Posted on 06/15/2004 8:48:23 PM PDT by HAL9000
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansans turned out Tuesday night for the world premiere of "The Hunting of the President," a film claiming to expose "the 10-year campaign to destroy Bill Clinton."
The 90-minute documentary re-creates interviews done for the New York Times best-selling book by the same name written by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons. Rough versions have already played at four film festivals.
The first public showing, at $50 a ticket — going to a couple of Arkansas-based charities — drew a little more than a thousand people to a ballroom at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock, a short walk from where Clinton celebrated his two presidential election victories. It is also next door to the Peabody Hotel, formerly the Excelsior, where Clinton accuser Paula Jones said he harassed her when he was governor.
Those in attendance included Susan McDougal, who went to jail rather than cooperate with Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr; retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who sought the Democratic Party's presidential nomination this year; and former U.S. Sen. David Pryor of Arkansas.
During the film's showing, appearances by Starr on the screen drew boos and hisses from the crowd, while Jones' image produced laughter.
Afterward, McDougal got a standing ovation from the audience when she was called up to the stage.
Producer Harry Thomason, an Arkansas native and one of Clinton's good friends, said Tuesday that he read the book in 2001 and thought it would make a good movie, but he had a hard time digging up money to produce it.
"I thought this is a good yarn — there are villains, there are good guys," Thomason said. "But every place I went to finance the movie, nobody wanted to touch it. They said, 'It's been eight years, there's a new president, nobody wants to hear anything about (the Clinton) administration."
A few false starts later, Thomason cobbled together the money and a distributor, sorted through hours of interview tapes and made the movie. He says the timing, out just months before the election, is accidental.
"We're out now, not because of the election — we were just slow," Thomason said. "We wanted this movie out six or seven months ago, but we just couldn't make it."
He sees competition from Michael Moore's politically-charged documentary "Fahrenheit 911," due out in theaters nationwide on June 25.
"I think Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 911' will bury us," Thomason said. "But... I think his film will take in enough at the box office that it probably might even help us some too."
The film purports to uncover a right-wing manipulation of the media, which Thomason says began with President Nixon's call to counter liberal messages in the 1970s. Thomason said some of the most interesting footage filmed for his documentary came from McDougal. The trailer for the film shows a tearful McDougal, asking filmmakers to turn the camera off.
"She suffered," Thomason said.
McDougal, interviewed at the premiere before the film began, said she cried "from beginning to end" of the filming.
But the film is important, she said, because many members of the younger generation learn much of their history from the movies.
"It's always important to get it right, to get the facts down straight," she said.
Thomason said the film shows both sides of Arkansas.
"I think it provides a balance," he said sitting outside of the auditorium where it was to be screen. "It shows some of the characters here, but also it shows the people here that not everybody here was a crook and a thief."
Thomason said he went to great pains to avoid discussing the film's progress with Clinton, even though the two talk frequently. Clinton called Thomason often for advice or editing input for his 900-page memoir, due in stores next Tuesday.
Oscar-nominated actor Morgan Freeman is the film's narrator.
Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Starr and Jones got Clinton impeached. Ha ha.
Where the rapist sowed his oats.
"On Stinking Pond"
This election will go down as the election Hollywood tried to control.
"We're out now, not because of the election — we were just slow"
A truth & a lie all in the same sentence!
It is also next door to the Doubletree Hotel, formerly the Camelot, where Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick when he was running for governor.
Just reading the titles of these RAGS on the Rapist are giving me a BIG HEADACHE! Vomit alert!
Blaming conservatives for Clinton's destructive habits is like blaming Seagrams for destroyed livers.
My goodness, I'm beginning to think these con artists will be struck by lightning the first time they DON'T lie....
Dale Bumpkin is a bigger HILLBILLY than Clinton is.....and a racist was a Mentor to them BOTH!
Didn't David Pryor get arrested or accused of fraud or misappropriations before "retiring"?
Little Rock hosts world premiere of Clinton docu(drama) mentary
Associated Press | June 15, 2004 | CARYN ROUSSEAU
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansans turned out Tuesday night for the world premiere of "The Hunting of the President," a film claiming to expose "the 10-year campaign to (expose the rapist) destroy Bill Clinton."The 90-minute docu(drama) mentary re-creates "interviews" done for the New York Times best-selling book by the same name written by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons. Rough versions have already played at four film festivals.
The first public showing, at $50 a ticket — going to a couple of Arkansas-based charities — drew a little more than a thousand people to a ballroom at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock, a short walk from where Clinton celebrated his two presidential election victories. It is also next door to the Peabody Hotel, formerly the Excelsior, where Clinton (sexually assaulted)accuser Paula Jones said he harassed her when he was governor. ( also next door to the Doubletree Hotel, formerly the Camelot, where Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick when he was running for governor.)
