Posted on 06/07/2003 2:58:13 PM PDT by kattracks
In her interview with Hillary Clinton, ABC News star Barbara Walters poses a question that could land her husband in a pile of trouble, asking the world's most famous cheated-on spouse: What will you do if there's another Monica Lewinsky?
Though comments by Walters herself suggest that she avoided some of the most politically perilous questions, ABC's top interviewer said Friday she found one question more difficult to ask than any other.
"The toughest question I had to ask her was, what if he does it again?" Walters revealed to radio host Don Imus, adding, "And that's not in [Hillary's] book."
Unless Mrs. Clinton somehow dodged the question altogether, her response could spell trouble for either her political career or her marriage. And maybe both.
If the nation's top elected Democrat says she'll let another Lewinsky-like episode slide, it will further erode the credibility of her claims that she was upset by Bill's first fling with Monica - confirming once and for all that their marriage is a cynical, politically motivated hoax.
But if she threatens to take action the next time Bill is caught with his pants down, she'll have to follow through - or be exposed as a complete fraud. In that case, reporters are liable to begin paying closer attention to some of Mr. Clinton's post-presidential extracurricular activities.
In just the two years since the former first couple left the White House, he has been linked to dozens of women. Last year the Australian press was full of reports about local TV star Charlotte Dawson's "date" with the ex-president. Other reports linked him to supermodel Naomi Campbell.
Campbell's spokesman denied a report that his client was canoodling with the ex-president, explaining to the Washington Post last June that the supermodel was instead involved with Mr. Clinton's personal aide, Douglas Band.
The paper described Band as "so stern and strapping" that he's often mistaken for a member of Clinton's security detail.
Oddly enough, Campbell's alibi matches Ms. Dawson's denial almost exactly. A spokesman for the Aussie TV star told the New York Post last July that his client wasn't dating Mr. Clinton, insisting instead that reporters had mistaken Hillary's husband for one of the ex-president's "more strapping, macho security guys."
Whether or not Hillary buys the "security guy" explanation, if she tells Barbara Walters that she'll clobber Bill after the next Monica, Mr. Clinton's "strapping" bodyguard is going to have his hands full in more ways than one.
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You forgot the /sarcasm tag
You are quite wrong. Bill's infidelities, and his/her enemies reaction to it, is a monster votegetter for her.
Why do you think the Today Show, Barbara Walters, and the New York Times, are all over this minor episode?
It's not because it hurts HRC.
Yes, it sure is.
Do you think Katie would be so out front with this garbage if it was bad for Hillary?
And it is a fact-a sad fact, to be sure, but a fact-that the more "news" about Bill and Monica can be puffed up by the Clintons friends in the press, the better Hillary will do in 2004.
I'm interested. A public official with such a weak character is susceptible to blackmail. Private flings by public officials are never private. I'm not willing to pay the price for that official to cover up the affair "at any cost". (Give away a secret document here, promote an incompetant there-- pretty soon you have a mess on your hands.) If the official can be so easily controlled and manipulated because he/she has no self-control, what business to they doing safeguarding public interests?
Actors are totally different. They are not representatives of the people. I don't expect to agree with everything my elected Rep says, but I do expect them to have some character.
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If I were doing the interview, the question would have been "what if he is still doing it"? Does anyone, other than Barbara Wa Wa, girly-boy Sidney, A$$hole Begala and a few other freaks, believe that he has stopped?
Birds of a feather?
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In a nation with a 50% divorce rate and the largest proportion of single adults in more than 100 years who screw around promiscuously, the Clintons are serious life style representatives for a large number of people in this nation committed to living and defending such a life style.
Voters, my friend-voters.
Yeah, it's called she's a dyke and he's a man-whore and their marriage is one of political convenience. Chelsea is a by-product of a lost election.
Good catch! I didn't even notice the biased writing.
How lame. The dog ate my homework.
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