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To: LindyBill who wrote (87029)	11/18/2004 3:11:15 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793774

Rush comes up with great lines. the Clinton Presidential Library and Massage Parlor Polipundit - Could Somebody Tell Me When The Lovefest Is Over? I just heard a clip from the Peter Jennings interview with Bill Clinton on the Rush Limbaugh show. Clinton blames the acrimony and divisiveness in politics today on Republicans who he claims started it all with attacks years ago. He is also claiming that he never “disgraced this country” or “lied to the American people about my job.” The statement about never disgracing this country is just laughable. The statement about never lying about his job is as big a lie as anything else he has ever said. The statement that the Republicans are to blame for the acrimony is demonstrably false. I recall during the first few press conferences of the Clinton presidency being shocked (yeah, shocked) that Clinton repeatedly referred to the Republicans as the enemy and tried to blame everything wrong with the world on them. I was shocked because I had never before heard a president sound like such a big whiner. Nobody likes a whiner. I thought the media would eat him alive for it. Instead, they ate it up and regurgitated it as fact to their readers and viewers. Bill Clinton had a reputation as a liar long before Monica about things that had nothing to do with his “bimbo eruptions". All one would need to do is look back at some of the editorials and articles written in that time period. Even the late night comedians based jokes on Clinton’s problems with truth telling. I remember when the Monica story broke. I told a co-worker at the time that I was not happy that Clinton would most likely be forever branded by the scandal because I feared it would overshadow the other scandals that involved national security and other policy related issues including taking campaign contributions from and allowing the selling of missile technology to China. There was talk of impeachment of Clinton by at least a few before the Monica story ever broke. In many ways I argued at the time that the Monica story actually saved Bill Clinton. As long as his apologists could say his critics were only attacking him for lying about sex, they were not made to answer for Travelgate, White Water, Waco, or for bags of money showing up at the White House from representatives of Communist China, or the Loral technology transfer. I wonder how much space in the Clinton Presidential Library and Massage Parlor (as Rush Limbaugh has called it for years now) is devoted to those scandals. Today’s media will continue to treat Bill Clinton as a rock star, even though he never received 50 percent of the vote. In two elections, more people voted against Bill Clinton than voted for him, yet the media always refers to the popularity of Bill Clinton. They will continue to be his lap dogs as long as he lives, but I have a feeling that historians many years from now will see through the smoke and mirrors and will see things as they really were. In the meanwhile, I won’t be wasting my time watching the cable news and the networks’ fabrication of the Clinton legacy. Could someone out there be kind enough to let me know when the media lovefest is over? -- Lorie Byrd polipundit.com