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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (62496)	11/11/1999 8:25:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Poooooooooor Bubba. From mediaresearch.org Carole Simpson's egomania squeezed out Clinton's angry claim that the charges against him in he impeachment process were "totally false and bogus, made up," and that "people were persecuted because they wouldn't commit perjury against me." As detailed in the November 9 CyberAlert, Sunday's World News Tonight featured a taped interview segment with Bill Clinton in which ABC anchor Carole Simpson made the story about herself, asking Clinton: "I am an African-American woman, grew up working class on the south side of Chicago, and this is a pretty special moment for me to be here talking to you. How does it feel talking to me?" For more on what ABC showed, go to: mediaresearch.org Tuesday's Washington Post revealed that ABC didn't air a portion of the interview in which an angry Clinton lashed out and avoided any personal responsibility. ABC has now posted on its Web site this part of the interview which it has not shown it on the television network, but FNC did play it Tuesday night on Special Report with Brit Hume. Hume explained: "President Clinton, it turns out, has been talking again, and in strong terms, about his impeachment and its effect on his place in history. The reason you may not have heard this is that he said it to ABC News, which decided not to air those comments." Jim Angle elaborated: "President Clinton now argues that his affair with Monica Lewinsky and his impeachment trial will not tarnish historians' judgment of his presidency. In an interview with ABC News, Mr. Clinton calls the accusations that led to his impeachment 'the most severe, bitter, partisan onslaught.'" Angle showed how the interview "was primarily about encouraging investment in poor areas," adding: "But ABC did not air the President's response when he was asked if he has any regrets about his presidency. After The Washington Post printed those remarks, however, ABC put them on its Web site." Clinton in ABC's Web video: "I have regrets because I made a personal mistake." Angle: "But the President's anger is reserved for his accusers." Clinton in another Web clip of video not shown on the TV network: "And they spent $50 million trying to ferret it out and root it out because they had nothing else to do because all the other charges were totally false and bogus, made up. And people were persecuted because they wouldn't commit perjury against me." Angle offered an explanation of Clinton's charge: "Clinton friends, such as Susan McDougal and Web Hubbell, were pressured by Ken Starr's office out of the suspicion that they, like the President, had lied. But they never testified against him. As the President now remembers his darkest hours, he skips over some key facts: that he complicated the investigation by lying about it for eight months and that the Senate voted 100 to nothing to proceed with an impeachment trial because even Democrats had serious questions about whether the President lied or obstructed justice." In ABC's decision not to run Clinton's comments in Simpson's piece the White House saw evidence it wasn't newsworthy as Joe Lockhart asserted: "I don't see anything he said in that interview, I think, as evidenced by the play that remark got on television, as anything new or that adds anything to the subject." Angle concluded: "In fact, the President has been busy subtracting things from the account of his darkest days. He admits a serious personal mistake, but puts most of the blame on his opponents, forgetting, it seems, that even Democrats signed a letter of censure saying Mr. Clinton brought shame and dishonor on the presidency, and that a federal judge fined the President for lying to the court and subverting the process of justice." To see via RealPlayer ABC's posting of the portions of the interview not shown on the November 7 World News Tonight, go to: abcnews.go.com Later, Hume opened the roundtable portion of his show by playing a clip of the part of the interview which ABC showed where Simpson decided her life story was most important: Carole Simpson to Clinton: "I have to bask in this moment, for a moment, because I am here talking to the most powerful man on the planet, who was a poor boy from Arkansas..." Clinton jumped in: "A place like this." Simpson continued: "Place like this. I am an African-American woman, grew up working class on the south side of Chicago, and this is a pretty special moment for me to be here talking to you. How does it feel talking to me? That I made it, too, when people said I wouldn't be able to?" Clinton: "It's a great country." Morton Kondracke's reaction: "I'm embarrassed." So should ABC News. -- Brent Baker