Lies, fights, and insults

Drudge Report ^ | May 30, 2005

[alienken]

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON MAY 30, 2005 17:01:22 ET XXXXX

NEW CLINTON BOOK: THE LIES, THE FIGHTS, THE INSULTS

**Exclusive**

Summer starts with a bang as veteran WASHINGTON POST reporter John Harris traces the emotional highs and lows of the Clinton presidency.

THE SURVIVOR: BILL CLINTON IN THE WHITE HOUSE drops this week from RANDOM [the book ranked #9,527 on AMAZON's sales parade Monday afternoon], but the DRUDGE REPORT can now sneak:

--Bill Clinton was so upset that his weight-loss regimen in 2000 was not working that he made his aides release a bogus number after his annual Navy physical to make him five pounds lighter. (pg. 394)

--Hillary taunted her husband's aides as being wimps by not fighting hard enough on Whitewater - "JFK had real men in his White House!" (pg. 108)

--Tipper Gore was so disgusted in 2000 with Bill and Hillary that she stayed cloistered in a holding room instead of going to a New York reception with major Democratic fund-raisers where the Clintons would be. "No, I'm not doing it," she snapped to an aide. "I'm not going out there with that man."

--The first conversation between Clinton and Gore after the Lewinsky story broke. Clinton is shouting at Gore, "This is a fucking coup d'etat!" Gore just stared back blankly. pg 313.

--Former White House counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke on the record hitting Clinton for not having the guts to fire FBI director Louis Freeh, who Clarke called a major obstacle on anti-terrorism policy. "He should have just fired Freeh and taken the shit it would have caused." (pg. 408)

The POST plans two jumbos on Tuesday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.

One story from Harris will outline Hillary Clinton's presidential preparations.

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[alienken]

Hillary taunted her husband's aides? If it was so wrong when Bolton critized his aides, then we need to remind everyone when she runs for President.

[sine_nomine]

No news here, but it is nice to see it in print.

Drudge's photo of Clinton makes him look like death. Or it is the portrait of Dorian Gray?

[marty60]

Well if The Thing would lie about 5 pounds, what else did he lie about. And the aides dutifully, fed the LIE to the press. What a shallow perv the thing is.

Oh BTW I know he lied about everything.

[kromike]

Gore was staring blankly because his WindowsNT OS-of-a-mind had just thrown a Blue-Screen-Of-Death and he was rebooting.

Or maybe Gore was trying out his Star Trek "Data" impersonation. At least "Data" had some personality; a human actor portraying an android who yearned to feel human emotion. What's Al's excuse?

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Yippee! I can't wait for more of this! It's better than a TV soap opera...only scairier.