Hillary Rodham Clinton
Bill Clinton Unloads on Press
By Anne E. Kornblut
Former president Bill Clinton lashed out in response to criticism on Wednesday from a prominent Democrat in South Carolina, accusing the Obama campaign of running a political smear campaign against him through the media.
"You live for this," Clinton snapped at CNN reporter Jessica Yellin when she asked him to comment on statements by Dick Harpootlian, the former South Carolina Democratic party chairman, who said recent distortions by the Clintons are "reprehensible."
Harpootlian, who backed the Clintons in the 1990s and now supports Sen. Barack Obama, had compared Clinton's distortions to the dirty tricks campaigns run by the infamous Republican operative Lee Atwater.
After an event on Wednesday in South Carolina, Yellin approached the former president and asked him to respond to Harpootlian's remarks. Clinton let loose on camera, chastising the reporter for asking him about political conflict rather than the substance of the meeting he had just held. "You're asking me about this, you sat through this whole meeting. Not one single, solitary soul asked about any of this. And they never do."
Referring to the Obama campaign, Clinton said: "They are feeding you this because they know this is what you want to cover." As Clinton's aides tried to steer him out the door, he continued to scold back in Yellin's direction: "Shame on you."
The outburst came as the Clinton campaign aired a new radio ad in South Carolina juxtaposing Obama's statement about Ronald Reagan's having had ideas against a list of Republican ideas - implying that Obama was praising Reagan. Harpootlian spoke out against the ad, saying in an interview with the Washington Post that it "is a lie."
"The politics of deception that they have been practicing remind me of Lee Atwater's campaigns here," Harpootlian said. "What we're seeing here is a pattern: It began with the so-called accidental statement by Shaheen about drug use, and then we see Robert Johnson up on the stage with her and they don't decry it. This is hardball politics and apparently this is the way they play ball in Arkansas.
Here's the full text of the Clinton response, according to a CNN transcript:
"I never heard a word of public complaint when Mr. Obama said Hillary was not truthful, no character, was poll-driven. He had more pollsters than she did."When he put out a hit job on me at the same time he called her the senator from Punjab, I never said a word. And I don't care about it today. I'm not upset about it.
"The only thing I pointed out was that there was substantially no difference in her record and his on Iraq, and that he had said in 2004 there was no difference between his position and President Bush. And he said that was somehow dishonest, but he never answers how it's not accurate. So this is crazy.
"This rhetoric is getting a little carried away here. And let me remind you, my ultimate answer is this -- there are still two people around who marched with Martin Luther King and risked their lives, John Lewis and Reverend Andrew Young. They both said that Hillary was right and the people who attacked her were wrong, and that she did not play the race card, but they did.
"So I don't have to defend myself from Dick Harpootlian. I will just refer you to John Lewis and Andrew Young. And let him go get in an argument with them about it.
"Let him go get in an argument with Dolores Huerta, one of the founders of Farm Workers, against what happened in Nevada. There is a fact here -- this is almost like once you accuse somebody of racism or bigotry, or something, the facts become irrelevant. There are facts here."And the final thing I would like to say is, you're asking me about this, and you sat through this whole meeting. Not one single, solitary soul asked about any of this. And they never do. They are feeding you this because they know this is what you want to cover. This is what you live for. But this hurts the people of South Carolina, because the people of South Carolina are coming to these meetings and asking questions about what they care about. And what they care about is not going to be in the news coverage tonight because you don't care about it. What you care about is this. And the Obama people know that. So they just spin you up on this and you happily go along."
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This report is why I, a strong supporter of President Bill Clinton from 1992 to 2001, cannot support Hillary Clinton. I don't want the Clintons and these games that they bring back. It is time for a new approach. Our country needs it; the times demand it. We no longer can afford to ponder what the definition of "is" is.
Posted by: Cyelverton42 | January 23, 2008 05:42 PM
Why not ask the former President and First Lady why they do not care to have the White House Communictions Agency around when they were in the White House?
Posted by: lmrlvsjr | January 23, 2008 05:52 PM
ok, i just watched the video. he's not 'snapping' at all. in fact he was pretty calm. is there some reason he's not supposed to answer questions?
but to his point, why do you cover this drivel?
Posted by: stewartb | January 23, 2008 06:00 PM
Bill and Hillary Clinton are just like Rove and the other neo-cons. I supported President Clinton for the last 16 years, but I can't do it anymore.
He and his wife are dishonest and lie all the time. It's disgusting.
If Hillary wins the nomination, I won't be voting Democrat in November. I will pray for that Unity party to get a good candidate so I won't have to sit home or vote Republican.
Posted by: dave_dial | January 23, 2008 06:02 PM
HILLARY'S FRIEND IS AN OLD KKK MEMBER, CHECK THIS OUT HERE:
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/15/185205.shtml?et=y
Hilarious. Bill Clinton falls asleep at MLK celebration
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/01/clinton_gets_sleepy_at_mlk_day.php
CLINTON SAYS WE HAVE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT BECAUSE LYNDON JOHNSON SIGNED IT.
GOLDWATER RAN A CAMPAIGN AGAINST JOHNSON...
SO WHY WAS SHE CAMPAIGNING FOR BARRY GOLDWATER WHO WAS AGAINST THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT???
