Posted on 11/18/2004 8:08:30 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004 10:30 p.m. EST Bill 'Captain Queeg' Clinton Threatens Peter Jennings
A paranoid-sounding Bill Clinton threatened ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings in an interview broadcast Thursday night, in a bizarre rant about his impeachment that laid bare the ex-president's persecution complex.
"You don't want to go here, Peter," Clinton warned, after Jennings told him that historians ranked him second to last of all presidents in terms of moral authority.
Squinting his eyes, an angry Clinton seethed, "You don't want to go here. Not after what you people did. And the way you - your network - what you did with Kenneth Starr. The way your people repeated every little sleazy thing he did. No one has any idea of what that's like." The amazing exchange came after Clinton at first claimed he didn't care about the verdict of historians.
"I had more support from the world when I quit than when I started," he claimed. "And I will go to my grave being at peace about it. And I don't really care about what [the historians] think."
Immediately, Jennings challenged Clinton, all but calling him a liar.
"Oh, yes you do . . . Excuse me, Mr. President. I can feel it across the room. You care very deeply."
Jennings' challenge sent Clinton into a thinly veiled rage, prompting him to threaten, "You don't want to go here, Peter."
The full exchange went like this:
JENNINGS (Discussing rankings by presidential historians]: They gave you a forty-first in terms of moral authority - after Nixon.
CLINTON: They're wrong about that. You know why they're wrong about it? They're wrong about it.
JENNINGS: Why, sir?
CLINTON: Because we had $100 million spent against us in all these inspections . . . In spite of it all, you don't have any example where I ever lied to the American people about my job, where I have let the American people down. And I had more support from the world when I quit than when I started. And I will go to my grave being at peace about it. And I don't really care about what they think.
JENNINGS: Oh, yes you do.
CLINTON: They have no idea . . .
JENNINGS: Excuse me, Mr. President. I can feel it across the room. You care very deeply.
CLINTON: No, no. I care. In care. You don't want to go here, Peter. You don't want to go here. Not after what your people did. And the way you - your network - what you did with Kenneth Starr. The way your people repeated every little sleazy thing he did. No one has any idea of what that's like.
And the fact that he isn't constantly confronted with that is amazing.
He can parse his words all he wants, but the *job* of the president is 24/7.
Ever notice the Liberal-Socialists today seem to operate with a pack mentality?
And no where is that any clearer.
...than with Liberal-Socialist quisling mediots.
I will say this about the media -- people talk like they totally gave Clinton a free ride, and they may have gone easier on him than Bush, but they did give him a full ration of Sh't during his administration. It wasn't loveydovey, lovey dovey all the time.
Oh yes he does. Thats why he is always trying to rewrite history. Just ask Sandy Burglar..
Clinton should have known this interview was different when he didn't see Jennings wearing his knee-pads.
Sorta.
Look Rocky my friend, you gotta remember I'm no Clinton, OK?
...simply impossible to beat the best. :o)
Nixon did not go out the door trailing presidential pardons to a long string of criminals, low-lifes, and contributors. Clinton should be dead last in morals.
You have a point. Clinton is a charming, dangerous, baldfaced lying sociopath and Kerry is just plain nuts. That's very scarey.
Laura's show last night was hilarious.
I would give Rather the nod for taking his career down in blazes by using forged documents to try and falsely accuse a sitting Republican president.
You forgot to parse it, after all it is Clinton. Here's what he said:
"In spite of it all, you don't have any example where I ever lied to the American people about my job"
Clinton is such a narcissist, he wants attention all the time, and now he's discovered he's irrelevant. Laura Ingraham mentioned last night that he was so desperate for attention that he showed up uninvited at a high school to see a show. The RATs can talk all they want about Clinton magic and how they need it to recapture the WH, but even with Hill running 24/7, Clinton is just a walkon. God forbid she should win, but if she did, she'd make damn sure he had no power and less voice. Yesterday was his swan song.
The presidents job is 24/7, he's always on the *job*.....afterall he was in the Oval when a lot of this happened....he can parse this all he wants.
Don Wade & Roma are going to discuss the peetah jennings interview NOW of WLSam.com (forgot how to make a link).
That's really funny!!!!
I don't need a link..I can pick them up on the radio....
Wow. Did he fail to get oxygen to his brain during his surgery?
Your reply was interesting, to say the least!
I failed to see any mention of the section where Clinton denies the allegations that he could have made a deal to secure OBL.
IMO, this was what motivated Sandy Berger's escapade with the 911 commission and the pilfered documents. This is from an excerpted transcript off the ABC site.
On His Attempts to Capture Osama Bin Laden
"If you look at the 9/11 Commission's report about what we did, and how we prepared for, we had 9/11-style threats for the millennium. And the extent of our preparations, and the work we did, the number of terrorists we brought to justice, the 20 al Qaeda cells we broke up, if you look at all that, and the fact that we apparently still came closer to getting bin Laden than anybody has since, even though they have a lot more options -- military options -- than we had -- I wish that I had gotten him. "
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