good news TO ALL YOU CLINTON HATER'S

[blues clues]

He's going to have open heart surgery. just heard, hope he dose well.
razz

[SuperScout]

Just in case you didn't hear, the President offered his prayers and best wishes for Clinton's speedy recovery, and I might add the President spoke for me as well. Perhaps the paucity of responses to your subject matter is that there are fewer real 'Clinton haters' as you presume. And I hasten to add, I ain't one of them either.

[darrels joy]

Catch of the Day
This time, from the fourth estate, to wit, the Associated Press.

As documented in great detail at Swiming Through the Spin, the AP has engaged in a minor, yet typical, example of journalistic rotation.

From Editor and Publisher :

NEW YORK The Associated Press changed ?boos? to ?ooohhs? Friday afternoon in reporting on President George Bush?s first statement to supporters on the heart ailment that has befallen former President Bill Clinton.

In a dispatch sent to subscribers in early afternoon, the AP reported that when Bush, at a campaign rally in West Allis, Wisconsin, told the crowd that he wished to send Clinton his ?best wishes for a swift and speedy recovery,? the audience ?of thousands booed. Bush did nothing to stop them.?

Pretty damning, except that AP soon changed its story, only after the original appeared on many Web sites.

Several Web sites revealed that AP ?retracted? the report ?citing uncertainties about how to characterize the crowd?s reaction.?

The new version moved on the wire Friday described the same incident this way, after relating Bush?s remarks: ?The crowd reacted with applause and with some ?ooohs,? apparently surprised by the news that Clinton was ill.?

A Knight Ridder/Tribune (KRT) report put it this way: ?Some in Bush?s audience booed when he wished Clinton well?.? The AFP wire report declared that after Bush?s statement ?thousands of boisterous supporters clapped respectfully.?


Of course thanks to the Blogosphere,more than one audio file of the event is available online, showing a distinct absence of Boos, a complete lack of Oohs, and for that matter, no Kangaroos either.

http://tinyurl.com/6yfug

Being caught injecting fiction into a report (and removing the offending paragraph as AP initially did) is one thing : leaving unequivocal evidence of a really clumsy cover-up attempt afterwards is another.

I fear that ?Catch of the Day? may become a semi-regular feature of this site at this rate.
http://www.command-post.org/2004/2_archives/015040.html

[Tina]

I can't stand Clinton.. But my prayers are with him.. And I hope he does well.. I would never wish someone Dead..
love ya
Your Friend and God Bless,
Tina

[39mto39g]

You play nice now.
Bill Clinton didn't do a bad job as president, he didn't do a good job either.
He wasn't worth a shit as a human being but that has nothing to do with his being president.
We are all going to die some day. I don't wish him anything good or bad.

Ron

[reconeil]

Most of you here seem to understand the difference between despising people for most everything they stand for, do (or not), and even their perverted natures,...isn't actually hating or wishing one dead. It's too bad that many Democrats and many in their largely supportive Press/Media can't similary distinguish between the words: "Despising" or "Hating"?

Hey,...just because I DESPISE any corporate head repeatedly (on a daily basis) taking sexual advantages of an extremely young corporate worker WHILE AT WORK, after promissing her The Moon and/or a higher paying job for special services rendered,...I don't actually HATE such unfaithful perverts taking advantage of young girls, and wish them dead.

Suitable and as demanded By Law jailings, are more to my liking.
I'm no Democrat Politician, lordly believing myself ABOVE The Law.

Thusly, and from a non-political perspective, I wish "Slick Willy" (descriptive nickname given Clinton by old friends and associates in Arkansas) well. However, and from a political standpoint, I believe that The Operation should have been done at The Infirmary (naturally with best state of the art surgical heart repairing equipment), at some Federal Facility instead.

Might not be very politically-correct(?),...but seems quite appropriate to me.

Neil

[Seascamp]

A very sad and despicable recent event was when ABC, via the influence of Barbara Streisand, set about maligning and harassing gravely ill former President Regan. The people of Patriotfiles are not Hollywood nor ABC nor beholding to any malicious political hacks and therefore would not necessarly attack former President Bill Clinton when he?s taking the standing eight-count. I?m wishing Bill the best in his recovery and hope he?s back on the podium soon so that I can pick on him once again. Until just then, I?m in that ornery rascal?s corner.

Scamp

[SparrowHawk62]

May the son of a bitch die slowly and painfully.