Posted on 08/16/2010 8:27:41 PM PDT by kcvl
President Clinton Visits Newsmax
Aug 16, 2010 ... Former President Bill Clinton took a break from his busy schedule in South Florida Monday to visit Newsmax Media and its founder and CEO, ...
www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/bill-clinton-visits-newsmax.../367634
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When did they become friends?
Come on, Chris, don’t be seduced by the dark side...
They really REALLY want to get invited to cocktail parties in DC and be respected as “real” journalists by their liberal peers.
p.s. Selling out to help his bid to buy Newsweek?
Clinton is a smoozer, he did the same with the Bush’s. He slams you for years and the other side always forgives. Not that the other side does it too, but even after they say their friends he’ll go out and slam you.
I’d be carefull Ruddy, because Mrs. Clinton running the country is still on Bill’s to Honey do list.
Note to self:
Rethink level of trust I have in NewsMax....
Was Elton John there, too?
I wonder if they gave Clinton one of those “emergency radios”.
I agree. Things like this appear to betray an odd collusion.
One thing I think Obama has done is make Bill Clinton more popular among consevratives. Most conservatives I’ve talked with lately now like Clinton. I’ve heard a lot of “you know, he wasn’t that bad” or “things were pretty good under Clinton” or comments along those lines.
I’d bet Clinton’s #s among conservatives and Republicans are much better now than they’ve ever been.
And you just know Bill Clinton still has it in for Obama. I think he’d like nothing better than for Obama to go down in flames in the fall, even bigger than he did in 1994. And then for Obama to go down in even bigger flames in 2012, to preserve Clinton’s record of being the only dem since FDR to be re-elected and open the door for Hillary to rescue the party in 2016. I wouldn’t be surprised if Cltinon is working behind the scenes with the GOP to sabotage Obama.
ROFL!
The paper noted that Ruddy, disenchanted by the war and runaway federal spending under Bush, re-evaluated the Clinton years and offered a kinder view of the administration he once criticized.
Compared with his reporting during Bill Clinton’s presidency, Ruddy eventually took a more subdued view to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. He said she had moderated and no longer generated the same animosity among conservatives. Ruddy told The New York Times he and Scaife had changed their views: “Both of us have had a rethinking. Clinton wasn’t such a bad president. In fact, he was a pretty good president in a lot of ways, and Dick feels that way today.”
This got some attention in conservative circles where Ruddy and Scaife were criticized for their new found liking of the former president. David Horowitz defended Ruddy in response, suggesting the comment referred to Clinton’s domestic policies and arguing that Ruddy had not considered those objectionable even during the Clinton administration itself.
In the fall of 2007, Ruddy published a positive interview with former President Clinton on Newsmax.com, followed by a positive cover story in Newsmax magazine. The New York Times noted with reference to the event that politics had made “strange bedfellows”.
Newsweek reported that Ruddy praised Clinton for his Foundation’s global work, and explained that the interview, as well as a private lunch he and Scaife had had with Clinton (which Ruddy says was orchestrated by Ed Koch), were due to the shared view of himself and Scaife that Clinton was doing important work representing the U.S. globally while America was the target of criticism. He also said that he and Scaife had never suggested Clinton was involved in Foster’s death, nor had they spread allegations about Bill Clinton’s sex scandals, although their work may have encouraged others.
Ruddy and Scaife again met Clinton for lunch at his office in September 2008. “We had a great time with him,” Ruddy said of the meeting. He added, “We consider Bill Clinton a friend and he considers us friends.”
Forbes indicated the relationship between Ruddy and Clinton has continued and described them as “lunch chums.”
A May 2009 New York Times Sunday magazine profile on the former president, “The Mellowing of William Jefferson Clinton,” offered more details of the relationship between Ruddy and Clinton. The Arkansas Times said details about the friendship between Ruddy and Clinton in the New York Times profile was the “most amazing revelation” of their profile of the former president. Ruddy told the Times though he remained a “Reagan conservative,” he had re-evaluated the Clinton presidency and suggested he had earned high marks as president for success in ending welfare, keeping government in check, and supporting free trade. Ruddy also noted that the Clinton Foundation was doing remarkable work globally.
So Chris Ruddy is inviting known rapists to drop by the office now.
Stay classy, Chris. Have a good time hanging out with your celebrity friend.
This is why Ruddy lost popularity with the conservatives.
How anyone could be friends with the likes of the Clintons is beyond me.
Rethink level of trust I have in NewsMax....
I haven't trusted NewsMax since they let their Forum go to hell and then closed it.
I just started newsmax because I wanted the cool little crank up radio for free.
But my email is now filled with bizarre holistic medicine announcements and constant shills for Bill O’Reilly’s opinions on money.
This ain’t what I signed on for.
I purchased the deck of playing cards with the pictures of “wanted” Iraqis (’03?). Still have one sealed. It didn’t take them long to sell my info to all kinds of other mail order firms.
(Hint....I have a long last name. When ordering stuff I often misspell my name just so I can track how far that firm will disseminate my info.)
Clever. I might try that sometime.
Well that blows any credibility that NewsMax may have had!!!!
Damn
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