Colmes: Clintons Should Ignore Sexual Assault Allegations

NewsMax ^ | 10/21/03 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Alan Colmes, the liberal half of Fox News Channel's top rated debate show "Hannity & Colmes," has some advice for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and her husband: Pay no attention to those pesky sexual assault allegations leveled against Mr. Clinton by an array of different women.

Colmes, whose new book "Red, White and Liberal" hits bookstores on Tuesday, tells NewsMax that there's no reason that either Mr. or Mrs. Clinton should respond, for instance, to Juanita Broaddrick's claim that she was attacked, brutalized and violated by Mr. Clinton in a Little Rock hotel room 25 years ago.

"Why should he dignify [the allegation with a response]? Why should she dignify it," he argues.

Since the TV liberal titles one of his chapters, "Bill Clinton: Our Greatest President" - we wanted to know how Colmes could make such a claim given the deluge of scandals that nearly washed the Clinton White House out to sea.

For instance, if allegations of sexual assault don't rankle, what about the Clinton White House's requisition of 1,100 FBI files on political opponents? Was it all just a bureaucratic snafu, as Mr. Clinton claimed?

"It could very well have been the case," the lefty talker assured NewsMax.

What about the fact that so many of Clinton's female accusers found themselves on the business end of IRS audits?

Colmes told NewsMax that he was audited when Bush 41 was president, then asked, "Should I blame him for auditing me?"

Maybe not. But if Alec Baldwin, Molly Ivins, Michael Moore and Susan Sarandon were suddenly audited, you can bet the libs wouldn't let a nanosecond elapse before pointing fingers at the Bush White House.

What about the media's full court press in 1999 on the Bush cocaine question, with teams of investigative reporters leaving no stone unturned in a bid to discover that ever-elusive witness who actually saw Bush using illegal drugs?

Was it fair, we asked Colmes, that the press went after that story hammer and tong, when reporters covering Clinton ignored grand jury testimony as well as an account from Gennifer Flowers detaliling Mr. Clinton's cocaine use?

Colmes doesn't remember it that way.

"In my book I point out that the press has done a very poor job chasing allegations concerning Bush's military service, and they practically laid off his alleged drinking and drug use and his failed business dealings," he complained.

"Clinton received much harsher treatment from the press than Bush did, period."

At least one well placed observer agrees with the liberal talk host.

"Alan Colmes knows that facts and evidence count for more than ideological and personal attacks. . . . That makes his book a must read for people all across the political spectrum," wrote Bill Clinton, is a dust jacket blurb for Colmes' book.

[Brimack34]

And some people think Colmes is not that bad a guy.

[Bogey78O]

Well most liberals are really White Reds so the title is quite apt.

[basil]

Can people really be this stupid? Can they actually have a national tv show, and actually have a following? It boggles the mind.

[cartoonistx]

When it comes to the Clintons, there is mass liberal myopia (nay...blindness!) that WON'T see their faults...ever! If Bill were found with the proverbial "dead girl" it would be explained away as a right-wing plot and if he was found with the "live boy" he'd be applauded as the FIRST GAY PRESIDENT!

[etcetera]

"Alan Colmes knows that facts and evidence count for more than ideological and personal attacks. . . . That makes his book a must read for people all across the political spectrum," wrote Bill Clinton, is a dust jacket blurb for Colmes' book.

LOL! Can't get better than that.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

The world should ignore Coombs

[gov_bean_ counter]

Poor Alan is just about as shallow as they come.

[Peace will be here soon]

I can`t see this book going anywhere. There are way to many liberals that despise Alan for working for the enemy ( Fox news) and see him as to weak for the liberal agenda. He is actually a well mannered liberal, which is quite rare , which is why I think so many conservatives can actually like the guy ( as a person ). So if the left doesn`t go and buy his book in droves, who will?

[ladyinred]

So, this is a book I won't have have to spend 30 bucks on!
Was he concerned about Arnold groping? I can't watch him, so I don't know.

[nutmeg]

"Alan Colmes knows that facts and evidence count for more than ideological and personal attacks. . . . That makes his book a must read for people all across the political spectrum," wrote Bill Clinton, in a dust jacket blurb for Colmes' book.

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

[nutmeg]

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[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Area51]

"Alan Colmes knows that facts and evidence count for more than ideological and personal attacks. . . . That makes his book a must read for people all across the political spectrum," wrote Bill Clinton, is a dust jacket blurb for Colmes' book.

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Did bubba sign the book or just leave his "mark"?

[Xenalyte]

Let's consult the Alan Colmes Magic Eye!

[oyez]

What did Clinton do as president other than signing the looser NAFTA law, welfare reform(with which he had to be hog tied into signing) and the infamous assualt wepons law which will sunset next year?

[Centurion2000]

Can people really be this stupid? Can they actually have a national tv show, and actually have a following?

If you can also be mistaken for a praying mantis like Colmes then yes; you too can have a television show.

[nightdriver]

"Can people really be this stupid? Can they actually have a national tv show, and actually have a following? It boggles the mind."

I know. We even elect a known rapist to be America's president. TWICE!

It's been said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American electorate.

[tractorman]

There is none so blind as he who would not see.

[tractorman]

You forgot.

His first act was to let Sodomites into the military.