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phegger Donating Member (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 01:40 AM
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I can't believe the media still has this paranoid obsession w/the Clintons
Or is it just that they love paranoid conspiracies?

Bill's running the show from behind the scenes, Clark is a stalking horse for Hillary yadayadayada. All day long. They just miss him so bad, don't they? SO much more fun reporting on blow jobs in the Oval Office than boring ideas about war and peace, governanace etc.

Get Over It.


-ph :smoke:
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TexasEditor Donating Member (286 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 01:59 AM
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1. You mean the same media...
that's been deluging us with the tale of Ben and Jen? The media that's news one moment and hosting "Big Brother" the next? The media that merely repeats what it's told and doesn't analyze or question a thing?

Anyway, many months ago I read that if a Dem might win the presidency, Hillary would want to run as VP, so we'll see...
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9215 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 02:19 AM
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2. Should'nt be a surprise.
But you probably are fishing for ideas on how to keep the BS going, eh!
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phegger Donating Member (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 02:45 AM
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3. Hey wait a minute
...do they allow canadians in here? :P
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KingOfLostSouls Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 02:51 AM
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4. Greta Van Douchebag Earlier
interviewing madeleine albright about her book, "madam secretary."

she was all, "oh how was it during the monica blah blah" like it was some huge fucking conspiracy

I was like, SHE SUCKED A DICK YOU SILLY BITCH SHE DIDN'T BLOW UP ALDERRAN WITH A DEATH STAR GET WITH THE FUCKING PROGRAM ITS 2003!!!!


you know, its about time to put it to the cons

its simple

they wanna fuck clinton.

they're obsessed that they couldn't wear the blue dress and they wanna fulfill all their skull and bones man love rituals and fuck clinton

peace out.
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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 03:04 AM
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5. They are afraid to
expose all the bullshit that is going on with the * administration so they go back to Clinton...
Where do you think the freepers get the idea...can't win an argument or debate..."BLAME CLINTON'S PENIS"...
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 04:23 AM
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6. I have seen this too
All day I have heard pundit after pundit, mostly from FOX try to say Clark is a trojan horse for Hillary.
I went over to Free Republic to see what the wing nuts were saying,...and it was savage. Hillary...waco...bombing christians...supporting Muslim radicals...clinton....Waco....clinton...janet Reno...waco...hillary...innocent serb christians...muslim heathen...clinton...waco...clinton

They even posted anti Kosovo stuff from hard core left wingers like Michael Moore and Robert Fisk!!!
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Lexingtonian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 05:11 AM
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7. Oh, they'll take a while to get over themselves

See, there is this stupid group effect. These reporter sorts all went to the same schools all of us did and they got told the Official Version of American history- Plymouth Rock and Pilgrims and turkeys at Thanksgiving and all that. Then they got journalism training and went to work for places that treat news as perishable consumer goods, and they ended up in Washington. In Washington they found out that the government is a semicorrupt outfit that is generally used sort of trivially, to benefit a select few, and functionally a mediocr-acy. They got used to it- mediocrity as the central tenet is pretty easy to live with for most people who get paid well.

Then Bill and Hillary Clinton show up in 1992, the greatest change in that outfit in a generation. There are then two takes on what the Clintons did with/to Washington. One is that they did the remarkable- they set the place to actually doing some Good, a thing that inherently violated the religious tenets of most people who felt possessive about the federal government and the federal budget. The other is that the Clintons were Eeeevil Incarnate, perversely using money and government effort to help people who needed it but weren't The Entitled Class Of People.

So that's what I think the Kool Kids are talking about when they bring their ridiculous crap to the fore in columns and on TV talk shows. This stunningly aberrant idea of using government to help rather than abuse the common people just has to be stopped before the voters come to think that it's a good one. Long live the covert colonialism (oops, that's "free market capitalism" now) and its exploiteering class, the corporate bosses.

In short, the media are the Fifth column of the conservatives. They really do, in part unintentionally, defend the imaginary world of white people and 'capitalism' and class entitlement once indoctrinated to the older generations as children, not understanding that as a political act in a country in which all these things are now at best fragile conventions. They're in denial.

And so the Clintons have to be pilloried as harbingers of something alien and frightful, not as the representatives of the social reality and the impending dismantling of nineteenth century socioeconomic arrangements and conventions that they actually were.

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RobinA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 08:33 AM
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8. The Reason
they have to keep Clintonhate alive is that they are scared to death of Hillary. Notice how they bring her up over and over and over again. They are obsessed. They are obviously VERY worried about her. Which I think is pretty funny, since I don't think a woman has a chance in hell of winning the presidency.

Another reason is that Clinton is looking better and better next Boy Bush. Any time anyone brings up Bush's war lies, some winger has to mention that Clinton lied. Like, so what at this point? Nixon lied too. Those guys are both EX-Presidents. It's not about who else lied, it's about the lying going on by the Republican candidate for President.
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