Clinton rips Starr, coverage by media-Calls prosecution 'embarrassment'

Boston Globe ^ | 11/20/04 | James Jefferson, AP

[kattracks]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- 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 anchorman Peter Jennings that aired Thursday night, hours after Clinton opened his $165 million presidential library. Clinton blasted Starr and spoke disdainfully of a 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.

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Clinton added that he does not 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."

[snip]

''You never had to live in a time when people you knew and cared about were being indicted, carted off to jail, bankrupted, ruined, because they were Democrats and because they would not lie," he said. ''So, I think we showed a lot of moral fiber to stand up to that. To stand up to these constant investigations, to this constant bodyguard of lies, this avalanche that was thrown at all of us. And, yes, I failed once. And I sure paid for it. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry for the American people. And I'm sorry for the embarrassment they performed."

[the invisib1e hand]

see post #60. great minds...

[roaddog727]

TO:

Bill Clinton,

Sir, Take your not-so-righteous indignation elsewhere.

V/R

The conservative population of the US of A.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Backhoe, please add to your store on the Clinton's that article above on Hillary's Watergate Committee lies, if you have not already got it in store.

Also somewhere out there is an article on her misfeasance when she was in charge of the Legal Services Corporation.

She has been a completely dishonest bad actor her whole life. We are going to need every thing we can find for her 2008 run.

Keep your server well tuned up, we are going to need your library soon.

Regards,

[lepton]

bookmark bump

[backhoe]

Backhoe, please add to your store on the Clinton's that article above on Hillary's Watergate Committee lies, if you have not already got it in store.

Thanks- I am not sure I have that, so I'll go & check on it.

[Twinkie]

The attempted Hillary Clinton brainwashing of America is
about to start in earnest over the next four years. Her
mug will pop up everywhere, or whatever the psychological
experts tell her to do she will do.

[eeriegeno]

Clinton does have positive value though! He is the best thing that ever happened to the Republican party in the last 100 years. With his help, the democrats lost the House, the Senate, the Presidency, and many, many Governor seats......

Thanks Slick, keep up the good work.....

[freekitty]

Is this not the classic case of a paranoid? Never take responsibility. It's always someone else's fault. Hitlery is the same way.

Do we really want people who not only lie to others but to themselves in office? People who can not separate reality from fiction?

I don't think so.

[StAnDeliver]

Wow. Klink gets a happy crowd for his double-wide memorial and lights a fart. He knows the UN Presidency is a 1000-1 shot now. Even Hellen'Ratner conceded that much on Fox last night.

I say we give the UN Presidency to Ken Starr and see how much that turns Klink's crank.

[estpeter]

The man is mentally ill.

[longfellow]

''No other president ever had to endure someone like Ken Starr," Clinton said.
Maybe so but we never had a rapist as a president.

[StAnDeliver]

"Is he throwing a tantrum because he blames Clinton for Kerry's loss?"

If you saw the way he came unraveled with disgust right before he left the set at 6 a.m. on election overnight, I'd say yes.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

It's klintoon's mental dysfunction of,"projection" in operation. Klintoon is living proof of that swine/monkey feces can morph into human form. If some people had done their jobs, (coward boy blythe) would be in federal prison along with his B'atch part-time spouse. 8 years of embarrassment for the American people.(Legacy)

[mathluv]

'Getting her in the White House (God forbid) so he can be back in power.'

Does he really believe she would let him have the power? I think she would drop him like a hot potato.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Word Up!!!

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Typical psychopath in action and he is untermenschen.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

You deserve an Oscar for the picture. Magnifico!!!

[cardinal4]

You are witnessing one of the first shots in campaign 2008..

[krunkygirl]

Heeeey! Stop telling the truth...the "little people" are NOT supposed to know, doncha' know?!

[xsmommy]

you are right. i have snapped out of the pity party i was throwing for billyjeff.....