http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959843/posts
From Hitchens’ interview with Hugh Hewitt:
CH: That’s right, but remember, Clinton is the only person, at least I think he’s the only person, who have played what certainly is the race card, and played it twice. And in my little book on Clinton, it was called No One Left To Lie To, it’s still available, I think, in paperback, I have a long section on how he went back to Arkansas from New Hampshire, when he was up against it in ’92, and slipping in the polls, to supervise the execution of a mentally retarded black convict who would have met all the ordinary conditions for clemency. He lobotomized himself by shooting himself in head, didn’t understand the charges against him. He did something that really, by any standards, if you just pictured what would have happened if a Republican had done that, I’ll leave it like that, okay?
HH: Right.
CH: He played that. You might remember the Sister Souljah fight that he artificially picked with Jesse Jackson, all of this, until it comes to impeachment, when suddenly, he’s joined at the hip with Toni Morrison and has Jesse Jackson was well as Billy Graham as one of his confessors, and he’s implicitly saying to people are you attacking me because I’m a friend of the black folks. So he manages to play the race card twice. It’s never been done, I think, twice by the same politician. And now, he’s trying to do it twice again.
Yes, indeed. Ricky Ray Rector. I actually noticed a short item about his execution at the time. Wire copy that appeared in NY Times. The man had shot a cop and then turned the gun on himself. Since then, PBS Frontline did a show about him and his execution. If a GOPer had done this, the media would have gone berserk. But Bubba got away with it. He has since had blood on his hands.