Newsweek Finds Hillary's Pinnacle of Moral Purpose: Tolerating Bill's Intern Adultery?

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This week’s Newsweek cover story on political courage ("Wanted: A New Truman") is truly baffling. Evan Thomas has a strange way of assessing what marks courage in our presidential contenders. He easily acknowledges that John McCain’s long tenure as a prisoner of war trumps everyone else. But he writes "All the candidates will use their life stories to show a sense of moral purpose." How did Hillary display her sense of moral purpose?

You may not believe it, but Thomas claimed: "Hillary Clinton had a stark moral choice: whether to stay with her husband when President Clinton's philandering with Monica Lewinsky was exposed. Her decision to stand by him could not have been easy." Inside the media-Democrat complex, moral courage is not displayed by condemning adultery. It is displayed by tolerating adultery and maintaining political viability for the party in power – not to mention nicely setting up your own senatorial and presidential campaigns down the line.

Thomas also implied that Hillary showed courage in "her refusal to apologize for her pro-war vote in the Senate in the fall of 2002 as a matter of principle." When it came to Barack Obama, Thomas argued he demonstrated his political courage by standing up to liberal bloggers who scorn him as a centrist. John McCain’s faced down Vietnamese captors and is boasting of fighting Osama bin Laden to "the gates of Hell," but Obama is courageous for standing up to the Daily Kos crowd. He’s also brave for starting out modestly in Chicago politics before he started making millions in book royalties:

Barack Obama was an early opponent of the war at a time when most Democrats were still with Bush. Favorably compared to Bobby Kennedy, Obama does have an air of authenticity—he writes his own books and seems to speak from the heart. Giving up a corporate job in Manhattan, he went to work in Chicago as a low-paid community organizer. He will take on liberal bloggers who criticize him as too centrist. But there is a something of the raging moderate about Obama: he never sticks his neck so far out that he can't pull it back in.

Thomas doesn’t mention that Barack Obama was an obscure state senator in Illinois in 2002. The reader would be forgiven for assuming he was a high-profile Washington figure at that time.

Thomas had first turned to Romney when he started on the moral-purpose line. It’s not surprising that he used the paragraph to pluck out young Romney’s memories of drunken frat boy George W. Bush:

All the candidates will use their life stories to show a sense of moral purpose. After partying at Stanford, Romney says, he found purpose on a Mormon mission to France and came back to finish college at Brigham Young. At Harvard Business School, Romney says he "didn't hang out much" with his schoolmate George W. Bush. "I was married at the time with two or three children," he told NEWSWEEK. Bush was a single guy in his " 'young and irresponsible' period ... I longed for the chance to get at the books and study and learn."

It is precisely at this point that Thomas introduced his Hillary whopper. Bill Clinton didn’t have a "young and irresponsible period." It ran all the way through his presidency.

—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center


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Hillary and Bill. Let's see j

Hillary and Bill. Let's see just how supportive and tolerant of each other they are after Hillary loses the Presidency and they no longer need each other.

An opinion

Gat, you've got that one right!  Shmillary is still with Bill only out of expediency.  She doesn't need that jackass to help her run for president - she is so freakin' power hungry and full of herself she'll steamroll anyone who gets in her way regardless if Slick Willy is around or not.

I still remember the classic line that David Letterman gave during one of his monologues a few summers ago: "It was so hot in New York today Bill Clinton crawled in bed with Hillary just to cool off!"

That says it all!

Never dance on an empty stomach unless it's a liberal.

gold...ROFLMAO!I haven't ever

gold...

ROFLMAO!

I haven't ever heard that one...

Thanks, great one to start preparing dinner on...always can use a good chuckle.

Bill could be toast if hillar

Bill could be toast if hillary wins.  She wouldn't need him to be re-elected. 

  Plus she will not want him to overshadow her administration.  She will not want to leave as her legacy the impression that he was making the big decisions and she was only a figure head.

She already said that he will

She already said that he will be some kind of super-ambassador or a roving ambassador - kind of like a ship at sea that never comes back to home port.

lol

lol

"kind of like a ship a

"kind of like a ship at sea that never comes back to home port."

Maybe he should have "Lusitania" tatooed on his bottom?

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

I have to remember that one!

I have to remember that one!

Maybe he should have "Lu

Maybe he should have "Lusitania" tatooed on his bottom?

Take the first "i" out of that tatoo.

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.   

You know, I have long had t

You know, I have long had this theory that she would divorce him if she ran, just to prove that she could be President on her own. With the two of them in the White House, he could not stay out of policy, and she would refuse to allow the thought that she was just a puppet and he the "power behind the throne."

But she didn't, so there goes my theory. Shows how much I know. So Mid-America's theory could be right...she just might get rid of him AFTER she gets elected, or after she's inaugurated. If she wins. Which I pray daily won't happen.

