Posted on 07/04/2002 1:46:18 PM PDT by mountaineer
LOS ANGELES -- Ten years after playing the saxophone on MTV in a defining moment of his 1992 campaign for president, Bill Clinton is returning to the cable music channel to discuss the global AIDS epidemic.
Clinton will be one of several panelists taking questions from an audience of young adults from more than 25 countries during an hour-long program to be taped July 11 in Barcelona, Spain, the network, a unit of Viacom Inc., said on Wednesday.
The MTV special, titled Staying Alive: A Global Forum on HIV/AIDS, will be telecast starting July 12 on more than 30 MTV channels around the world.
The program will be moderated by MTV India host Cyrus Broacha. MTV programming currently reaches 382 million households in 165 countries.
The special is part of a new youth-oriented AIDS awareness campaign MTV is launching in conjunction with the Kaiser Family Foundation and Family Health International.
According to a United Nations report released this week, more than half of young people aged 15 to 24 have serious misconceptions about AIDS and the HIV virus, the same age group that accounts for half of all new HIV infections today.
Joining Clinton on the panel will be Peter Piot, head of the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS, Brazilian Health Ministry official Paulo Roberto Teixeira and Vicki Ehrich of British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline Plc.
The former president is an honorary co-chairman of the International AIDS Trust foundation, MTV spokeswoman AnneMarie Kane said.
Clinton first made a splash on MTV during his initial bid for the White House in 1992, appearing on a town hall-style special in which he played his saxophone and gamely answered questions about what sort of underwear he wore. He later credited the MTV appearance with helping energize young people about politics and went on to unseat Republican incumbent President George Bush in the general election. -- Reuters
I've made similar missteps before. Makes for a more entertaining conversation!!!
I've heard somewhere that the defination of insanity is trying something that failed, and expecting a different result (or something like that. It's midnight). Clinton is insane, then, if he expects to be able to broker a peace deal.
So I guess it's AIDS now. Oh well. I shouldnt be suprised. VD has likely long been an issue near and dear to Clinton's heart.
Clinton is so pathetic. He can forget his legacy, but maybe he does have some kind of future on MTV. He never should have made it farther in life than that in the first place.
Recall that the Krever Report discovered that, in '83, some of the contaminated blood from Cummins Prison, Arkansas was shipped to Spain. I bet the Spanish audience would find that interesting.
I'm still curious what the Clintons' cut was. On anecdotal evidence, one third -- enough to let the Clintons squirrel millions in Swiss banks while sending thousands of innocents to their graves from AIDS and Hepatitis C.
a bump and a drip!
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