I’m canceling my Hillary documentary for CNN
In June, I attended a dinner for Bill Clinton, which was educational. Clinton spoke passionately about his foundation, about African wildlife, inequality, childhood obesity, and much else with enormous factual command, emotion, and rhetorical power. But he and I also spoke privately. I asked him about the financial crisis. He paused and then became even more soulful, thoughtful, passionate, and articulate. And then he proceeded to tell me the most amazing lies I’ve heard in quite a while.
For example, Mr. Clinton sorrowfully lamented his inability to stop the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which banned all regulation of private (OTC) derivatives trading, and thereby greatly worsened the crisis. Mr. Clinton said that he and Larry Summers had argued with Alan Greenspan, but couldn’t budge him, and then Congress passed the law by a veto-proof supermajority, tying his hands. Well, actually, the reason that the law passed by that overwhelming margin was because of the Clinton Administration’s strong advocacy, including Congressional testimony by Larry Summers and harsh public and private attacks on advocates of regulation by Summers and Robert Rubin…
I would have loved to explore all this. But when I approached people for interviews, I discovered that nobody, and I mean nobody, was interested in helping me make this film. Not Democrats, not Republicans — and certainly nobody who works with the Clintons, wants access to the Clintons, or dreams of a position in a Hillary Clinton administration. Not even journalists who want access, which can easily be taken away. I even sensed potential difficulty in licensing archival footage from CBN (Pat Robertson) and from Fox. After approaching well over a hundred people, only two persons who had ever dealt with Mrs. Clinton would agree to an on-camera interview, and I suspected that even they would back out.









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Womp womp.
Good Lt on September 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM
You never say anything bad about a Clinton, at least not if you don’t have the entire left-wing media behind you. They’ve got sharp knives and aren’t afraid to use them.
rbj on September 30, 2013 at 9:57 AM
Question: Which is larger, the closet housing the Clintons’ skeletons or the closet storing their daggers?
Dusty on September 30, 2013 at 10:00 AM
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.
And yes, WOMP womp.
itzWicks on September 30, 2013 at 10:01 AM
Maybe you should go on camera and say all this stuff to CNN’s “audience”…. it would make a fine documentary in itself. It will tell people all they need to know.
Marxism is for dummies on September 30, 2013 at 10:01 AM
Monica?
Fallon on September 30, 2013 at 10:02 AM
All Team Hillary wanted was for Cheryl Mills to write the script and for nobody who has ever met Hillary to be interviewed.
forest on September 30, 2013 at 10:03 AM
He just figured out that Bill is a compulsive liar and Hillary is an arrogant control freak?
I hereby nominate Mr. Ferguson for the Dilbert Blinded By The Obvious Award.
It’s a searchlight that hits you in the face with about two million candlepower.
BTW, keep in mind that this is just more proof that when it comes to being arrogant, narcissistic, power-hungry, and lying like a rug, The One is by no means unusual.
He’s just a typical “progressive”.
clear ether
eon
eon on September 30, 2013 at 10:04 AM
Hmmm… Good idea, but then, he’d have to hire a food taster, a car starter, a pilot… It’s just too expensive to take on the Clintons.
Fallon on September 30, 2013 at 10:04 AM
Are they all joggers?
OldEnglish on September 30, 2013 at 10:04 AM
I quit reading right there.
Lanceman on September 30, 2013 at 10:12 AM
Oh darn! I was so looking forward to seeing it. ( You bet’chm Red Ryder)
Herb on September 30, 2013 at 10:24 AM
Spot On! President Killary would have been just as dictatorial & douchy!
22044 on September 30, 2013 at 10:45 AM
Reading the HuffPo comments, this one was first:
I LOLd
Good Lt on September 30, 2013 at 10:47 AM
Try Anthony Wiener.
Blake on September 30, 2013 at 11:15 AM
and
equals
a man with serious cognitive dissonance problems.
AesopFan on October 1, 2013 at 2:24 AM