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| Bill 'Captain Queeg' Clinton Threatens Peter Jennings |
| 2004-11-19 |
| A paranoid-sounding Bill Clinton threatened ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings in an interview broadcast Thursday night, in a bizarre rant about his impeachment that laid bare the ex-president's persecution complex. "You don't want to go here, Peter," Clinton warned, after Jennings told him that historians ranked him second to last of all presidents in terms of moral authority. Squinting his eyes, an angry Clinton seethed, "You don't want to go here. Not after what you people did. And the way you - your network - what you did with Kenneth Starr. The way your people repeated every little sleazy thing he did. No one has any idea of what that's like." The amazing exchange came after Clinton at first claimed he didn't care about the verdict of historians. "I had more support from the world when I quit than when I started," he claimed. "And I will go to my grave being at peace about it. And I don't really care about what [the historians] think." Immediately, Jennings challenged Clinton, all but calling him a liar. "Oh, yes you do . . . Excuse me, Mr. President. I can feel it across the room. You care very deeply." Jennings' challenge sent Clinton into a thinly veiled rage, prompting him to threaten, "You don't want to go here, Peter." The full exchange went like this: JENNINGS (Discussing rankings by presidential historians]: They gave you a forty-first in terms of moral authority - after Nixon. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #20 BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - Like I've always argued, Commie Bill is an enemy to both the GOP-Right and Dems-Left. NO surprise here that he's turning against the LeftMedias that protected him. BY HIS OWN COMMENTS he has all but officially affirmed and verified the superiority of Rightism, the Reagan-Republican economy, and being POTUS due to fraud - THE ONLY ONLY THING THE DEMS CAN CLAIM FORM THE CLINTON 90's IS THAT BILL WAS A REGISTERED DEMOCRAT! That being said, rest assured that even when the Dems admit or infer being wrong, the GOP is still to blame or forced them to lie - gotta wonder how long Bill can play his games without ending up in BELVUE PSYCHIATRIC WARD!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2004-11-19 9:36:43 PM |
| #19 Fox Newx just ran the tape of this interview. Astounding level of self-righteous bullshit. So, in other words, typical Clinton denial and delusion. Upon reflection, I don't know why it was so astonishing to me... perhaps it's because, as a red-stater knuckle-dragger, I can still feel shame. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-11-19 6:44:55 PM |
| #18 Don't be too hard on Clinton. Think this poor guy has been married to Hillary! |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-11-19 4:04:06 PM |
| #17 ...Then he swallowed the ball bearings. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-11-19 3:52:17 PM |
| #16 "Ahh, but the blue dress that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to Monica's closet DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if the press hadn't of pulled me out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow neo-cons......" |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-11-19 2:47:53 PM |
| #15 I'd rather drink with Bill than with Kofi. See how easy politics is? Perhaps Bill's SS detachment will bring the links box. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-11-19 2:40:39 PM |
| #14 Am I the only one who likes both George Bush and John Kerry? Yes, you are. btw I think Bill would be perfect as Kofi's replacement. Who better to soothe the Euros with happy talk as the UN slouches into complete irrelevance? |
| Posted by: lex 2004-11-19 2:35:21 PM |
| #13 Bill seems to be losing it. Did anybody hear his speech at the opening of his library? "Am I the only one who likes both George Bush and John Kerry, who believes they both want what's best for this country, but that they just have different views on how to do it?" Maybe not exact wording, but pretty close. You could hear the people start cheering then shut up like "What the hell?" |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-11-19 2:28:27 PM |
| #12 "You don’t want to go here, Peter",but you can cum here. |
| Posted by: raptor 2004-11-19 1:36:33 PM |
| #11 Eating their own. Priceless. Not just here. See how "progressives" are now insulting Condi with vicious racist insults and stereotyping. Something very very weird is going on now. Crack-up coming. If MoveOn and Mikey and Doonesbury don't get Souljah'ed and slapped down-- hard, and real soon-- then I'm guessing the Democratic Party's on its way toward splitting in two. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-11-19 12:42:27 PM |
| #10 I think LH has it right. Clinton's a brilliant politician, but has utterly no moral direction. Dems in the know look at the Clinton years this way: Lost both houses of Congress, signed welfare reform bill (individual accountability!), passed NAFTA (free markets!), exposed liberal hypocrisy on sexual harassment, cemented national perception that Dems can't be trusted to defend the country, etc. If a Republican president had done all that to the Dems, we'd be naming buildings after him. |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2004-11-19 12:38:01 PM |
| #9 I smell a rat. Was this staged by ABC? Trying to prove to their diminishing audience that they're not in the tank with Rather and Pinch's NYT? |
| Posted by: lex 2004-11-19 10:56:53 AM |
| #8 Oh btw, was Bill rolling ball bearings in his hand? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-19 10:52:55 AM |
| #7 Eating their own. Priceless. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-19 10:52:01 AM |
| #6 Jennings got a wiff of blood in the water and the shark in him took a nibble. He'll soon be remorseful and do puff piece on Clinton and ramp up the Bush bashing to attone. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2004-11-19 10:28:55 AM |
| #5 only a few parts of the press, like Salon and the WaPo were really with Clinton. NYT had it in for him and was a lead in attacking from whitewater on, and the networks were mixed. The real left never forgave clinton for taking the Dems to the center. Lots of mindless dem partisans missed the distinction, but the smart folks didnt. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-11-19 9:49:36 AM |
| #4 WTF? The press went out of it's way to attack Ken Starr and cover Bill's backside. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-11-19 9:45:41 AM |
| #3 You don't want ot go here = what's your frequency Kenneth? |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-11-19 9:30:24 AM |
| #2 I still can't get out of my mind the sleazy image that the President of the United States hid in the back hall of the Oval Office and "did not have sex with that woman" but stained her dress -- and now he calls Kenneth Starr sleazy for just extracting the truth? |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-11-19 9:26:27 AM |
| #1 Jennings grow a spine suddenly? Where'd this come from? |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-11-19 9:20:56 AM |