Clinton Gives Advice on Ethics in the White House!
July 15, 2005
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RUSH: Here's Alex in Tampa. Hi, Alex. Nice to have you with us on the program. Welcome.
CALLER: How are you today, sir good old-fashioned dittos.
RUSH: Never, never better. Actually I'm not all that good. I'm seething inside over things that have nothing to do with the news.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: Though I haven't shared it with anybody. Other than that, I'm fine and dandy.
CALLER: Excellent. I wanted to draw your attention to a comment that former President Clinton made this morning that Bush should not only appoint somebody to the Supreme Court with a good mind but with a "good heart."
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Which you've been saying ad nauseam we don't need. We need somebody's who's not concerned with good intentions and good feelings, but somebody who is a strict constitutionalist.
RUSH: Well, yeah. Clinton doesn't care who is appointed to the court right now. Clinton cares about his legacy. Clinton is campaigning to be thought of as a nice decent guy who cares and has a big heart himself. That's what the tsunami relief is all about. That's what getting cozy with the Bushes is all about. At this point, I think Clinton could care less who's on the Supreme Court because it isn't going to affect him unless somebody charges him with conspiracy. His case, it probably wouldn't get there. I don't think he cares. But we do have the sound bites here. Clinton was, in fact, on CNN yesterday. He was interviewed by Richard Roth, and we have two bites here. Roth says, "Does the White House, for all its intents and purpose, kind of ran against you in 2000 promising to restore honesty and integrity to the White House, do they need to have a higher standard there for themselves?"
Now, this is like asking Colonel Sanders, "Do you have a way to save the lives of chickens?"
"Colonel Sanders, we've noticed that a lot of chickens are dying in this country. Maybe you can help us find out who the culprit is."
Going and asking Bill Clinton, "Do you have any idea on whether or not the Bush administration needs to be held to a higher standard...?"
"Mr. President, we know that you had several encounters with an intern in the Oval Office that involved oral sex, and we know that on one occasion you used the cigar and we know that you lied to the country about this and we know that you tried to get away with it, and you sent your wife out there to talk about a "vast right-wing conspiracy." We also know that a former FBI agent said that you routinely asked to be driven to motels in the Washington area to meet women and you successfully had that man's life destroyed, Gary Aldrich. But in light of all of this, sir, the oral sex and the cigars taking place in the Oval Office, while Osama bin Laden is bombing Americans, by the way, do you think, sir, that the Bush administration needs to have a higher standard on ethics?"
Now, why in the hell am I even going to play the answer to this? I'm going to play the answer to this because it's outrageous the question was even asked. Here's old sanctimonious Bill. Here's the answer.
CLINTON: I'd like to point out they spent $100 million looking into our administration and they found one person [sic] that violated a misdemeanor, for a hundred million dollars. That had never been happened before. So the image is quite different than the reality.
RUSH: Hold it. Hold it. Who's he talking about? What's the misdemeanor? Who do we get for a hundred mill for the misdemeanor? I don't even know who he's talking about. He was found in contempt of court by a federal judge for lying in a grand jury testimony! Web Hubbell went to jail. Charlie Trie went to jail. Jim Guy Tucker went to jail. What is this misdemeanor garbage? A hundred million dollars? Arguably, you know, the hundred million was wasted. It didn't cost us a dime for him to have the oral sex with Monica Lewinsky and it didn't cost us a dime to buy him the cigar. Kathleen Willey and all? That didn't cost us anything. Maybe it didn't waste a lot of money. We didn't go for the right areas. Here's the right of this asinine answers.
CLINTON: Here's what I think. I like Joe Wilson. The man who was the target of the wrath [sic] of somebody in the administration.
RUSH: Stop the tape. (Laughing) See, he taped this interview yesterday before he knew what was coming in the New York Times and we now know somebody in the administration did not do anything to Joe Wilson. Joe Wilson did it to himself and by talking to so many journalists. That's how the word got out that Joe Wilson's wife is who she was. So here's a man with no credibility when it comes to ethics and high standards being asked about it on CNN. He can't tell the truth even now. (Laughter) This is just hilarious.
