The War Room is a movie documenting the 1992 Clinton Campaign. I'm like 10 minutes into it and Carville and Stephanopoulos of today have basically contradicts everything they said in this movie.
One of the things in the video is Carville giving a speech a week before the NH primary, He starts off by slamming Roger Ailes, George Bush, and Georgette Mosbacher.
"Let me tell you what's at stake with this election. Everytime someone comes along that's got some ideas-- a Democrat comes along-- the Republicans come up here to ambush him. Remember Muskie? Okay? That is standard procedure. And here comes Clinton. He comes to New Hampshire. People here are hurtin'. They want hope. They want somebody with vision. He gives it to 'em. So what do Republicans do? They get together with their wedge issues and knock it off. If they succeed this time, it's gonna be every time. You are never going to get a presidential candidate, okay? You're never gonna get somebody to come up here and run for president that's served 11 years as governor, who's got any kind of experience, ok? And every time somebody comes up, they're gonna do it.
If we win this, then you have knocked this shit back forever. And everytime we get a Democrat that we can believe in, Roger Ailes and Georgette Mosbacher--.... You know what she said? She can't wait till this election's over so she can get her Maserati and her jewels back. That's the mind-set you're fightin' against.
And if they beat us back--Paul Tsongas-- Look, he ain't gonna win anything ok? It's about George Bush and Roger Ailes and Georgette Mosbacher... and the whole sleazy little cabal of 'em that wanna keep hold of anything and that wanna knock anybody off that we belive in anything that we care about."
-James Carville, 1992, The War Room
That's basically most of his speech... I'm not sure what the rules are in transcribing speeches. Watch the video for the rest of the speech, I'm watching it off a DVD.
Stephanopoulos also is interviewed for This Week, basically diverting Sam Donaldson's questions about Bill's problems with his infidelity and dodging the draft by saying, "And what he's gonna do in this campaign is focus on what's important to American people-- jobs and education. That's what the American people care about. They wanna move into the future. They don't wanna be diverted by side issues, and they're not gonna let the Republican attack machine divert them."
That totally blew my mind so I paused right before the elder Bush did his angry speech that so I could write this post on DU. I've also crossposted this with slight differences on DailyKos as well (I use a different name on DailyKos).
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