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Clinton Rages at BBC for Quizzing Him Over Monica
Yahoo News ^ | 6/21/04

Posted on 06/21/2004 1:35:17 PM PDT by marshmallow

LONDON (AFP) - Former US president Bill Clinton (news - web sites) lost his temper during a BBC interview after being repeatedly asked if he was genuine in voicing regret over his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Clinton, revving up a publicity campaign ahead of the release Tuesday of his memoirs, bristled at relentless questioning about the affair with the White House intern by veteran BBC interviewer David Dimbleby, according to British newspapers.

The Times said Monday that Clinton, known for being media savvy and cheerful in public, let out a rant that lasted several minutes.

"As outbursts go, it is not just some flash that is over in an instant. It is something substantial and sustained," said a BBC executive who viewed the interview, according to the Sunday Telegraph.

The weekly said Clinton then branched out into an attack on media intrusion into the private lives of public figures.

Britain's public broadcaster will air the Clinton interview Tuesday, in step with the release of his much-awaited memoirs.

While the book recounts key global events of the charismatic Clinton's two-term presidency -- Kosovo, the Middle East, Somalia -- public interest in the 957-page tome has focused on the Lewinsky affair, one of the "old demons" that nearly brought down the world's most powerful man.

In leaked excerpts of the book and interviews ahead of its release, Clinton describes the Lewinsky affair as a moral failing, says he worried about losing the love of his daughter Chelsea and confesses that his marriage was salvaged by a year of intensive marital counseling.


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KEYWORDS: angrycrat; insaneclinton; mylife
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1 posted on 06/21/2004 1:35:17 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

I can imagine the rant beginning with, "how dare you ask me about Monica Lewinsky, we agreed to a friendly interview in advance!"


2 posted on 06/21/2004 1:38:14 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: marshmallow

I just want someone to tell me that there's a way that I can see or at least hear this.


3 posted on 06/21/2004 1:38:56 PM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: marshmallow

Are we going to be able to see this?

It says it will be broadcast, but can we see it in the US?


4 posted on 06/21/2004 1:39:54 PM PDT by texasflower (in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
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To: marshmallow
Yeah, I can see the tantrum. Go figure.

one of the "old demons" that nearly brought down the world's most powerful man.

World's most powerful man? I thought this was about Clinton, not someone powerful.

5 posted on 06/21/2004 1:41:17 PM PDT by Jaded (Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain)
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To: marshmallow
Clinton Rages at BBC for Quizzing Him Over Monica

Why? ...It's the cause for what is probably your Administrations biggest positive accomplishment: Tying up government so it can't change tax laws back and forth to a substantial degree. This was an enormous boon to the economy.

6 posted on 06/21/2004 1:41:36 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: marshmallow

They should be asking him about the rapes.


7 posted on 06/21/2004 1:42:33 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: lepton

Absolument!


8 posted on 06/21/2004 1:42:47 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: marshmallow

"Y'ever hear of 'Arkancide', son?"


9 posted on 06/21/2004 1:43:44 PM PDT by theDentist ("John Kerry changes positions more often than a Nevada prostitute.")
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To: Jaded

Must have been uncomfortable for Bill. Sitting there without the reporters nose between his cheeks. Probably felt vulnerable.


10 posted on 06/21/2004 1:43:53 PM PDT by IamConservative (A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.)
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To: marshmallow

If it weren't for the American media handling this psychopath with kid gloves, he'd never have elected president.


11 posted on 06/21/2004 1:44:17 PM PDT by Spok
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To: marshmallow
Clinton, revving up a publicity campaign ahead of the release Tuesday of his memoirs, bristled at relentless questioning about the affair with the White House intern by veteran BBC interviewer David Dimbleby, according to British newspapers.

More Clinton pathology-- "YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE EVERYTHING I SAY!" Very Kerry-esque, as well.

12 posted on 06/21/2004 1:45:36 PM PDT by atomicpossum (I give up! Entropy, you win!)
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To: marshmallow

I would find it very surprising if the book is interesting even to his followers (to read, not just to buy). Clinton's popularity is a personality cult. It relies on emotional impression, which can only really be delivered verbally. His speeches, in written form, are just a meandering trail of contradictions and verications. Only in verbal form can his empathic drive come across - especially to those who are not already cultists.


13 posted on 06/21/2004 1:46:14 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: marshmallow
confesses that his marriage was salvaged by a year of intensive marital counseling.

Woaaaa....dude...and like you paid someone to do that?

14 posted on 06/21/2004 1:46:29 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: marshmallow
..confesses that his marriage was salvaged by a year of intensive marital counseling.

"I'll get you a an apartment Hillary, and some fine women, for about a year. By then it should all blow over."

15 posted on 06/21/2004 1:48:01 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: marshmallow

I wonder if this is all a ruse, like when they let out the rumor that he had angrily stalked off during his grand jury testimony?


16 posted on 06/21/2004 1:48:44 PM PDT by MarkeyD (<a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/about/">Three Paper Cuts and I'm Out</a>)
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To: marshmallow

Interesting that Clinton's concerns about Chelsea is whether or not he will lose her love. No mention about worrying whether he is a good parent or roll model in spite of serial womanizing and all the attendant publicity. Only whether he'll lose her "love". It is, after all, about him. Well, there's no news here. He's consistent. He's really, really consistent.


17 posted on 06/21/2004 1:49:38 PM PDT by Max7
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Clinton should just stick to the alphabet (i.e. Dan Rather style) channel interviews....


18 posted on 06/21/2004 1:51:09 PM PDT by fhlh ("Work Harder.... Millions of people on welfare are counting on you!!!")
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To: theDentist

Did Flubba try pelting him with Big Macs?


19 posted on 06/21/2004 1:51:29 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: Clara Lou

Last night Drudge had a picture of Clinton posted, I assume
during the interview. It was a side view, he was
clinching his jaw to the max. His nose was purple and
his right jaw, all up the side of his face was knotted
up and purple, absolutely reddish purple.


20 posted on 06/21/2004 1:51:44 PM PDT by Twinkie
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