Liberals Rewrite the History
of the Clinton Impeachment
National Review,
by
David Harsanyi
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
12/20/2019 4:38:32 AM
Yesterday on MSNBC, Chris Hayes, repeating a talking point I’ve heard dozens of times during impeachment theater, argued that the “striking” difference between the Clinton and Trump impeachments was not only the willingness of Clinton to “show contrition,” but the willingness of his supporters to acknowledge that the president had done something wrong.
Boy, it must be nice to live in an alternative reality where your allies are always selfless and chaste and your opponents are perpetually plagued by narrow-mindedness and reactionary partisanship.
In the real world, of course, Bill Clinton, with help from the entire Democratic party, kept earnestly lying to anyone who would listen —
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Petronius 12/20/2019 5:18:11 AM (No. 267283)
Clinton was willing to show "contrition"? What a crock!
He lied and slung mud at his accusers and then was angry as hell when it was finally proven that he was lying.
Clinton was not contrite at all, he was enraged that he didn't get away with it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TLCary 12/20/2019 6:57:55 AM (No. 267312)
Clinton was WRONG. I think everyone in the world can agree on that count.
Trump has done NOTHING wrong... Why the hell would you be contrite?
One Article of Impeachment because Trump didn't give a Democrat immunity from criminal investigation.
One Article because the Supreme Court hasn't decided the validity of Democrats demands yet.
NOTHING WRONG.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Turninggrey 12/20/2019 7:23:58 AM (No. 267336)
I believe Chris Haynes is the poster boy for too much soy creating a micropenis. I think he just gave up on life and now wants everyone miserable.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mizzmac 12/20/2019 7:40:14 AM (No. 267348)
Contrite St. Bill--seducing a White House intern younger than his daughter (only one of his hundreds of sexual indiscretions), using the Oval as a by-the-hour hotel, then lying when caught. Such a stand up guy. So different from Trump, right? And for the record, biting your lower lip for the fawning press doesn't equal heartfelt contrition.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Wendybird 12/20/2019 7:48:54 AM (No. 267356)
Geoff Shepard has a nice discussion in The American Spectator about the Nixon impeachment, also apparently in his book, “The Real Watergate Scandal”. The main thing I learned from it was that the that Nixon was railroaded into resignation by democrats by a misinterpretation of the “smoking gun” tapes.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/20/2019 8:18:22 AM (No. 267384)
Don't they know we can cue up the tapes from back in the day and replay them? People's cats were killed, lives were threatened, lies were repeated again and again, and the President LIED to the American people with a finger-wagging denial that sealed his disgusting predatory nature on film forever. Jeff Epstein's boy had shown his colors and continues to this day. The first Pervert President.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 12/20/2019 9:09:21 AM (No. 267427)
"I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the—if he—if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. … Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.”
THAT'S contrition???!! Really??? He wasn't dubbed Slick Willie for nothing!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mamabear 12/20/2019 9:31:30 AM (No. 267451)
Any time you have to conduct a poll (per Dick Morris ) to find out whether or not you should tell the truth and do the right thing, you ain't "contrite."
All he had to do was talk to the American people, admit he did it, apologize and tell us he would never again demean the office of the presidency. Instead, he lied over and over and over and over again.
If it wasn't for that blue dress (and Linda Tripp), he'd still be lying.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/20/2019 10:07:08 AM (No. 267490)
Republicans have been doing a lot of comparisons of the Clinton impeachment and the fake stuff with the demons' impeachment too. They need to stop. The two are not the same!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
joew9 12/20/2019 11:21:20 AM (No. 267558)
Clinton was not impeached because of a sexual affair.
He was impeached because he tried to win a sexual harassment lawsuit by committing perjury and suborning others to commit perjury.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 12/20/2019 4:38:31 PM (No. 267812)
"the willingness of Clinton to “show contrition,” but the willingness of his supporters to acknowledge that the president had done something wrong"
This is how the Left is used to doing things. They accuse, the media backs them up, and the Republicans collapse. With this little narrative they are saying that Trump DID do something wrong and is too bad to admit it. In addition, his supporters, that's you and me folks, are also bad because we will not pander to our superiors on the Left and condemn Trump.
The "fighting spirit" that Trump embodies, that he passes on to his supporters, and is infusing (slowly) into the Republican party is what is driving the Left insane. They are not being allowed to win and be in control like they have in the past. They are are also terrified that this new spirit might become the "new normal". That is beyond their comprehension. It blows their minds. It is why they are saying really stupid stuff and seem unaware how moronic they sound. They HAVE TO destroy Trump and us. They are on the border of hysteria. Maybe they have even crossed the border.
Trump is exactly right. They are not impeaching him. They are impeaching us. He's just standing in the way.
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