BY THE WAY CHECK OUT BILL CLINTON'S RACIST POSTCARD HE SENT TO HIS GRANDMA IN 1966 DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
http://serr8d.blogspot.com/2007/10/bill-clinton-racist-postcard-buy-it-now.html
Posted by: laplumelefirmament | January 23, 2008 06:24 PM
The Clintons, to adapt a line from Dr. Johnson, were not only corrupt, they were the cause of corruption in others. Yet seldom in America have so many come to excuse so much mendacity and malfeasance as during the Clinton years. Here are some of the facts that have been buried.
RECORDS SET
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
Posted by: laplumelefirmament | January 23, 2008 06:26 PM
ARKANSAS SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME
- Number of persons in the Clinton machine orbit who are alleged to have committed suicide: 9
- Number known to have been murdered: 12
- Number who died in plane crashes: 6
- Number who died in single car automobile accidents: 3
- Number of one-person sking fatalities: 1
- Number of key witnesses who have died of heart attacks while in federal custody under questionable circumstances: 1
- Number of unexplained deaths: 4
- Total suspicious deaths: 46
- Number of northern Mafia killings during peak years of 1968-78: 30
- Number of Dixie Mafia killings during same period: 156
Posted by: laplumelefirmament | January 23, 2008 06:28 PM
HILLARY'S FRIEND IS AN OLD KKK MEMBER, CHECK THIS OUT HERE:
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/15/185205.shtml?et=y
Hilarious. Bill Clinton falls asleep at MLK celebration
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/01/clinton_gets_sleepy_at_mlk_day.php
CLINTON SAYS WE HAVE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT BECAUSE LYNDON JOHNSON SIGNED IT.
GOLDWATER RAN A CAMPAIGN AGAINST JOHNSON...
SO WHY WAS SHE CAMPAIGNING FOR BARRY GOLDWATER WHO WAS AGAINST THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT???
BY THE WAY CHECK OUT BILL CLINTON'S RACIST POSTCARD HE SENT TO HIS GRANDMA IN 1966 DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
http://serr8d.blogspot.com/2007/10/bill-clinton-racist-postcard-buy-it-now.html
Posted by: laplumelefirmament | January 23, 2008 06:31 PM
You know how Dick Nixon portrayed himself as a victim of the press? Yup.
Posted by: scharb | January 23, 2008 06:36 PM
Clinton-Bashers --
Stuff the character attacks. Nobody believes anything you say
Lets talk about Policy.
Hillary Clinton will get us all Universal Health Insurance.
You'll probably break your hand punching the wall after Senator Clinton wins the Presidency,
so it will come in very handy for you.
Get used to saying "President Clinton" all over again.
It has a really nice sounnd.
President Clinton. President Clinton.
I missed saying it.
It will be good to say it again.
President Clinton. President Clinton.
Over and over.
President Clinton, President Clinton.
Have a nice day.
Posted by: svreader | January 23, 2008 06:37 PM
HILLARY'S FRIEND IS AN OLD KKK MEMBER, CHECK THIS OUT HERE:
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/15/185205.shtml?et=y
Hilarious. Bill Clinton falls asleep at MLK celebration
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/01/clinton_gets_sleepy_at_mlk_day.php
CLINTON SAYS WE HAVE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT BECAUSE LYNDON JOHNSON SIGNED IT.
GOLDWATER RAN A CAMPAIGN AGAINST JOHNSON...
SO WHY WAS SHE CAMPAIGNING FOR BARRY GOLDWATER WHO WAS AGAINST THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT???
BY THE WAY CHECK OUT BILL CLINTON'S RACIST POSTCARD HE SENT TO HIS GRANDMA IN 1966 DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
http://serr8d.blogspot.com/2007/10/bill-clinton-racist-postcard-buy-it-now.html
Posted by: laplumelefirmament | January 23, 2008 06:50 PM
THEY USE SCARE TACTICS IN IOWA AGAINST STUDENTS...
THEY USE RACE CARD AGAINST BLACKS IN SOUTH CAROLINA...
THEY USE SMEAR TACTICS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE ABOUT DRUGS AND ABORTION...
THEY USE LAWSUITS IN NEVADA AGAINST HISPANICS...
THEY WILL DO ANYTHING FOR POWER!!!!WELCOME TO THE CLINTONS WORLD!!!
Posted by: laplumelefirmament | January 23, 2008 06:51 PM
HILLARY'S FRIEND IS AN OLD KKK MEMBER, CHECK THIS OUT HERE:
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/15/185205.shtml?et=y
Hilarious. Bill Clinton falls asleep at MLK celebration
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/01/clinton_gets_sleepy_at_mlk_day.php
CLINTON SAYS WE HAVE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT BECAUSE LYNDON JOHNSON SIGNED IT.
GOLDWATER RAN A CAMPAIGN AGAINST JOHNSON...
SO WHY WAS SHE CAMPAIGNING FOR BARRY GOLDWATER WHO WAS AGAINST THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT???
