Anybody remember how Clinton's last days in office were covered vs. Bush's?`

[live love laugh]

I still am sickened at the recollection of reporters who stood outside the White House in the last few days of Clinton's term at all hours of the day and night. Their biggest "stories" were that Clinton was using his pardoning power and then there was that thing where they claimed they stole China and removed keys from computers. I especially remember one news reader pointing to a room with a light on in the White House saying that Clinton was probably sitting in there as the newsreader spoke pardoning criminals. Then, when the actual pardons were done, they were scrutinized for days and the Rich's were held up as proof of Clinton's wrongdoing with pardons.

Contrast that with Bush who left for Camp David with hardly a peep from the media. No speculation about pardons. No camping outside of the White House for a week. No "stories."

They will hound Obama just like they did Clinton.

Fuck the crooked media.

[grytpype]

1. They're a lot more interested in Obama leaving than Bush coming in!

We're so fricking sick of hearing about Bush!

[wyldwolf]

2. I recall the SNL skit where Bush's inaugural address kept being pre-empted by Clinton's farewell

address.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Lest we forget..........

This is when the Bushies started the story about how the Clinton people trashed the White House offices on their way out. The media certainly went on and on about that, even after the Clinton folks denied all of it, and there was no proof that any damage had been done.

Lest we forget that it was Rep. Bob Barr - the recalcitrant slug who recently had the gall to run for President - who provoked an investigation that cost us taxpayers about $200,000 before concluding that none of it had taken place.

Did we ever get an apology from those fuckers? Did Barr ever apologize for wasting the country's money?

[Lasher]

4. Clinton was attacked mercilessly.

Clinton admits misleading testimony, avoids charges in Lewinsky probe

January 19, 2001

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Clinton will leave office free of the prospect of criminal charges after he admitted Friday that he knowingly gave misleading testimony about his affair with Monica Lewinsky in a 1998 lawsuit.

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/19/clinton.lewinsky/

A Google news archive search resulted in 111 results similar to the above.

Clock ticking on Clinton's hopes for Mideast pact

January 7, 2001

Israeli official: 'We don't believe a deal is doable' before January 20

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/01/07/mideast/index.html

127 related.

Once Applauded as a Hero, Clinton Bows Out Amid Palestinian Catcalls

Jan 19, 2001

The Palestinian disillusionment with is perhaps the most vivid of the shifting views held here of Clinton's legacy. From the moment in 1993 when he coaxed the famous handshake on the White House lawn between and the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Clinton has invested tremendous personal energy and time in the peace process. He has been extraordinarily friendly to Israel but also built unprecedented ties with the Palestinians.

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/67055021.html?dids=67055021:67055021&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jan+19%2C+2001&author=TRACY+WILKINSON&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Once+Applauded+as+a+Hero%2C+Clinton+Bows+Out+Amid+Palestinian+Catcalls%3B+Mideast%3A+Arafat's+officials+lament+'bias'+toward+Israel%2C+look+forward+to+Bush+team.+In+Jewish+state%2C+right+never+warmed+to+U.S.+leader%2C+but+most+of+left+will+miss+him.&pqatl=google

100 related.

Clinton defends pardons, saying individuals 'paid in full' for crimes

January 21, 2001

CHAPPAQUA, New York (CNN) -- Former President Bill Clinton on Sunday defended his 11th-hour pardon of 140 people, saying the public should be "open-minded" about the cases and the use of that executive privilege.

http://edition.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/21/clinton.pardons/index.html

41 related

[Catherine Vincent]

5. Fox News is focusing on Bush's lasts days in the White House

They are so sad over there. They were showing his last trip on Marine One and mentioned how the twins were both there. They showed the crowd greeting the Bush's on the south lawn and how they were privileged to be there. One reporter mentioned how that scene looked fantastic. :eyes: They (fox reporters) were joking that the twins wanted to get back to the White house to get their stuff because the Obama's are moving in. :eyes:

[book_worm]

6. The media has been very conscious of the historic nature of Obama becoming president

and much of the news is concerned with that not with a president who most people are relieved to be leaving the WH. I'm glad they are covering Obama and pretty much ignoring Bush. If he makes some last minute controvercial pardons they will cover it. Of course they spent a lot of time on Clinton in his last days because there wasn't much excitement in the country in 2001 when Bush was appointed by the SC and coming in. Unlike the great excitement today for Obama.

[stillcool]

7. I wonder if the media..

will draw any comparison between the hail of eggs Bush went through along the parade route, with whatever takes place on Tuesday.

[NWHarkness]

9. That went right down the memory hole

The media is NEVER going to bring up that the majority of people along the parade route for Bush's installation were there to protest.

[stillcool]

11. I wanted so badly to be there..

that day. It is incredible looking back outside of the media lens.

[NWHarkness]

8. They treated Clinton like a fleeing felon

And even though all the polls showed that his popularity on leaving office was the highest ever recorded n the era of modern polling, they droned on and on about how the country was suffering from "Clinton fatigue".

[Fearless]

10. You're right! Damn that lib-- conservative media.