CLINTON BOMBS ON CBS '60 Minutes' may veto Clinton-Dole face-offs (no buzz, no nothing)

USA TODAY ^ | 5/6/03 | PETER JOHNSON

[Liz]

After seven of 10 planned outings, the weekly square-offs on CBS' 60 Minutes between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole have generated virtually no buzz since they premiered in March and have done nothing to boost the newsmagazine's sagging ratings.

Which is why, as executives prepare to announce CBS' fall schedule next week, insiders are betting that Clinton-Dole won't be back in September when 60 Minutes returns for its 36th season.

[TexanToTheCore]

Wanna boost your ratings? Sh!tcan Clinton, tell Bob Dole "Be Funny, anything goes".

[Liz]

Bill Clinton is why the OFF button was put on the remote. Al Gore of course invented Daylight Saving Time. So shouldn't Hewitt blame Al for the ratings being low? No wait, Al also invented the ratings system. Dang, it's hard to blame Al.

Twin Losers.

[Liz]

Maybe Hewitt should have put the real Clinton on 60 Minutes.

[Liz]

Good point.....Didn't watch it. I get nauseous so easily.

[TexanToTheCore]

"Sometime around 1997 or so, I decided to listen carefully to Boy Clinton's speeches in an effort to find out the secret to his speaking success. I found that the speeches consisted of well-turned (and perhaps cliched) sentences, no two of which were connected. The speeches were devoid of coherence (kind like Boy Clinton's presidency)."

An astute observation. Clinton's speaking style was horrible and apparently consisted mostly of cliches plus bulleted points. It was an eight year Power Point presentation with too many fade-ins and fade-outs.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Bob Dole needs to start a rebuttal with: "Bill, you ignorant slut."

[skinkinthegrass]

I have always maintained that Clinton is NOT a good speaker.......He is boring, and without a follow-up crew praising him, people can see him on 60 Minutes for what he really is. /rant

A segment w/ Bubba vs Ann Coulter/Newt alternating each time ...would provide the fireworks/ratings ABCNNBCBS would love...Shrillary would hate it, for sure...reminding the voters...about their many misdeeds... :)

[Media Insurgent]

I think when people said Clinton was a good speaker, what they really meant was that he looked polished on TV (Which is true.)and not that he had a command of the tennets of classical rhetoric.

The speeches themselves were always without real substance. They were sort of like a verbal candy bar. They made people feel good for the instant they were consuming them, but they were instantly forgetable and all the sweetness disguised something that was really bad for you in the long run.

[Conspiracy Guy]

They're doing the Everly Brothers at Karaoke night. Bill is singing lead. The harmony is rich.

[LibertarianLiz]

I have always maintained that Clinton is NOT a good speaker, despite the media's attempt to portray him that way.

Thank you, Miss Marple. I, too, have always thought him to be a terrible speaker. When he doesn't have a script, he simply rambles about. I have never understood this great "communicator" thing the media have tagged him with, except to point out their own bias.

[razorback-bert]

Bill has a good memory and an above average memory for names and faces abetted by aids with flash cards. He is also a physical coward, with a quick temper. In another life, he would be a repo-lot used car salesman. He is just an old boy, no good in him.

[mombonn]

"The war made it difficult for them to talk about all the issues that divide them,"

But Hewitt notes that Daylight Saving Time always hurts 60 Minutes because it's light out at 7 p.m

He left out the ever-popular, "The dog ate my homework".

I LOVE that clintbilly bombed. His ego has to be smarting, even though we'll never know. I don't know how that man looks himself in the mirror.

[blue jeans]

re: Clinton bombed. No one wants to watch him. No one wants to hear his voice. Everyone wishes he would go away and shut up.

You're only partly right. Here's why....

Generally speaking , back throughout his administration it was fairly accurate to say that 1/3 of the people in this country loved him (the libs), 1/3 of the people hated him (conservatives) and the mushy 1/3 in the middle liked the guy (at least they believed his lies and just kept smiling as long as the economy kept chugging away).

Now that he's gone and some of the middle third finally wised up (due to the Mark Rich fiasco & the looting of the White House, etc.... and let's not forget 9/11 and the ineptitutde of Clinton to go after OBL).

Anyhow, I think all that really has happened is the middle third has started to wake up and see him for the charletain he really is.

They're awful late to the party and the don't see but only part of the guy's character flaws/policy flaws etc. But at least the fog is clearing for em.

[Contra]

Clinton and Dole, two old losers. Or could also be stated too old losers.

[razorback-bert]

the mushy 1/3 in the middle liked the guy

They supported the President, not the man, they didn't really like, just didn't dislike him. Mention gov clinton to them and a pained look appears on their face now. Only the Kool-Aid crowd likes him today.

[onyx]

The only way I would ever watch billdough is if I knew ahead of time that he was going to get trounced, but Hewitt's left-wing partisanship and billdough's ego would NEVER allow that.

I'm glad, actually I'm delighted, that Hewitt's attempt to make billdough a TV star have failed. Hewitt thinks he's a king maker, ever since he got billdough elected with that smarmy 60 Minutes episode featuring the happy couple.

[Liz]

Hewitt thinks he's a king maker, ever since he got billdough elected with that smarmy 60 Minutes episode featuring the happy couple.

Hewitt's a triple threat.....a presstitue, a Dumbocrat, and a Clinton worshipper (barf and hurl).

[onyx]

LOL! Thankfully, Hewitt is old, and almost ready to join the rest home crowd drooling their oatmeal.

[Liz]

Clinton's 60 Minutes bomb is particularly schadenfreudish since producer Don Hewitt put the conniving Clintons candidates on 60 Min where they proceded to lie and lie.

The despicable Hewitt admitted in his bio 15 years later that he know the Clintons were lying but put them on anyway giving them a platform for their execrable road to the WH.

Clinton worshipper and presstutute Hewitt is to blame for inflicting the conniving Clintons onto an unsuspecting public.

[Liz]

Probably needs a walker to get around CBS.