You gotta love Liberals....

delete double

Oh please...Who is the bigges

Oh please...

Who is the biggest liar in the msm anymore?

Just how dumb do they think we are out there?

They ought to have a contest to see who wins without even trying and let us pick out the biggest lies and vote on them.

Hillary had her folks and brother move to Littlerock to keep an eye on Bill for her. ...she hired Jerry Parks to video tape/document his every move in Ark....

She is a political whore...always has been always will be.

No moral story there at all!

Stick a fork in it Evan.

Shillary is the pinnacle of moral purpose? ha!

Shrillary is the pinnacle of moral purpose? Ha!

This is the woman who conspired with her husband by running the Bimbo Coverup Squad.

EXACTLY. Evan Thomas is prete

EXACTLY.

Evan Thomas is pretending that Lewinsky was Bill Clinton's only incident of philandering.  Just the opposite was true; hence, the need for the aforementioned Bimbo Coverup Squad.  And Thomas' point is completely negated.

Yeah, you gotta love Liber

Yeah, you gotta love Liberals....defining moral courage as putting up with a philandering husband.

A yes, because Bill was her m

A yes, because Bill was her meal ticket. What was she going to do, leave him? That would have meant leaving the luxury of the White House and then give up her desire to be a Senator, not to mention run for President. Give me a break. They don't even live together. What a joke!

Excuse my tackiness here, b

Excuse my tackiness here, but do we really want a President who has a slut for a husband?

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

LOL!

LOL!  What a great bumper sticker that would make!

"He's a male bimbo...he'

"He's a male bimbo...he's a Mimbo!"

"Believe what you want. You work your side of the street, and I'll work mine." --Frank Bullitt

Mean,I laugh every time I hea

Mean,

I laugh every time I hear that line..thanks for the memory.

ditto....my son and I are f

ditto....my son and I are firm believers that any incident that happens in one's life can be related to an episode of "Seinfeld"..LOL It gets proven every day!!

Tim,"The Hillary Whopper

Tim,

"The Hillary Whopper".

I like that.  That particular title fits everything that comes out of the woman's mouth.

BTW, what accent did she use for this particular whopper?

Blonde - all sort of material comes out...

Blonde - all sort of material comes out of her mouth. Of course some of it does not catch a lot of media attention. Like this one last year, for instance:

Sen. Clinton Says Bush Has Charm, Charisma

By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer

Tue May 9,2006

Asked to say one nice thing about President Bush, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton went one better: She named two things.

"He is someone who has a lot of charm and charisma, and I think in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, I was very grateful to him for his support for New York," Clinton said Tuesday night during a talk at the National Archives about her life in politics.

Clinton, a potential presidential candidate in 2008, said that despite their "many disagreements about many, many issues," she has always had a good personal relationship with the president.

"He's been very willing to talk. He's been affable. He's been good company," said Clinton, D-N.Y.

The junior senator from New York, who is up for re-election this year, said she is still thankful for Bush's personal commitment to helping rebuild lower Manhattan after Sept. 11, 2001.

She recalled how the president, in the grim days that followed the terror attacks, pledged in a private meeting with New York lawmakers to help rebuild the shattered city.

"It was a very personal, very emotional discussion and when we asked him for the help that New York needed he immediately said yes," said Clinton.

At that meeting, Bush pledged more than $20 billion in aid and tax incentives. Some New York Democrats have since charged the Bush administration has fallen billions of dollars short of that goal because some of the programs were underused, but Clinton said the president kept his promise.

"He always kept it on track," she said. "He made sure we got the resources that we needed and I'm very grateful to him for that. ... I am very appreciative in the time when the people I represented needed his help, he was there for us."

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Gary,Even a stopped watch is

Gary,

Even a stopped watch is correct twice a day.

But what I'd really like to know is, what accent did she use when saying something nice about the President?  I bet it was a "little girl" voice.

And I'm sure if Hillary were to be asked about this statement today, she'd disavow it, although I'd bet she wouldn't quite use the word "whopper".

Once again, you always come up with really interesting stuff.  Thanks.

Q. for HRC

The stopped watch analogy is a snapshot of HRC. Good one. And of course, it would be interesting to see what she would say today. Speaking of.... would it not be refreshing at the next D(ic) presidental wanabe debate to hear a question phrased in this manner for HRC: "Sen. Clinton, in light of your prior view (one year ago) of the President - that being that he has charm and chrisma, and that he has been so focused and spot on in delivering what he promised  - how comfortable are you with your personal attacks on him in recent months? And, is this all just a newer political face you've put on to get you into the white house?"

