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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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KEYWORDS: angrydems; bill; billary; bully; clinton; confrontation; icanthandlethetruth; impeachedrapist; mamatricked; narcissist; press; rapist; slackjawedgaloot; unhingedhillbilly
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To: dodger

The problem is that notwithstanding the clear racial divide that the Clintons have instigated, when Hillary wins the nomination, she surely will not choose Barak Hussein Obama as VP. That said, the Dems will expect and demand that the Negroes will shuffle back to the Democrat plantation and take their whippings, to which they are accustomed, and with some walking around money, vote for the bitch.


21 posted on 01/23/2008 4:36:21 PM PST by MarkT
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To: NautiNurse
That is funny! That you for the laugh!
22 posted on 01/23/2008 4:37:55 PM PST by CarolinaGOP ("Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Conservatives_Unite

“Bill Clinton Unloads”

Can we do something with the title?


23 posted on 01/23/2008 4:39:48 PM PST by jamndad5 ("I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.")
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To: dodger
Entertainment especially meant to underscore race and peel off white voters.

I know he's supposed to be a political "genius" but there is such a thing as overplaying your hand.

24 posted on 01/23/2008 4:40:06 PM PST by Stentor
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To: Conservatives_Unite
To paraphrase a classic headline from The Weekly World News:

"Famed President's Head Explodes!"

25 posted on 01/23/2008 4:41:05 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: dodger

It’s a brilliant strategy to make the primaries about race. The Clinton’s have turned Obama into the black candidate, the last thing on earth he wanted to be.

“Stop talking about race, you guys, race, race, race, race...


26 posted on 01/23/2008 4:41:17 PM PST by Reagan79 (Former Thompson Man - Now Supporting Mike Huckabee - 2nd Best Conservative)
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To: tobyhill

Obama called Hillary the Seantor from Punjab? Haven’t heard that one before. Maybe Bill is a little bit sensitive to the Indian thing on account Vinod Gupta, the Indian data minig magnate who has flown Hill and Bill around on his private jet, and who is under investigation for fraud in selling out senior citizen info to fraudsters. Bill has been paid several hundred thousands of bucks by Gupta for ‘consulting’.


27 posted on 01/23/2008 4:42:25 PM PST by milwguy (........)
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To: Conservatives_Unite
ol' billy the murderous woodscolt whines...

I never heard a word of public complaint when Mr. Obama said Hillary was not truthful, no character, was poll-driven.

Duh, billy-boy: The reason that you didn't hear "a word of public complaint" was because the claims are abso-freakin-lutely FACTUAL.

Now, you're all excited because we won't all join you in your FAIRY TALES about how Herself the Cold and Vicious is "truthful," has "character," and is not "poll-driven."

Have a Valium, fella'. You look all purple.

(I so wish that he had the guts to read what we all think of him.)

28 posted on 01/23/2008 4:42:26 PM PST by bannie (clintons CHEAT! AAAALLWAYS!)
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To: Conservatives_Unite
I'm beginning to think Bubba may have syphilis of the brain.

He's getting irrational

29 posted on 01/23/2008 4:44:02 PM PST by Popman (Gold Standard: Trying to squeeze a 50 lb economy back into a 5 lb bag)
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To: Popman

I thought maybe he’d had a stroke (opened mouth, etc.); but you may be right.


30 posted on 01/23/2008 4:46:12 PM PST by bannie (clintons CHEAT! AAAALLWAYS!)
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To: Conservatives_Unite
I've always hated the SOB and I'm really getting tired of turning on TV and seeing him pointing that crooked finger of his at someone and lecturing them!

An impeached, disbarred, disgraced, lying, pot-smoking rapist certainly has no right to lecture anyone - even the disgusting press people!

31 posted on 01/23/2008 4:46:54 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (HRC: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: Conservatives_Unite
Bill Clinton says "Shame on you!"......

Parallel Universe

Pot says "Kettle...your black!"

32 posted on 01/23/2008 4:47:06 PM PST by DainBramage
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To: DainBramage
Spell Check Universe

"Pot says "Kettle you're black"

33 posted on 01/23/2008 4:48:57 PM PST by DainBramage
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To: Conservatives_Unite

34 posted on 01/23/2008 4:50:18 PM PST by Gritty (In the spirit of Bill Clinton, I take my pants off to the media and the Democratic Party-Mark Steyn)
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To: Conservatives_Unite

Obama needs to get serious and body slam Bill and Hill. He needs to tell Bill to go home to Monica, and tell Hillary that Judy Garland wants those red slippers back... to start...


35 posted on 01/23/2008 4:51:48 PM PST by kjam22 (see me play the guitar here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHy7Cuoucc)
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To: milwguy

If you watched the video and you heard Clinto accuse Obama of calling his wife the Senator from Punjab, you would have noticed how indignant Bill was at that slut towards his poor wife. The truth is, Obama NEVER called his wife that, a campaign release state Clinto (D-Punjab), but Obama never uttered the words. More importantly, the reason his campaign did that was because HILLARY HERSELF had said the EXACT same thing at a fundraiser of Indian Americans! from the NY Observer..........Anyone reading on in the actual text of the Obama release would discover that New York’s junior Senator had jokingly referred to herself as a prospective Senator from Punjab at an Indian-American fund-raising event. It’s true that the headline in question wasn’t a model of clarity—but it’s also hard to see how the same word choice in the hands of one candidate is a show of playful ethnic solidarity, while becoming a telltale sign of bigotry the moment another one takes it up in the spirit of criticism.


36 posted on 01/23/2008 4:51:53 PM PST by milwguy (........)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

I think Britney Spears will live longer than WJC. The man looks spent.


37 posted on 01/23/2008 4:56:55 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: MarkT
she surely will not choose Barak Hussein Obama as VP

It hasn't reached that point yet. They may calculate that with the combined black/man-hater vote, they can beat the Republicans. Why wouldn't Hussein accept? Reagan chose George "Voodoo Economics" Bush.

38 posted on 01/23/2008 4:59:00 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: Conservatives_Unite

I hate to see “Bill Clinton” and “Unloads” in the same sentence-troubling, very troubling.


39 posted on 01/23/2008 4:59:45 PM PST by mrmargaritaville
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To: BurbankKarl

>>I think Britney Spears will live longer than WJC. The man looks spent.<<

If he kicks off before the election, she will be coronated.


40 posted on 01/23/2008 4:59:50 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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