Posted on 04/08/2005 4:28:02 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Leave it to Slick Willy to offer the tawdriest, mostly cheaply political homage to the Pope. At the same time, Der Schlickmeister utterly balked at answering the question as to the Pope's question and managed to depict his conservatism as a character flaw.
Here's how it went down. Katie Couric interviewed Brian Williams, who had interviewed Clinton. Apparently the interview will be shown on tonight's NBC Evening News and Williams was there essentially to tease tonight's segment.
They mentioned that all three Presidents - the two Bushes and Clinton - had been invited to be interviewed but that Clinton had been "the kindest" as the only one to accept the invitation.
As to the vulgar praise, as has already been widely reported, Clinton stated that "the Pope knew how to work a crowd and build a crowd."
But here's the tidbit that I have not seen elsewhere to date. Williams flatly asked Clinton: "when the history of the 20th century is written, where will the Pope rank among the greatest figures?"
Perhaps afraid of offending his liberal base, Clinton took a total pass on the question. He never called the Pope, surely one of the 20th centuries very most towering figures, great at all.
To the contrary, here was his answer: "no matter how conservative [read: bad] he might have been, the Pope did reach out to Orthodox Christians, Jews, Muslims and African animists."
That was it. THAT WAS IT.
Not a word about the man's incomparable moral stature. Not a paen to the central role he played in saving the world from Communism. Not a word of his greatness. Nope. The only praise was that the Pope was . . . a multiculturalist. Sickening.
Today Show Clinton's-depravity-knows-no-bounds ping.
Hopefully some of his fans recognized it,
It sounds like the former president lacked a prepared answer to the question. I never cease being amazed at how pathetic he is under the covers.
Stunning... absolutely stunning!
Bubba Jeffy Klintoon: ME, ME, ME, ME, ME!
Besides, communists like Bill Clinton will never praise Pope John Paul, for it is he, along with Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, that defeated communism.
It's been said before GLGB, but you are one hardy sould to stand in there and watch this dreck so the rest of us don't have to.
No, narcissism. Clinton could never acknowledge another as great. To do so would, in his mind, detract from his own greatness. Plus, Hill's friends despise this Pope and he cannot offend them.
Pardon the cheap pun, but I would have thought you would have had more regard for an ex-President who, after all, shares your profession ;-)
I think that is a significant factor. Willy didn't want to say anything positive about the Pope that could be thrown back in Hillary's face in 2008 when she is on the campaign trail waxing poetic about "a woman's right to choose."
Thank you for this info
I'll be sure to watch it so that I can make sure I know exactly what the POS had to say
Nice to see how NBC made this day to be all about Bubba / sarcasm >
Have they no shame?
The today show should have known better than to ask Evil Willie anything about morality -- they should have asked him "who killed Suzanne Coleman?"
"Bill Clinton..."
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No. Katie even giggled about how she and Brian were doing a good job of "teasing" his show tonight.
Clinton is not only contemptable, he's ignorant.
I hear that Clinton (seeing the huge throngs of people) had the bad taste to make a comment about the Pope yesterday to a reporter very much like: "This guy really knows how to draw a crowd." If someone has the actual quote, I'd like to see it. I heard it read this morning and thought Clinton had lost his last degree of good sense, if he ever had any in the first place.
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