Posted on 11/19/2004 4:22:29 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Clinton Rips Media, Ken Starr After Opening of Presidential Library By James Jefferson Associated Press Writer
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - In a prime-time television outburst, Bill Clinton ripped old nemesis Kenneth Starr and what the former president portrayed as a gullible media eager to report every "sleazy thing" leaked from a prosecutor bent on bringing him down. The exchange came in an interview with ABC news anchor Peter Jennings that aired Thursday night, hours after Clinton opened his $165 million presidential library. Clinton blasted Starr and spoke disdainfully of a national media that he suggested was complicit in a scheme to ruin his presidency.
"No other president ever had to endure someone like Ken Starr," Clinton said. "No one ever had to try to save people from ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, and people in Haiti from a military dictator that was murdering them, and all the other problems I dealt with, while every day an entire apparatus was devoted to destroying him."
The former president said he would go to his grave at peace that, while he had personal failings, he never lied to the American people about his job as president.
Clinton added that he doesn't care about what his detractors think about him. Jennings then said it seemed to him that Clinton did care.
The former president responded, "You don't want to go here, Peter. 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 leaked. No one has any idea what that's like."
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It is a very telling statement that Bill Clinton has decided to fall back on this tired old crap. In the midst of all the "grand jury leaks" that were alleged at the time, the judge in that case took a very unusual step in making a public statement that said something to the effect that there was no such evidence that the prosecutors' office had ever leaked a single bit of information from any of the witness' testimony.
"No other president ever had to endure someone like Ken Starr," Clinton said. "No one ever had to try to save people from ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, and people in Haiti from a military dictator that was murdering them, and all the other problems I dealt with, while every day an entire apparatus was devoted to destroying him."
The former president said he would go to his grave at peace that, while he had personal failings, he never lied to the American people about his job as president.
Speaking of ethnic cleansing, and lying to the American people, I'm wondering whatever happened to all those mass graves that were supposed to be found in Serbia.
Loony-tune ping.
He has a couple of years to rest up before hillary needs him again.
There are certain side or after effects of such an invasive procedure such as open heart surgery. In particular, Clinton could experience lack or loss of concentration, high(er) stress, fatigue, tiredness and considerable emotional feelings. I suspect this is partially why Clinton is reacting this way in the Jennings interview. I presume this interview was filmed after his surgery? Can anyone verify this?
Clinton could also experience mild depression and vivid and possibly distrubing dreams. I'd say he has already experienced this since he recently said he saw a vision of heaven and also of Hilary and Chelsea during his surgery. I doubt that Clinton would permit the world to see him experience a loss of confidence, another possible side effect of heart surgery.
None of these side effects can mask the visceral hatred of Clinton for those who oppose him. If I remember correctly, this is also a characteristic of a narcissistic personality disorder, e.g., thin skin.
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Bill Clintoooooon had to suspend his license to practice law, Ken Starr did not!
I didn't see the interview but this is consistent with what I know of the sinkmeister.
Thank you.
Visceral hatred...good term for BC. Does anyone have the photo of him and Hellery at the National Cathedral after 9/11, in which he is looking with satanic hatred and envy at Pres. Bush as the elder Bushes greet him back at their pew with obvious love and pride? It is a shocking picture...one that bares this twisted man's soul.
I haven't seen it; I thought we'd have seen it by now!
It was staged, I'll bet they had 3 takes on it to get it right.
Well, it looked real enough for me.
Watch at the 11:00 EST rerun and see what you think.
We're the same age then. I remember feeling at least as much ill will towards Sam Ervin as I did Richard Nixon at the time. If ever I became tired of watching a face on TV, it was Ervin's.
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Rewriting history along with his legacy we are now privy to relive all the lies he is known for. Swearing ignorance of the proven facts of his sordid lifestyle, he continues the spread of the BIG LIE! Talk about someone believing his own press sheech...!
You can trust me on this one; only if the real people who know the truth, continually expose him for what he really is will prevent him from burying the truth with all his dimwitted minions who refuse to think and reason!
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