Clinton blows his.. cool with BBC
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:42 am
Mr Clinton reacted after presenter David Dimbleby asked him why he had an affair with Ms Lewinsky when he knew he was under investigation by special prosecutor Kenneth Starr for other matters.
Wagging his finger and getting visibly agitated, Mr Clinton expressed anger at the media's behaviour.
He said: "Let me just say this. One of the reasons he [Kenneth Starr] got away with it is because people like you only ask me the questions."
"You gave him a complete free ride. Any abuse they wanted to do. They indicted all these little people from Arkansas, what did you care about them, they're not famous, who cares that their life was trampled. Who cares that their children are humiliated."
"Nobody in your line of work cared a rip about that at the time. Why, because he was helping their story."
"And that's why people like you always help the far-right, because you like to hurt people, and you like to talk about how bad people are and all their personal failings."
"Look, you made a decision to allocate your time in a certain way, you should take responsibility for that, you should say 'yes, I care much more about this than whether the Bosnian people were saved, and whether he brought a million home from Kosovo'."
excerpts from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3829799.stm
Wagging his finger and getting visibly agitated, Mr Clinton expressed anger at the media's behaviour.
He said: "Let me just say this. One of the reasons he [Kenneth Starr] got away with it is because people like you only ask me the questions."
"You gave him a complete free ride. Any abuse they wanted to do. They indicted all these little people from Arkansas, what did you care about them, they're not famous, who cares that their life was trampled. Who cares that their children are humiliated."
"Nobody in your line of work cared a rip about that at the time. Why, because he was helping their story."
"And that's why people like you always help the far-right, because you like to hurt people, and you like to talk about how bad people are and all their personal failings."
"Look, you made a decision to allocate your time in a certain way, you should take responsibility for that, you should say 'yes, I care much more about this than whether the Bosnian people were saved, and whether he brought a million home from Kosovo'."
excerpts from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3829799.stm
