Clinton tells off Peter Jennings!

[ArtieBoy]

Is anyone watching this ABC special on Bill Clinton? Peter Jennings told Clinton that some presedential scholars had ranked him 41st, 44th, something like that, for moral authority. Bill began smouldering and said, "They're wrong. You know why? They're wrong. No president had $100 million dollars spent against him...and I really don't care what they think."

Peter Jennings said, "Oh, yes, you do, Mr. President. I can feel it from across the room."

Clinton said, "You don't wanna go there, Peter. You don't wanna go there." And then Clinton's finger came out and pointed right at Jennings and said, "Not after what YOU and the people at YOUR NETWORK did, repeating every sleazy thing Ken Starr leaked..."

It was amazing, and almost Jerry Springer-meets-Meet the Press-like. Absolutely amazing. I've just never seen a president so sharp and yet so...REAL...like this guy.

Do they make them like Bill Clinton anymore?

Edited for typos.

[ronnykmarshall]

1. Good for Bill

I'm gonna stay up and watch this program.

[henslee]

8. Do they run it twice Ron or are you talking about the west coast feed.

[ronnykmarshall]

100. West Coast

I saw it. It was great.

[annerevere]

2. No they don't

Which is good in some respects and bad in others. Clinton made some real moral blunders. But he's right--alot of people were spending tons of money to ruin him. And they almost did.

[Ducks In A Row]

He did nothing that all these asshole rethugs do

look at guilani. the asshole dares to tell us the dems are immoral?

well it's all bullshit.

the only "bunder" was bill didn't pick one of those rethug woman who don't talk to the press. monica was a stupid slut whose whole life was about messing with married men. she did it here in oregon, and then moved on to dc.

you don't really think condi doesn't do george whenever they can? do you really think she's going in for fibroid removal? of course, and she can recover in less time than any other woman. Sure, it's a fibroid. Not.

[ilovenicepeople]

32. Are you implying that Condi's fibroid was actually,

George JRjr??

[Ducks In A Row]

37. yes, because she's going back to work way sooner than women

who have fibroid surgury do.

but it's the right amount of recovery time for an abortion


plus "fibroid removal" is a code word for abortion with this kind of woman.

[prolesunited]

41. That's ridiculous!

There's enough real stuff out there that we don't need to be making up stupid crap like that.

The reason she will recover so quickly is because she is NOT having invasive surgery. There are a variety of options to deal with fibroids, and cutting a woman open isn't always the first and only choice.

IIRC, she is having the veins that feed the tumor's growth cauterized. They can do this vaginally without an incision.

Why would you spout such nonsense?

[Mr_Spock]

55. Condi's a good for nothing lying whore. There is nothing we can say

that is as vile as what that sycophant whore is going to do to the reputation of this country. We'll be lucky if we don't have a nuclear conflict with her sorry lying ass around.

[la la]

76. condi's private(s)

Please, do 'we' have to talk about condi's vagina? She is nasty enough without discussing what is going to be done upa her gege, as we used to say!:nopity:

[Stephanie]

99. Not cauterized but similar - Uterine Artery Embolization

They inject small particles that clog the small arteries feeding the tumor. An incision is made in the leg and the tube is snaked up through the artery. The fibroids are starved of blood and they shrivel and die. Women usually stay in the hospital overnight - there is very painful cramping involved. This is a fairly new procedure. The drawback is that it can possible cut off blood to the ovaries as well.

[BlueStatesForever]

58. Depends on the surgery

She could have laparascopic myolysis of the fibroid. I had that done on a Friday and was at work the following Monday.

[fortyfeetunder]

84. But Condi is 50 years old

If the factory hadn't been working before, I doubt it was working recently...

[theHandpuppet]

93. Oh please

I've had two fibroid removal surgeries and was in and out of the hospital THE SAME DAY. Y'know, this kind of stuff really isn't worthy of DU discourse -- plus I find it unsettlngly misogynic.

[verdalaven]

57. Isn't she 50 years old?

Slightly past her child bearing years..............

[serryjw]

62. Please be serious...........

YOU think she is pregnant at 50???

[RummyTheDummy]

3. His temper is legendary

I personally love that about it and on the few occassions it came out it was something to watch. I sure wouldn't ever want to get on his bad side, lets put it that way.

