Debunking Bill
Warning: Do Not Throw Facts at the Dancing Bear
By Mark I Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | Bill Clinton | Democrats | Hillary Clinton | Nevada Caucuses — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
A local TV reporter, Mark Matthews of KGO in San Francisco, gets a bit of the Chris Wallace treatment from President Bill Clinton as he presses the would-be First Spouse on a lawsuit that seeks to reduce the number of caucus sites in Nevada.
Read on...
The Clinton campaign denies it has anything to do with the suit, which seeks to invalidate caucus sites at casinos on equal access grounds. It must be a happy coincidence, then, that if the lawsuit is successful, it would make it harder for members of the Barack Obama endorsing Culinary Workers Union to caucus in large numbers for their preferred candidate.
Mr. Clinton seems intimately familiar with the arguments in the suit his wife's campaign claims to know nothing about. But they're all bogus, as Mr. Matthews helpfully demonstrates. And Clinton was clearly in no mood to be challenged on that by this reporter. Too bad that guy had his facts nailed down, eh Mr. President?
Of course, there would be no need for Clinton to get angry and pushy unless there was a little truth to the assertion the Clinton campaign had a hand in filing the lawsuit. Just like there would have been no need to jump ugly with Chris Wallace unless it was true that the Clinton Administration just wasn't all that concerned with terrorism.
Facts are stubborn things, Mr. President. Even more stubborn than your need to validate your legacy through your wife's campaign.
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- Why does Bill assume that the reporter has a position? Does he know that the media is in the bag for Obama? Or is he just a realist?
- Whatever the he$% happened to "one person, one vote?" We had the same nonsense with the Democrats in Mecklenburg County electing a sheriff, where some votes counted "more." How Un-American. The pigs in "Animal Farm" would be proud. And Democrats.
- Nice reporting!
"I can say - not as a patriotic bromide...that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and...the only moral country in the history of the world. - Ayn Rand
It's pretty evident to this Dem that Bill is hurting the Party. He's gotten another taste of the spotlight and, again, it's all about him. It's ratcheted up for over a month now and I'm dreading the next 9 1/2 months of him. I wish he would be presidential, go away and do something constructive, maybe pick up a hammer for HFH. Give America a break!
Party members caucus in their precincts where they live, or close by. Whether they set up a caucus in a work place or not, these members will still need to go to their precinct's caucus defined by where they live, not work. If I worked on the strip and lived outside that area, I would have to leave anyway. Are they setting up all precinct caucuses on the strip, and making everybody else go down there to attend their caucus?
I agree that Clinton has quite a tell when he's bluffing or lying: he gets redfaced, combative, defensive, and if available he lashes out at the media (see especially: Lewinsky denial). I'd love to play him in poker.
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