Note that even Bill Clinton Finished Third in Battle for Campaign Coverage
Posted on 2/14/2008, 2:58:53 AM by LdSentinal
On WMAL-AM yesterday in an interview with Chris Plante, former President Bill Clinton implied the media has been unfair to his wife, stated that she was standing up to sexism when she took on NBC, and -- when asked about MSNBC's David Shuster's comments about his daughter, Chelsea -- said there was a double standard.
"If he had made a racial slur against Senator Obama, he would have been fired," Clinton said.
Of his wife's recent travails, he said, "the caucuses aren't good for her. They disproportionately favor upper-income voters who, who, don't really need a president but feel like they need a change."
(An interesting description of caucus voters, and upper-income voters, to say the least.)
"I think she has been the underdog ever since Iowa," Clinton said. "She’s had, you know, a lot of the politicians, like Senator Kennedy, opposed to her. She’s had, the political press has avowedly played a role in this election. I've never seen this before."
He said they'd done well considering their slim budget. "We've gotten plenty of delegates on a shoestring," he said.
He did not mention that his wife's campaign has raised more than $140 million.
Asked Plante: "You said, Mr. President, that the political press has played a role in this. Do you think the press has been unfair to Senator Clinton, and excessively generous to Barack Obama?
Clinton said of the press, "they’ve been active participants in this election, and you know what the objective studies done. And they’ve, many of them are willing to be quoted on the record. But I don’t want to talk about the press. I want to talk about the people. That’s what’s wrong with this election, people trying to take this election away from the people."
Plante asked about Sen. Clinton's reaction to the comments Shuster made about Chelsea being "pimped out" by the campaign: "There have been other incidents on MSNBC, where Keith Olbermann, for example, said President Bush was pimping General David Petraeus, where Erin Burnett referred to President Bush twice as 'the monkey,'" Plante said. "Inappropriate things are said by the press. Do you believe it’s really appropriate for senior government leaders to come down on reporters when they become angry with things that they’ve said?"
Said Clinton, slowly, "I think it was inappropriate for him... to refer ...to my daughter ….in the way he did."
He went on, "it was representative of the kind of blatant, careless, crass, cruel remarks that are altogether too common. And I wouldn’t use disrespectful language referring to General Petraeus or anybody else. But I think that it is remarkable how many sexist things have been said in this campaign that have not been reprimanded.
"Hillary never complains when people say things about her or me. But when he involved my daughter, she complained, and I think it was the right thing to do.
"Look, free speech runs two ways, they had to decide, MSNBC decided, they have certainly given their reporters a lot of latitude, their commentators. But free speech runs two ways. And I think that when somebody says something like that, if he had been, made a racial slur against Senator Obama, he would have been fired."
Added the president, "She just stuck up for her daughter, and for girls everywhere, and women everywhere, and it’s about time somebody did after a lot of the rhetoric we’ve been through in this election."
Bill — the poor, aggrieved victim.
He did not mention that his wife's campaign has raised more than $140 million.
LOL. Seems like no one wants to buy what the clintards are selling anymore.
Note that even Bill Clinton Finished Third in Battle for Campaign Coverage
Well, if anyone knows about the three ‘Cs’.......
It would be Slick.
What about all the "party girl" jokes and "drunken sluts" comments about the Bush twins? Far more crass than "pimping out Chelsea".
WTF Willy, you used the White House as a brothel, you set the standards, the media is following your lead.
Clinton is the demonspawn of Woodrow Wilson and Margeret Sanger.
What in the heck does this mean???
Actually, I have viewed this as a comment about Hil and Bill rather than a slur about Chelsea. After all, who “pimps out” but the pimps?
Translation: - "She can't even get the endorsement of a drunken, serial sex abuser, and scofflaw. I would have sworn we had that demographic locked down."
HEY BILL!! TAKE A MULLIGAN. RUB SOME DIRT ON IT. WALK IT OFF.
Was he drunk?
The last paragraph of the article is very telling! Since when did he respect women?
....and the Clinton RICO Machine won't think twice about voiding Dem popular primary voters and pandering to the Superdelegates to throw Barry under the bus! The Clintons WILL try to take this election away from the people in any way they can. Don't they realize that "this is personal"? It is supposed to be a coronation and a payback to the "wronged wife".
Hey, billyboy! You're just highlighting your real "legacy" with this kind of whining!
Which is worse Slick, the media’s suggestion that you and lovely are using (pimping) your daughter OR your actual sexual abuse of Monica? How do you think that Monica’s mother felt? How about Juanita? Do you think that her family views you as an abuser? You are truly pathetic........
I love the smell of desperation.
Whining isn’t going to save her Thighness Bill.
In Clinton’s mind, Hillary becoming President will invalidate his Impeachment.
He wants back into the White House so bad!
Hummm that coming from the King of Crass and Cruel..
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