Those in attendance included Susan McDougal (convicted of fraud and conspiracy along with former Arkansas Gov. Democrat Jim Guy Tucker) , who went to jail rather than cooperate with Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr; retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who sought the Democratic Party's presidential nomination this year; and former U.S. Sen. David Pryor of Arkansas.
During the film's showing, appearances by Starr on the screen drew boos and hisses from the crowd, while Jones' image produced laughter.
Afterward, (the convicted felon) McDougal got a standing ovation from the audience when she was called up to the stage.
Producer Harry Thomason, an Arkansas native and one of Clinton's (somehow still alive) good friends, said Tuesday that he read the book in 2001 and thought it would make a good movie, but he had a hard time digging up money to produce it.
"I thought this is a good yarn (yarn = tall tale, fable, lies) — there are villains, there are good guys," Thomason said. "But every place I went to finance the movie, nobody wanted to touch it. They said, 'It's been eight years, there's a new president, nobody wants to hear anything about (the Clinton) administration."
A few false starts later, Thomason cobbled together the money and a distributor, sorted through hours of interview tapes and made the movie. He says the timing, out just months before the election, is accidental.
"We're out now, not because of the election — we were just slow," Thomason said. "We wanted this movie out six or seven months ago, but we just couldn't make it."
He sees competition from Michael Moore's politically-charged documentary "Fahrenheit 911," due out in theaters nationwide on June 25.
"I think Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 911' will bury us," Thomason said. "But... I think his film will take in enough at the box office that it probably might even help us some too." President Nixon's call to counter liberal messages in the 1970s. Thomason said some of the most interesting footage filmed for his documentary came from McDougal. The trailer for the film shows a tearful McDougal, asking filmmakers to turn the camera off.
"She suffered," Thomason said.
The film purports to uncover a right-wing manipulation of the media, which Thomason says began with
McDougal, interviewed at the premiere before the film began, said she cried "from beginning to end" of the filming.
But the film is important, she said, because many members of the younger generation learn much of their history from the movies.
"It's always important to get it right, to get the facts down straight," she said.
Thomason said the film shows both sides of Arkansas.
"I think it provides a balance," he said sitting outside of the auditorium where it was to be screen. "It shows some of the characters here, but also it shows the people here that not everybody here was a crook and a thief (only clinton)."
Thomason said he went to great pains to avoid discussing the film's progress with Clinton, even though the two talk frequently. Clinton called Thomason often for advice or editing input for his 900-page memoir, due in stores next Tuesday.
Oscar-nominated actor Morgan Freeman (who?) is the film's narrator.
Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
This resembles truth like moore's farenheit 911 bomb.
So... did you go?
Not that I'm aware of. That sounds more like Bill Alexander, or Steve Clark, or Jim Guy Tucker, or Bill McCuen, or Carolyn Staley, or Dan Harmon, etc.
Who was the racist you are alluding to???
Wonder who they got to play Monica and Juanita?
Like true, zombified cultists, these folks never give up. Sad.
In their dreams. The only "Arkansans" that turned out are the same lunatics who call themselves his "friends". Maybe they should speak to Web Hubbell about "friendship" with the Clintons.
From the "director" who taught Clinton the famous line "I did not have sex with that woman".
"It shows some of the characters here, but also it shows the people here that not everybody here was a crook and a thief."
But we know, for sure, that one of them was a first class "crook and theif".
"She suffered," Thomason said.
BS!
McDougal, interviewed at the premiere before the film began, said she cried "from beginning to end" of the filming.
PUKE!
But the film is important, she said, because many members of the younger generation learn much of their history from the movies.
Maybe before the Internet genius.
"It's always important to get it right, to get the facts down straight," she said.
The facts won't come from this "film". No one spends months in jail for telling the truth. They do for refusing to answer the questions under oath in front of the jury. Even they believed McDougal was hiding the truth about Bill and Hillary Clinton.
How many people do any of you know that would spend time in jail for a couple of lying, thieving, crooks? We know of, at least, two in the Clinton administration, Web Hubbell and Susan McDougal. Yet the Clintons are roaming free to do it again.
