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BlueJackalope
06-02-2008, 08:09 AM
Anybody got a link to the actual Vanity Fair article?

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003810408

An article for Vanity Fair by former New York Times reporter Todd Purdum, set to appear this week, alleges that former President Bill Clinton is consumed by "cavernous narcissism" and that a former aide tried to pull an "intervention" 18 months ago, disturbed by stories of Clinton allegedly fooling around with women on the road. The former president "rebuffed" that attempt.


EDIT - here it is

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/07/clinton200807
Kareem
06-02-2008, 08:22 AM
I just want to take a moment to applaud the brilliance of the VF article's headline pun.
Jason McCullough
06-02-2008, 08:51 AM
Hillary's about to lose, therefore the media can now start sandbagging Bill.

I know I certainly trust the media to honestly and fairly discuss his sex life. It's a topic of major importance to society, too!
quatoria
06-02-2008, 08:57 AM
You... seem a bit bitter, Jason. Just a scoche.
Fooey
06-02-2008, 08:57 AM
Ron Burkle is such a scumbag. Whatever else you want to say about the article, Bill Clinton shows extremely bad judgment in being so intimately tied to him personally and in business dealings.
BlueJackalope
06-02-2008, 09:11 AM
Hillary's about to lose, therefore the media can now start sandbagging Bill.

I know I certainly trust the media to honestly and fairly discuss his sex life. It's a topic of major importance to society, too!


Yeah, I just finished reading the article, I'm wondering why Bill's office decided to respond to it. They (Office of the Ex President, and I'm assuming Bill hisself) raised a laundry list of off record rumors and skeevy associates to a major news story by denouncing it.

The timing does look like VF just trying to exploit the last shreds of Hillary's campaign to move a few issues.
jeffd
06-02-2008, 10:06 AM
Is this the VF article that the Clinton campaign supposedly killed several months back?
BlueJackalope
06-02-2008, 10:40 AM
Is this the VF article that the Clinton campaign supposedly killed several months back?

Sounds....familiar....

Didn't one of his Richie Rich buddies buy (or try to buy) one of the Tabloids in order to spike a story?
Skipper
06-02-2008, 11:01 AM
Sounds....familiar....

Didn't one of his Richie Rich buddies buy (or try to buy) one of the Tabloids in order to spike a story?

I'm trying to remember that, but I thought that was the Washington Post. I can't seem to find the old story now.
jeffd
06-02-2008, 11:27 AM
I read the first three pages of the article and gave up. At some point does it deal with anything more than vague insinuations?
Lum
06-02-2008, 11:30 AM
No, on page 12 it does not report that Bill Clinton blew coke off a hooker in Paris. It's *all* wink-wink-nudge-nudge innuendo. Which for Clinton is kind of par for the course.
BlueJackalope
06-02-2008, 11:31 AM
I read the first three pages of the article and gave up. At some point does it deal with anything more than vague insinuations?

Mmmm...nothing you haven't heard. The Mine deal, mystery donors to the Clinton Library, some medical stuff.
Stroker Ace
06-02-2008, 11:35 AM
Reading the minutest details of his medical problems made me feel really uncomfortable. It must suck to be an ex-President and have such things paraded about.
Fooey
06-02-2008, 11:49 AM
Sounds....familiar....

Didn't one of his Richie Rich buddies buy (or try to buy) one of the Tabloids in order to spike a story?

Lowlife in chief Burkle tried to buy the company that owns the National Enquirer and the Star via his investment vehicle last year. Bill Clinton used to be involved in some undisclosed way with this investment group, netting him a shitload of money for not obviously doing much until the association became too embarrassing for Hillary and Bill stopped this business part of his relationship to Burkle.
Lum
06-02-2008, 06:51 PM
In response, Clinton blames Obama explicitly. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/bill-clinton-purdhum-a-sl_b_104771.html)

It's just slimy. It's part of the national media's attempt to nail Hillary for Obama. It's the most biased press coverage in history. It's another way of helping Obama. They had all these people standing up in this church cheering, calling Hillary a white racist, and he didn't do anything about it. The first day he said 'Ah, ah, ah well.' Because that's what they do-- he gets other people to slime her. So then they saw the movie they thought this is a great ad for John McCain-- maybe I better quit the church. It's all politics. It's all about the bias of the media for Obama. Don't think anything about it.

So much for party unity!
arctangent
06-03-2008, 05:33 AM
The Democratic Party is like the Internet in that it routes around damage and keeps on working, more or less. The Republican Party sticks together; they all swim for the shore when the ship sinks. Or all die together like rats in the hold.
BlueJackalope
06-03-2008, 04:54 PM
Bill's Response with audio.

So it turns out its Obama's fault.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/bill-clinton-purdhum-a-sl_b_104771.html


I love it when he says, "It didn't bother me, it shouldn't bother you." After ranting for 5 minutes.

A little afterword:

Update: Esquire spokesperson sent the following statement. "David Granger did not send an e-mail to Bill Clinton about the Vanity Fair article. One of the editors on staff sent a personal note about the piece to Doug Band, who was written about in the article. That was a private e-mail, and Band has since apologized to Esquire that it became public."