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Posted on 09/27/2006 4:00:17 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
It's just like old times. Bill Clinton delivers an impassioned speech, and within 24 hours the Web is bristling with documentation, establishing that nearly every sentence was a lie.
The glassy-eyed Clinton cultists are insisting their idol's on-air breakdown during a "Fox News Sunday" interview with Chris Wallace was a calculated performance, which is a bit like describing Hurricane Katrina as a "planned demolition." Like an Osama tape, they claim he was sending a signal to Democrats to show them how to treat Republicans. Listen up, Democrats: Let's energize the undecideds by throwing a hissy fit on national television!
The Clintonian plan for action apparently entails inventing lunatic conspiracy theories, telling lots of lies, shouting, sneering, interrupting, and telling your interlocutor, "(Y)ou've got that little smirk on your face and you think you're so clever" — all for asking a simple question. To wit: "Why didn't you do more to put bin Laden and al-Qaida out of business when you were president?" The only thing Clinton forgot to say to Wallace was, "You'd better put some ice on that."
Let me be the first to welcome Chris Wallace to the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy! If the son of Mike Wallace is a member, can Chelsea be far behind?
According to Wallace, Clinton's aide, Jay Carson, demanded that the interview be stopped a few minutes into Clinton's tantrum — just before the part where he threw the lamp at Wallace. The last time Clinton got that red in the face, the encounter ended with a stained dress. Even Muslims thought Clinton overreacted. But the Clinton Kool-Aid drinkers tell us this was a masterfully planned set-piece by their leader.
I also think Jessica Savitch's slurred, incoherent broadcast on "NBC Nightly News" in October 1983 was intentional. Others say it was drug-addled breakdown that ended her career, but obviously Savitch intended to speak in garbled gibberish on air as a brilliantly executed prelude to her death in a ditch weeks later.
And when Stephen Colbert did a routine at the White House Correspondents Dinner that bombed, I think he planned it that way.
Then there was Capt. Joseph Hazelwood's meticulously planned off-loading of 11 million gallons of crude oil off the Exxon Valdez.
Clinton shouted so many lies during his televised meltdown, only the World Wide Web can capture them all. These are just a few.
Clinton yelled at Wallace: "What did I do? What did I do? I worked hard to try to kill him. I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since."
This is so crazy it's worthy of an Air America caller. Clinton has consistently misrepresented the presidential directive about political assassinations. Clinton did not order bin Laden assassinated. He did not even lift the ban on intelligence agencies attempting to assassinate bin Laden.
What he did was lift the ban on political assassinations — provided that assassinating bin Laden was not the purpose of the mission. So if U.S. forces were engaged in an operation to capture bin Laden, but accidentally killed him, they would not be court-martialed.
Clinton said, "All the right-wingers who now say I didn't do enough said I did too much — same people." As proof, he cites his humiliating withdrawal from Somalia, claiming, "They were all trying to get me to withdraw from Somalia in 1993 the next day after we were involved in 'Black Hawk down,' and I refused to do it."
He added, as if it mattered, "There is not a living soul in the world who thought that Osama bin Laden had anything to do with 'Black Hawk down.'"
In fact, what Republicans objected to was Clinton's transforming a U.N. mission in Somalia to prevent mass starvation into a much grander "nation-building" exercise — something the Democrats now hysterically support in Darfur and oppose in Iraq.
Democrats long to see American mothers weeping for their sons lost in a foreign war, but only if the mission serves absolutely no national security objectives of the United States. If we are building a democracy in a country while also making America safer — such as in Iraq — Democrats oppose it with every fiber of their being.
When Clinton's "nation-building" in Somalia led to the brutal killing of 18 Americans, some of whose corpses were then dragged through the streets, Clinton did what the Democrats are currently demanding we do in Iraq: He cut and ran.
Republicans didn't like that either, and it had nothing to do with whether it was al-Qaida we were running from. It could have been Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, al-Dawa or the Viet Cong. We ran, and the terrorists noticed.
Osama bin Laden told "ABC News" in 1998 that America's humiliating retreat from Somalia emboldened his jihadists: "The youth were surprised at the low morale of the American soldiers and realized more than before that the American soldier was a paper tiger and after a few blows ran in defeat."
If this is the message that Clinton is hoping to telegraph to the American people, I hope the voters are listening.
Dear Annie,
What I love about you the most is between your ears!
We have rules around here! Pictures Please. ;-)
I like it all.
This is not one of Ann's better efforts.
Bubba's been taking campaign lessons from Dean.
I wish someone would contact Robert Oakley, proconsul in Iraq during the Clinton era, and ask him if the US embassy and intelligence agencies were aware of some strange Afghan-Arabs arriving from the Sudan and taking up arms in Mogadiscu. Or interview former Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith and ask him why the Clinton administration broke the UN arms embargo in the Balkans and assisted the shipment of Muslim arms to Afghan-Arab jihadists arriving from the Sudan. Both situations occured at the same time, and if Clinton didn't know what was happening it was because he chose to close his eyes
Clinton and Company are ALL liars!!!
Fruitcakes !!!
Anne--genuis, clear thinking, beautiful woman--thank you for standing up and fighting the good fight. Wished you would run for congress and get in there to call the idiots down. We need your spine.
bump
BUMP
This is really cold. Whatever her medical problems, Savitch was a passenger in the car when it crashed.
OK, lets assume Ex-President Clinton did put out a contract (finding) to the CIA to kill him. If we were not at war, isn't that against the law? Can the president really attempt murder, or authorize it, if we are not at war?
Didn't Ex-President Clinton confess, on national TV, that he conspired to commit murder?
Shouldn't he be brought before a jury for this?
Just a thought...
Thank you Ann.
I'm tired of people making an excuses to justify the underserved reputation that Clinton is a brilliant politician and a "good Liar".
a) If by "good" you mean he believes his own lies and can tell more then we can keep track of in 10 seconds, okay, I'll give you that. If by "Good" you mean convincing? Hell no. He's a lousy liar and has very noticeable tells.
b) A brilliant politician doesn't cement that he was the precursor to screamin' Howard Dean in the undecided public's mind on the eve of midterm and the beginning of the '08 presidential sweepstakes.
Clinton flipped out. He had a meltdown. The conservatives, they know who they are, that are so eager to accept the Left's face saving spin need to -Just- Stop.
I've dissed Ann fans who insisted on pictures. Her legs need to be tied in knots to make knees, I've said. That was meant to be cute, but it wasn't.
She needs her own Newspaper. The New York Times suffered Howell Raines. So, why not a duel with Mo Dowd?
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