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.
As I always said, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather are really heroes in disguise!
"There was a spare key to that locker!"
If it weren't for Jimmah Cah-tuh, the Toon would have this one in the bag.
Many scientists agree that there is a causal relationship between unexpressed anger and heart disease. Let it out Bill!!!!!!
Dont know bout hell....but spotted one of these today..!
Thanks. We can watch ABC World News rebroadcast here in New Zealand every weeknight, but not CBS or NBC, so I get to watch Jennings but not the other two. It looks a lot more leftist than Australian network news (Nine Network News) and a tiny bit less than any one of NZ's own news programmes.
And it was the local channel that has business ties with the ABC (TV3) that had the infamous "Bush the Professional Fascist" caption appear at the end of its news programme last year. Freepers reported about the saga on this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/932954/posts
It was due to this news that led me to believe ABC is more left-wing than the already famously left-wing alphabet soup of MSM.
Hell, all they have to do is ask Presidents Bush about his character. He got a glowing recomendation today. I think he should be called St. Willy now.
My pleasure. ;)
I only started tuning in to that show over the internet.
It's pretty good ... especially liked today's Robert Byrd "Mountain Fiddler" soundtrack.
Is IS as IS WAS!
Rush will open with it. Surely Sean and Special Report also. Even FNS would run this.
She's brilliant. The whole crew....Brilliant!
I'm a Guinness drinker, btw.... And that makes me...Brilliant!
Sounds like Jennings managed to trip off clintoon's oppositional defiance disorder. This is one of the rare times I wish I'd been watching network news.
...and yet our president paid his respects to this whore today. Disgusting.
LOGLOFLHHO (Little ole granny laying on the floor laughing her hiney off)
It fits! It's sleazy, cheap, and one good mudslide (a few more of those Texas rains) and it's a pile of garbage.
I'm afraid to double dog dare you both to come up with monkeys shooting out of a b*tt. We'd probably all get kicked off!
And I hope I'll be around to piss on it.
That is the real thing..........ain't it a hoot?!
LOL! Leftist self-destruction.
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