BY THE WAY CHECK OUT BILL CLINTON'S RACIST POSTCARD HE SENT TO HIS GRANDMA IN 1966 DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
http://serr8d.blogspot.com/2007/10/bill-clinton-racist-postcard-buy-it-now.html
Posted by: laplumelefirmament | January 23, 2008 06:53 PM
NEWS FLASH ---
THERE ARE VERY LARGE NUMBERS OF BRAND NEW SCREEN-ID'S ALL BASHING SENATOR CLINTON.
THIS APPEARS TO BE IN RESPONSE TO A DIRECT REQUEST BY RIGHT-WING RADIO.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL CLINTON SUPPORTERS -- REPUBLICANS ARE CLEARLY SCARED!!!
HILLARY CLINTON IS GOING TO BE A GREAT PRESIDENT!!!
Posted by: svreader | January 23, 2008 06:53 PM
..... did he wag his finger at the reporter during this tirade as he did during another infamous press moment....?
Posted by: yeatsgirl | January 23, 2008 06:55 PM
'unloads'? 'snapped'? 'let loose'?
what video is anne watching? albeit Bill has had his melt down moments, this was certainly not one of them. he factually and accurately scolded the reporter. reporers do bear a huge responsibity for the drivel they report and keep in the public discourse -- so nice that Bill points that out. not controversial in the slightest.
and for Harpootlian to call the Clinton ad a "lie" - when they directly quote and play the audio clip from obama is hystercial!
apparently Obama lies about himself!
all the things the Clinton campaign has brought up about Obama is based on facts. no where can anyone point to where these "lies" are. it seems like the obama camp is satisfied to just call them "lies" over and over again hoping people believe that, without actually pointing out where the factual inaccuracies are.
obama did drugs - fact he wrote about it in his book - why is that controversial now?
obama said reagan was transformational in a way nixon and clinton was not - fact - the video is there to prove it. that's a direct slam on clinton's presidency - why is that controversial or a 'lie' to point that out?
obama said the republicans were the party of ideas for the last 10-15 years - fact - even if you don't read ANY qualification into that statement (which is a hard row to hoe) he doesn't point out that Clinton was president during those years of republican ideas - so again that's a direct attack on the Clinton years - why is that controversial to point out?
it goes on and on like that... an uncomfortable fact for obama suddenly becomes a "LIE".
silly... and transparent.
Go Hillary!
Posted by: priusdriver | January 23, 2008 06:55 PM
HILLARY'S FRIEND IS AN OLD KKK MEMBER, CHECK THIS OUT HERE:
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/15/185205.shtml?et=y
Hilarious. Bill Clinton falls asleep at MLK celebration
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/01/clinton_gets_sleepy_at_mlk_day.php
CLINTON SAYS WE HAVE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT BECAUSE LYNDON JOHNSON SIGNED IT.
GOLDWATER RAN A CAMPAIGN AGAINST JOHNSON...
SO WHY WAS SHE CAMPAIGNING FOR BARRY GOLDWATER WHO WAS AGAINST THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT???
BY THE WAY CHECK OUT BILL CLINTON'S RACIST POSTCARD HE SENT TO HIS GRANDMA IN 1966 DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
http://serr8d.blogspot.com/2007/10/bill-clinton-racist-postcard-buy-it-now.html
Posted by: laplumelefirmament | January 23, 2008 06:56 PM
Hillary Rodham may have been campaigning for Barry Goldwater when she was all of fifteen years old (that's how old she was when he ran for President), but think about what Barack Obama was doing at the same age.
Posted by: prettierthanyou | January 23, 2008 06:56 PM
ARKANSAS SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME
- Number of persons in the Clinton machine orbit who are alleged to have committed suicide: 9
- Number known to have been murdered: 12
- Number who died in plane crashes: 6
- Number who died in single car automobile accidents: 3
- Number of one-person sking fatalities: 1
- Number of key witnesses who have died of heart attacks while in federal custody under questionable circumstances: 1
- Number of unexplained deaths: 4
- Total suspicious deaths: 46
- Number of northern Mafia killings during peak years of 1968-78: 30
- Number of Dixie Mafia killings during same period: 156
Posted by: laplumelefirmament | January 23, 2008 06:57 PM
HILLARY'S FRIEND IS AN OLD KKK MEMBER, CHECK THIS OUT HERE:
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/15/185205.shtml?et=y
Hilarious. Bill Clinton falls asleep at MLK celebration
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/01/clinton_gets_sleepy_at_mlk_day.php
CLINTON SAYS WE HAVE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT BECAUSE LYNDON JOHNSON SIGNED IT.
GOLDWATER RAN A CAMPAIGN AGAINST JOHNSON...
SO WHY WAS SHE CAMPAIGNING FOR BARRY GOLDWATER WHO WAS AGAINST THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT???
BY THE WAY CHECK OUT BILL CLINTON'S RACIST POSTCARD HE SENT TO HIS GRANDMA IN 1966 DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
http://serr8d.blogspot.com/2007/10/bill-clinton-racist-postcard-buy-it-now.html
Posted by: laplumelefirmament | January 23, 2008 06:58 PM
HITLERY OPPOSES IMMIGRANT DRIVER'S LICENCE.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-11-14-clinton-immigration_N.htm
Posted by: laplumelefirmament | January 23, 2008 06:59 PM
The Clintons are as polarizing as Bush and are not making inaccurate statements, they are outright lying. Shame on people making statements like Clinton will get us universal health care like none of the other candidates have great health care plans. And with the Clintons you don't know what you will get because they lie and people who lie do not do what they say they will. Look at Bush, when he lied about weapons of mass destruction he started a war. We do not need more people like Bush or the Clintons, have some self respect for yourself. The Clintons will not take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.
