A post by Maynard
Gosh, the 10th birthday of the conspiracy almost slipped by without my realizing it. Where does time go?
Drudge first reported the Lewinsky scandal on January 17, 1998. Bill Clinton waggled his finger in denial, and it was on January 27, 1998 that Hillary announced that a vast right-wing conspiracy was behind the troubling rumors. And thus a new catch phrase passed into the popular vernacular.
From NBC’s Today Show, exactly 10 years ago:
Matt Lauer: “You have said, I understand, to some close friends, that this is the last great battle, and that one side or the other is going down here.” [Wow, there’s an unfortunate double entendre if I’ve ever heard one! —Maynard]
Hillary Clinton: “Well, I don’t know if I’ve been that dramatic. That would sound like a good line from a movie. But I do believe that this is a battle. I mean, look at the very people who are involved in this — they have popped up in other settings. This is — the great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.”
The weird footnote to the whole affair is that the only person to make an unequivocal apology for engaging in bad behavior was Monica Lewinsky.
Sorry VRWC! (I missed a letter, it’s late)
I have followed politics closely for over 50 years (was president if my college YD’d in 62). I have never heard a liberal ; Bush, Clinton, McCain, Kennedy … etc. make a real straight forward apology, Never!
If I live to be 110 I do not ever expect to hear a liberal – from either of the big parties – come out and say they were wrong. That’s what conservatives like Barry and Ronnie do; it is one to the things that differientiates conservatives from liberals. Again in both parties.
As a card-carrying member of the VRWC, I thank you.