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.
And here I was thinking it was going to be a softball Bubbagasm orgy. BWAHAHAHAHAHA
ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Heheh, "Old Yellowstain..."
How about "Old Whitestain..."
Ouch!
For all the complaints of the left about the "stupidity" of George W. Bush and the Red State voters, there's a very disturbing trend going on behind the scenes here. For three consecutive presidential election cycles (four, if you count Clinton twice), the Democrats have nominated candidates who may very well be certifiable loony-tunes.
"Was Queeg the one with a thing about strawberries?"
Maybe it was Strawberry Blonds with luscious ........ (maybe Clintscum doesn't want us to go there).
The mask is slipping..........and BJ STILL doesn't understand that he wasn't President of the freekin WORLD.
Our new hero Peter Jennings!
Nixon was loyal to his friends and genuinely cared about the underdog. Clinton only cared about getting away with his crimes. After using the IRS against his enemies like Nixon only wished he could and his treasonous selling of military secrets to the Chicoms Clinton should not have been impeached, he should have been impaled.
Thanks for posting this article. Since I receive cable I watch only Fox News and hardly ever tune into Peter anymore, so I miss these little gems of entertainment. From what I saw of Clinton with his wet hair (and 'looking whiter' than the last time you saw him"... Brit Humes on Special Report tonight) he is looking like a shell of his former self, thinner and not too healthy.
IOW he was well-liked by the socialists and dictators of the world ... the French, the Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, the Germans, the Palestinians, The UN, .....
That's enough for me to question his moral authority.
Peter definitely trails Rather in the leftist rankings, but not by all that much.
I think Jennings was simply trying to give Clinton a chance to run through his usual litany of "rightwing conspiracy, sex-obssessed, couldn't win at the ballot box" whines in a friendly forum. It's probably like sweet music to Jennings' ears.
The problem is Clinton was too touchy and took it the wrong way. Peter's probably really hurt that Clinton misunderstood his intent.
A fight between a snake and a rat is the best way to describe this.
Clinton: "The White House aide was found dead...."
Out damned spot...
"Yeah, Peter, she had the biggest ta-tas I've ever seen..."
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That act again.
It rained on his parade today too.........:o)
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