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3 de Junio, 2008
Fell Your Idols
Categorized under | Tags: Clinton, Outtakes and Remakes
THE MEDIA commences shredding the monolithic Clinton Brand.
Todd Purdum, the national editor of Vanity Fair, stood by his article's most controversial assertions in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, including charges that aides to the former president believe his 2004 heart surgery fundamentally altered the 61-year-old's state of mind.Purdum, a former White House reporter for the New York Times and the husband of former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Meyers, also defended his claim that some aides grew concerned with rumors Bill Clinton had been "seeing a lot of women on the road." [...]
In its most hard-hitting passages, the article also quotes aides who believe Clinton's heart surgery in 2004 left the former president in an altered state of mind -- one marked by constant anger and rage. [...]
Purdum added he himself believes there's evidence the former president is acting in a different manner.
"I think there's a good deal of evidence that he is quite a bit angrier than he used to be," he said. "He's clearly very angry at the media, and he's very angry at the way he sees Senator Clinton's campaign has been treated."
In another of the article's more explosive passages, Purdum asserts that several aides grew concerned over a year ago amid reports of inappropriate behavior by the former president while he was traveling.
One more blockquote:
This is from the post Raging Bill, written on 2 de Abril, 2008:
It's over, people. Even if you somehow were to find Superman so he could fly around the world three times in reverse, you have created an insurmountable problem for yourself. We may have just turned the corner as a voraciously hungry America always starving for good entertainment—now more eager to see the new, hideous, utterly fascinating formerly-hidden faces of the Clintons than we are to see the old ones plod along with their predictable laughlines and narratives.—Raging Bill, UMX
What is killing bill is the age old truth that even he knows will always hold. The human being has a need for heros, for gods that walk among us. We want to blow a person up huge and magnificent and infallible. And then, finally, to prove that they actually owe their power to us and always have, we must expose, delegitimize, and destroy them.
Bill just hoped he would not live to see the tail end of this dynamic. But he is chewing the bitter and choking on it because he understands now he was wrong. He looks to the new golden boy and burns within.
*title of post taken from Tshirt I used to have, which showed a picture of christ weeping and these words in caps. Actually, it was not exactly these words, but I've softened one in the name of avoiding misunderstanding or upping hostility levels unnecessarily.
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Comentarios (1)
RC dijo:
And clast your icons while you're at it.
Palabras por RC spat forth on el 3 de Junio, 2008 at 06:27 PM