Ex-Prez Blames Republicans for Boos

NewsMax.com ^ | 4/11/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Ex-President Bill Clinton blamed Republicans for the boos he got Wednesday night at a birthday concert for country singer Willie Nelson at New York's Beacon Theater.

"The place went wild when [Clinton] was announced," reports Friday's New York Post Page Six. "There was loud booing and yelling."

Several callers to WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg Show who attended the event described the scene afterward. One quoted the ex-prez as complaining, "I see the Republicans are here tonight."

Another saw a fellow concertgoer who stood up, booed and gave Clinton the finger - prompting security to escort him out of the hall.

The Post confirmed Clinton's Republican comment, adding that he "seemed angered" at his reception.

The remark riled the crowd so much, said the paper, that when Nelson returned to the stage, he asked if everyone was all right.

The concert was taped for a Memorial Day airing on the USA network. "No way will they include the Clinton booing in the broadcast," predicted Malzberg.

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[right wing]

Such great news! Clinton's paranoid, so this incident will definitely make him think twice before appearing in front of an audience that isn't full of socialists or commies. Oh, happy day!

[mabelkitty]

Actually, he gets booed everywhere now.

Bet Hillary was pissed about that union-led, first responder 9/11 parade yesterday in New York.

Chickens coming home to roost, indeed.

[GB]

I've gotten flamed here and actually been called a Clinton lover/apologist because my .02 is that Clinton is irrelevant and we assign him relevance by continually getting our knickers wadded every time he opens his fool mouth. Let him blabber, nobody but the media and the left fringe are listening, and I think it's been proven in this war that the American people do a better job of separating the wheat from the chaff in those areas than we give them credit for.

I really think that there are a lot of people who post here who still have this dream that somehow, some way, right will finally win out and Bubba will wear the orange jumpsuit he so richly deserves.

It will never happen. The best we can hope for is that he gets his ultimate judgment from a higher authority than the U.S. legal system.

So my .02 is forget about him and move on. He beat up on us for eight years through a combination of his immense political skills and some mistakes our side made, but he's gone and isn't coming back, and neither are Hillary or Chelsea. Again, let's move on.

[bankwalker]

at a birthday concert for country singer Willie Nelson

I'd love to know who the hell invited him and why.

[gov_bean_ counter]

For this reason, all his public appearances while President were carefully scripted and the crowds screened. The smoke and mirrors Presidency of William Jefferson Clinton.

[seams2me]

Perhaps this crowd considers Clinton to be one of the "bad guys" referred to in the song Toby Keith wrote and co-performed with Willie: Beer for My Horses.

In part, the lyrics say:

there's too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
too much corruption and crime in the streets
It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground
Send 'em all to their maker, and he'll settle 'em down
****
Get all the rope in Texas, find tall oak tree
round up all of them bad boys, hang 'em high in the street
for all the people to see

Justice is the one thing you should always find, you gotta saddle up your boys, you gotta draw a hard line..

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Maybe Bill hasn't heard the song? LOL Apparently the CROWD has!

[miss marmelstein]

Oh please. As a New Yorker, I can tell you civility's been dead since El Morrocco closed. Glad that for once it was focused in the right direction.

[Kevin Curry]

Bubba will wear the orange jumpsuit he so richly deserves.

Few peple believe this will happen. But he will wear jeers and boos at his public appearances. We can clothe him richly with those. And make no mistake about it it: the boos and jeers sting his megalomaniac ago.

[BSunday]

Civility is dead & I mourn it's passing.

Excellent way of putting it into perspective. I have often thought on people I like being booed or whatever, and thought, "Don't people have any manners anymore?"

[mountaineer]

Here's the NY Daily News piece on the booing incident:

Bill Clinton heard a round of boos when he made a surprise appearance at Willie Nelson's 70th birthday concert at the Beacon on Wednesday. The former President acknowledged the backlash by joking, "I want to thank the vast majority of you for the reception." He also spoke to "the few angry, weird Republicans in the house — thank you for being here to prove Willie Nelson's [broad] appeal."

[Just mythoughts]

An excellent display of a Saddam mindset.
(CUT OUT REPUBLICANS TONGUES)

So did this event happen before or after Haiti visit?

Clinton was stopped from going to India, guess Haiti was the only open country he could go and stir up something. Expect a mass of boat people this summer.

Hillary is appearing to shun her base to look ever so moderate, while the hubby goes around stirring up a stink.

The socialist base, the Clinton fedayeen, are always on the prowl.

[Sloth]

If we can't boo a rapist, who can we boo?

[GB]

Agreed!

FYI, I know someone from Arkansas who knew Clinton well enough back in the '70s-'80s to where they spoke to each other and called each other by their first names when they ran into each other. This person is certainly no conservative, not really a liberal Dem either, probably pretty much a libertarian. He utterly despises Bubba, has not one use for him as a human being. But he offered to bet me any amount of money that if I spent 10 minutes with Clinton, we'd leave the room as best buddies, that Clinton is that good and that slick.

I'd wish I could give that a try sometimes, I'd like to think my friend would have to pay up, LOL!

[John W]

Not flaming,however,one thing that makes it difficult to "just move on" is that the sentiment to do so was HIS motto-part of HIS "political skills".

[Gunslingr3]

gave Clinton the finger - prompting security to escort him out of the hall

An abrogation of his first-amendment rights? If the roles were reversed, Clinton would certainly whine about it!

Nobody's rights were violated. You can ask people to leave your private property if you don't like their behaviour. Now, if the government arrested someone for booing or expressing displeasure, that's an abrogation of his first amendment rights.

[7thson]

Perhaps. However, I would say that if President Bush in the future showed up at a country concert, there would not be too much booing. Example - Bush 41 got a rousing reception and cheers at a rodeo. Now, if Bush showed up at a rock concert - Pretenders let's say - I am sure he would get boo'd. However - another one - I believe that Bush 43 would have better sense to show up at such a concert. Clintoon does not the sense that God gave an idiot.

[NYC Republican]

As much as I've despised him from the get-go, something Savage said last night riled me even further. On his radio show, and on MSNBC, Savage stated that Clinton had predicted that the war would be over in 2 days, raising the expectations, unrealistically, for a quick victory (don't know how I missed this, I was on vaca skiing in Telluride, CO). Is this really true? I know that O'Reilly predicted it would be over by the first weekend, but he didn't have an agenda in making his prediction- at least not a political agenda. I didn't realize that Clinton would be that low, to try to raise expectations that way, making it a pyrrhic victory

[NCLaw441]

Ah yes, but civility is earned.....

[E.G.C.]

Here are my thoughts on the subject.

I for one fail to see what's so civl about an administration which has missued and abused it's powers to go after it's political adversaries and initiated murders of people who blew the whistle on him. Given all that, I would think it would be understandable why people would be booing him.

The Clinton-Gore Administration has proven itself to be the sleaziest, most corrupt administration in history. I understand the concerns some people had for this kind of reaction but I would also think that given what has happened under this administration some people would also understand the need for some disrepect to be shown. Clearly this is a man who is worthy of nothing but utter disrespect as evidenced by the information about his actions gathered by dilligent freepers like Mia. T.
Regards.

[Search4Truth]

"Well when algore defended the dixie chicks he said one should not be afraid to voice their opinion."

Unless of course, that opinion deeply offends those to whom one owes their fame and fortune - their livelihood no less. But that is just simple common sense to Conservatives - an abstract concept to Liberals.