[fearnobush]

4. Thats right, FUCK YOU Peter Jennings.

I can't wait for the end of you and your whore media. Yes, I am pissed.

[Blue_Roses]

5. I was in total AWE!

He smacked down Jennings :wow: About fucking time...

[OldLeftieLawyer]

6. He has nothing left to lose

He's free, he's been through a health crisis, and he's not going to put up with anyone's crap for one minute.

I'd like to think we could all take a lesson from Bubba and follow what he did to Jennings tonight in our everyday lives, as much as possible.

Democrats have just put up with so much crap for so long, and I'm so weary of this malignant "reasonableness" that plagues us. Why weren't the Swift Boat Liars crushed as soon as they appeared? Why didn't someone call Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Powell and Rice liars over and over again, every time they lied in public?

Look where it got us, being "reasonable."

Fuck reason. I say we go after them, only harder and meaner than they went after our people.

[Blue_Roses]

12. Here here

I totally agree!

[yorkiemommie1]

15. exactly

respond fast, sharp, forcefully. no mincing or parsing of words. slam for slam.

[Zookeeper]

23. Enough with Liberal wimpy-ness....

We're always on the defensive! It's time to go heavily on the offensive and make the Rethuglican crooks explain THEMselves for a change. I'm to the point of just telling right-wingers that they are WRONG.

[tishaLA]

35. Bravo

Hit back at these fuckers

[missouri dem]

36. The democratic party ought to be know as the angry party.

I damn well know that I am mad. Bush lied to the American people to get us into a war. They are robbing social security, ruining the environment, stealing our votes, outsourcing our jobs and creating a permanent privileged class. It's time that the dnc and the dlc wise up, none of us have much to lose.

[tsuki]

40. Why isn't Peter Jennings holding DeLay and the ReThugs

to the same standard? Ask your moral questions of him. Oh, never mind. I wouldn't want to be the one that would cause you to drop a zero or two off your contract.

Ask your same safe questions for your bosses and keep your 7 or 8 figure yearly salary.

After all, what's democracy to a Have-More?

[The Wielding Truth]

66. "I'd rather have him * his intern than the country, " I remember this

being said on Bill Maher many years ago during the impeachment process.I was thinking then that this incident has nothing to do with a President's role in government. He made no vow to us, his employer, to be faithful to his wife. I don't remember that being part of the swearing in process. The personal details being devoured by the sex hungry republicans had no business in our lives.
How careful the Right-wing expect everyone to be about an exposed back before a football game yet the sex scandal was plastered on every media and r-w mouth during that time.
Bush was been given too much power He is only part of our government and he is responsible to all this country's citizens as President. Bill knew that and he did his best to help everyone.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

77. Nixon and Watergate

I was in law school when the Watergate hearings took place, and I remember thinking that it would have been so much better for the country if Nixon had just banged a girlfriend instead of trying to fuck the Constitution.

See, Republicans think it's all right to desecrate the Constitution, but it's not ok to get blown.

See my signature line...........

[TryingToWarnYou]

42. Best comments Ive read in a long, long time here.

[Sparkly]

45. And the irony is, Clinton was SO gracious today

toward the lying, incompetent Chimp and his criminal, corrupt father. He was magnanimous, his message was one of unity, and he rose above them as always.

His presidency was a success for the people, while the Chimp's has been nothing but one colossal, bloody, costly failure after another. Yet all MSNBC could do today was talk about Clinton's failures, the impeachment, and his lack of any legacy as a result.

Peter Jennings had it coming, no doubt. YAY to the Big Dawg for delivering!!

[RhodaGrits]

64. Gracious? He actually said he liked George Bush. He dropped

like a stone in my estimation. The only consolation is that the BushBots were probably cringing.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

78. Why did he do that?

I hated that.

Bush made a snide, insulting remark about Clinton kissing a baby, shaking your hand, looking you in the eye, blah blah blah, "all at the same time."

Insulting. Demeaning. Mean.

Oh, MAN, I HATE HIM SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<thud>

[fortyfeetunder]

85. Well for Bush that is impressive ...

since he can't chew on a pretzel without choking or riding a Segway without tripping...

[pig.]

