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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Payback’s a Hillary.
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The Obamas are probably licking their chops over the money the Clintons have made.
Whoops. Sorry.
I swear that when I go to the cemetery, I can hear that thing going off.
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We had to remove two of your responses from this thread because both contained material from Vanity Fair, which had not been included in the excerpted Fox News article.
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It's possible that Dee Dee didn't want any part of Bill's sexual antics when she worked in the White House...Her husband is probably fed up with the clintons too...
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I especially liked this one too. But he's not narcissistic. No. He just has the usual malignant snot-suckers for mouthpieces.
The truly odd part is that these people seem to think he somehow changed after his presidency.
Sorry guys. He’s exactly the same creep he was when you defended his actions saying anything said against him was nothing but politically motivated tripe.
I think they’re counting the lives of all the terrorist who should have been killed during Billy’s two terms as president.
Oh, yeah? Name three.
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