Hillary Clinton Interview With 20/20

ABC.News/ 20/20 ^ | Barbara Walters

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

A note from Barbara Walters...

I am getting ready, drafting question after question, for a special program on June 8 with Sen. Hillary Clinton. I am excited that she chose me to do the very first interview in connection with her new book, Living History.

For the first time you will learn Mrs. Clinton's personal story, from the perspective that only she can offer — from her private life to her public life, from a Happy Days existence in a Chicago suburb to her whirlwind ups and downs at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

You've heard much about Hillary Clinton, but precious little from her. This time, you will hear her own straightforward and unvarnished views. The program will air Sunday, June 8 at 7 p.m. on the East Coast, and after the NBA playoffs on the West Coast.

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Swenator Cwinton, what makes you and yaw husbwand so uniwersally-loved?

[gramho12]

Ah, man - I just had lunch! Guess I only rented it.

[So Cal Rocket]

Maybe we should suggest some questions for BabaWawa to ask her... since this interview is "no holds barred".

[mewzilla]

Excited? If Babwa Wawa had any brains she'd be insulted.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

I saw a pre-view for this interview last night. Hillary's book must be flopping big-time as the pre view states that Hitlery will hold 'nothing back' nothing is hands-off, in this interview. Barbara Waltes looked as if she had 7 orgasms upon hearing of this score of an interview.

She will play victim and say "ya know, Barbara" all to start her run for the Presidency AND sell her garbage book.

[aShepard]

"Hillary, what's your favorite cookie dough?"

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

OMG!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!! I would bet the farm BaBa says this!!!

[Cyber Liberty]

I am excited that she chose me to do the very first interview in connection with her new book, Living History.

That underlined bit is the dead giveaway this interview will be pure pablum.

[sarasota]

A love fest, as it were. I won't be seeing it--or The View follow up which will not doubt occur.

[shiva]

Hitlery will hold 'nothing back' nothing is hands-off, in this interview

BULLSH*T!!!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...In a new -Time of War-..

...in a new Century of FREEDOM...

...with an Enemy that is now...

...just around the corner and...

...up your street:


.."IS it SAFE?" = HILLARY on Senate Armed Services Committee..

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=629

[conservativeinbflo.]

nothing is hands-off MY EYE!! This is going to be such a fluff piece. Will she inquire about Hillary's lesbian liasons? (My uncle was in the secret service... says it was a well-known fact that she was spotted in Hotel beds with other women...).

[John123]

Hitlery, if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be and why?

[TroutStalker]

This time, you will hear her own straightforward and unvarnished views.

Bullshit!

[Centaur]

You've heard much about Hillary Clinton, but precious little from her.

It would be precious if I heard little from her, but such is not the case.

[Puppage]

"How much did you pay your ghost writers?"

[mombonn]

A gun held to my head wouldn't make me watch the interview.

I am looking forward to the live thread, however.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

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Does Abuse Lead To Adultery?

Hillary Clinton maintains her husband was literally pulled apart in an emotional battle between his mother and grandmother, leading to his womanizing in later life. (ABCNEWS.com)

By Claudine Chamberlain When social psychologist Debbie Then heard Hillary Clinton’s explanation of why her husband couldn’t stay faithful to her, it sounded all too familiar.

    
     That’s because Then interviewed roughly 150 women for her book, Women Who Stay With Men Who Stray, and often heard them offering the same kinds of excuses for their own cheating husbands.
     “She wants to explain it away, to show that it’s not something she’s responsible for,” Then says. “I heard these same stories from so many of the women I talked to. They make excuses for their husbands’ behavior because they don’t really want to leave them.”

Torn Between Two Women
Mrs. Clinton’s comments — that her husband was emotionally “scarred” as a child because his mother and grandmother battled each other for his affection — came in an interview for the newly launched Talk magazine, which hit newsstands this week.

Bill Clinton, right, as a teenager, with his half-brother, Roger Clinton Jr., and his mother, Virginia Cassidy Clinton. (The White House)

     The first lady’s spokeswoman, Marsha Berry, said Tuesday that the comments weren’t meant to excuse the president’s behavior, only to explain what he had to overcome from childhood.
     While Then isn’t convinced, other psychologists say it’s a reasonable explanation for Bill Clinton’s wandering eye.
     Bill Clinton lived with his grandparents in Hope, Ark., for the first four years of his life so his widowed mother could attend nursing school. He moved out when his mom remarried. Family members say his grandmother made flash cards and taught young Bill to read by age 4.
     “If the infidelity is repetition of a childhood pattern of trying to link with two women, that makes some sense,” says Shirley Glass, a Maryland psychologist and marriage therapist. “People do tend to repeat patterns of triangling that appeared in their childhood.”

Making Sense of the Situation
It may sound like Hillary Clinton is making excuses, but it’s also possible that she’s simply trying to come to terms with her pain at being betrayed.
     “If something is traumatizing, the search for meaning makes it less traumatic,” Glass says. “So many betrayed spouses need to know the story behind the betrayal. And she has developed a story that makes sense to her and allows her to continue in the marriage.”
     Clinton’s explanation also makes sense to Rita Justice, co-author of The Abusing Family, who goes so far as to label Bill Clinton a sex addict. In fact, she once counseled a client with the same kind of problem. He always had to have both a girlfriend and his wife. He cared very much for both of them, Justice explains, and couldn’t bring himself to leave either one.
     “He really needed two women wanting him,” she says, “and he always ended up with two women furious at him.”

Bill Avoids the Blame
In that case, the man had grown up with parents who were constantly fighting with each other, and used their son as a weapon in that war. “Sexual addiction does have its roots in poor parenting,” says Justice. “It has to do with children’s needs being met randomly or not being met at all.”
     A power struggle between an unhappily married husband and wife could be similar to the mother and grandmother in Bill Clinton’s childhood, she adds: “If there was a power play between Mom and Grandma, there was probably a real random reinforcement of what he could and couldn’t do. They could have been indulging him or randomly punishing him, and that leads to a distorted sense of right and wrong.”
     Don’t tell that to Debbie Then. Weeping over Bill Clinton’s childhood only allows him to avoid the blame that’s rightly his, she says.
     “Everyone has some kind of emotional abuse or family dysfunction in their life, and it’s not necessarily a precursor to becoming an adulterer later on,” asserts Then. “Let’s face it, when you’re an adult you need to be responsible for your actions.”
     Then, who’s also skeptical that Hillary Clinton’s discussion of her husband’s infidelity comes just as she’s launching a bid for a Senate seat in New York, points out that Clinton was quick to praise her husband’s upbringing in a promotional film that was produced for his presidential campaign.
     Of course, that was before the news about Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky broke. And there’s probably been a lot more analyzing of the president’s behavior since then.

[isthisnickcool]

I heard Hillary is doing product endorsements. But she only endorses products she has used extensively herself. This is the first one she is "pushing".