87. do you think we could

get clinton to say he likes bush because they have so much in common?

Morally.....

[Cooley Hurd]

96. CNN kept repeating the quote "looks like a double-wide trailer"

Every time they spoke of the Library...

[lthuedk]

48. Because our fucking party was treading softly, compromising,

mollifying their soft way so as to not disturb anyone's sensibilities.

[Leilani]

7. When Clinton Lied

Nobody Died...

If only our glorious media would cover lies not involving sex...
like wars...

[cloud75]

10. right on!

glad you said in such nice terms because i'm so pissed i was going to fucking curse.

[The Wielding Truth]

67. Leilani------ I"m taking this over to the Framer Forum----- Thanx.

[coloradodem2005]

9. Good.

He needs to do it sometimes.

[devinsgram]

11. Go, Bill, Go

Let them have it, cause they deserve it.

[NJ_Lib]

13. Oh my...

Shit, I missed it...

Pointed a finger at his face, huh? Go Billy, go Billy, go Billy, GO...

Oh man, I love President Clinton... Now, I love him even more...

Good for him... I need to see that interview... I need to see that rat, Jennings, squirm in his seat... Oh, I NEED to see it....!!!

[n2mark]

14. About time

he spoke up and about time a Democrat spoke up.

[Sparkly]

16. I want to see that!!!

Was it live?

[Festivito]

69. It was not live. They bounced around a lot. nt.

[Kahuna]

17. Bravo Bill!!! Somebody needs to put that smarmy jennings in his place.

:puke:

[astroboy]

18. "I really don't care what they think"

i wish they - our 'leaders' would get that upset about our VOTES and not their friggin IMAGE :puke:

[Sperk]

19. 'bout time he told the media to "shove it"!!!! At least Clinton isn't

the Anti-Christ, the Anti-Christ with a free pass!!!!!
Go BILL!!!!!!!!

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

29. Telling the media to "shove it" will get one Deaned...watch for it.

Soon we'll see Clinton in some repeatable embarrasing gaff on ABC...bet on it.

JB

[bklyncowgirl]

94. Clinton's past all that now

What more can they do to the guy.

Glad he stood up. Now if he can lead other Democrats to standing up like that maybe we might get a party to be proud of.

[astroboy]

44. a day late and a dollar short

is what he is... i wish he'd shown some of this outrage about our VOTES :argh:

[glitch]

20. May they all follow his lead - no more being pushed around by the smarmy

hoards in corporate media.

Damn spelling.

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. ALL RIGHT!

ABOUT DAMN TIME! I love it! :bounce:

[amber dog democrat]

22. That's showing them, Bill !

Its like the media is trying to have it both ways - being puritanical and prurient when it suits them. I am GLAD he said that.

[ArtieBoy]

24. Yeah, and he also said...

...something like,"When else in American history have people been put in jail because they wouldn't lie, and were Democrats?!" If anybody taped that, that's a 30 second clip of intensity that needs to be uploaded and distributed. May be inspiring.

[amber dog democrat]

95. Susan McDougal

god bless her. Ken Star did not know whom he was dealing with. I saw her give a talk at a local book store a couple of years ago. She sets a fine example on how to respond to Repug Weasels. In this case, we the American people, won.
Good trumpmhed.

[Liberal Christian]

25. Anyone know where there's a clip of this online? n/t

[Free2BMe]

26. Clinton was absolutely wonderful, real...Wow am I proud to be a dem..

We had ONE smart prez! Yes, Mr. Jennings he told you where it was at...

[hollowdweller]

30. I love Clinton! He is an incredibly smart person who can speak

plainly. He was so good the peckerwoods went after him with a passion, but they couldn't stop him.

Clinton is also the only president in my memory to use our military force for purely non greedy reasons.

[Free2BMe]

33. Welcome to DU...Where's the "Hollow"?

[hollowdweller]

39. Up a hollow in West (by God) Virginia and thanks 4 the welcome

[Stinky The Clown]

27. OhPleasePleasePleasePlease ......

Somebody tell me they TiVo-ed this and can put it online as streaming video!

[Scan Hopper]

28. God how i love that man

i think i love him a little TOO much.