Posted by: dan.littlejohn | January 23, 2008 07:00 PM
This election comes down to one question.
Which candidate will fight for the rights of the middle class?
Which candidate can and will stand up to the Republicans and fix the damage Bush/Cheney and the Republicans have done to America?
We've tried apeasement.
It hasn't worked.
We know that as surely as we know anything in the world.
The Republicans have rubbed our face in it.
From their standpoint, Republicans have no reason to compromise or to give in to Democrats on anything.
The only way Democrats are going to get anything they want is to fight for it and win.
We need a President that can stand up for our rights.
The Republicans are doing just fine standing up for the rights of the upper 1/2 of 1%.
They don't need any help from Democrats.
The other 99.5% of Americans need as much help from the Democrats as possible.
We need Universal Health Care.
We need to end the War and Bring our Troops Home.
We need to balance the budget.
We need a middle class tax cut.
We need to become competitive again.
We need to restore America's reputation in the world.
We need a "no-nonsense" President that knows what's broken and how to fix it.
That's why I'm voting for Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: svreader | January 23, 2008 07:01 PM
Classic Clinton; just as they did with the "voter suppression" in Nevada, they are accusing the other side of they themselves are doing. Bill is very good at it, but antagonizing the press is probably a mistake.
Posted by: jonathanmstevens | January 23, 2008 07:03 PM
CRIME STATS
- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
- Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122
Posted by: laplumelefirmament | January 23, 2008 07:07 PM
Clinton-Bashers --
Stuff the character attacks. Nobody believes anything you say
Lets talk about Policy.
Hillary Clinton will get us all Universal Health Insurance.
You'll probably break your hand punching the wall after Senator Clinton wins the Presidency,
so it will come in very handy for you.
Get used to saying "President Clinton" all over again.
It has a really nice sounnd.
President Clinton. President Clinton.
I missed saying it.
It will be good to say it again.
President Clinton. President Clinton.
Over and over.
President Clinton, President Clinton.
Have a nice day.
Posted by: svreader | January 23, 2008 07:09 PM
svreader:
You've read the play book too! Unfortunately, your "cut and paste" posts make you look like nothing but a shill as well. You are correct,however, that the robotic replies screaming absurd stuff are irritating regardless of which candidate they support or attack.
Posted by: jonathanmstevens | January 23, 2008 07:10 PM
Clinton says: "Let him go get in an argument with Dolores Huerta, one of the founders of Farm Workers, against what happened in Nevada."
Why don't the reporters ask Dolores Huerta? Was there an attempt by the Culinary Union Bosses to suppress voting by Hillary supporters? Why are the reporters not doing their job? Are Latino maids in Nevada being bullied by the bosses?
I doubt Obama or anyone on his staff had anything to do with it, but that is the job of the journalists. Instead they are trying to serve up nonsense and drivel.
Posted by: akafir | January 23, 2008 07:16 PM
Please somebody come and explain to these people about democracy. As if apparatchik of a different Hussein from Iraq, they are talking and limiting who can campaign in the presidential campaign and what can be spoken out. Please somebody please educate them!
Posted by: teak1 | January 23, 2008 07:16 PM
Well, beyond whatever you want to say about the tit for tat between campaigns, Bill's got it right here. This reporter shares the blame. Cheap reporting. But also an easy individual to spin by both campaigns. Like a yo yo the reporter is pulled up and down. Bill is slick enough that you might say that he just walked the dog because you know that reporter thought he was rolling this story out himself.
Posted by: snapple1 | January 23, 2008 07:17 PM
Anne,
I think it is you who are being disingenuous by characterizing Bill Clinton response as "unloading" on the press. I watched the video and he seemed quite calm and, according to his view of things, reasonable. Much of the distortion of the issues in these matters does come from the press, which in its typically cynical and morally bankrupt fashion enjoys nothing more than a good cat fight. Democrats would be well advised to take your cheap shots with a grain of salt and remember that the Washington Post--as well as the other establishment newspapers--was all too willing to let George Bush and his minions get away with 936 outright lies in the lead up to the Iraq war. This is the kind of quality journalism we have come to expect. It is too bad that people like you are allowed to inject your pathetic opinions into so-called news stories. You are doing a disservice to the politicians you cover and the readers you (supposedly) serve.
Posted by: grgoodmn | January 23, 2008 07:22 PM
Will you please stop reporting these Bill Clinton outburst a few days before every primary. That is the whole point of these outbursts. What do you think is going to be covered the next few days and will drown out everything, including the "Hope" message Obama is selling. I bet that dampens the enthusiasm of would be voters. And who benefits? The Clintons!
Posted by: ZnanaB | January 23, 2008 07:22 PM
Will you please stop reporting these Bill Clinton outburst a few days before every primary. That is the whole point of these outbursts. What do you think is going to be covered the next few days and will drown out everything, including the "Hope" message Obama is selling. I bet that dampens the enthusiasm of would be voters. And who benefits? The Clintons!
