Dave Schippers Comments on Prof. Scranton's "CLINTON 101" at U of Arkansas

dfu conversation with Dave Schippers | 1-29-03 | dfu

[doug from upland]

Dave Schippers, author of SELLOUT and the man chosen by Henry Hyde to prosecute the Clinton impeachment, returned my call after he got back from court this morning. For the record, Schippers was a lifelong Democrat and had twice voted for Clinton. In a previous interview, he had told me that when Hyde called him to work on the case, he only expected to have a couple weeks of work. Schippers was "astounded by the amount of criminality" he discovered

He had a hearty laugh as I told him about the CLINTON 101 course being taught by Prof. Margaret Scranton at the U of Arkansas. He had a bigger laugh and was not surprised to learn that Prof. Scranton would not be talking about Juanita Broaddrick.

"Of course she won't," he said. It's Arkansas. Clinton has never talked about."

I let Schippers know that Scranton was on WABC last week with Batchelor & Alexander denying knowledge about the Broaddrick charges. This after I sent her Broaddrick info three weeks ago and she thanking me for sending her the information.

According to Schippers, "Teaching a course on Clinton without mentioning Broaddrick is like teaching a course on Napoleon and not mentioning the retreat from Moscow. It's nuts."

Schippers was pleased that I had given his office number to Prof. Scranton if she needed help in developing course material. "I will be pleased to talk to her anytime," he said.

He also loved the idea about FReepers delivering tapes of Juanita's interview on NBC to the students in the class.

Is anyone up for this FReep? We need copies of the video and someone who can deliver them to the students as they are walking into her classroom.

[Michael.SF.]

Rumor has it that him and Jesse sometimes fought over the same woman.

fought?

Or shared?

[geedee]

Strange that you should ask that.

[freekitty]

I agree with you.

[broomhilda]

Amazing. Another protection racket. I wonder how much he got paid by whom to sponsor this bill.

[Travelgirl]

There is a Republican group on campus. I would pass out copies of the Lisa Meyers's interview to the students in that class if I had some.

[doug from upland]

I am trying to get one and make copies. If you could deliver material to them, that would be great. You know, we don't need 40 copies. We just need one student to bring in the video and ask the prof to play it. It would be nice to know if there is an actual young Republican in the class.