[Alpharetta]

31. He's right. What would those scholars rate the MEDIA for Clinton's term?

If it had been the 60's or 70's, the media would have jumped down Gingrich's throat for the crap he and his cohorts pulled.

[demgrrrll]

43. Did he identify the so called scholars or was it "some people say"?

Jennings is such a blow dried tool.

[LiberalFighter]

51. That is what I am trying to find

So far just something that happened a few years ago.

[tsuki]

53. "Some people at the station say" around the water cooler,

because their too friggin' LAZY to go out and research a real story.

[Mike Nelson]

34. THE PETER PRINCIPAL

Thank You, Bill Clinton! Nobody should have asked him questions about sex with Monica. It's not their business. He had a right to lie when asked questions like sleezy Ken Starr asked.

I wish the nets would fire all these overpaid "readers" and propoganda people like Peter Jennings... Bill, Sean, Russ, Dan... I'M SICK of all of them... also, get rid of the blondes with the injected lips.

[DURHAM D]

38. Can we start telling people to go "Clinton themselves" ? n/t

[GetTheRightVote]

46. I love you Bill, down with Peter Jennings,

Join in Dems if you dare, Bill knows how to stand up for himself, we need more of this kind of men and women in our party, all-l-l-l-l-l right Bill.

[grasswire]

47. here's an ABC message board

It's being discussed here:

http://forums.go.com/abcnews/thread?threadID=97365

[aaronbees]

49. Good for Bill...

I love it when he brings out the wagging finger! Seriously, he has every right to put the smackdown on Jennings. The national media's sensational obsession about Clinton's penis is just disgusting and it shows EXACTLY what their agenda is.

[Skip Intro]

50. YES! That was awesome!

"You don't want to go there...You don't want to go there, Peter."

And he laid into the media! The media that treated the whole Monica thing like it was a circus while real threats to our democracy were being fought, while innocent people's lives were being ruined.

He let loose and it was good to hear.

Almost makes up for his "likes Kerry and bush" crap.

[Left Is Write]

52. Wow...I would like to have seen that. (nt)

[2bfree]

54. Anyone have a clip?

I would love to see that!

[PretzelWarrior]

56. Hey Peter, you canuck fuck. GROW SOME BALLS

or female equivalent. You SUCK. Only real president since Carter was Clinton. Reagan was a phony. Bush 1 was a cipher

[Be Brave]

59. These big media pretty boys and girls seem to grow balls

only when confronting Bill Clinton. They seem to love to crucify and be irreverent to him. I would like them to do something like what Jennings did to Clinton to the current president W.

[devilgrrl]

60. What was Jennings reaction?

Did he back off or keep going on like the sanctimonious ass that he is?

[Sam07]

68. Interestingly,

we weren't treated to Jennings verbal reaction; they simply edited to a different location after BC's controlled rant (he did look awfully uncomfortable, though!). BC was on fire, and I experienced a huge vicarious thrill listening to him say all the things I've screamed at the tube for so many years. It also made me quite regretful, to think of where we are now, and of missed opportunities. I think many of us didn't take as seriously as we perhaps should have the extent of right-wing rage/revenge focused at us. Hillary sure had it right... and it gets vaster and vaster...

[Carolina]

61. I loved how he put that

SOB Jennings in his place. He was on point, cool and absolutely right. I especially loved how he pointed out the standing ovation he got at the UN while the media whores CHOSE to air his grand jury testimony. Touche Bill!

Peter had it coming. Can you imagine if he and the other media whores spent as much time and effort on W's lies as they did on Clinton's blow job?

[la la]

80. watching it right now-

I love it- I love it---He just re;ated the Nelson Mandela 'let it go' conversation--and the standing ovation at the UN. He is most wonderful!:kick:

[Gloria]

63. What show was this on?? The ABC News? Primetime??

Can I catch it MT??? I see Harry on Primetime.......

[ArtieBoy]

65. It was

a special about the opening of the Clinton library. I believe it was called "A Place in History".

[PROGRESSIVE1]

70. FUCK OFF PETER!!!!!!!

.....and go back to where you came from!

Why don't you go after Bush's crimes???

:grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr:

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

71. Kick

As in, KICK PETER JENNINGS IN THE FACE -- :kick:

[UL_Approved]

72. Why do they need to bash Clinton now?

Does Clinton have something involving influence that they need to get rid of? Why else would they still be trying to go after him 4 years out of the White House? Isn't he out of the spotlight? Or are we missing something here?

[Sleepysage]

73. I wonder if Peter

...ever wonders if maybe he should have covered the war on terror a little more than Bill's infidelity?

Nah.

[blueblitzkrieg]

74. What's with the media dumping all over Clinton today?

God, his library opens and they just use it as an opportunity to blast and bash him. What fucking pigs. And I agree with what the person above said, when will we see the media start holding Delay and the rest of the repigs accountable for their immoral actions?

Fucking never, that's when. Fuck you Peter Jennings. Fuck you "liberal media". Go Bill.

[JudyM]

75. He was pointedly direct, describing how he was having to deal with Starr

while he was trying to really solve the world's problems, and that they never found that he did a thing wrong with Whitewater, yet it cost - I think he said $300 million. He also asserted that he never lied about anything related to his presidential duties --- he paused at that point in a way that struck me as though he was implying that there is a key distinction with what's happening now. Made ya want to stand up and cheer.

He was armed and dangerous against Jennings - it was like arm wrestling for a couple of the interchanges and Jennings seemed like he thought he was going to best Bill... but he didn't.

He said he's walking an hour a day and feeling pretty well.

[oblivious]

79. I saw him give a similar smackdown to a BBC interviewer this year.

That was nice to watch. The interviewer quickly changed the topic. I don't know how he keeps his smile around those assholes.

[alfredo]

81. Excerpts

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=260445&page=1

[deacon]

82. The guy just had heart surgery and jennings breaks his chops

what a low-life jennings is.

I am boycotting ALL tv news as it is since the election, but i thought it might be interesting to see the clinton interview. I was wrong. Back to the complete boycott. Who needs them? Screw 'em.

[Jack_DeLeon]

83. Anybody got a link so I can download it...

I missed it because I was working.

[Hieronymus]

86. That was absolutely......

fabulous. Thank God they didn't edit it out, and they actually showed the standing ovation that President Clinton got by the UN. It had never happened before. The world loves that man still.:bounce:

[nolabels]

88. That's just because he has to be measured against all them other..........

Paragons of virtue, Nixon, Reagan and Poppy Bush.

[0007]

89. The freepers will fall in love with Peter Jennings all over again

and perhaps will even like Canada a little more?

How anyone voted for junior is beyond my wildest comprehension. He uses people like toilet paper.

[donheld]

90. Good for Mr Clinton

i hope he does this again and it catches on till everybody is telling off these idiots.

[ever_green]

91. Go Clinton!

I miss him!

[rman]

92. i'd wish they did go there. i'd wish Clinton would take them there;

spill the beans in front of the US public,
make it clear for once and for all, in front of everyone, that there is such a thing as a huge, strongly financed, Right-Wing smear machine that will do *anything* to manipulate public opinion.


"...The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press..." -- Journalist John Swinton, ca 1880


Why would Clinton not want to go there?
By not going there he helps preserving this ill fated status quo.

[shesemsmom]

97. Go Bill!!!

He's right. The Media can take a story and make the best, or worst of it.In his case they thrived on it and I still don't care whom he diddled with. If Hillery didn't mind, it certainly was none of my business.:grr:

[Claire Beth]

98. I sure hate I missed it....

I wonder if it will be on again anytime soon. I would love to see Clinton pointing his finger at Peter Jennings and setting him straight.

[Carni]

101. Hey Bill! Couldn't you have shown this level of outrage to 41 and 43????

I am sorry...

I liked Bill Clinton and I agree that he was hounded and maligned over something that had nothing to do with his job...but what was up with that putrid love fest yesterday with the Bush family??

The very same people that brought us the impeachment, just brought us at least one (and in my opinion two) stolen elections and yet there stood Clinton and Carter yesterday complimenting those sacks of shit!

Maybe he can forgive them because he makes a couple hundred thou when giving a seminar and maybe the next four years will be business as usual for him...but it won't be for me and many of those like me.

I am currently not pleased with Bill Clinton, or Jimmy Carter.

Clinton totally allowed the library opening yesterday to become a GOP photo op IMO and it made me sick.