Billy Jeff Begs the Press to Revisit Hillary’s Past Scandals
posted at 5:34 pm on January 5, 2008 by Patterico
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Below, Allahpundit catches Bill Clinton in his familiar self-pity mode:
“Nobody would like it better than us if you could get that personal vilification out of there, because nobody’s been vilified more than we have,” he said, after noting that he thought Hillary and McCain could run a respectful campaign. “One of the problems with laying down and turning the other cheek is McCain had one dose of it. They gave it to us for eight years.
“And the fact of the matter is, independent voters think you’re polarizing if someone else attacks you, even if that someone is Rush Limbaugh, even if you’ve been totally exonerated of every single charge ever leveled against you, which Hillary was — and some people forgot to tell you about that,” he said, jabbing again at the press.
I want to put to the side for the moment the issue of whether voters are eager to hear four or eight more years of Billy Jeff’s self-indulgent whining martyr talk. I have a more relevant question:
Hillary has been totally exonerated of every charge ever leveled against her?
As we all know, the press considers Hillary’s skeletons in the closet to be old news. But if there was ever a reason for Big Media to resurrect the Hillary Controversies from past years, this is it. It’s an invitation to do so.
It’s relevant to the question of whether Billy is telling the truth about her total exoneration.
Let’s just have a taste, from a 2000 CNN story:
Independent Counsel Robert Ray’s final report on the White House travel office case found first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s testimony in the matter was “factually false,” but concluded there were no grounds to prosecute her.
Total Exoneration!
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Right, but you and I know it will never happen unless bloggers like you make it happen.
Thanks for what you do.
petefrt on January 5, 2008 at 5:38 PM
Where’s Billy Jeff been, these past eight years, when W has been villified?
He could only dream of the villification Bush has received!
ToddonCapeCod on January 5, 2008 at 5:57 PM
Since John Gotti is no longer with us, I think Billy Jeff has earned himself the title of Teflon Don. Capiche?
CP on January 5, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Wait, are you accusing the Former President of lying?
The guy actually tried to parse the word “is”. Is there’s anyone anywhere that takes him at his word?
trubble on January 5, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Fixed.
Bill must have somehow inadvertently got the word ‘been” in there as surely he could not have forgotten all the vilifying that he and Hillary and their operatives did of Jennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willy, Anita Broderick, Monica Lewinsky, etc., etc., more etc., still more etc.
MB4 on January 5, 2008 at 6:02 PM
I really expect nothing less from the lying slut of a husband in defense of his lying b1tch of a wife.
Patrick S on January 5, 2008 at 6:05 PM
I must have missed it.
When did Gary Hart join the Klintoon Campaign?
fogw on January 5, 2008 at 6:08 PM
It depends on the meaning of the word “total.”
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on January 5, 2008 at 6:12 PM
I’m going to guess he was using his finger? That visual picture is all I needed to read, nuff said!
abinitioadinfinitum on January 5, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Funny how Bill is like Dan Rather. Both got pushed out, and both are desperately trying to say it ain’t so. Now Bill is being pushed out a second time, and by his own team. He’ll crack. She’ll melt. No schadenfreude, sheer freude.
JiangxiDad on January 5, 2008 at 6:25 PM
Sounds like HillBilly just said: “Bring. It. On.”
Such bravado seems to deserve an answering. Alas, it’ll never happen, though. Shame that.
Additional, gratuitous sentence fragment added at no extra charge. Pride that.
Tuning Spork on January 5, 2008 at 6:26 PM
No Schadenfreude, just Freude :)
But they are both premature. Let her make it in the primaries. It will hurt this classless couple more to be beaten by their own, but it is much better for us to have them around in Nov.
Entelechy on January 5, 2008 at 6:29 PM
One of the problems with laying down and turning the other cheek is McCain had one dose of it. They gave it to us for eight years.
Did we ever conclusively figure out who did that dirty trick stuff to McCain? I know it’s always been blamed on Karl Rove, I wouldn’t put that past the Clinton Crime Syndicate either. It was all very Primary Colors.
It really would have been a brilliant strategy:
Knock out a top contender for the General election who just won NH, then taint the other likely candidate you would face by making it look like they are dirty tricksters.
/tin foil hat.
Buy Danish on January 5, 2008 at 6:36 PM
I vacillate between preferring Clinton or Obama in the general. Your point that she is easier to beat than Obama is well taken, and Allah’s that we will have to confront Obama sooner or later, so why not when he is weakest, is also valid.
Can we settle for a bloodied and bruised, embarrassed, belittled and wounded Hill in the general?
I woke from an afternoon nap today amazed (and reluctantly impressed) that the over-60 year old woman Hillary Clinton is, is such an amazing force to be reckoned with. Bill looks to be fading fast, but Hillary endures. Women often amaze me in ways I never expect.
