As Campaign Desk points out, the Moonie Times has just run a
pretty overtly hostile, slurring op-ed piece. The Times tends to usually lean to the Republican side of things, but here they pretty much just tip way the fuck over.
Remember, this is the paper run by that guy who just crowned himself.
Anyway, here's some fun bits from the op-ed piece, reprinted here for your amusement:
Harry Potter and Bill Clinton
By Jack Wheeler...Bill Clinton is such a repulsive subject I never thought I would ever write about him again after he was replaced by a man of decency and integrity in the White House. Yet the sight of all those women lining up to buy his book, to get that book autographed by a serial abuser of women, like prostitutes idolizing their abusive pimp, is sadly illustrative of a bizarre truth.
[...]
One reason is that it's too blindingly obvious that Mr. Clinton's book should have been titled "My Lie." All of that stuff about Hillary being mad, making him sleep on the couch, going to marriage counselors for a year, yada yada, is all made up. They have had a pact for decades: He gets to fool around with women, and she gets to fool around with women (plus the occasional man like Vince Foster).
Yes, she's bisexual — I disclosed that in an infamous Strategic Investment column in January 1993, and Dick Morris publicly revealed it a few years ago. You knew that, right?
[...]
One reason is that women can swoon over Slick Willie but they sure can't over Hanoi John. Mr. Clinton plays the charmingly lovable rogue who can lie through his teeth and get away with it. There is nothing lovable about John Kerry — pompous, arrogant, stentorian, pretentious and so un-handsome he looks like a cross between Herman Munster and Gomer Pyle. Bill Clinton's lies were dismissed. Mr. Kerry's are discerned as flip-flops....
― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
If only Bill had thought of this himself: "I
did have an inappropriate relationship with Miss Lewinsky. But it's okay, folks, Hillary and I are swingers!"
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
heh. i wonder what Wall Street Journal op-ed pieces will read like once we get closer to november..today they had a nice big piece by Larry Tribe on the SC decisions and a Al Hunt piece on how opinions on the Iraq war may affect the elections. The regular non-signed editorials weren't particularly Dem-critical either (just a call for Theresa to release her tax docs, which I think is pretty reasonable).
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link
But Tracer, if Bill Clinton sued everyone who made clearly-insupportable libelous accusations about him and his family, he'd need a staff of 16,000.
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link
"Bush can squirt his man-juice farther than Kerry can, and if you don't believe us, you still wet your bed."
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
if you search for Jack Wheeler on google, you'll find some hilarious columns. What a fucking relic.
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Where are all the moonies kept? Is this a secretive organization because, for the life of me, I haven't met a single one.
― Evanston Wade (EWW), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link