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Audacity of Truth
"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
Bill Clinton whines because media doesn’t fawn over Hillary like they always have him
Bill Clinton voiced his abiding anger at the media’s coverage of him and his wife in Durham, N.H., today, and suggested that media bias will force Clinton to go negative on Barack Obama.
He also expressed his frustration that his wife is perceived by voters as divisive through, he said, no fault of her own.
Clinton, like his wife, is traveling New Hampshire taking questions from voters, and he spoke at the University of New Hampshire in Durham in response to a plea from a woman who said she’d like it “if you and Clinton joined Barack Obama in putting the Republicans on notice” that it was time to “change the game” and end the “meanness” and “manipulation” in politics.
Clinton replied that he liked the idea — in theory.
“I think we can change it as long as you have access to information by people who are committed to judging everybody by the same set of rules and following the same set of rules,” he said. “According to the most recent media analysis, that’s not what’s happened so far, but yeah, I think it should be done.”
Clinton also let his audience glimpse the scars of his White House years.
“Nobody would like it better than us if you could get that personal vilification out of there, because nobody’s been vilified more than we have,” he said, after noting that he thought Hillary and McCain could run a respectful campaign. “One of the problems with laying down and turning the other cheek is McCain had one dose of it. They gave it to us for eight years.
“And the fact of the matter is, independent voters think you’re polarizing if someone else attacks you, even if that someone is Rush Limbaugh, even if you’ve been totally exonerated of every single charge ever leveled against you, which Hillary was — and some people forgot to tell you about that,” he said, jabbing again at the press.
Hillary’s coverage may not be as glowing as Bubba’s always has been, but it’s been generally favorable. I mean, her campaign fundraising scandals which included the disgraced Norman Hsu (who was just sentenced to three years in the slammer, BTW) didn’t go far in the press, even though we know that if it were a Republican it’d be big headline news and the top story on the front pages and nightly newscasts respectively every night. She runs her media-control machine with an iron fist so that nothing but the most carefully crafted messages are conveyed.
For the most part, what’s reported about Hillary is what she wants the media to write about her. It’s so typical of Bill Clinton to blame outside forces (read: the media) for the possibility that his wife will have to “go negative” against Obama. He’s employing the standard Democrat tactic of blaming everything and everyone but the main culprit behind Hillary’s loss last night: Hillary herself. Bottomline: she ran an ineffective campaign in Iowa, losing the much-coveted womens vote to Obama, and coming in third behind a complete loser like John Edwards.
Watch for the Hillary campaign to pull out all the stops between now and New Hampshire, where she knows an Obama win would most certainly give him momentum going into Nevada and South Carolina and Super Tuesday in the coming weeks.
And speaking of “O”-mentum, James Taranto wrote an interesting piece today about what an Obama victory in the general election would mean for racial politics, both Democrat and Republican. Consider it a must-read.
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Exonerated? He’s joking, right?
Exonerated can only occur after a full, public, investigation of the charges. If you stonewall – or worse – are found to have committed some misdeed, you have not been exonerated.
For example…
She’s never been exonerated about the cattle futures windfalls, since there was never full disclosure.
She’s never been exonerated about having her so-called health care task force operate in secret in direct violation of the laws. In fact, that was confirmed.
She’s never been exonerated about any of the Castle Grande lies and overbillings – or how the missing Rose Law billing records just happened to show up near her office, conveniently, right after the statute of limitations expired.
She’s never been exonerated for her role in the Whitewater development…but hey, that was only a simple resort scam designed to fleece seniors.
She’s never been exonerated about her role in the disgraceful Travel Office scandal, where nonpartisan career government employees all lost their jobs to make room for her friends, nor for trying to cover it up with a fraudulent IRS audit and criminal charges against Billy Dale – charges which took a jury only minutes to laugh out of court.
How about the FBI files on her political opponents, which were illegally obtained by her chosen aide, Craig Livingstone? How much of that information did she copy? How much does she still have and plan to use? Exonerated? I don’t think so.
As I recall, one of the deputy independent counsels during Whitewater even prepared a draft indictment of her for perjury, which Janet Reno quashed. That’s not exoneration either. Not in this universe.
And that’s just what I can recall off the top of my head. I’m sure other commenters here can add to the list…
Great White One:
The media keeps giving this colossal megalomaniac pass after pass. ClyntOOn is a non-stop energizer bunny of BS. You’re right about Hillarious never being EXONERATED, nor was this now-living-fossil ever kicked in the teeth politically as he long deserved to be.
Remember when Al Gore ran but kept President Clinton on the sidelines and didn’t want him to campaign for him, or speak for him? Now we know why. Billy Jeff would have made a 2000 recount unnecessary as Gore would have lost by millions to GWB. This colossal horse’s ass just keeps on spewing what a horse’s ass spews—happy horses**t!!!
Me thinks the Clintons suffer from ‘narcissism, and rascism’.
They will go so negative, their attempt to slime Obama persoanlly will backfire, and cause them to lose the african american vote all together.
Moonbattery has a list of Hillary quotes he got from Tammy Bruce. He calls it the “Quotable Shrillary” and I think if Hillary got the kind of coverage every Republican gets, from the MSM, these would see wider dissemination. And she would be dumped by the Dems without a further thought.
Those are merely the first three in the lovely list. I think we know quite enough about the former First Lady, thank you.
Unfortunately GWR, he’s not. This is how the mind of the political left thinks. In his mind, and the minds of his supporters, Clinton never did anything wrong. Every decision made by the man was 100% correct and the only people who disagree with them are rabid, right wing, foaming at the mouth, hate filled, racist, white male dominated, Republicans.
To them, the facts are completely irrelevant, it only matters what they believe. Unfortunately it’s getting worse and will continue to get worse even though I never thought it could.
In the end, though, I think icrutchfield hit the nail on the head in his post.
I never thought I would see the day that the darling of the media, Bill Clinton, would complain about negative press coverage. I love the part where he claims that the press will “force” Hillary’s campaign to turn negative on him. LOL!! As if that wasn’t the plan from day one. Priceless!!!
The most interesting aspect of this is Bill’s unerring ability to turn every event, every topic, towards himself. He truly sucks all the oxygen from public discourse. The man’s ego is so huge it dwarfs everything else in the room – and yet he’s still so pathetically insecure that he must have not only everyone’s attention, but their approval as well.
I would never have believed that we would twice elect a man who would make Nixon appear not only honest, but stable and secure.
History is not going to be kind to the Clintons. We should all be grateful that Bill and Hillary will be long dead before the final verdict is handed down. Bill certainly should be grateful, except his massive sense of self will never admit that he won’t be the towering personality of the 20th century. Mount Rushmore is not going to be dynamited so his likeness can replace Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and TR.
He does still have his “Bridge to Nowhere” presidential library!
Skubbina…
Can you imagine if the people in Hollywood were to make a movie about the Clintons?
All the scandals, vanishing witnesses, presidential pardons, etc.