and everyone would rather ask him about his past then his writing with Patterson.

Did you want him not to answer so that nobody in the internet would accuse him of "inserting himself" in a conversation?
Why don't your shift your anger toward the interviewer?

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Why is he injecting himself into these conversations that are not helpful?!

regurgitated predictable responses against him.
Same with Sec Clinton.

"Go away & shut up"

He said the truth & I am hearing that his book written along with James Patterson has some similarities to BC's life with many twists enough to make it a very good thriller.

He should indeed speak when he so feels compelled.

exactly the same.

"Hawking his book"

It's an important read right now and a warning to Americans. The future does not see wars of bombs and blood. The wars the future will be cyber threats, serious ones and the Military's money should go to that kind of war...

He's not inserting himself into any conversations here.

...I feel like in this current climate he should have expected the question from someone especially if he is out on a book/speaking/interview circuit tour.

But no, I wouldn't say he's inserting himself into the conversation.

He has every right to speak up.

Bill is one of the smartest people we have had as POTUS.

Having sex with an intern was dumb, lying about it was dumb, saying that he did nothing wrong, really dumb. I could see saying that he made a mistake, or that society has advanced our understanding about appropriate behavior. But claiming he did nothing wrong is just foolish. Claim that he had high approval ratings and thus was right, well Bush had really high approval ratings after 9/11.

Because I think it is irrelevant.

Bye, again

That includes being a lousy interviewer. Bill is on a book tour. Andrea and Susan Page were in rare form this morning.

I’m not defending him. He’s got an ego and a temper and it doesn’t serve him. He did a rotten thing. But the blood lust is tiresome and almost seems designed to give the right a stick to beat us with.

in a dark room.

People start yelling "truth to power!!!"



Clinton answers a question and he is attacked. So transparent.

the likes of the putrified media hounds who asked the off topic baiting questions in the first place, & inserting their predictable flaming bs into a book signing.

They asked an off topic question & he answerd.

He was there for his book debut.

This shit wasn't started by BClinton. The media hounds did.
They should maybe "shut up".

are inserting him into the conversation. He answered a question.

Why do the Clinton's always need to shut up?

I have long had problems with Bill Clinton, but he - as has Hillary - often has been an articulate spokesperson for our side. Given how the right parses everything any Democrat says to find the sentence fragment that resounds against us, I assume that there will be calls for each and every Democratic statesman - even the amazingly charismatic, eloquent Obamas - to stay quiet.

What we need to challenge is the context of every scrap of conversation - from long public comments - that is taken and turned viral against any likely Democratic spokesperson. In each case, we need to ask the full context of what seems controversial. There is a big difference between something being carefully said in a speech that they prepared, especially if the full speech (text, audio, or video ) is available to get the full frame. Less formal, are things like Sunday talk shows where - again the entire context is important, but where the comment could have been either a pre thought out response to a question they knew was likely to happen or a response to an unexpected question.

Many of the comments that have caused consternation among some people have been from book tours and, like all administrations, now that the Obama administration is over, many people involved in it have written books and will be doing publicity tours. I suspect the media will take each of these, ignore whatever the story the author wants to tell and focus onto a few sound byte length comments - in context or out - that provoke some controversy.

However, I bet that in any day, Trump will have said or tweeted something FAR worse .. and no one on the Republican side will argue that he should keep his mouth shut.

He wrote a book with James Patterson and they are on a book tour. OTHER people are bringing the issue up.

It was an interview about a book and he asked about M. Lewinsky

Former President Bill Clinton says that, even in light of the #MeToo movement, he would not have approached how he dealt with Monica Lewinsky any differently and acknowledged that — 20 years after their relationship made headlines — he’s still never apologized privately to the former intern.

"I don't think it would be an issue," the ex-president told NBC News' Craig Melvin in an interview that aired Monday on the "Today" show, after he was asked if he would have "approached the accusations differently" if he were president in 2018 "with everything that’s going on with the #MeToo movement.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...affair-n879721

Keep up the good work/

Besides, Bill is entitled to say whatever he wants to say on any subject. At least Bill is very intelligent and knowledgeable. Goodness knows that it's bad enough to have to hear the moron in the WH bloviate non-stop every day.