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Bill Clinton: Create Internet agency
politco ^ | 5/13/11 | JENNIFER EPSTEIN

Posted on 05/13/2011 5:48:48 PM PDT by Nachum

Bill Clinton doesn’t like all the misinformation and rumors floating on the Internet. And he thinks the United Nations or the U.S. government should create an agency to do something about it.

“It would be a legitimate thing to do,” Clinton said in an interview airing Friday on CNBC.

The agency, Clinton said, would “have to be totally transparent about where the money came from” and would have to be “independent” because “if it’s a government agency in a traditional sense, it would have no credibility whatever, particularly with a lot of the people who are most active on the internet.”

“Let’s say the U.S. did it, it would have to be an independent federal agency that no president could countermand or anything else because people wouldn’t think you were just censoring the news and giving a different falsehood out,” Clinton said.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bill; billclinton; clinton; create; falsehoodagency; internet; internetagency; internettruth; ministryoftruth; truthagency
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Nice try, slick willie.
1 posted on 05/13/2011 5:48:52 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

How about monitor the dinosaur media first, and if that works, then the internet.


2 posted on 05/13/2011 5:50:17 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: Nachum
Bill Clinton doesn’t like all the misinformation and rumors floating on the Internet. And he thinks the United Nations or the U.S. government should create an agency to do something about it.

We can call it the Ministry of Truth.

Bill is angling for a job at the Ministry of Love.

3 posted on 05/13/2011 5:51:15 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! Tea Party extremism is a badge of honor.)
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To: Nachum
“That is, it would be like, I don’t know, National Public Radio or BBC or something like that, except it would have to be really independent and they would not express opinions, and their mandate would be narrowly confined to identifying relevant factual errors” he said. “And also, they would also have to have citations so that they could be checked in case they made a mistake. Somebody needs to be doing it, and maybe it’s a worthy expenditure of taxpayer money.”

What a giant douche. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54951.html#ixzz1MHbfO8eZ

4 posted on 05/13/2011 5:54:29 PM PDT by Gumption
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To: Nachum

With commies like der Slickmeister, GOVERNMENT is ALWAYS the answer. Somebody has to control the “little people” and keep them in line, right Slick? The Nazis had the Gestapo to keep the people in line. America needs something similar. Right Slick?


5 posted on 05/13/2011 5:54:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,..")
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To: Nachum

“have to be totally transparent”

I stopped reading right there.


6 posted on 05/13/2011 5:55:50 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Nachum

If it hadn’t been for Matt Drudge, no one would have ever heard of Monica Lewinsky. I can see where the Internet would be a sore subject with the Ex- President.


7 posted on 05/13/2011 5:56:01 PM PDT by jmcenanly ( "We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him." -Samuel)
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Given that people can’t even agree on the “facts”, I don’t see how this can work. That of course is ignoring the obvious- by what authority can this be created? /rhetorical


8 posted on 05/13/2011 5:58:00 PM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: KarlInOhio

“Bill is angling for a job at the Ministry of Love.”
Won’t work for him.His equipment is broken,worn out,and ioperable.


9 posted on 05/13/2011 5:58:00 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Nachum

The Bozo, who, I bet, like all Leftists like to use the word “Orwellian” describing whatever the Pubbies or the corporations are doing, comes up with an idea straight from Orwell.

Forgive them, they just don’t know what they’re doing.


10 posted on 05/13/2011 5:59:05 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Same here. It’s amazing that people actually buy into this crap.


11 posted on 05/13/2011 5:59:10 PM PDT by Boxsford (God Is.)
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To: Nachum

Of course, they could appoint Dan Rather to as the first head of the new agency.

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12 posted on 05/13/2011 6:00:13 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Nachum

GHW and Barbara Bush’s other son.


13 posted on 05/13/2011 6:01:04 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Nachum

It would be years after the fact but Clinton wants revenge on Drudge.


14 posted on 05/13/2011 6:02:25 PM PDT by relictele (Pax Quaeritur Bello)
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To: Nachum

Sure, Slick Willie. We’ll listen to you lecture us about truth right after we pull up a chair to hear what Satan has to say about sainthood.


15 posted on 05/13/2011 6:03:03 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: ilovesarah2012

Right, from the master of misinformation.


16 posted on 05/13/2011 6:03:58 PM PDT by JimmyMc
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To: Nachum

“a different falsehood”. A priceless Freudian slip. We must stick to the correct falsehood.


17 posted on 05/13/2011 6:04:13 PM PDT by TwoSwords (The Lord is a man of war, Exodus 15:3)
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To: Farmer Dean
Won’t work for him.His equipment is broken,worn out,and ioperable.

That's just the type of internet rumor that Bill wants to stomp out.

Everything is working. There are no STDs. Monica Lewinsky never owned a blue dress.

18 posted on 05/13/2011 6:04:50 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! Tea Party extremism is a badge of honor.)
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To: Nachum

Only if they name it The RGA (Regulate AlGore Agency).


19 posted on 05/13/2011 6:06:53 PM PDT by rod1
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To: Nachum

What, the USELESS NATIONS doesn’t have a website to “counter the lies” on the net? Hussein has several TV networks, newspapers, and rags speaking for his POV, so another entity would be superfluous.


20 posted on 05/13/2011 6:08:09 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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