Posted by: ZnanaB | January 23, 2008 07:22 PM
Will you please stop reporting these Bill Clinton outburst a few days before every primary. That is the whole point of these outbursts. What do you think is going to be covered the next few days and will drown out everything, including the "Hope" message Obama is selling. I bet that dampens the enthusiasm of would be voters. And who benefits? The Clintons!
Posted by: ZnanaB | January 23, 2008 07:22 PM
Single issue voters commit a grave disservice their own cause when they seek to engage others in a pre-election debate and then repeatedly dismiss as irrelevent any concerns other voters have about a broad range of different topics.
For example, those who only are concerned only about stem-cell research (pro or con), or those dedicated to single-payer healthcare, or repealing the No Child Left Behind statutes - to the exclusion of genuine interest by other voters in matters such as, for example, the national ecomony, global warming, or the War in Iraq, may cause others to turn away possible candidate support.
Strident dismissal of other voters' concerns tend to diminsh the value of even the most fervently held point of view when the speaker cannot acknowledge that there are other issues equally vital to other people - and perhaps, to the nation.
We voters must consider more than whether a particular candidate is committed to just a single issue....the President must lead us on a spectrum of issues and, more importantly, must have those personal qualities we feel will enhance the likelihood of anything substantive resulting from a term in office.
Posted by: gandalfthegrey | January 23, 2008 07:22 PM
HILLARY'S FRIEND IS AN OLD KKK MEMBER, CHECK THIS OUT HERE:
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/15/185205.shtml?et=y
Hilarious. Bill Clinton falls asleep at MLK celebration
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/01/clinton_gets_sleepy_at_mlk_day.php
CLINTON SAYS WE HAVE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT BECAUSE LYNDON JOHNSON SIGNED IT.
GOLDWATER RAN A CAMPAIGN AGAINST JOHNSON...
SO WHY WAS SHE CAMPAIGNING FOR BARRY GOLDWATER WHO WAS AGAINST THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT???
BY THE WAY CHECK OUT BILL CLINTON'S RACIST POSTCARD HE SENT TO HIS GRANDMA IN 1966 DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
http://serr8d.blogspot.com/2007/10/bill-clinton-racist-postcard-buy-it-now.html
Posted by: laplumelefirmament | January 23, 2008 07:22 PM
"Lashed out?"
Like Bill Clinton, the video of his respinse is pisted online and that was hardly "lashing out" as the writer states.
Gee I wonder if Anne has any bias? Kind of like Dana Milbank maybe?
Posted by: ams40 | January 23, 2008 07:22 PM
My respect for this man is draining away, drop by drop, on a daily basis. Please, Mr. President, shut up!
Posted by: soonerthought | January 23, 2008 07:23 PM
Bill Clinton ROCKS!
Posted by: JoeCHI | January 23, 2008 07:25 PM
This is a total mischaracterization of what the video shows. It is amazing that the Post can't report the news without trying to make it.
Posted by: awise | January 23, 2008 07:26 PM
I think Bill and Hillary Clinton are just great. The press needs to take some lessons from the Democrats as well. In the past 7 years, the press was hammered, lied to and rediculed by the Bushies. And what did the press do? They rolled over and pretended dead. Clintons are not going to take the s___ from the press.
By the way, when was the last time the Washington Post endorsed candidate got elected president?
Posted by: gwshening | January 23, 2008 07:27 PM
Can media stop attacking the clintons. I know you dont like them.
Posted by: VoterfromIL | January 23, 2008 07:30 PM
Is the media promoting the Race issue or is it the Candidates?
Video
http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1622
.
Posted by: jeffboste | January 23, 2008 07:31 PM
What a waste of space here lets just all agree the Clinton are racist until Sunday and then maybe Senator Obamas campaign will stop yelling fire... Racist Racist now can we talk health care, stimulus, college education, student debt and on and on and on surely these are of interest to SC also, now if you really fear the racist behavior of the Clinton and that they will harm the black community by all means continue to throw the R bomb
Posted by: p_peppermint | January 23, 2008 07:31 PM
Isn't it convinient that Hillary is nowhere in sight?!
This has all come about because the Mainstream Media is taking such a hard-hit for the tidal wave of coverage FOR the Clinton Cartel!
Even though 'Hillary Approved of this messege.' She gets a clean sheat. No!!! She is a dirty rotten Lobbyist Pig and we need to unleash our attack on the media and the Clintons.
Have a nice evening...
and remember to Vote for Edwards in '08
For Meaningful Change
Posted by: theman_in_black | January 23, 2008 07:34 PM
I concur with ZnanaB. Since Bill Clinton is clearly uneasy with reporters simply doing their jobs, the press should simply ignore him. Let's see how long he lasts when there's no one to record his every word... The man is addicted to power and celebrity. Stop enabling him!
Moreover, what he has to say isn't worth the coverage. I thought his wife was running for President? Lately, it seems like everything out of his mouth is either about himself or trashing Obama. Leave him alone and cover the actual CANDIDATES!!!
Posted by: GordonsGirl | January 23, 2008 07:35 PM
Bill and Hillary need to calm down-so does Obama. They are destroying each other.
