Clinton Impeachment was Retaliation for Nixon, says Retiring Congressman [WLS Withdraws Hyde Story]

ABC 7 Chicago ^ | April 21, 2005 | Andy Shaw

[Txsleuth]

This is the second thread that I have posted on in the last hour, where I have done the stupidest thing---

I have read an article and believed what was said, maybe even exptrapolated out what WAS said into a full conversation that wasn't written---

IOW, other FReepers are so much better than I at sniffing out reporter bias and writing tricks to make a person say things that they actually didn't say to make a story what it isn't---

I am too much of a newbie at never believing the MSM, I guess...LOL

[freekitty]

This is just another puff piece because Hitlery is running for Prez. It's BS like she is.

[hinckley buzzard]

Correct. The reporter is the one who used the term, "payback." Then in a trick of reporting, makes it appear as if Hyde used the word.

Exactly. The sleazy reporter played a slimy sleight of hand on an old man. Whaddasupprise.

Go home and enjoy your retirement Henry--and remember from this last backstab what good civility ever did when dealing with 'rats.

[theDentist]

Well, that's one man's opinion, and he's welcome to it. That doesn't make him right.

[yooper]

"The veteran DuPage County congressman acknowledged that Republicans went after Clinton in part to enact revenge against the Democrats for impeaching President Richard Nixon 25 years earlier."

Nixon wasn't impeached. Dementia?

[kingattax]

i have too much respect for Mr Hyde, i wouldnt have believed some BS like that.

[L.N. Smithee]

Andy Shaw asked Hyde if the Clinton proceedings were payback for Nixon's impeachment. Oh, god...not again.

NIXON WAS NOT IMPEACHED!

[hollywood]

"... an extra-marital affair he had in the 1960's became public amid accusations of hypocrisy. He called the affair a youthful indiscretion.

According to my math, he was in his 40s in the 1960s. I guess your 80s can make your 40s seem youthful.

[Calpernia]

>>>>>Ok, so everybody else recognized immediately that Nixon wasn't impeached. Why didn't the author or his editor?

I will say I was blatantly told in school that "Nixon was our only impeached President".

I only learned otherwise after joining FR.

So, not everyone will recognize that he wasn't.

[Calpernia]

I guess this story was written 'creatively' due to the Clinton Probe

[NotchJohnson]

Hyde should have told everyone else that. What is it with old guys losing it in the latter years like Goldwater?

[MNnice]

I always thought it was a mistake to impeach Clinton ... I could be wrong.

You are.  To me Clinton's biggest crime was witness tampering in a sexual harassment lawsuit in which he was the defendant.

Which is a felony.

 

[Prince Charles]

"I can't say it wasn't, but I also thought that the Republican party should stand for something, and if we walked away from this, no matter how difficult, we could be accused of shirking our duty, our responsibility," said Hyde.

Leave it to rat a-hole reporter Andy Shaw to twist the above statement into something completely different than what Hyde said.

[Puddleglum]

They extrapolated "can't say it wasn't" into a positive declaration of fact. Typical media BS.

Yep - the reporter dangled the bait, and when Hyde didn't take it, he figured he'd attribute a quote to him anyway.

[Brimack34]

Maybe for him it was, But not for me and I would guess a lot of other congress people feel the same way as I do.

[processing please hold]

Sooooo, does this mean Clintoon didn't get Lewinski's in the White House, and he didn't lie under oath????????

[DLfromthedesert]

Nixon resigned; he was never impeached.

[processing please hold]

/sarcasm off.

[F16Fighter]

Hyde's comments reflect what Democrats have been saying for years about the Clinton impeachment.

Complete BS.

Hyde neither inferred nor implied Clinton's Impeachment was "retaliation for Nixon."

[GianniV]

So, when will Andy Shaw interview President Clinton and asked him if he raped Juanita Broaddick?

I've met good ole Andy in Chicago and believe me, he's a limpwristed dork.

Oh, and Andy, instead of suckering Hyde during an interview, you may want to actually start investigating Mayor Daley?