tough questions of his Dim soulmates. He lacks the stomach, er, backbone for it; or both ;^)
FGS
Repeat after me:
"Socialists love no one. They use and fawn until the prey is no longer useful. Then they turn and rend the flesh from the bones."
never take what a socialist says at face value!. If they sound different, it's only because they're talking out of the other side of their mouths...
We are going to have to be VERY careful from ow on becasue they are going to hide what they are really about. I'm afraid a lot of us will be taken in
oh crap.....that's funny!
< he mad at clinton for not helping Comrade Kerry win the election>
Now, you said it. The truth. Me mad at clinton for not paying attention to Bin Laden and companyu, and heeding the warning of the first WTC bombing in Sept. '93. Me mad at clinton also, because he paid off the bad guys/dictators to keep everything quiet and peaceful seeming while we thought we were in la la land, ala a Walgreen Ad ....
not yours, anyway...it's the same in NewsMax
He tried to obstruct justice by telling THOSE SPECIFIC lies in a SEXUAL HARRASSMENT LAWSUIT. He has attacked women using his considerable power as first an Attorney General in Arkansas and then again as PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
He demeaned the Office of the Presidency and if he DID NOTHING else but get head in the OVAL OFFICE, where GREAT and HONORABLE men penned and planned great ideas, where decisions were made that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of our young men, for that and that alone he ranks at the BOTTOM of the "list".
Bubba is such a dumbass. "Those people" in the media know that he cost the Democrats control of the Congress for the next 50 years and the last two Presidential elections. He isn't worth a warm bucket of spit to Petah Jennings and co. now. He is even dumber than I thought if he thinks he is going to get a whitewash from them.
What makes me even more sure is that I would wager a 1:1 bet that Clinton becomes the next Secretary General of the United Nations.
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