unbelievable amazon book "Legacy: paying the price for the Clinton years"

[quinnox]

It shows a picture of Clinton on the cover while in the background is a picture of smoke, obviously a reference to Sept. 11! This is friggin amazing, they are blaming Clinton for Sept. 11?? And this book is a bestseller? This is sick.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. The GOP hopes to flood the market ...

... in time for the revelations that Bush & Co. really did Let It Happen On Purpose.

--bkl

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

6. yes

I think you're right.

[bleedingheart]

2. They had that jackass Lowry on a program last night

I couldn't bear to look at his smirk..that typical neocon smirk....

They are still making money off of the clinton haters...I think this is going to eventually backfire.

[papau]

8. Bush does not lie - not by the common definitions - so says Lowery

I thought that comment amusing!

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Smoke?

That's a photo taken with a narrow depth of field. The background is intentionally out of focus.

BTW, someone should write a book about how the conservatives are trying to spin this as Clinton's fault. That's a story all its own.

[leetrisck]

4. David Corn has a book - haven't read it

but haven't seen him interviewed and Sid Blumenthal's book is very good. Wouldn't it be fun to sort of sue Rich Lowry over the lies in his book - you know like CBS and Reagan. When Lowry is interviewed, he just spews hatred for Clinton.

[CBHagman]

11. Al Franken covered that in "Lies and the Lying Liars"

As for the right-wingers and their blame-Clinton books, the first such tomes started infesting the bookstores a year or so ago. This has been going on for some time.

[Grins]

17. ..it sure has.

And it's getting worse.

"The third big change breaking the liberal media stranglehold is taking place in book publishing.... Nowadays, publishers are falling over themselves to bring conservative books to a mainstream audience. "Between now and December," Publishers Weekly wrote in July, "scores of books on conservative topics will be published by houses large and small -the most ever produced in a single season. Already, 2003 has been a banner year for such books, with at least one and often two conservative titles hitting PW's bestseller list each week."

From a horrid piece in the Wall St. Journal's "OpinionJournal.com"
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004245>

Sounds like they want to fill the shelves of bookstores with so much of their crap, any other view gets pushed aside. Similar to what they did with radio/TV media. (And these are the guys that say it's OK for librarians and bookstores owners to hand over information about what otheres are reading? Go figure.)

[Wapsie B]

13. They're projecting again.

Someone please wake me up when there's an original thought coming out of konservative Amerika.

"YAWN"

[flamingyouth]

5. I hate that sniveling weasel Lowry

The Seattle P-I runs his column, with a small picture. I have to avert my eyes so I don't lose my breakfast.

[jackcgt]

7. Uhhh, everyone missed the most obvious and glaring...

smear on Clinton. Anyone notice that the letter "A", in red, is stuck right on his sleeve. That's the scarlet letter, A for "adultery." Ouch.

[newyawker99]

14. Hi jackcgt!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[WoodrowFan]

15. nice catch

I missed that.,

[NewYorkerfromMass]

20. Considering the fact they didn't have sexual relations that's a lie too

Adultery was never committed while he was President. I doubt most of the idiots who buy this book read Hawthorne anyway so this highfalutin attempt at a smear is wasted on the weak-minded Bush butt kissers.

[Brotherjohn]

9. Yeah. I saw this guy, along with Blumenthal, on MSNBC (or CNBC?) last...

...night. The host (balding guy w/ a beard, don't know his name) was so shamelessly pushing Lowry's opinions and questioning Blumenthal's. The host and Lowry were both saying that Clinton's successes were all due to the Gingrich revolution! (and Reagan) And of course, terrorism is all Clinton's fault.

I was tempted to write a long rant today about this, but it all boils down to the simple fact that they will forever blame Clinton for everything bad.

Moreover, everything good in a Democratic president's term is always due to the most recent Republican in office, or the Republican Congress, while everything bad is the Democratic president's fault. Likewise, everything bad to happen during a Republican president's term is always the fault of the most recent Democratic president or Congress, while everything good is due to the wonderful policies of the Republican president and the Republican president alone! Why of course, that's how it works!

I just hope, come Election 2004, people see through this shameless shifting of blame and lack of responsibility... all from "The Responsibility President".

[mantis49]

21. Heard interview w/ Gingrich on NPR

a couple weeks ago. About lost my breakfast when he dared to claim that he and his cohorts balanced the budget!!!!!!!!!

Talk about revisionist history!

[Brotherjohn]

22. YES. The deficit was reduced by 2/3 before the Repubs passed a single...

... spending bill, much less a budget. Blumenthal pointed this out last night, but of course was shouted down.

I remember it well, however, and always will. I tracked the deficit throughout the 90s. It was around $300B when Clinton took office, and had dropped to about $110B by the time the Republican Congress got around to passing any portion of a budget along to Clinton to sign.

Remember the government shutdowns? The government shuts down if Congress doesn't pass a certain number of appropriations bills by a certain deadline (I believe it is 5 of 12, or something). The Gingrich Congress had not even let a single bill even get past committee! As a result, the government was shut down.

All the while, the deficit was reduced by 2/3 under the Clinton budget. You know, the budget that Republicans fought tooth-and-nail... the one that Republicans said would bankrupt the economy... the one that only passed because of a tie-breaking vote by Al Gore.

Sure, the budget eventually came into full balance under budgets passed by the the Repub Congress and signed by Clinton. But they were budgets in which there was give and take negotiating by both parties... negotiating which, I might add, the repubs did not even want to engage in (thus the shutdowns). When public opinion weighed in against them, they were forced into working with the White House. Of course, by then, most of the work on balancing the budget had been accomplished under Clinton's first budget.

Yes, I agree completely. "Talk about revisionist history!"

[Q]

10. No price to pay from the Reagan/Bush years?

- This is how Right Wing propaganda/misinformation works. Their leaders are all heroes and above reproach. Don't EVEN dare refute their legacies.

[JHB]

12. "Bush Hating"?

Can't hold a candle to the foaming madness that is Clinton-Hating.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

16. One of my old graphics... Used the Legacy tag as well...

[realFedUp]

18. You can't say these guys never made money off Clinton

They should be on their knees thanking them daily.

[JHB]

19. Drip, drip, drip...

(the foam from their rabid frothing mouths, that is).