Posted on 01/23/2008 4:20:52 PM PST by Conservatives_Unite
Bill Clinton Unloads on Press By Anne E. Kornblut Former president Bill Clinton lashed out in response to criticism on Wednesday from a prominent Democrat in South Carolina, accusing the Obama campaign of running a political smear campaign against him through the media. "You live for this," Clinton snapped at CNN reporter Jessica Yellin when she asked him to comment on statements by Dick Harpootlian, the former South Carolina Democratic party chairman, who said recent distortions by the Clintons are "reprehensible." Harpootlian, who backed the Clintons in the 1990s and now supports Sen. Barack Obama, had compared Clinton's distortions to the dirty tricks campaigns run by the infamous Republican operative Lee Atwater. After an event on Wednesday in South Carolina, Yellin approached the former president and asked him to respond to Harpootlian's remarks. Clinton let loose on camera, chastising the reporter for asking him about political conflict rather than the substance of the meeting he had just held. "You're asking me about this, you sat through this whole meeting. Not one single, solitary soul asked about any of this. And they never do." Referring to the Obama campaign, Clinton said: "They are feeding you this because they know this is what you want to cover." As Clinton's aides tried to steer him out the door, he continued to scold back in Yellin's direction: "Shame on you."
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Clinton, not Spears.
Bill has no gratitude. If the press hadn’t been spinning his scandals like a jet turbine, public outrage would have resulted in his removal from office and criminal prosecution. How else could there not have been an inquiry over FBI filegate and Vince Foster, if the media hadn’t played them down? The Clintons don’t own the media; the media owns them.
Ah, our unisex president...
It seems that Clinton has been tossing out shame at others quite a lot lately, for someone who is shameless.
-PJ
And don’t forget cocaine sniffer...
How about “Bill Clinton Unloads, Sinking Campaign” or “Bill Clinton Unloads, Hillary relegated to clean up mess” or “Campaign os so close, it’s a toss off between Obama and Clinton camps.”
Perhaps Monica can make a suggestion, she's used to Bills loads...
The Clintons are users if they think it will help them - I believe that deep in their hearts (he from segragated AK and she from a rich, upscale Il enclave) that they have the shared opinion that blacks are ‘help’ - various forms but ‘help’ nevertheless - think Secret Service or the military - for their benefit but not on the team. She would never choose a negro - he would get more coverage than she.
Now he’s hollering at a CNN reporter? My, my. I guess the Clintons can’t rely on the press any more to cover their butts.
“They are globalists”
Let me help you out here. They’re globalists if they and their friends can get a piece of the action. Look at Sandy Berger.
I'd love to see Obama go 3rd party.
Homeland Security has issued a Bimbo Eruption Alert.
Wait until his sexual adventures from 2001-2008 will be front pages news :)
The local press always goes to him for a good one-liner.
That hints to me that this is probably all staged.
Didn’t Hillary say she had seen Mahatma Gandhi working at a gas station?
I think maybe we give the Clintons too much credit.
Bill acting like a nutcase cannot be seen as good by rational people ...
Oh, wait ...
A somewhat unfortunate headline.
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