As far as Bill saying that Hillary's and Obama's positions on Iraq are identical, that is nonsense. Obama was against the war in 2002, and Hillary voted for it. That is the truth, whether Bill likes it or not. Hillary votes for whatever is the current version of political correctness. That is not leadership-that is being a sheep.
It is also appalling that she compares her service as a Director on Walmart's Board (during which Walmart did NOT offer singificant health insurance to its employees) with 5 hours of work that Obama performed as a Junior Associate in a law firm, preparing a brief for a "slum lord". Obama was a junior employee;he did what he was told. Hillary was a Director of a major firm. She did nothing to help the employees of Walmart. There is a hell of a lot of difference between being a Director and a junior law associate.If Hillary does not get it, then one has to wonder about her intelligence.
Hillary and Bill, keep this behavior up and lose the election. This is the reason why many people do not like Hillary-half truths and being an attack dog all the time. I am a lifelong democrat; I will vote for her, but I know a lot of people who will not, but will vote for Obama.
So, Hillary and Bill, COOL IT. You are hurting yourself and the Democrats in general.
Posted by: vdalal | January 23, 2008 07:37 PM
The Clintons have learned well from the Bush machine. Did anyone tell them we don't want that back in the White House?
Posted by: golfhokie | January 23, 2008 07:38 PM
The "indomitable" duo of husband and wife -- a former president, who clearly still desires to be president, directly or indirectly, and his wife who appears to be willing to do almost anything to become president, ought to be alarming to the American people more than they appear to be.
Clearly, the Clintons thrive in spiteful political atmosphere; it is a wave they have proven to ride better than anyone in the business. Nevertheless, I predicted that soon or later the Clintons will be stuck in their own mud pits. Didn't a certain president from Illinois opine that "You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time?"
Posted by: slowtrain | January 23, 2008 07:38 PM
HILLARY'S FRIEND IS AN OLD KKK MEMBER, CHECK THIS OUT HERE:
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/15/185205.shtml?et=y
Hilarious. Bill Clinton falls asleep at MLK celebration
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/01/clinton_gets_sleepy_at_mlk_day.php
CLINTON SAYS WE HAVE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT BECAUSE LYNDON JOHNSON SIGNED IT.
GOLDWATER RAN A CAMPAIGN AGAINST JOHNSON...
SO WHY WAS SHE CAMPAIGNING FOR BARRY GOLDWATER WHO WAS AGAINST THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT???
BY THE WAY CHECK OUT BILL CLINTON'S RACIST POSTCARD HE SENT TO HIS GRANDMA IN 1966 DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
http://serr8d.blogspot.com/2007/10/bill-clinton-racist-postcard-buy-it-now.html
Posted by: laplumelefirmament | January 23, 2008 07:39 PM
excuse me but we don't want cigars back in the white house.
slick willy needs a course in anger management
Posted by: fayyazuk | January 23, 2008 07:42 PM
Also, the video is not quite as bad as Anne let it out to be, but the question is, if Bill Clinton feels this is all Obama's people feeding the press in order to get him do what he does not want to, why does he bother to stay and respond at length, i.e. do it. Someone is always making him do something he does not want to do, it seems. I never thought I would dislike this guy. I thought his presidency was great, but, boy, I now see the dark side people have been talking about, and I don't like it. P.S. Hillary has every right to attack Barack but Bill does not, just as I would frown upon it if either Michelle Obama or Elizabeth Edwards attacked Hillary directly or by name.
Posted by: ZnanaB | January 23, 2008 07:42 PM
Bill Clinton picked on a woman who stood up to him and didn't cry the way Hillary did looking for sympathy. I've been watching miss Yellin on CNN for awhile now and I think she's a fine reporter. Bill turned red faced again because this woman wouldn't take his nosense. Miss Yellin is my new hero.
Posted by: lumi21us | January 23, 2008 07:42 PM
President Clinton doesn't sound so good to me any more. I've seen a side of the Clintons - both of them - that I find hard to stomach.
Posted by: sherirogers | January 23, 2008 07:43 PM
Well, you have to give Bill one thing. He's got a pair of balls. To accuse Obama of running a smear campaign while smearing Obama (and running a smear campaign).. Wow. But then I suppose this shouldn't come as a surprise. It's what the Clintons do/it's their "fun part".
Posted by: spankersanonymous | January 23, 2008 07:47 PM
I am not a Clinton fan (either one of them), but Bill is not really "lashing out" as this piece implies. Watch the video. Shame on the Washington Post. What is going on with this newspaper lately?
Anyway, Go Barack!
Posted by: GoHuskies2004 | January 23, 2008 07:49 PM
Here we have, a controversial duo of husband and wife -- a former president, who has, on many occasions, expressed how sorely he misses being president and still desires to be, and his wife who appears to be willing to do almost anything to become president or re-elect her husband by proxy. This ought to be alarming to the American people more than they appear to be.
Clearly, the Clintons thrive in spiteful political atmosphere; it is a wave they have proven to ride better than anyone in the business. Nevertheless, I predicted that soon or later the Clintons will be stuck in their own mud pits. Didn't a certain president from Illinois opine that "You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time?"
Posted by: slowtrain | January 23, 2008 07:50 PM
Perhaps Billary will treat the country to another display of their integrity, Lewinski style. Is it any wonder people believe it when he is accused of lying?
