Exactly.
I had the same reaction and I followed the Klintoon/Lewinsky/impeachment thing VERY closely.
I can't tell you how many times I had seen that clip in various settings, but last night it was absolutely shocking.
There is NOTHING the Rats can do to put the shine on that clip. The filmmakers did nothing but juxtapose it at the correct time (chronologically) in the narrative and, as you said, there is no way around the fact that Bubba came off as the world's biggest sleaze bucket.
Not only do those few shocking words ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman . . . Ms. Lewinsky . . .") utterly tarnish whatever legacy Bubba had, worse, from the Rat point of view, they bring up every negative emotion and conclusion concerning MRS BILL CLINTON that ever existed.
IOW, those few shocking words (again, shocking in their arrogance and stupidity on every relevant scale) also utterly tarnish the prospects of MRS BILL CLINTON.
The Rats cannot nominate MRS BILL CLINTON without, once again, fighting the battle over the import for our nation of a President who stood up and, red-faced, finger-wagging, belched out an adolescent lie of such ickiness that that lie actually gets WORSE over time.
PR...or spin. The Clintons tried for so long, and kept getting away with it too, to change history. They did all that maneuvering with that 9-11 commission. They tried to blame it all on Bush but go on, do you think America's buying that? Once again I must wonder how stupid they think we are in la-la land.
We who carry this country on our backs actually have to go out and live and work and all that stupid stuff. We know that the guy who held the job for ten years did the bad stuff the new employee had to confront in the first few months. Who out here in la-la land hasn't had that happen to us or hell, caused it to happen to others?
They keep trying to change lies into truths and you're only going to get away with this for so long. The Clintons are good at it. I note we have not seen the Barrett report yet.
Yessirree, it was Clinton's own stupid nationally broadcast lies that did him in once someone took the time to put it in context. And hey, I give the Lamestream media credit for this one. Maybe they're getting a clue, who knows?