“Through the lens of #MeToo now, do you think differently or feel more responsibility?... Did you ever apologize to her [Lewinsky]?” @craigmelvin to Bill Clinton pic.twitter.com/rXcixhDHER— TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 4, 2018
That's the "Today" show, this morning, I believe. The interviewer is Craig Melvin, whose demeanor is rock solid. I'm not seeing the whole interview, but from this clip, I would criticize Melvin for focusing only on what Clinton did to/with Monica Lewinsky. Ask him about Paula Jones (not to mention the others)!
Bill Clinton focuses on himself and acts like the debt he owed his lawyers — $16 million — is commensurate with the harm he did to the women. That's not enough for #MeToo purposes (and it was never enough for me).
And Bill says it's already been litigated and 2/3 of Americans agreed with me. But that can only mean that 2/3 of Americans thought that he shouldn't be removed from office because of the asserted offense (basically only perjury in a deposition in a civil lawsuit). The American people haven't agreed with him that it's okay to treat women like that.
And then Bill starts chuckling, in his trademark Southern manner, over the good he's done for women. The tone, the fake casualness, and the reliance on his idea that we have the idea that he's a good guy — it's just so disgusting.
By the way, I don't give a damn about whether Bill Clinton apologized, but that's what Melvin focuses on here. Clinton's answer (at the end of the clip) is contemptible.
ADDED: Here is a longer clip:
Clinton's incomplete effort at summoning up his famous old charm is gruesome.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 205 of 205For the rest of history Bill Clinton is going to be remebered as the president who got serviced in the Oval Office by a 20 year old intern, IOW a president who couldn't control his urges. I just hope historians remember to 'democrat' in front of his name.
Nobody in the hack press cares that Bill Clinton is a rapist.
F the Clintons and anyone who voted for them. The real deplorables.
"It's been 20 years, let's stop it already." Ugh, Patterson's use of the daddy voice to quell the discussion is sad. He's shilling a novel that was written by his staff of writers, but he and Clinton supplied the plot, well, maybe the beginning and end, ok, the beginning, no, just the dedication, and as all authors know, that's the hardest part.
The novel he allegedly co-wrote with James Patterson (I say "allegedly" because I've had my doubts about Patterson actually writing the myriad books with his name on them) should be a success. Clinton already has a track record for concocting fiction.
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