CLINTON: But he didn't vote for me in '92. He voted for former President Bush and he said so publicly. He's a career diplomat. He didn't deserve to have his career ruined and his wife didn't deserve to have her career ruined because he wouldn't --
RUSH: Stop the tape. Ruined? Their careers were not ruined! (sigh) See, this is all part of the picture that they're trying to paint: "The acts of Karl Rove destroyed these two people," and they've never been bigger stars in their lives! They've got their pictures all over Vanity Fair magazine. Every time they go out in Washington to eat, some paparazzi snaps a picture and it shows up everywhere. They're the darling couple. These are the two big "gets" for the cocktail circuit in Georgetown, folks, the Plames, and the Wilsons. Lives haven't been destroyed. In Washington, this is how you make your career.
CLINTON: -- say what they wanted him to say which was in Niger they sent uranium yellow cake to Iraq. He knew there was no evidence of it and he wasn't going to lie about it and he shouldn't have been punished for it.
RUSH: Well, we all know now he did find evidence of it. He changed his story. But here's Bill Clinton. I mean Bill Clinton understands that if you're going to lie, you got to have people lie for you, and that's what his spokesmen were. You know, if you go out and ask, "Mac McCarty, what was your job?"
"I tell lies for a liar."
"Mike McCurry, what was your job at the White House?"
"Well, I too, I told lies for a liar," and so Clinton is now telling lies for a liar: Joe Wilson. Here's the next question from Richard Roth: "You told students yesterday, Democratic activists, to look at the movie Advise and Consent, an old Washington political movie. So what's your advice for President Bush in choosing Supreme Court justices?"
CLINTON: I would say that he should pick someone... He'll want to pick someone who may be quite a bit more conservative than I would pick because he's the most conservative president we've had since the 1920s. But I would say, "Pick someone who is broad-minded and can think, and has a heart as well as a mind," because you can never predict what decisions the Supreme Court is going to have to face.
RUSH: In the first place, nobody was more conservative since the '20s than Ronald Reagan. Number two, the Constitution does not require a "heart" to interpret it. Liberalism requires what they want you to believe is a heart to propel it and to interpret it, but liberalism is gutless. Liberalism is heartless. I mean, liberalism is the easiest choice anybody can make. Liberalism is simple. It takes no work whatsoever to be a liberal. All you have to do is see misery and tell somebody you see it, and that you care -- and, bamm! You are said to have a good heart. Now, do something about it? Oh, noooo. That's too risky. All you do is identify the problem, and then tell other people it's their fault -- and you get credit for having a big heart. He's right about the Supreme Court, folks. You never know what cases they may face. There may be a 9-0 Supreme Court decision someday saying that a woman can sue a sitting president for a sexual harassment claim. You never know what might happen! But I want to go back in time because here is Bill Clinton, Colonel Sanders, being asked to comment on the ethical standards of the Bush administration, and who the Bush administration should choose as a Supreme Court justice. I told Cookie to hold onto these bites because I knew these bites would come in handy. We're going to go back now to that morning at the White House when President Bush -- this is in June of 2004 -- hosted an unveiling of oil portraits of former president Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton, and here is a portion of what President Bush said about Bill Clinton. (Full Transcript) Now, this is the president about whom Clinton was just asked, "Do we need to do something about this
administration's ethical standards, Mr. President? What do you say about that?" You can compare what you just heard Bill Clinton say about Joe Wilson repeating all of the lies, and compare that to how Bush speaks of former President Clinton here.
PRESIDENT BUSH: The years have done a lot to clarify the strengths of this man as a candidate for any office, whether it be the state attorney general or the president. Bill Clinton showed incredible energy and great personal appeal. As chief executive, he showed a deep and far-ranging knowledge of public policy, a great compassion for people in need, and the forward-looking spirit that Americans like in a president. Bill Clinton could always see a better day ahead, and Americans knew he was working hard to bring that day closer.
RUSH: For himself.
PRESIDENT BUSH: For eight years, it was clear that Bill Clinton loved the job of the presidency. He filled this house with energy and joy.
RUSH: I'll say.
PRESIDENT BUSH: He's a man of enthusiasm and warmth.
RUSH: Yes.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Who could make a compelling case and effectively advance the causes that drew him to public service.
RUSH: Like free sex from interns in the Oval Office and unbridled opportunity to approach any woman you want. Yep, he brought a lot of energy to the Oval Office. He brought a lot of energy to the presidency! Here's a classic illustration. Here's Bush, who reveres this office, who is not going to bring dishonor to it by the virtue of his behavior. He's not going to criticize former presidents. Quite the contrary. If you want to compare ethics, if you want to compare character, if you want to compare class, Bill Clinton's not even in the same university as George W. Bush.
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