Proves once again, that the only good taste Clinton ever had--- was in his mouth...
sw
These people are really living in some parallel universe. The mere fact that Hillary Clinton went on National TV and declared a 'right-wing-conspiracy' to get her husband, has been proven farcical and totally untrue, to say the very least. How they can forget the actions that Bill Clinton perpetrated against America's interests,LORAL, the blatant selling and stealing of Nuclear secrets and Ballistic missile information, for starters, to this day is appalling. Does anybody remember how many hundreds of pages were redacted by the Clinton White House from the Cox Report (It was titled:"U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China") before it was published??? Sheesh!
Nope. Darn! Sure hate that I had to miss that event. < /sarcasm >
THE MOB PRESIDENT
The Mob Helped Clinton get Started In Politics.
It is Now Helping Him Escape the Law
When young Bill Clinton in 1974 made his first run for political office, a crucial $10,000 loan was arranged for him by his uncle, Raymond Clinton. Uncle Raymond has been tied by Clinton biographer Roger Morris to the Hot Springs Mafia.
But it was not until 1984, when Clinton was elected for a second term as Governor of Arkansas, that Mob money really started pouring in. "That was the election when the Mob really came into Arkansas politics, the dog-track and racetrack boys, the payoff people who saw a good thing," a former U.S. Attorney told Roger Morris. "It wasn't just Bill Clinton and it went beyond our old Dixie Mafia, which was penny-ante by comparison. This was eastern and and West Coast crime money that noticed the possibilities just like the legitimate corporations did."
Among the "legitimate corporations" that noticed the possibilities with the rapidly ascending governor thirsting for power and money were front corporations for the intelligence services of the People's Republic of China. The Lippo empire came to Arkansas that year.
By then, Bill Clinton's ties to organized crime had become well- known. His half-brother Roger Clinton was convicted of cocaine distribution in association with Mob figure and Clinton money man Dan Lasater.
In the years that followed, Arkansas became a major cocaine trans-shipment point for the Mafia, crossing paths with the famous CIA Contra resupply operation at Mena.
Bill Clinton had found a most successful formula in U.S. politics: financial backing from a coalition of organized crime and hostile foreign governments.
A MERGER OF THE DIXIE, CHICAGO AND NEW YORK CRIME FAMILIES
So successful was this formula, that in 1992 Bill Clinton used it to reach the highest office, the office of the U.S. Presidency. In return for large campaign donations, the crime families would be represented in the Clinton administration. The New York Mob paid $56 million [1] and won the slot of Deputy Chief of Staff for its lawyer Harold Ickes. The Dixie Mafia paid an undisclosed amount and obtained slots for Patsy Thomasson and Buddy Young. The Chicago political machine sent Rahm Emanuel and David Wilhelm.
Harold Ickes proved his value to the Mob when he held his hand over Mob puppets Arthur Coia and Ron Carey who were under separate RICO investigations by the Justice Department. Patsy Thomasson, in charge of White House drug testing policy, saw to it that criminal figures on the White House staff would not be bothered about past and current drug use.
The People's Republic of China, in return for at least a $3 million loan through Worthen Bank, won a slot for its spy John Huang at the Commerce Department. Later followed access to advanced U.S. military technology, access to the Long Beach Naval Base, MFN trade status, and more campaign contributions.
Peripheral Mob figures Nathan Landow, Richard Ben-Veniste, and their associates Terry Lenzner and Paul Begala became part of the secret police that would keep Clinton in office despite multiple revelations of criminal offenses. Ironically, the only member of the Clinton enforcement team who has threatened the use of Mafia methods in public is James Carville. He said on television that Kenneth Starr was just one mistake away from not having any kneecaps. "Kneecapping" is a Mafia specialty. Yet the only link between Carville and the Mafia that we have been able to find so far is his partnership with Paul Begala, who admitted in a recent deposition for the Filegate trial that he was in close and frequent contact with his friend Richard Ben-Veniste, a Mob lawyer and friend of Mobster Alvin Malnik [2]. Richard Ben- Veniste has defended several drug traffickers and money launderers for the Mafia and for the DNC. Ben-Veniste also defended Bill Clinton on the Senate Whitewater panel in 1995.
It goes without saying that a Racketeering-Influenced Corrupt Organization such as the Clinton administration cannot stay in office long without a very efficient "enforcement" component to its secret police. The methods employed by this "enforcement" team include murder. The 1993 assassination of Clinton private investigator Jerry Parks was carried out by people in Hot Springs associated with Buddy Young [3]. Of all the mysterious deaths and suicides surrounding the Clinton Secret Police, this is the only one that has been solved. That does not mean that it has been prosecuted, though, for corruption of the judicial system is another necessary component of survival. White House Director of Administration, Patsy Thomasson of the Dixie Mafia, has been implicated in several attempts on the life of Dennis Patrick, a former money launderer for the Dixie Mafia who wanted out [3].