Posted by: jameswhanger | January 23, 2008 07:51 PM
Didn't Putin pull this same trick off recently in Russia?
Posted by: jameswhanger | January 23, 2008 07:52 PM
You pointed out a thing I want to say for a while. Media has rarely checked with the people in question if they are positive to Clintons. They looked like doing fact checker", like on dirty actions by the Culinary union, they said no proof for Clinton's complaint, before doing any checking. Media has never checked with anyone from Nevada's teacher's union about their law suit, media just assumed this was from Clinton's hand. Media's bias and irresponsibility has been shockingly obvious.
"Clinton says: "Let him go get in an argument with Dolores Huerta, one of the founders of Farm Workers, against what happened in Nevada."
Why don't the reporters ask Dolores Huerta? Was there an attempt by the Culinary Union Bosses to suppress voting by Hillary supporters? Why are the reporters not doing their job? Are Latino maids in Nevada being bullied by the bosses?
I doubt Obama or anyone on his staff had anything to do with it, but that is the job of the journalists. Instead they are trying to serve up nonsense and drivel."
Posted by: yudong2 | January 23, 2008 07:53 PM
I agree, with the statements ..enough of the bushes and the Clintons ..together they have set back the US economy 50 years... we areapproaching third world because of the two.
As for HRC, where is the experience...I really don't see it ... a wife of the governor and the President ...Hey how bout the republicans nominate Babara Bush ...the wife of a VP and president, the mother of two state governors...
In fact that experience run will run itself out if MCCain is the other candidate...will she claim he is too old ...I will vote for anybody other than HRC ..enough of her and her husband...time for a change and that change does not include anti US persons like the Clintons, Guilliani's, and the Bushes...
Posted by: mrcmdm | January 23, 2008 07:53 PM
I'm getting really tired os hearing, seeing, reading, Bill Cinton. Listening to Hillary is bad enough without Bill Clinton being, front, and center. Bill, go find another Monica, or something, to help you take your mind off of Hillary's candidacy.
Posted by: buzzm1 | January 23, 2008 07:54 PM
laplumelefirmament: Can you post that again, I missed it the first 30 times. Sheeesh!
Posted by: MajorMelFunkshion | January 23, 2008 07:54 PM
This is why Hillary will never be president. Bill never accepts responsibility. All the lying and denying is so 90s. Enough already.
In November the Clinton's greatest success will be in increasing the anti-clinton vote and what a tragedy that will be for Democrats in close races.
Posted by: sbundley | January 23, 2008 07:58 PM
"Yew done fergot ta keep tellin' evvyone thet evverbuddy loves ME an' thet ah oughtta be Prizdin o' th' Werrl!? Shee-OOT, iffen the 'Tear BAG' don't git ee-licted, ah ain't nivver 'onn' git her outta the house! Yew go ax Ankleless Annie who done beed our first black prizdin! No one knows better than the waddlin', quackin' klutz who married him ohn the lam fum a-flunkin' the DC bar twicet! What be there aside fum draft-dodgin', hag-marryin', monster-spawnin', public-propitty soilin', adultery, perjury, impeachmint, public-propitty destruction & stealin', disbarmint an' egregious disregard fer personal hygiene that yew don't unnerstann'? Na', babe, lemme shove this here fist in yer face wif mah filthy-fangernailed fanger a-pointin' atcha jes' like that there great right-wing conspirator O'Reilly! That'll larn ye our white-trash manners!"
Posted by: sawargos | January 23, 2008 07:59 PM
Did the Clintons steal NV? This story is driving me crazy. Can someone investigate this? And how this isn't the lead story on the nightly news?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080124/ap_on_el_pr/obama_nevada;_ylt=AsN8zKfxtZZw5WTcbx46AwuM5QcF
Posted by: flwilliams87 | January 23, 2008 08:01 PM
BC is out of control -- in the process of trying to get back in control. He has sullied the office he held with his new role of hit man for the HC Campaign. I voted for him twice, but the thought of HC and BC him back in the WH makes me sick. Time to move on BC, and get back to the process of saving your reputation with good works. Jimmy C. should be your role model. Now we see the vindictive, mean, angry BC.... bummer.
Posted by: wbr655 | January 23, 2008 08:04 PM
CLINTON, ANGER AND A QUESTION OF RAPE
What has gotten into Bill Clinton, he of red-faced outbursts of anger, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson asked Tuesday.
Katha Pollitt of the liberal Nation Magazine, an improbable ally of Hillary's "vast rightwing conspiracy" already gave one answer (http://www.thenation.com/doc/19990322/pollitt ):
"We will never know the truth behind Juanita Broaddrick's claim that Bill Clinton raped her in a Little Rock hotel room in l978. The most you can say about it, which is also the least you can say about it, is that her story is credible ... investigations by NBC News and reporting from the Washington Post poked no major holes in it.
"She has as much corroboration as Anita Hill--friends who say she told them about the assault at the time, one of whom says she saw her immediately after with a bruised and swollen lip. ... the best Clinton's defenders can come up with is that rape doesn't fit his 'MO'--as if, after all the backing and filling and prevaricating and outright lying, we know what this man's MO really is."
