Clinton could get Gumbel's "Early Show" gig

News Interactive ^ | 4.27.02

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Clinton in running for TV job

From correspondents in Washington
27apr02


FORMER US president Bill Clinton could soon start a gig as the co-host of a morning television program, US media reported today.

ABC-TV's gossip show "Extra" reported that Clinton is a candidate to succeed retiring television host Bryant Gumbel as the co-anchor of "The Early Show" - a breakfast news program on rival network CBS-TV.

The ex-president, who left office 15 months ago, already has been busy in retirement: his William J Clinton Foundation is assembling teams of business experts to provide financial, marketing and other technical advice to owners of small businesses in Harlem, where he maintains an office.

Earlier this month he took on a new job as a senior adviser to two investment funds run by a cut price grocery store tycoon, the Los Angeles-based Yucaipa Companies said.

And he is in the process of penning his memoirs, set for publication in 2003, for publishing house Alfred A Knopf, which paid him an advance of more than $US10 million ($A18.48 million) - the largest ever for a non-fiction book published in the United States.

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Just damn.

[Podkayne]

You can run but you can't hide. If Clinton gets a tv job we will see how hard he tries to hide his true personality. He is a scum bag and his real "inner self" will be available for public viewing and ridicule on a daily basis.

[isthisnickcool]

No way Clinton would do this. Too much constriction on his time for partying and getting regular "oral treatments".

And, people that work those kind of shows really have little control over the content. Basically, they do as they are told. And read the stuff in front of them. That wouldn't work with Billy.

With that said I hope he does it. It'll bomb at some point. Which is another reason he won't do it. He can't take the chance that he would fail. With wifey running for pres. and all.

[ppaul]

ROFLMAO

[John W]

Better have a substitute host on stand by daily.I don't see this sociopath having the self discipline to pepare and show up for a show that is live at 7 AM ET five days a week,52 weeks a year.

[Teacup]

Well it will be a first. It's my understanding that these morning talk show host must show up at work at 5 A.M. for make up and prep. Will Bubba keep them waiting like he did everyone at the White House? HA! HA! HA! HA! I want to see this.

[hflynn]

CBS is doing the hiring.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if Clinton took the job. After all it is another way to cheapen the Presidency of the US. But why a news program? He should be doing the Jerry Springer Show.

[Carolina]

Don't they have to be in the studio around 3 or 4 in the morning? That'll put a definite crimp on his style.

[Cicero]

If he can get $100,000 a pop traveling around, giving the same speech over and over to his adoring fans, going to parties, and feeling up the girls, why would he want to get stuck with a boring daily job where he has to get up in the morning?

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

No way is Bubba getting up that early 5 days a week.

[Clara Lou]

Gumbel's "Early Show" gig
--certainly a dignified position for a former President of the United States. (Clinton always was, is and shall remain white trash.)

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET

..-It's the TV, Stupid, no matter WHO pays for it- =

..The CLINTONS' M.O.

..-If ADOLF HITLER had had TV up his sleeve, the way the CLINTONS do now, he would have won World War II- =

...The CLINTONS' Truth.

NEVER FORGET

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

He said he would do it if Rollergirl would co-host.

[DallasMike]

Our spin should be that Clinton is stealing an African-American's job.

[sleavelessinseattle]

Will Bubba keep them waiting like he did everyone at the White House?

LOL not to mention LAX for his haircut! I'd love to see him get a real job where he can't have people that embarass him liquidated. I read somewhere that he pointed to a set of luggage and gestured to his secret service guard at an airport after he was out of office and was updated "I'm security...I don't do luggage"...Hee Hee.

[Charles Henrickson]

It's not a matter of Clinton getting up that early; it's a matter of him staying up that late.

He will need additional stimulants.

[spectre]

OR..another spin..Clinton is the only white man qualified to take an African-American's job...bro.

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[TwoStep]

**Barf Alert--Ping**

[Charles Henrickson]

Clinton is stealing an African-American's job.

Nope. Clinton is black, remember?