Classic Clintonian. Throw out a big lie, let the media run with it, and then oh so quietly correct it knowing that the general public will only remember the first lie.
My whole life Ive watched this happen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/davis090398.htm?noredirect=on
Lanny Davis, Pro Bono Spinner
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 3, 1998; Page D01
...He knows the question everyone is asking — not just of him, seven months after he left the White House counsel’s office, but of all his former colleagues who defended President Clinton until his story about Monica Lewinsky turned out to be a lie.
“I don’t like what he did,” Davis says in his newly furnished Patton, Boggs & Blow office on M Street. “I don’t like the impact on Hillary, who is my friend. I certainly think it was terribly wrong. I feel very badly for her and for the whole structure of family and friends he has injured here. But I don’t think I feel any worse than he does. I finally talked to him. He’s not a happy camper.”
And what about the impact on Davis, the glib corporate lawyer whose very name has become synonymous with ceaseless White House spin?
“I feel very disappointed in his judgment and his failure to protect the legacy of his presidency,” Davis says. “That’s where my emotion is.”
...Inside the White House, Davis generally urged his colleagues to release documents, help reporters confirm stories and get beyond the bad news. What’s more, he often engaged in preemptive leaks of information damaging to Clinton so the president’s aides could put their own stamp on the revelations and later dismiss them as old news...
...Davis’s main job during his 13-month tenure was responding to charges of improper fund-raising by the Clinton-Gore campaign, and that seemed to be petering out...
...Of course, Davis sometimes spun himself into gray areas, such as insisting that the famous White House coffees were not fund-raisers when their sole purpose was to raise cash. Even Davis didn’t believe that particular line...
Remember when the Clinton team was lying and blaming those leaks on Ken Starr? Rush Limbaugh said at the time it was the Clinton team doing it to minimize the full force of hearing everything at once.
OMG the ENTIRE MSM has been screaming IMPEACHMENT for days on Cohen information, AND NOW it is ALL BS!!! These bastards are just DISPICABLE!!!!