More recently Christopher Hitchens, also of the independent left, has written
(http://www.slate.com/id/2182065 ):
"In my opinion, Gennifer Flowers was telling the truth; so was Monica Lewinsky, and so was Kathleen Willey, and so, lest we forget, was Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who says she was raped by Bill Clinton.... Yet one constantly reads that both Clintons, including the female who helped intensify the slanders against her mistreated sisters, are excellent on women's "issues."
Then there was one of the original Washington Post stories, "Clinton Accuser's Story Aired"
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics... ), that was very sympathetic to Ms. Broaddrick:
"Juanita Broaddrick told her story to a national television audience last night, saying she did not tell authorities 21 years ago of her contention that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her because 'I just don't think anyone would have believed me.'
"In a gripping account punctuated by sobs, the Arkansas woman told "Dateline NBC" that in her Little Rock hotel room, Clinton suddenly 'turned me around and started kissing me, and that was a real shock. I first pushed him away. I just told him 'no.'... He tries to kiss me again. He starts biting on my lip.... And then he forced me down on the bed. I just was very frightened. I tried to get away from him. I told him 'no.'... He wouldn't listen to me.'
Yet today, somehow, the media is more interested in covering the presidential "horse race" than looking at hard truths while professional "women's rights activists", whistle softly and look past the individual carnage and the possibilities for a reprise of Oval Office embarrassment.
Posted by: Martinedwinandersen | January 23, 2008 08:04 PM
CLINTON, ANGER AND A QUESTION OF RAPE
What has gotten into Bill Clinton, he of red-faced outbursts of anger, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson asked Tuesday.
Katha Pollitt of the liberal Nation Magazine, an improbable ally of Hillary's "vast rightwing conspiracy" already gave one answer (http://www.thenation.com/doc/19990322/pollitt ):
"We will never know the truth behind Juanita Broaddrick's claim that Bill Clinton raped her in a Little Rock hotel room in l978. The most you can say about it, which is also the least you can say about it, is that her story is credible ... investigations by NBC News and reporting from the Washington Post poked no major holes in it.
"She has as much corroboration as Anita Hill--friends who say she told them about the assault at the time, one of whom says she saw her immediately after with a bruised and swollen lip. ... the best Clinton's defenders can come up with is that rape doesn't fit his 'MO'--as if, after all the backing and filling and prevaricating and outright lying, we know what this man's MO really is."
More recently Christopher Hitchens, also of the independent left, has written
(http://www.slate.com/id/2182065 ):
"In my opinion, Gennifer Flowers was telling the truth; so was Monica Lewinsky, and so was Kathleen Willey, and so, lest we forget, was Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who says she was raped by Bill Clinton.... Yet one constantly reads that both Clintons, including the female who helped intensify the slanders against her mistreated sisters, are excellent on women's "issues."
Then there was one of the original Washington Post stories, "Clinton Accuser's Story Aired"
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics... ), that was very sympathetic to Ms. Broaddrick:
"Juanita Broaddrick told her story to a national television audience last night, saying she did not tell authorities 21 years ago of her contention that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her because 'I just don't think anyone would have believed me.'
"In a gripping account punctuated by sobs, the Arkansas woman told "Dateline NBC" that in her Little Rock hotel room, Clinton suddenly 'turned me around and started kissing me, and that was a real shock. I first pushed him away. I just told him 'no.'... He tries to kiss me again. He starts biting on my lip.... And then he forced me down on the bed. I just was very frightened. I tried to get away from him. I told him 'no.'... He wouldn't listen to me.'
Yet today, somehow, the media is more interested in covering the presidential "horse race" than looking at hard truths while professional "women's rights activists", whistle softly and look past the individual carnage and the possibilities for a reprise of Oval Office embarrassment.
Posted by: Martinedwinandersen | January 23, 2008 08:04 PM
The real sorry acts are those who seem to have such an unbearable grudge against the Clintons. I have not been especially inclined towards the Clintons but this is getting out of hand and I am getting to really, really dislike Obama and his supporters. You guys are top notch obnoxious things - worse than the Republicans. Your militant, character destroying, mob mentality is getting to be worse than that of the so-called neocons. Why are the Clintons not allowed to defend themselves? I appreciate Clinton trying to point out Obama's contradictions. You know what, I checked Obama's full, in-context statements on Reagan and the guy was pathetically praising Republicans and wiping out all the Democrats have achieved since the 90s. How can a guy saying such things change politics and make a good leader. What are you guys smoking?
Posted by: vishalg_99 | January 23, 2008 08:04 PM
The real sorry acts are those who seem to have such an unbearable grudge against the Clintons. I have not been especially inclined towards the Clintons but this is getting out of hand and I am getting to really, really dislike Obama and his supporters. You guys are top notch obnoxious things - worse than the Republicans. Your militant, character destroying, mob mentality is getting to be worse than that of the so-called neocons. Why are the Clintons not allowed to defend themselves? I appreciate Clinton trying to point out Obama's contradictions. You know what, I checked Obama's full, in-context statements on Reagan and the guy was pathetically praising Republicans and wiping out all the Democrats have achieved since the 90s. How can a guy saying such things change politics and make a good leader. What are you guys smoking?
Posted by: vishalg_99 | January 23, 2008 08:04 PM

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