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Clinton Sees Distorted Media
KARK.com News4 Arkansas ^
| Associated Press
Posted on 05/26/2003 2:51:59 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
Former President Bill Clinton says this country's media culture tends to distort the true political record. Clinton showed up Friday for the last session of a University of Arkansas at Little Rock class that studied his presidency. He spent more than two hours discussing his administration's successes and failures. The former Arkansas governor clearly wanted to defend his legacy. He lamented what he called an atmosphere where everybody has an opinion and all you have to do is sound articulate on the television. He said nobody every asks if there's evidence to support a position.
Clinton said his own naiveté allowed opponents to force his hand on gays in the military as soon as he entered office. Similarly, he criticized himself for a lack of oversight that led to 18 deaths of U.S. servicemen when a helicopter was downed in Somalia in 1993. He also said he moved too slowly to ease a humanitarian crisis later in Rwanda.
He said he made a mistake pushing a new health care system before his less-controversial welfare reform package. Clinton said that was a repeat of an error he committed in his first term as Arkansas governor: trying to do too much too soon.
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To: Roscoe Karns
The first of decades of dribble from a man who has no soul.
To: Roscoe Karns
ROFLMAO ...
Poor BJ Billy, maybe he should call down and out Ted. They can both roll in their misery.
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posted on
05/26/2003 2:54:28 PM PDT
by
snooker
To: Roscoe Karns
Make the bad man go away!
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posted on
05/26/2003 2:54:46 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
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To: Roscoe Karns
The boy finally admits he was a failure.
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posted on
05/26/2003 2:55:20 PM PDT
by
dts32041
(When all else fails vote from the rooftops.)
To: Roscoe Karns
Now he claims to have supported welfare reform? It was forced down his throat after he vetoed it twice.
I hope the liberal pimps in the media who fell on their swords to support this sorry piece of trash are pleased to hear how grateful he is for all their efforts on his behalf.
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posted on
05/26/2003 2:55:41 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Roscoe Karns
Case of a distorted person seeing a distorted media....He's
truly distorted.
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posted on
05/26/2003 2:55:52 PM PDT
by
Defender2
(Defending Our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution, Our Country and Our Freedom!!!!)
To: Roscoe Karns
Re:
Clinton Sees Distorted Media Translation: "Waaahaha I want my tax-payer-funded-media-spin war-room back so I can lie without impunity."
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posted on
05/26/2003 2:56:45 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(Frustrate one liberal a day, that's all we ask.)
To: Roscoe Karns
"...his less-controversial welfare reform package."
His? His? Did I miss something or is this a little less than accurate?
To: Roscoe Karns
Clinton said that was a repeat of an error he committed in his first term as Arkansas governor: trying to do too much too soon.
Too many lots on the Arkansas river eh?
Too many broads up at the Gov'nas house ?
Too much toot out at the airport?
Oh, when will we ever be free of this dog pile.
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posted on
05/26/2003 2:57:36 PM PDT
by
tet68
(Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
To: Roscoe Karns
He said nobody every asks if there's evidence to support a positionand his ass is lucky or he'd be in jail
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posted on
05/26/2003 2:58:05 PM PDT
by
The Wizard
(Saddamocrats are enemies of America, treasonous everytime they speak)
To: Roscoe Karns
trying to do too much too soon
UHMM...I beleive it was 'do too many'
To: Roscoe Karns
Did he mean SEX when he said he tried to get too much too soon ????????
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posted on
05/26/2003 2:58:51 PM PDT
by
Renegade
To: tet68
Re:
Oh, when will we ever be free of this dog pile. How long does it take for a dog pile to biodegrade ?
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posted on
05/26/2003 2:58:51 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(Frustrate one liberal a day, that's all we ask.)
To: Roscoe Karns
Former President Bill Clinton says this country's media culture tends to distort the true political record. I think the truth hurt him like a cross to a vampire. Someone needs to tell him he is no longer wanted.
To: Roscoe Karns
He lamented what he called an atmosphere where everybody has an opinion and all you have to do is sound articulate on the television. He just described how he became President.
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posted on
05/26/2003 2:59:05 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help support terrorism.)
To: tet68
Oh, when will we ever be free of this dog pile. When he becomes an object of scorn and derision for all Americans, including his friends in the media.
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posted on
05/26/2003 2:59:40 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Roscoe Karns
Did he say anything about the mistake of not capturing Osama bin Laden when the Sudanese offered him?
That mistake certainly impacted on thousands on 9-11-01.
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posted on
05/26/2003 3:01:04 PM PDT
by
JulieRNR21
(Take W-04........Across America!)
To: JulieRNR21
18 posts, and no one of the above had anything nice to say about the guy. He can smile! He was never going to lie!. And history is written. Let's move on.
To: Roscoe Karns
I think, in this same session, Clinton said he would not criticize George Bush, with respect to Iraq WMD, for going on what the CIA told him. He said something to the effect that the President has to go on the best information he has, and not second-guess his security agencies (CIA).
I, opposition to Clintons presidency and politics applauded him for this statement. I only hope the GOP will record and use this in the next election.
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posted on
05/26/2003 3:08:44 PM PDT
by
RAY
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