CORRUPTING THE PRESS
Survival of the Clinton administration has also been contingent upon successful corruption of the press. The most prominent Clinton operator at this time is Murray Waas, gaining fame in the mainstream media for finding a psychic in Arkansas whose son had seen money given to Whitewater witness David Hale.
Murray Waas has actually been doing opposition research for the Clinton administration for several years. His journalistic "scoops" (or are they merely ventilations of White House FBI files?) include research into the background of Kenneth Starr and into the background of Clinton critics. In this research, his Mafia-style methods have become apparent. Waas threatened to have reporter Michael Lewis killed after Lewis wrote a New Republic story looking into murder and drugs in Arkansas--a story that was unflattering of Waas [4]. Who does Waas know who would be able to enforce such a threat?
THE MISSING PIECE
If China made illegal donations to the Clinton campaign in return for mercantile and military strategic advantages, then what illegal donations have been made by Russia? The favors Clinton has made towards China pale in comparison to the favors he has made towards Russia. Billions of dollars in economic support and the maintenance of a strategic advantage in favor of Russia through the obstruction and delay of modernization of the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal and the development and deployment of a U.S. national missile defense.
Lest gestures as these be interpreted as prudent engagement of a fledgling democracy, one should consider that it has rarely been the democratic forces in Russia, or the Russian people, that have been the beneficiaries of Clinton administration support:
(1) Clinton's point man on Russia policy is the former KGB's point man on propaganda in the U.S. His name is Strobe Talbott, a former editor at Time magazine who built his career on access to KGB officials and their Soviet propaganda [5].
(2) The Clinton administration has worked hand-in-hand with Russian Mobsters to illegally extradite whistleblowers who have revealed massive KGB-Mafia corruption in Russia [6].
(3) The FBI, through its new offices in Moscow, has become an adjunct of the corrupt KGB-Mafia bureaucracy that rules Russian society today. FBI Director Freeh has reversed himself in stating that the Russian Mafia does not pose a threat to U.S. domestic or national security [7]. Only a month earlier, Freeh had warned that 30 Russian Mafia syndicates were conducting the most sophisticated criminal operations ever seen in America based on their access to expertise in computer technology, encryption techniques and money laundering [8].
(4) Monetary aid to Russia has been diverted towards the modernization of its strategic nuclear arsenal, including a new generation of nuclear attack submarines. Other funds have been diverted to the Russian Mob
(5) The engineer of these scams is Strobe Talbott.
Where are the records of illegal campaign donations invested by the Russian KGB-Mafia complex in the Clinton administration to maintain this profitable state of affairs? Apart from the revelation of a $90,000 donation to the DNC on behalf of suspected nuclear arms dealer Grigory Loutchansky [9], the record of this cash pipeline must be hidden inside the DNC's closely guarded campaign finance records. That is a scandal yet to surface.
THE CLINTON LEGACY
The legacy of the Clinton Presidency is the transformation of the United States into a narco republic with parts of the judicial system as corrupt as that of Colombia. Much worse than that, Bill Clinton has helped build a state-of-the-art offensive nuclear strike capability in the most dangerous nations on earth: China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran. And the nuclear weapons of China and perhaps Russia are targeted at the U.S. Simultaneously with this build-up, Clinton has dismantled, defunded, and starved the U.S. military so that today we have a "hollow army."
The actions of President Clinton will dramatically affect the security of the United States for generations to come. He has sold out his own country in order to win and maintain the Presidency.
Notes:
[1] F.C. "Duke" Zeller in the Washington Times, October 28, 1996
[2] The Miami Herald
[3] "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton," by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
[4] "The Seducer," by Michael Lewis, The New Republic Nov. 18, 1996
[5] "Strobe Talbott: Russia's Man in Washington," by Kenneth R. Timmerman, The American Spectator, April 1998.
[6] "Clinton Administration Aids KGB in Cover-up of Communist Party Loot," Washington Weekly, Aug. 25, 1997.
[7] "Freeh Says Russian Mafia Poses no Threat," Washington Weekly, Nov. 24, 1997
[8] "FBI's man in Moscow quits after spying row," London Telegraph, Nov. 27, 1997.
[9] "Suspected N-dealer attended Clinton fund-raiser," by Christopher Ruddy, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Oct. 30, 1996.
Published in the May 4, 1998 issue of The Washington Weekly Copyright 1998
The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
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".....and thought it would make a good movie, but he had a hard time digging up money to produce it......"
Aw come-on Thomason, you could'a just called the Chicoms, they've got a lot of money to prop up their boy!
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