Posted on 06/01/2008 11:29:28 AM PDT by vietvet67
The Office of President Bill Clinton responded with fury Sunday to a Vanity Fair article that attacks the former president and suggests he is out of control personally and consumed by “cavernous narcissism.”
The article, which hits newsstands next week, was distributed to the media and online in advance of its publication. The author, Todd Purdum, has covered Clinton for 16 years. He is married to former Clinton Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers. “A tawdry, anonymous quote-filled attack piece, published in this month’s Vanity Fair magazine regarding former President Bill Clinton repeats many past attacks on him, ignores much prior positive coverage, includes numerous errors, and ultimately breaks no new ground. It is, in short, journalism of personal destruction at its worst,” reads a statement from the office of the president.
“Though (Purdum) researched the piece for several months, his first contact with President Clinton’s office was several weeks before he closed the story. Most revealing is one simple fact: President Clinton has helped save the lives of 1,300,000 people in his post-presidency, and Vanity Fair couldn’t find time to talk to even one of them for comment,” the statement continues, along with several pages of argument refuting the article’s main points.
Purdum suggests that in the years since Clinton left the White House $12 million in debt, he has been caught up in a world of rich friends, adoring fans and borrowed jets. The article quotes one former aide calling Clinton’s current associates like billionaire Ron Burkle and movie producer Stephen Bing “radioactive.”
The aide says Clinton’s associates are compounding worries that the 61-year-old former president is running with a fast crowd
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HAHA! I’m sure he can calculate THAT!
The fact Edward Kennedy got diagnosed with brain cancer months after announcing his endorsement of Obama (instead of Hillary) has me spooked.
I know I shouldn't get caught up in magical thinking, but it just seems like anyone who ever crossed the Clintons comes to a tragic end.
Believe you’re right..
Sadly, we’ll never know.
“Is the job that bad that they’ll all turn on their former masters?”
The 15 minutes of fame and the almighty $$$ is a strong attraction to many..
As I recall, JFK Jr was about to run for Junior Senator from NY, as well.
He would have beat Hillary in any contest, hands down, too. At the time, it seemed very suspicious to me.
Many have, for years, they've idolized the Clinton years, and while they wished for a resumption of them during a Hillary presidency, they've become quite disillusioned that she's been hanging on in the face of certain defeat for the nomination.
Most Democrats who were truly ready to embrace the eventual winner no matter who it was thought this race was over when Obama piled up his eleven straight victories. Then, Hillary got really dirty, using scare tactics in Ohio and Texas, the 3 AM phone call was the same sort of stuff they associate with Republicans. At that point, they realized that having her continue in the race was only going to hurt Obama. Also, Operation Chaos was firing up its furnaces, and providing the Democrats' political enemies with a chance to save their struggling nominee by making sure the focus was on the fight between two identity victim groups.
I expect that many have been silent because of fear, but after we have seen the house truly drop on the Witch, we will see the Democrat Munchkins emerge from hiding.
Exactly. Much of it has already been researched on FreeRepublic and just confirms what we already knew.
If anyone knows the Clintons it's Dee Dee Myers and it says much about them that Dee Dee hasn't been in touch with them much in these last few years.
Gosh, they just figured this out????!!!?!?! Maybe they could have read Human Events or American Spectator or something else a decade ago and found out a little about this ‘insightful revelation’.
And, of course, the managed to discover this right in the middle of the fight over whether of not Hillary should step aside for their new obsession - The Obama.
Paraphrased from the Mel Brooks hilarious masterpiece “Blazing Saddles”:
“Vote for Hillary or you-know-who gets it!”
But Dee Dee's sexual history with Slick - however it transpired - is the driving force behind this piece.
I think you are wrong. I think they see the same thing the rest of us do with the Clintons and their feeling of entitlement and are tired of it.
That is ridiculous.
Yep. She wanted that seat.
lol
Not everything thinks it was an accident.
There are no coincidences.
Hill and slick Willie find out what life is like as republicans. Who says there is nothing new here? What the liberal media giveth, the liberal media taketh away.
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I think that's a reference to all the condoms he's agreed to use...
Is there anything here that really surprises ANY Freeper?
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