Kennedy, Ramstad, Moyers: These Three Guys Walk OUT of a Bar

[Demeter]

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/431


by Michael Winship

So shocked were certain elements of the right by the vigor and ire with which Bill Clinton came out swinging on Fox News Sunday, they resorted to a stupefyingly base explanation. Matt Drudge and the right wing website Little Green Footballs, to name two, suggested that the former president may have been drinking.

"I don't think it was only anger," the Green Footballs blog insinuated, like some querulous quidnunc (take that, William Safire). "There were slurred words and strange broken sentences."

Jesus. That sound you hear is the bottom of the barrel being scraped. At the risk of stating the obvious and dignifying the smear with even the slightest further discussion, it's well known that Clinton barely touches the stuff. This was pointed out as recently as David Remnick's profile in the September 18 issue of The New Yorker.

If it was even remotely plausible, the Democrats might be tempted to respond as Abraham Lincoln famously -- and apocryphally -- did when confronted with reports of Ulysses S. Grant's drunkenness. Find out which brand of whiskey he's drinking, Lincoln said, and send a case to each of my generals. The Democratic version would see carboys of Clinton's Choice shipped by overnight Fedex to all the party's House and Senate candidates.

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION

Michael Winship, Writers Guild of America Award winner and former writer with Bill Moyers, writes a weekly column for the Messenger Post Newspapers in upstate New York.

[pooja]

1. Someone who recovers from heart surgery knows that if they

want to live, they won't drink. If he was a heavy drinker, then he would have been dead by now.

[woodsprite]

2. Well, I guess they figure they know the signs of a drunk or medicated

man talking since their leader demonstrates it all the time for them. They're grasping at straws though, because every word I heard him speak was crystal clear. I guess they were hoping he had some to go with their a$$ he was handing them on a plate.

[Cozumel]

3. I believe Ben Franklin once said...

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." I've always loved that quote. Especially since it was one of our founding fathers.

[TrogL]

4. What part of Tradition 11 don't these people understand?

11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.

[waketheherd]

5. We all know what Clinton likes to stuff

Nuk Nuk Nuk.

It was a heck of a performance by the former President. I for one like the fact that these guys can let their real feelings and personality come out when necessary. There are too many "plastic" politicans these days. While I don't agree with everything he did politically while in office, Clinton was right in defending himself on the issue of bin Laden and the 9-11 hitpieces of late.