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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Clinton still gets a break
The AP writer, James Jefferson, parrots the DemocRAT posi-
tion when he states that Clinton's affair with Lewinsky led
to his impeachment.
All together, friends,
"It was Clinton's lying under a grand jury oath that led to
his impeachment!"
Kenneth Starr has class and that sort of thing is simply something that Clinton the Clown will never understand.
The liberal media covered his ass endlessly for years. They did it again for Kerry this year.
It is an insult that Clinton would suggest else. Then again Clinton never did much else but insult us all regularly.
"No other president ever had to endure someone like Ken Starr,"
You reap what you sow!
LOL! Word.
CLASSIC - great post!
Ah, but the strawberries! That's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist!
"You don't have Bill Clinton to kick around anymore!" I'd call him Nixonian. But that would be an insult to Nixon. (Not trying to be funny.. it's true!)
"Move on," Bill, just "move on".
LOL. Good comparison!
I saw that interview. It was pitiful. Clinton looked like he was going to cry..I mean literally! He gets so emotional about certain subjects, impeachments and such. It was a pleasant surprise to get to see him whimper since I wasn't a home to watch my own dagone news channel. I enjoyed it.
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.
O'Reilly running this clip NOW!
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Oh wow.....I just saw this clip on O'Reilly! If you are still up, watch it at 11 p.m.
He's nuts! And Jennings did NOT back down!
The "Feeler of my Pain" still doesn't get it. This guy is something else. He is leading his party into the Wilderness...and they follow like sheep.......
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.
O'Reilly running this clip NOW!
O'Reilly Factor (Fox News) re-airs at 11pm ET. Charles Krauthammer's comments about Klintoon's interview with Jennings on "Special Report" earlier were priceless... watch that segment at approx. 12:40am ET.
Captain Queeg Clinton removes the steel balls from his pocket and he spins them in his palm insistently as he speaks.
As for Jennings, he refused to back down like so many others have -- give 'em credit.
He really ripped Peter Jennings. About time Jennings got a taste of his own medicine even if it came from someone I think is disgusting.
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