Washington press longs for Clinton years when presidential scandal was easy pickins
I asked him if he had ever had intercourse with Monica and he gave me the “I never had intercourse with that woman” line. What a believable and determined liar. When Bush lies he blinks, sweats and looks to the side of the stage where Karl Rove is.
- Nelly Clayton
Back in the day, when a scandal was a scandal, Bill Clinton made life very easy for the Washington media. Now, you almost need a Ph.D. to keep track of the twists and turns of the Bush scandals.
Washington, D.C.--The recent barrage of Iraq-related controversies leveled at the White House has the Washington press corps nostalgic for the eight unrelenting years that it hounded ex-President Bill Clinton.
“Man, those were good times,” said Derek Manderstream of the New York Times, wiping a tear from his eye as he reminisced over lunch in the press club lounge. “You just had to love Clinton. I mean that guy was a godsend to reporters. The right-wingers hated him with a passion bordering on lunacy and his own libido got the better of him every time. What a flawed character. That guy was a newspaper selling machine.”
Avery Rutledge of U.S. News & World Report, sighed as he remembered the simplicity of the Clinton years.
“It was so much easier writing about Clinton’s blowjob than trying to explain the multi-leveled nepotism and corruption of the Bush Administration.”
Yes, now that the media is actually having to earn their lunch money, life is a lot more work for he kingmakers of the media. You DO have to admit, though, that the Bush scandals are a whole lot more serious. No one died when Clinton left his mark on Monica Lewinsky's blue dress.
