Bill Clinton interview on Democracy Now 4/4

[starkweather444]

Bill Clinton is a total dick.

[timhaas1]

Amy is nowhere near Clinton's caliber as a critical thinker. She offers no counter to any assertion he makes and yet people laud her as "courageous". It's very EASY to sit back and criticize, but very DIFFICULT to UNDERSTAND THE BIGGER PICTURE. Amy is NOT equipped to understand the BIGGER PICTURE, Clinton is, PERIOD. "Loses his temper" is an interpretation, I only hear a healthy sense of assertiveness on Clinton's part. Amy's interpretation betrays her insecurity. Show some respect.

[poop121]

@timhaas1

who is this, lanny davis? why shill for clinton so much? amy asked questions the media doesn't ask to the president. i'm sorry that upsets you so much.

[timhaas1]

@poop121

"Hostile and combative," is overstated, but Clinton is responding to a cold reality: Amy has a very narrow agenda and because of this, she is NOT really listening, simply redying her next remark in the guise of a question. Oddly enough, because she is not able to keep up with Clinton's broad knowledge of many overlapping systems, her unintended metamessage is, "You should make people change, rule as a dictator, without concern for the consequences, as long as it fits my worldview."

[poop121]

@timhaas1

you're just projecting. your "unintended metamessage" has nothing to do with anything she said at all. only a partisan like you would get that out of the interview. why are you such a clinton devotee anyway?

[timhaas1]

@poop121

No, I am quite certain that I am not "projecting," not only am a mental health specialist, but I am also a fairly adept critical thinker & you will have to listen much more carefully to the interview to understand what I wrote. Amy sounds neither sophisticated nor objective, but rather rigid & myopic. I respect Clinton for his profound capacity for understanding overlapping systems, principles, policies, & personalities. He is simply assertive & a more capable thinker than she.

[jamotide]

@timhaas1 NAFTA has been good to america haha, I hope you are happy with your vote for o'bummer and the next clinton.

[HenryNavarre]

"hostile and combative" ...are you fucking serious?

[timhaas1]

@HenryNavarre

"Hostile and combative," is overstated, but Clinton is responding to a cold reality: Amy has a very narrow agenda and because of this, she is NOT really listening, simply redying her next remark in the guise of a question. Oddly enough, because she is not able to keep up with Clinton's broad knowledge of overlapping systems, her unintended metamessage is, "You should make people change, rule as a dictator, without concern for the consequences, as long as it fits my worldview."

[masterartform]

@timhaas1 I completely agree with your assessment. The interview never goes above the level of what a first year journalist major would do (i.e. go down a list of questions). It would have been much better if Ms. Goodman could have followed-up or countered any of Clinton's assertions (as he suggested when he "lost his temper"). I was expecting more, but instead it is Clinton that comes off looking strong in my book.

[kingofqwerty]

"The access of evil" LOL

[TheDentist27]

Clinton was very strong here, but his anger toward Goodman was gravely misplaced. He was on this show because he wanted to counter the Nader effect, and the dems ended up losing this election because of Nader votes. Bill shows that the dems could have reached out to this constituency with good hard honest debate, but instead they mostly chose to be hostile and dismissive, and it cost their party big time.

[cogitoergosum321]

Bill Clinton is my favorite president!

[malezgerd]

Amazing interview, serious questions making Clinton to answer substantially.

Go Amy !

[HRINGNUN]

I love you amy

[spqrobert]

she was HARDLY hostile and combative, but maybe she and the rest of the media should be! maybe he was too used to the sissy questions normally asked in the media. and the press in the united states HAS traditionally been hostile and combative, just not in our era.

[RGMorgan]

I found all of Clinton's answers very good except for NAFTA. He really glossed over that one, but otherwise he conducted himself very well in this interview. As cynical as I am I really wish Gore had won that election.

[joshuamichael]

I think that Bill Clinton was amazing in this interview. He answered all of the questions directly with the facts that could not be refuted. I think Amy Goodman's ideals are good and that she is of a good nature but I think an aspect of her personality that is damaging is that she is highly unwilling to take in facts into her sphere of influence that challenge her. I think the most important ability in America today is keeping an open dialog which Bill Clinton was clearly doing here.

[Descendone]

Amy is awesome. I love her. keep up the good work.

[polufemo]

Wow! It's amazing that Clinton can call Goodman's pretty tame questions "hostile & combative"! The only explanation is that US politicians have NO experience with reporters who aren't lapdogs and toadies.

[Air420]

Thanks for the upload. Clinton was a SOB.