Gary,It's going to take alot

Gary,

It's going to take alot of make-up to present a "newer political face" for HRC.  Either that or more plastic surgery.  But she can no longer take time off from public to do that

Interesting question though.  Oh how I'd love to be able for those of us on the conservative side to pose questions to the dem(ics....nice one BTW) as they did to our side last week.  Hey, that might be a great forum topic....questions to ask the dem(ics) in a debate if you could.  You've got the braincells in high gear tonite, G.

Here I am, idiotically replyi

Here I am, idiotically replying to myself (yet again!).

But I thought the "question" thing was so interesting that I did post a Forum topic....in the  "Off Topic" Forum.

"BTW, what accent did sh

"BTW, what accent did she use for this particular whopper?"

She uses her "California Television" accent when speaking on Television. No colloquialisms, no strained vowels, no drawl.

She's what I like to call a "linguistic chameleon". This skill comes naturally to any passive-aggressive or sociopath.

dabal,An interesting concept.

dabal,

An interesting concept.  Although I'd never in a thousand years call HRC passive-aggressive.  She's plain old agressive, nothing passive about it.  And unfortunately, she's gotten away with it for so long that she considers that a normal state of being.  As to the sociopath thing, I'm going to have to think about that one a bit....I suspect it may fit.

Speaking of Hillary's voices, have you heard

Speaking of Hillary's voices, have you heard the latest parodies of her using different dialects?  Hillarious!

RJ,Gotta link?Anyone here kno

RJ,

Gotta link?

Anyone here knows I despise all things Hillary.

Sorry, Blonde.  I went to th

Sorry, Blonde.  I went to the site of the guy who does them, Paul Shanklin, but couldn't find the songs.  If I run across anything, I'll let you know.

I think the Paul Shanklin stu

I think the Paul Shanklin stuff is only available to Rush Premium members.

My favorite Shanklin parody

My favorite Shanklin parody of her was about her Grand Jury testimony...it had multiple questions and her continued answer of "I don't remember, I don't recall, etc." I was to the tune of "Try to Remember" and the reprise line went: "I can't remember, my brain's in a blender, it's Jell-o (jello, jello, jello)

Blonde....Except for the hair

Blonde....

Except for the hair color, Hillary could easily play the part of the wicked witch in the wizard of Oz.

The liberal MSM has become an enemy of the USA.

Hey Clear....Well, we know sh

Hey Clear....

Well, we know she is an expert at the broom riding thing.

I read some of the milblogs....when she was in Aghanistan the pilots apparently used the call sign Broomstick 11.  Gotta love the troops, for all they have to live through every single day in-theatre, they never, ever lose their sense of humor.

Gotta love em!The liberal MSM

Gotta love em!

The liberal MSM has become an enemy of the USA.

Margaret Hamilton is spinning

Margaret Hamilton is spinning in her grave

Funny, how some traits, unive

Funny, how some traits, universally acknowledged as bad in others, are held up as positive by the media in Democrat politicians. Indecisiveness somehow shows "thoughtfulness", no core philosophy is "flexible" and "pragmatic", now opportunism is "courage". Sheesh...

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

Look, I don't care.  Adulter

Look, I don't care.  Adultery is not even on the long list of bad things Bill Clinton did, as far as I am concerned.

But don't make a virtue out of the very pragmatic decision that his power hungry wife made to ignore his serial philandering because she saw he could get into the White House.  That's just offensive.

Don't forget that it was News

Don't forget that it was Newsweek that first had the story about Bill, the cigar, and the intern. But some of their people, like Mikey Isikoff and Eleanor Rodham Clift, no doubt prevailed on the editors to sit on the story. Then along came Drudge...

And as I recall, the fellow mentioned here, Newsweek's Evan Thomas, was the guy who guaranteed in 2004 that the mainstream media would "give" Jean-Claude Kerry a 15 point boost. Kerry almost won as a result.

It strikes me as rather fun

It strikes me as rather funny to have any mention of "moral purpose" or for that matter "moral" anything, in connection with any of the current crop of Demcrats running for President. Who was it, Edwards with the deer-in-the-headlights stare in response the question about his "moral leader" at the Demcrats non-debate?

Lee T.

U.S. Navy (ret.) / Vancouver, Washington

The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.-- Mark Twain

Hillary Clinton Joke

Hillary goes to the Doctor for her pre-campaign physical.  The doctor comes in after the examination and tells Hillary she is pregnant.

“Are you sure?” she asked

“Blood test don’t lie Mrs. Clinton.”

Furious Hillary storms to her limo and calls Bill.

After Bill answers Hillary lights him up.

“How could you do this to me?  Here I am getting ready to further my career and bam you get me pregnant. What are you going to do about it?”

There is total silence on the phone.

Hillary yells into the phone once more.

“WELL, WHAT DO YOU HAvE TO SAY?”

Meekly Bill ask, “Who is this?”

 "Life's tough, it's even tougher if you're stupid."
-John Wayne

LOL!!!!

LOL!!!!