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Bill 'Captain Queeg' Clinton Threatens Peter Jennings
newsmax.com/ ^ | Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004 10:30 p.m. EST

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abcnews; clintonlegacy; impeachedx42; rosebud; slickwillie; syphcrazy; x42
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To: ArmyBratproud

Naughty, naughty, but how delightful! To think Hill and all those Klintoon hangerons ended up at The Peabody where he boinked or raped God only knows how many women.


221 posted on 11/19/2004 5:22:05 AM PST by hershey
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To: InvisibleChurch

Great comments bump!


222 posted on 11/19/2004 5:22:11 AM PST by PGalt
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To: InvisibleChurch

It's only gonna get worse as more and more info comes out about what went on and why during Toon's years in office.


223 posted on 11/19/2004 5:24:13 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: Warriormom

From the snippet I caught on tv, Hill is definitely blossoming. She's the eight hundred pound gorilla in that relationship. Bill is a shadow of himself. Weird to see.


224 posted on 11/19/2004 5:28:14 AM PST by hershey
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To: MamaLucci

LOL!! Bump for post # 39!!!


225 posted on 11/19/2004 5:29:01 AM PST by zoobee (Hey Andy....Hey Goober)
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To: NZerFromHK

You the left has a propensity for turning on their own...we all will live to see the day when the final failure of the American progressive cause will be laid at BJ's feet-by the left.


226 posted on 11/19/2004 5:29:25 AM PST by mo
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To: kittymyrib

So, who was listed last behind Clinton?


227 posted on 11/19/2004 5:31:52 AM PST by highlandbreeze
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To: InvisibleChurch

Sounds like Bubba had one too many beers before that interview.


228 posted on 11/19/2004 5:36:21 AM PST by Jackknife (.......Land of the Free,because of the Brave.)
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To: tom h

I would take that bet. The devil is done with bill. He will probaly become a stark raving madman.


229 posted on 11/19/2004 5:47:59 AM PST by winodog (We need to water the liberty tree)
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To: highlandbreeze

Nixon


230 posted on 11/19/2004 5:50:36 AM PST by txrangerette
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To: InvisibleChurch

I have never heard that term. What does it mean and why is it used to describe slick?


231 posted on 11/19/2004 5:57:59 AM PST by winodog (We need to water the liberty tree)
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To: InvisibleChurch
Be very careful Peter...very careful.

232 posted on 11/19/2004 6:05:31 AM PST by pke
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To: InvisibleChurch
Justice comes upon a man one day and Clinton might be paying right now. Seeing how sad he and empty he looked yesterday sitting with Hillary in the rain was a moment that showed that he is truly an empty bitter man.


233 posted on 11/19/2004 6:07:54 AM PST by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: txrangerette

Duh. I guess when Jennings said '41st--after Nixon', I interpreted it wrong. Need more coffee.

=0)


234 posted on 11/19/2004 6:12:20 AM PST by highlandbreeze
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To: Landru
Ever notice the Liberal-Socialists today seem to operate with a pack mentality? And no where is that any clearer. ...than with Liberal-Socialist quisling mediots

The all peeeeing in the same pot - socialism. And as card carrying socialists, they don't' leave the house in the morning without their talking points of the day. and they dare not stray from the party line.

Now Bubba and Hilderbeast know that without RED America, she can never win. So they are positioning themselves as "conservative" god-fearing..she announced she was an evangelical "a conservative, really" (scuse me a moment, gotta puke ) -

there, that's better - and then yesterday, he announces he's a "little bit red and a little bit blue.."

Well the Blues aren't ready to go that far yet and it incensed them. He's not sticking with the pack. So they will turn on him...and her.

Anyone take note of the shouting match with Hannity/Coulter/Beckell that the one thing he kept saying over and over to Ann was "I'll pray for you tonight."?

This, you watch, will be a new mantra spewing forth from the Blues - to their peril.

Palossi even bible thumped the other day!

They do not understand what power they are playing with. God is not mocked. They are playing with dynamite...

235 posted on 11/19/2004 6:27:45 AM PST by maine-iac7 ( Pray without doubt..."Ask and you SHALL receive")
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To: MamaLucci

Oh that is good.


236 posted on 11/19/2004 6:37:21 AM PST by kassie ("It's the soldier who allows freedom of speech, not the reporter..")
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To: ArmyBratproud

Does the Little Rock Peabody Hotel have ducks, like the one in Memphis?


237 posted on 11/19/2004 8:25:32 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

From discussion on Fox about this, it appears that Nixon was considered worse than Clinton. I think that is unfair to Nixon and may reflect liberal bias on the part of the people who were asked to make the rankings. Nixon had some ethical problems (questionable tax write-offs, involvement in the Watergate cover-up) but Clinton's corruption was far more pervasive. Nixon was a boy scout by comparison.


238 posted on 11/19/2004 8:30:27 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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Notice the Clinton tactic. When confronted with a simple fact - the ratings by historians, or the obvious observation that he cares, despite his protestations to the contrary - his first inclination is to attack what ABC News did in reporting on Ken Starr. Of course, the attack is accompanied by a lot of meaningless rhetoric, now reproduced on the walls of the library, bemoaning the politics of personal destruction.


239 posted on 11/19/2004 9:42:46 AM PST by sullivan-fan
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To: Mo1

I happened to see this.
I was shocked.
Never thought Peter had it in him to challenge Clinton.


240 posted on 11/19/2004 9:44:27 AM PST by onyx
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