JiangxiDad on January 5, 2008 at 6:39 PM
I’ll settle for any kind of Hillary in the fall. She’s a known phony, full of garbage (nice term). He’s an empty into whom they’ll project all kinds of human/superhuman traits/capabilities. Also, nothing, but nothing, rallies this side like a Clinton.
p.s. I refrain…hard as it is…from commenting on your latter point :)
Entelechy on January 5, 2008 at 6:45 PM
I can see it now.
Tonight on CNN, tune in and watch Anderson Cooper and his three-hour special investigative report …….
“Hillary Clinton, Keeping it Honest”
Exclusive interviews with: George Stephanopoulus, James Carville, Paul Begala, Ann Lewis, Terry McCauliffe, Lanny Davis, Bruce Lindsay and Harold Ickes.
fogw on January 5, 2008 at 6:47 PM
I didn’t have to say the thought occurred to me after taking a nap. I left myself wide open intentionally. It was utter submission, as I have learned after being married almost 30 years.
JiangxiDad on January 5, 2008 at 6:49 PM
Bill and Hill, what a pair of liars.
Zorro on January 5, 2008 at 6:51 PM
I’m telling you, he is doing his level best, w/o making it too obvious, to sink her. For whatever reason, he does not want her to win.
TheBigOldDog on January 5, 2008 at 7:04 PM
Bring it on!
Buy Danish on January 5, 2008 at 7:19 PM
re: TheBigOldDog 7:04pm
heh…I can think of many reasons. And I hope he gets his deepest desire.
Sink Hillary.
bridgetown on January 5, 2008 at 7:25 PM
Lewis “Scooter” Libby would be held to a lesser standard.
So much for perjury laws.
Kini on January 5, 2008 at 7:42 PM
Bill wants us to feel his pain.
jgapinoy on January 5, 2008 at 7:45 PM
Was Hillary also aboard the Monkey Business?
jgapinoy on January 5, 2008 at 7:47 PM
You are so right, methinks.
inviolet on January 5, 2008 at 8:02 PM
The only reason – he doesn’t want to be upstaged.
I carpooled a few years ago with a savvy man (liberal btw – oh the debates in the car – but we still like each other) – and he said something like this “If I say ‘yes, dear’ to whatever my wife says, I can do whatever I want afterwards, and she goes about her own agenda. If I fight her, like I used to at first, she won’t stop arguing”. Might be different for various couples…
Entelechy on January 5, 2008 at 8:08 PM
There really should be a Constitutional amendment that prohibits any immediate family member of a President from being elected President in the former Presidents lifetime.
There have been a lot of theories thrown out there about why George W. Bush was so intent on invading Iraq. From the left. From the right. I’ve read everything from the oil angle, to the End of Days angle, to just about every variation of “he’s an imbecile who is a puppet of the Rove/Cheney/Boogie-Man-of-the-moment to the PNAC crap where he’s an Evil Genius intent on a New World Order.
I think he did it to show up his old man. To show the world that he was a better man, and a better President, and that he could finish what his father failed to to do. Get Saddam. Some think he did it to defend his father. I think he did it because he wanted to show that he could succeed where his father “failed”.
So 8 years after the father leaves office the son takes over. And now here we are with the Clintons. Eight years after the husband leaves office, the wife will take over.
WHAT THE HELL WILL SHE DO TO TRY AND PROVE SHE’S A BETTER PRESIDENT THAN HER LYING, CHEATING, SCUMBAG HUSBAND?
No matter how much Bill and Hillary are alike character wise, she has GOT to be itching to prove something that she can do better than him. I don’t believe she’ll make it to the nomination. But if she does? I do not want to even think about what she’ll do to show him up. If we’re all lucky, she’ll just have sex with a young stud in the Oval Office. Ick.
Jaynie59 on January 5, 2008 at 8:58 PM
Oh wait a little while before bringing those skeletons back out. She’s going to start playing dirty soon.
johnnyU on January 5, 2008 at 9:41 PM
Well said Patrick !!!
OBX Pete on January 6, 2008 at 3:54 AM
The picture is the true Hitlery.
Is it no wonder ‘Wild Bill’ wandered, having to look at that face and hear the shrill rhetoric would drive me to drink and wild women.
MSGTAS on January 6, 2008 at 8:51 AM
Travelgate, and the firing of Billy Dale, is still one of the most political and ruthless destruction of a person by the Clinton’s in regards to official business (raping and groping women is worse).
Over a period of 30 years, they found $18,000 of checks that were “irregular”, checks that were honestly issued, but posted to the wrong account. If every government agency was that efficient, to spend millions upon millions, and only have $18,000 mis-posted (not unaccounted or mis-spent), that agency would receive a medal of honor.
Billy Dale, 32 years of impeccable service to Dems and Repub…and he rode home in the back of a van, with his boxes of personal belongings, and literally dropped off on his curb in front of his house…and then dragged into court to defend the mis posted $18,000 and his frugal lifestyle.
right2bright on January 6, 2008 at 10:35 AM
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Sandor on January 7, 2008 at 12:48 PM
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