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Posted on 03/10/2003 9:08:25 AM PST by Mia T
YOO-HOO DON HEWITT
WANT A LITTLE MORE EDGE?
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Former Sen. Bob Dole says he's displeased with first '60 Minutes' debate
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole says he's displeased with the first of at least 10 debates against former President Bill Clinton that will air on "60 Minutes."
The two 1996 presidential opponents taped a debate Thursday morning about the wisdom of a tax cut in wartime. It will air Sunday.
"I think it needs to be a little tougher," Dole said Friday before speaking at a Lincoln Day dinner held by Guilford County Republicans. "It needs to have a little more edge to it for people to be interested."
Clinton picked the first topic and Dole will choose the next.
Each of the debates will feature about 45 seconds of commentary from each man.
"I don't know how they'll get it into 60 minutes," Dole said. "To try to get (Clinton) to say anything in 45 seconds is pretty hard."
Both men are spouses of U.S. senators. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., were "both terrified" about what their husbands may say, Clinton has said. |
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Hillary Clinton's equal and inapposite reactions seem to be, at first blush, instances of the immutable First Law of The Betrayed and Humiliated Wife: Outdo the errant hubby's doxy...at all cost.
Thus, Vanity Fair's glamorous Marilyn-Monroe spread of Monica's digitally reduced spread was answered by Vogue's lushly Elizabethan, gauzy-focus, hindquarter-cropped-pleated-and-flounced, Queen-Hillary-for-President cover.
And now we have Hillary Clinton doing a Martha Stewart, who herself, is purported to have been "done" by the aforementioned errant rogue (notwithstanding the plain fact that Martha is more well-known for her tarts than for being one).
Seems Hillary Clinton is now writing a book titled "An Invitation to the White House" in which she will follow the format of the Martha Stewart classic, "Entertaining", claim multifarious Martha-Stewart talents and wrap her indecorous and corrupt, backwoods, backroom style of White House "entertaining" in Martha-Stewart elegance and purity. (NB: Written years before Martha ImPloded.)
"The Clinton White House has been noted for the...innovation of its events," said Carolyn Reidy, president of Simon & Schuster's Trade Division, the book's publisher.
Hillary Clinton's spokeswoman, Marsha Berry, added that the book will focus on how the Clintons have "advanced the availability" of the White House by increasing the number and diversity of people; that it will "highlight the access that the Clintons have given to more people, more types of entertainment..."
It should be emphasized that it was without even a trace of irony or the slightest smirk that both women related the above.
On closer inspection, Hillary Clinton's bizarre behavior is more than simple Ivana Trump-eting. It is vulgar, compulsive, shameless, smarmy, contemptuous, demagogic, megalomaniacal, in-your-face naked clintonism.
It is one thing for the frumpy, chipmunk-cheek, huge-hindquarter fishwife to insinuate her image -- albeit Elizabethan-shrouded and low-res-clouded -- onto the cover of Vogue; but it is quite another for the corrupt harpy to trumpet White House access even as new charges emerge of the clintons' rapes and other predations, of the clintons' corrupt quid-pro-quo arrangements with a menacing and motley assortment of drug dealers, gun runners and nuclear weapons makers.
For Hillary Clinton to vaunt White House access just as the clintons' China treason is becoming increasingly, patently manifest to all requires a certain level of contempt for the people and for the country that is uniquely clinton.
Thank heaven for small favors...
Or as the real Martha Stewart would say, |
Thanks!
Clinton on the Dole By The Prowler Published 3/7/2003 12:06:00 AM Washington Prowler A rapist is a coward by definition...
Do not be mislead by her stridence -- the co-rapist is a bigtime coward, too.
CLINTON BROADCASTING SYSTEM
According to several CBS entertainment division and news division sources,there was internal oppposition to pairing former Sen. Bob Dole with former President Bill Clinton in the new "commentary" feature on the newsmagazine show, "60 Minutes."
"It's putting a heavyweight up against a lightweight, an unfair fight," says one entertainment division employee based in New York. "It was clear they wanted Clinton and, really, only Clinton. But they knew they couldn't get away with that, so they got Dole."
According to another news source, names other than Dole were bandied about: former Rep. Newt Gingrich, outgoing Georgia Republican Party director Ralph Reed, William Bennett, even former presidential candidate Steve Forbes.
"But Clinton's people were adament about who they would let their boss appear with, and they were especially sensitive about not wanting anyone who was directly involved with the whole Monica Lewinsky/impeachment thing. That kind of emptied the swimming pool."
"The dream team would have been Clinton and Rush Limbaugh," says another CBS News staffer. "I don't know that it was talked about seriously, but we were all aware that that combination would have been an amazing ratings coup. I mean, the Nielsen numbers would just spike for that segment, you know it. And it would have been a fair fight."
But Limbaugh would have been a nonstarter with Clinton, who has been chasing down every TV opportunity that has arisen. Nothing has quite fit his schedule or his requirement that the workload be comparatively light, until now. He will appear on air for no more than 90 seconds during the segment, and be paid a six-figure salary to do it.
In the past, Clinton has turned down other media roles for stated reasons such, they would undercut the dignity of his position or concern that he not appear to be campaigning against the Bush Administration. But apparently $1 million and going up against an 80 year retiree was too good an opportunity to turn down.
"Dole isn't a patsy; he was a good choice to go up against Clinton," says a CBS news producer. "Limbaugh? Gingrich? This is a former president we're talking about. Next people will be saying we should have signed Ann Coulter to do it."
HEARTLESS
It wasn't just Sen. Bob Graham's staff spinning why their boss wasn't going to be in Washington to vote in the ongoing Miguel Estrada drama. The Democrat from Florida was still in his home state recuperating from heart surgery. Meanwhile, campaign aides from North Carolina Sen. John Edwards' camp were also out and about, highlighting the fact that the potential competitor to their boss's presidential aspirations was home healing a bad ticker. Graham is, to date, the only other Southerner even hinting that he will enter the Democratic primary.
All in good taste of course. 'Pod
Well Annie? How about it? You could wear a blue dress on the first show. < grin>
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