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Clinton in Interview Meltdown over Contrition Credibility
NewsMax ^ | 6/19/04 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 06/19/2004 8:59:06 PM PDT by wagglebee

Two days before his $12 million book hits stores, ex-President Bill Clinton has already blown his stack at one TV interviewer who questioned if his contrition over his affair with Monica Lewinsky was credible.

"Bill Clinton loses his temper with David Dimbleby during a BBC television interview to be broadcast this week when he is repeatedly quizzed about his affair with Monica Lewinsky," reports Sunday's London Telegraph.

"The former American president, famed for his amiable disposition, becomes visibly angry and rattled, particularly when Dimbleby asks him whether his publicly declared contrition over the affair is genuine," the paper claimed.

Clinton is said to appear visibly angry during the BBC sit-down for a period of several minutes, in a scene that could disrupt the carefully crafted rollout for his megabucks memoir.

U.S. interviewers have so far handled the impeached ex-president with kid gloves during book interviews. CBS's Dan Rather praised the presidential tome to the hilt after his own sit-down with Clinton, set for broadcast Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes."

But for sheer entertainment value, Rather's overwrought gushing is likely to pale next to Dimbleby's performance.

A BBC executive who witnessed the interview, which took place in a New York hotel last Wednesday, told the Telegraph:

"[Clinton] is visibly angry with Dimbleby's line of questioning and some of that anger gets directed at Dimbleby himself."

They eyewitness said that the ex-president's videotaped rage is not a momentary flash, but instead a "substantial and sustained" outburst.

Clinton's meltdown is set for broadcast Tuesday night on BBC's popular "Panorama" show.


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To: scott7278
I'll have to wait to see the actual interview...this sounds much like the leak story of Clinton's videotaped testimony, where he supposedly stormed out of the room and it ended up making him look good compared to the viewer's expectations.

Ah yes, that was a masterful move by the Clinton Spin Machine. They played Drudge like a saxophone on that one.

61 posted on 06/20/2004 12:38:52 AM PDT by jennyp (http://crevo.bestmessageboard.com)
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To: cyncooper
It was Bob Schieffer who was told by a WH insider that Clinton had a "purple rage".

Oh, so he was the stooge.

62 posted on 06/20/2004 12:53:45 AM PDT by jennyp (http://crevo.bestmessageboard.com)
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To: cyncooper

The purpose of the purple rage red herring re. the depo was to distract the sheeple from the fact that Clinton looked INCREDIBLY weak, put-upon and unpresidential during the procedure.

People were watching for the blowup and thus ignoring how pathetic he looked.

(You can believe this "BBC blowup" is a PR stunt.)


63 posted on 06/20/2004 2:13:08 AM PDT by Jape
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To: PatL
"I think I object. Scum that he is, He was still the
president. The White House exists for his use.
It's not something that Hillary had any right to control.
If she had a beef with POTUS, SHE should have left the White House."


I recall bj telling us that she "hillry" was co-president, and we got two for the price of one. We were told early on that bj would do his thing and "hillry" would do her thing.

Janet Reno, Gorelick the "wall builder".

Seems the attempt here is to sanitize "hillry" in her role as victim, and how well she handled it.

I do remember their counseling, I think Jesse Jackson, the "good" reverend was their counselor until his fling was outed.
64 posted on 06/20/2004 2:25:29 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: auzerais

Mao had the good sense to edit his book. You need a wheelbarrel to carry this horsesh*t.


65 posted on 06/20/2004 2:50:45 AM PDT by playball0
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To: wagglebee
I read in some AP love piece that Clinton claimed in his book that when he met with President-elect Bush in December of 2000, he said:

"The first thing I told him was that Osama Bin Laden was the biggest threat to America."

Clinton then claimed that GW ignored him and changed the subject.

What a bunch of Bovine Scatology!

Clinton deserves to be publically shamed for his blatant lies.

66 posted on 06/20/2004 2:58:29 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Paul Atreides
"This is the same Dan Rather who wanted to start trashing Ronald Reagan, before his body was even buried. It is also the same Dan Rather who pitched softballs to Saddam Hussein."

This is WHy I call him Lt. Dan.
Lt. Dan in the movie Forest Gump was cripple.
Lt. Dan RatherNOT is a mental Cripple! ! ! !

67 posted on 06/20/2004 3:05:40 AM PDT by DeaconRed (CBS and Lt. Dan have sunk to a NEW LOW! ! ! ! !)
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To: Hildy

I see your point. Kinda' like when we say "so-and-so will be sleeping in the dog house".


68 posted on 06/20/2004 3:21:20 AM PDT by capt. norm (Rap is to music what the Etch-A-Sketch is to art.)
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To: Mo1

Yup, I still can't get over THAT image of Bill and Hillary both sawing logs at the funeral. No class. Really tacky.


69 posted on 06/20/2004 3:26:03 AM PDT by Mockingbird For Short
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To: jennyp
Ah yes, that was a masterful move by the Clinton Spin Machine. They played Drudge like a saxophone on that one.

They also played Carl from Oyster Bay on that one. I recall listening to Bob Grant and hearing Carl do chapter and verse how Beezelbubba was enraged, etc. Now, for those of us who know Klintoon is scum, we could see through it when the truth came out, but we also could see where it was effective with Boobus America just like the lies the Clintonistas would say about their grand jury testimony knowing Starr's people couldn't refute them at the time.

Besides, even if it is true, is this media that won't even talk about Americans being beheaded, but will make a federal case about Iraqi murderers with panties on their heads, going to show America's First Black President(sm) in a bad light? If anything, they'll do a Hitlery victim routine and make him out to be the target of a right-wing interviewer.

