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Bill Clinton Unloads on Press
washingtonpost.com ^
| 1/23/08
| Anne E. Kornblut
Posted on 01/23/2008 4:20:52 PM PST by Conservatives_Unite
Bill Clinton Unloads on Press By Anne E. Kornblut Former president Bill Clinton lashed out in response to criticism on Wednesday from a prominent Democrat in South Carolina, accusing the Obama campaign of running a political smear campaign against him through the media. "You live for this," Clinton snapped at CNN reporter Jessica Yellin when she asked him to comment on statements by Dick Harpootlian, the former South Carolina Democratic party chairman, who said recent distortions by the Clintons are "reprehensible." Harpootlian, who backed the Clintons in the 1990s and now supports Sen. Barack Obama, had compared Clinton's distortions to the dirty tricks campaigns run by the infamous Republican operative Lee Atwater. After an event on Wednesday in South Carolina, Yellin approached the former president and asked him to respond to Harpootlian's remarks. Clinton let loose on camera, chastising the reporter for asking him about political conflict rather than the substance of the meeting he had just held. "You're asking me about this, you sat through this whole meeting. Not one single, solitary soul asked about any of this. And they never do." Referring to the Obama campaign, Clinton said: "They are feeding you this because they know this is what you want to cover." As Clinton's aides tried to steer him out the door, he continued to scold back in Yellin's direction: "Shame on you."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: angrydems; bill; billary; bully; clinton; confrontation; icanthandlethetruth; impeachedrapist; mamatricked; narcissist; press; rapist; slackjawedgaloot; unhingedhillbilly
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This guy is a gift to us. We need to embrace this, and even start baiting him (if not already being done). Easy pickins...
To: Conservatives_Unite
It’s all entertainment to get votes for Hillary.
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:23:50 PM PST
by
donna
(Perhaps if republicans would adhere to the Bible’s first 10 Commandments they wouldn’t need an 11.)
To: Conservatives_Unite
The “infamous” Lee Atwater??
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:24:12 PM PST
by
dodger
To: Conservatives_Unite
I am so tired of the Clintons. They are globalists and just want to sell off America what hasn’t already been overrun from the south.
Great website I saw: http://www.shutupbill.com/billclinton.html
I hope he doesn’t go to it!
To: Conservatives_Unite
OHhhh WOe is me...
why's everybody always pickin on ME???
I'll get you, my pretty... and your Little Dog TOO!!!
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:24:38 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: donna
Entertainment especially meant to underscore race and peel off white voters.
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:24:59 PM PST
by
dodger
To: CalifChris
To: Conservatives_Unite
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:26:20 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: Conservatives_Unite
How odd? Wasn’t there a bimbo around at the moment? If he unloaded on the media, that’s a lot of kleenex.
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:27:45 PM PST
by
blackdog
To: Conservatives_Unite
Please remind me...whose name is on the DNC ballot this year?
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:27:48 PM PST
by
NautiNurse
(Plants are people too)
To: Conservatives_Unite
"Bill Clinton Unloads on Press" This has been discussed and it was theorized that before the S.C. Primary he would go bonkers again. It's a strategery to keep himself and the Beast in the news instead of Hussein.
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:28:30 PM PST
by
Enterprise
(Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!)
To: Conservatives_Unite
Has he been hanging out with Hugo, chewin’ the coca again?
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:29:59 PM PST
by
Jaded
("I have a mustard- seed; and I am not afraid to use it."- Joseph Ratzinger)
To: Conservatives_Unite
I’d say he frustrated. Wouldn’t you agree Hillary?
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:30:37 PM PST
by
DManA
To: Conservatives_Unite
Any free press to the Clintons is good press and the MSM is more than accommodating, even to a point of playing along with the staged bitch slaps.
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:31:48 PM PST
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: donna
Bingo. This “script” has been written, and approved by Clinton, Inc, in conjunction with the MSM and certifiable left-wing organizations.
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:32:59 PM PST
by
gathersnomoss
(General George Patton had it right.)
To: Conservatives_Unite
Wouldn’t you just love to be one of those media wh*** that carried water for this scu*bag in ‘96 and now he’s rippin you a new one. This is too funny.
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:33:04 PM PST
by
kublia khan
(Absolute war brings total victory)
To: NautiNurse
Oh look!! It’s a bird, its a plane, it’s BILDA-BEAST!
To: PrairieLady2
No. It’s eight more years of another Co-Presidency with interns!
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:35:09 PM PST
by
K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
To: Jaded
here's the supplier
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:35:21 PM PST
by
ari-freedom
(The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government)
To: Conservatives_Unite
Again? He’s old enough to be staying home. So is she, but that’s after her Senate term expires.
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posted on
01/23/2008 4:35:51 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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