Former President Bill Clinton today unleashed a salty stream of epithets to describe former New York Times reporter and current Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum, calling him "sleazy," "dishonest," "slimy" and a "scumbag." The former president made the comment at a local campaign event after I asked him if Purdum's much-commented upon Vanity Fair story was weighing on his mind. Tightly gripping this reporter's hand and refusing to let go, Clinton heatedly denounced the writer, who is currently married to former Clinton White House Press Secretary, Dee Dee Myers.
"[He's] sleazy," he said referring to Purdum. "He's a really dishonest reporter. And one of our guys talked to him . . . And I haven't read [the article]. But he told me there's five or six just blatant lies in there. But he's a real slimy guy," the former president said. When I reminded him that Purdum was married to his former press spokesperson Myers, Clinton was undeterred. "That's all right-- he's still a scumbag," Clinton said. " Let me tell ya-- he's one of the guys -- he's one of the guys that propagated all those lies about Whitewater to Kenneth Starr. He's just a dishonest guy-- can't help it."
Purdum's piece, featured in this month's edition of Vanity Fair, included former advisers criticizing former President Clinton for bringing negative attention to Hillary Clinton's candidacy and for surrounding himself with friends who might discredit her campaign. The former president's tirade continued:
"The editor of Esquire-- he sent us an email yesterday and said it was the single sleaziest piece of journalism he'd seen in decades. He said it made him want to go take a shower and he was embarrassed to be a journalist when he read it...You know he didn't use a single name, cite a single source in all those things he said. It's just slimy. It's part of the national media's attempt to nail Hillary for Obama. It's just 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...But I'm telling ya, all it's doing is driving her supporters further and further away-- because they know exactly what it is-- this has been the most rigged press coverage in modern history-- and the guy ought to be ashamed of himself. But he has no shame. It isn't the first dishonest piece he's written about me or her...Anytime you read a story that slimes a public figure with anonymous quotes, it oughta make the bells go off in your head. Because anytime somebody uses those things-- he wrote the story in his head in advance, and he just goes around and tries to find some coward to say whatever they want to say, hoping to get some benefit out of it. It didn't bother me. It shouldn't bother you."
"Thank you, Mr. President," I said attempting to end the conversation. But Clinton continued. "He can't help it," he said. "He still hasn't apologized to me for Whitewater."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/bill-clinton-purdhum-a-sl_b_1047...
Loading...
Bill Clinton is right....He is a sleazy slimy scumbag. In fact, I think that most fox news r too
ilovecocksism 1 month ago
Bill Clinton calling a guy a scumbag. Hello kettle, I'm the pot, and you're black.
tubbysidney 10 months ago
uhh the guy at 0:44 looks like he wants to beat the shit out of me... anyone catching that?
richardxx9011 1 year ago
Oh this is classic......Bill Clinton calling someone else sleazy and slimy?! roflmao!!!
clearwatercop256 1 year ago
@911insidejo8 AMEN!
MERCILESSPIT 1 year ago
I'm glad President Clinton can now speak his mind since he is not longer President. He had to take a lot of negative comments by the media and others. He was a great President and this country was doing very well while he was in office. I'm so sick of the bashing --- whether Republican or Democrat. Let's work toward solving the problems in our country -- we are all Americans and should be working together.
rwhite325 1 year ago
@deanrdd ..and americans re-elected bush.
jurbinsky77 1 year ago
All im going to say when Bush sr was president we almost went into reccesion but when Clinton was president we ended up witha surplus no other president alive can say that!
carnypimp 1 year ago
I would so not fucking apologize if I badmouthed someone who deserved it. Freedom of speech.
recniabsal 2 years ago
Please don't stick up for these traitor scumbags. The Obamas, Clintons, Bushes--ALL OF THEM HATE US!! They have pledged their allegiance to their global masters, the intl banking cartel. They think we're slaves!
Isn't this getting a little obvious? Or did you think that the Bush/Clinton spearheading of NAFTA was for our benefit?
Don't be the pathetic, ridiculous house slave who cries when her master died because she had it slightly better than the rest of the slaves on the plantation.
911insidejo8 2 years ago