71 posted on 06/20/2004 3:48:27 AM PDT by Dahoser (9/11---The Legacy of Clinton treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue. Kerry's plan, too.)
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To: wagglebee

Maybe some of the media are finally over their fascination with Clinton and are wanting him off center stage.

Clinton is a has been. Since leaving the Presidency, all he's done is wander around, giving speeches. At least Jimmy Carter picked up a hammer and built a few houses for the needy. Clinton hasn't done much of anything that is really newsworthy.


72 posted on 06/20/2004 4:37:45 AM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: TomGuy
What a pathetic person klinton is....in every way.

Just seeing his likeness causes a revulsion within.

I certainly hope he comes to a bookstore near me, I have a few signs I'd like him to gander.

73 posted on 06/20/2004 6:18:29 AM PDT by Republic
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To: Paul Atreides

"This is the same Dan Rather who wanted to start trashing Ronald Reagan, before his body was even buried. It is also the same Dan Rather who pitched softballs to Saddam Hussein."

Dan (like Bill) has always been desperate for acceptance by the Eastern liberal elite he worships. And (like Bill) he'll never get it. "Pathetic scum" is exactly right.


74 posted on 06/20/2004 6:47:30 AM PDT by WestTexasWend
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To: wagglebee
Clinton's meltdown is set for broadcast Tuesday night on BBC's popular "Panorama" show.
• I hope there are Those out there who can capture the video and have it posted - AFAIK, Panorama doesn't play on BBC-America here in the 'states... :\
75 posted on 06/20/2004 8:37:19 AM PDT by solitas ("HA HA!" (Nelson Muntz))
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To: wagglebee

Thanks to Arkancide voters for electing and re-electing a schizo-Marxist-Rapist-Hillbilly piece of trash as their governor. They gave him a platform from which he was launched on his USSR Manchurian Candidate mission: to destroy as much of America as he possibly could.
In their wildest dreams his Soviet handlers couldn't possibly conceive of America re-electing this sick moron to a second term.

With the collapse (temporarily) of the Soviet system, the Communist Chinese scurried in to pick up the controls for Billy and Hilly.

The rewards the Clintons have received for their years of treachery have been enormous. They have mansions, millions of dollars and a lifestyle that few true trailer-trash couples could ever dream possible. Unfortunately for the Dynamic Duo death brings payback time and they are too insane to realize that an eternity in hell is a steep price to pay for their treason and excesses.

Thanks also to the voters of the New Yarkansas for electing the Bitch of Kosovo as their senator, thereby giving this candidate for a straitjacket a platform from which she hopes to leap back into the White House to finish the job on America!

Special thanks has to be given to the filthy rats in congress on both sides of the aisles. Clinton could have never achieved the communists' dream without the help of all DemocRATs and the traitorous RepublicRATs who continually cross the aisles to kiss and vote with their true allies!

Repeal of the 17th Ammendment to the Constitution passed in 1913 and return election of senators to their respective state legislatures. What a gift that would be the American people.


76 posted on 06/20/2004 8:46:37 AM PDT by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)
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To: JMack
Har Har...!

Bill Clinton Meets The Shrinks

A psychological study of President William Jefferson Clinton


by Paul Lowinger

Excerpt:

Gennifer Flowers, a less critical mistress who speaks of Bill as a wildly successful lover but not especially well endowed.

Another interesting passage:

Dolly Kyle Browning portrays Hillary whom she renames Mallory as a Cinderella, "...dowdy-looking... wearing a misshapen brown dress-like thing...to hide her lumpy  body..fat ankles and thick calves covered with black hair...wide feet...hair on her toes...a definite odor of perspiration...greasy hair...eyes bulged out of focus... dark thick eyebrow which crossed ...her forehead..." Gennifer describes Hillary as, "...a fat frump...hair hanging down...big thick glasses...ugly dress...a big fat butt...behaving oddly...buzzing around." Bill's mother Virginia, another rivalrous Southern woman had a similar if more muted response when she met Hillary, "No makeup. Coke-bottle glasses. Brown hair with no apparent style."


77 posted on 06/20/2004 9:36:35 AM PDT by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: Tall_Texan

The Secret Service is a far cry from the Arkansas State police! They DID NOT provide pimp services for bj clinton! Most of them hated their job, because this pig crap from Arkansas tried to treat them as personal servants--who should be yelled at and bossed around. Silently these public servants had to witness all of the filth these people were a part of, and hear the garbage that came out of their mouths! One of them, had a glass thrown at him, by hillary--because he refused to refreash her drink!

It was really tough duty! Don't smear them. They have been through a enough.


78 posted on 06/20/2004 9:47:50 AM PDT by tuckrdout (Grant Teri Schindler (Schiavo) her wish: A DIVORCE!)
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To: kayeye; Mo1; torchthemummy; jennyp
I'll have to ban myself from posting when tired:

"this sounds much like the leak story of Clinton's testimony..."

"I hoped it happened..."

Now that I'm awake, I'll say this: these people are fully capable of putting out disinformation just to get people to watch the "meltdown" (they've already done it once). Better yet for them, it makes conservatives look like idiots when it doesn't happen as reported.

79 posted on 06/20/2004 10:24:50 AM PDT by scott7278 ("FR will NOT be used to help replace Bush with a Democrat." -- Jim Robinson, 2/01/04)
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To: scott7278
I was watching the liberals this morning and they keep commenting on how this book will send us all into a tizzy of outrage

Yep .. this is all scripted to get a reaction from the big bad VRWC

I say ignore the POS ... it will drive him nuts

80 posted on 06/20/2004 10:31:04 AM PDT by Mo1 (That's right Old Media .... PRESIDENT BUSH IS A LEADER!)
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