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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I saw the clip tonight on FOX. Peter Jennings looked stunned at the raw hatred directed at him. I think Peter finally got a good look at what the media had been supporting for years.
"spoke disdainfully of a national media that he suggested was complicit"
If the media wasn't complicit in protecting this man, he'd still be in jail.
He's not bitter. He just likes being in the press. The only time Bill gets bitter or mean is when something new is staring him and the shrew right in the face. I think that 2000 senate campaign grand jury might be making things get a little edgy. The Clintons have always been simple to read.
It was worse than that. Jennings was a lap dog for the first 40 minutes, but when Clinton said that he didn't care what was said about him, Jennings (who I have no use for) simply challenged that statement when Clinton went off. He kept repeating that he had made only ONE mistake, he was sorry and he paid for it. That's the line. I got caught fiddling with an intern, apologized and served my time. That's all that happened. Everything else was just an attack by evil Republicans AND it never would have happened if Jennings would have done his job and expose the evil plot against him. Imaging that!!! He was barking at one of his staunchest supporters on a national broadcast. Can you imagine what this guys like out of camera range? And, by the way, where's our Mikey Moore type footage of this loon?
Poor, poor Bill. If he wouldn't have done so many sleazy things in office the media wouldn't have had to report it. At least he didn't have to put up with a media that made things up to attack him with.
Can you imagine how much it must burn Clintons butt to see Starr doing so well....while he, on the other hand, was disbarred?
Hopefully -- what with the way things are evolving so rapidly in this country against democrats -- we'll all live to see that obscenity bulldozed into the ground.
Clinton has no reason to complain about the way the media treated him. The let him off easy.
Clinton behaves badly. Again. Charles Krauthammer on Fox's All Stars tonight, said it all. With Clinton it's all about him, 24/7. Narcissism. He hasn't changed. He cares only about himself, not one jot nor tittle about anyone or anything else. While Clinton was foaming at the mouth that he hadn't lied about his job to the public, not a word about his lies/coverup about refusing to seize bin Laden when offered on a silver platter and the resulting 9/11 attacks. The number of the times he could have gotten bin Laden are about 10 and the rest of his lies and sins/crimes are too numerous to list. I just wish he'd go away, like AlGore.
The authentic Dirty ol Bastard.
This guy sure forgot Lawrence Walsh put him in office.
He's not bitter. He just likes being in the press. The only time Bill gets bitter or mean is when something new is staring him and the shrew right in the face."
Oh, I remember some of his tantrums when the Congress defeated some lame initiative he wanted. Pounding the podium, shouting "NO NO NO NO NO" in a demented imitation of the people's majority. Then there were all those "purple rages" and "when someone is against me I kill them" during a rare cabinet meeting... no Billyboy has always had a thin skin(part of the narcissistic syndrome), now more than before because he has less power to get even and punish people.
I hope you are right BTW that some investigation of Hitlery will bear some fruit.
Here's what Clinton is quoted as saying:
"No other president ever had to endure someone like Ken Starr. 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."Here's the best translation my Wal-Mart discount reverso-psyche-mnemonicifator could come up with:
"No other nations ever had to endure someone like Me. Bill Clinton. I really did really try, yes Ma I did, to save people from ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, and people in Haiti from a military dictator that was murdering them, and all these other problems I really really dealt with. I meant really really well, Mom. But I know the ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian muslims ended before I went in, and the ethic cleansing of Kosova didn't really get under way until we got in there -- we allowed the Albanian thugs to drive out any non-Albanians and non-Muslims. And I know Haiti's still a damn bloody mess -- chaos. We sure made things worse! But my intentions were good, Ma!And I know -- I not only stood by and let millions be slaughtered in Rwanda -- I took actions to prevent us or the UN from getting dragged into that mess. Who needed it. It was lose-lose. You understand, Ma. I just didn't have the time. It took a third of my day for sex, a third for media spinning and photo-ops, and a third for cover-ups. What the heck was I suppossed to do. They were just dumb, dirt-poor Africans. No one cares. African trailer trash.
Now that dang Dubya, god I hate him, and his familiy -- they make me puke, Ma -- he actually has saved millions in Iraq, Afganistan, thrown out or crushed every brutal dictator he's come up against and left the places better off.
And damn him and the horses his crew rode in on -- he's done it while while every day an entire media, hollywood and elite apparatus was devoted to destroying him.
Makes me sick, Ma. I want to cry. Well ... to cry or to get a ..."
"Shocking that Jennings goaded him."
Yeah, right! He should be "goaded" regularly--good for his blood pressure. (oh, did I say say that? my bad, hehehe).
The only reason Clinton remained in office was because of the media.
Bubba is cracking up & Hilary is busy. Quick - where's the pink suit!
This moron - he is so bitter that President Bush was re-elected with a bigger percentage than he got.... and Pres. Bush did not have media lap dogs working for him.
Bubba: "The whole world liked me better............mine is bigger than yours........my Daddy (if I knew who he was)....could beat your Daddy".
WHAT A FLAKE!
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