Former President Bill Clinton, left, and basketball legend Ervin 'Magic' Johnson greet employees at the Caesars Palace hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Posted on 01/17/2008 7:19:39 PM PST by NormsRevenge
OAKLAND, Calif. - A heated exchange between former President Clinton and a television news reporter circulated on the Internet Thursday.
During a campaign stop for his wife in Oakland a day earlier, Clinton became visibly annoyed when KGO-TV reporter Mark Mathews asked him whether Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign should take a stronger stand against a union's lawsuit to keep casino workers from caucusing at special precincts in Nevada.
"I had nothing to do with that lawsuit and you know it," said Bill Clinton, who had been in the Bay Area talking to residents and real estate professionals about home foreclosures.
"Get on your television station and say, 'I don't care about the home mortgage crisis,'" he berated Mathews.
On Thursday, a federal judge threw out the lawsuit. A union with ties to Hillary Clinton had tried to prevent casino workers from caucusing at special precincts on the Las Vegas strip.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge James Mahan was presumed to be a boost for Clinton rival Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday because he has been endorsed by the union representing many of the shift workers who will be able to use the precincts.
Clinton's campaign has said it was not involved in the lawsuit.
Asked about the ruling, a cooler Clinton punted Thursday.
"I'm just glad to be here campaigning," he said, working a crowd at the employee cafeteria of Caesars Palace resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
Despite the dispute with the casino workers' union, nearly 200 waitresses, cooks, bellhops and other workers surrounded the former president as he shook hands and posed for photos.
Former President Bill Clinton, left, and basketball legend Ervin 'Magic' Johnson greet employees at the Caesars Palace hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Former President Bill Clinton listens to an employee as he
tours the Caesars Palace hotel and casino in Las Vegas,
Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The guy’s losing it.
He’s a master berater. We knew this.
Did he wag the finger?
It’s kind of sad to watch in a way... train wreck arkancide style that IS. *-}
OK I watched the bent one’s tirade - can anyone explain to me the “1 vote counts as much as 5” part even if one has to live in a parallel universe to buy into that logic?
I mean what was he talking about - 5 votes to one?
Who plays in Vegas, Stays in Vegas.
Well, he wagged something, anyway.
Magic and Billy. Two of a kind. Whore mongers. .
“can anyone explain to me the “1 vote counts as much as 5” part even if one has to live in a parallel universe to buy into that logic?”
It’s just a lot of blah blah. Same as everything the Clintons say. I comes from the Clintoon universe, the same universe where “There are no illegal women. Illegal immigration is different than illegal people” makes sense.
He really looks bad.....
The Clintons are in panic mode. This is just a manifestation. It’s going to get dirtier. Lots dirtier.
Magic Johnson and Tragic Johnson.
My nightmare is for him to blow his plumbing just before the election, then the Widder Clinton gets enough sympathy votes to win.
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