Main Stream Media On The Clintons
"If we could be one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been in the White House, wed take it right now and walk away winners....Tell Mrs. Clinton we respect her and were pulling for her." Dan Rather CBS Evening News, May 27, 1993
"I hear you talking and, as I have before on this subject, I dont know of anybody, friend or foe, who isnt impressed by your grasp of the details of this [health care] plan. I'm not surprised, because you have been working on it so long and listened to so many people." Dan Rather interview with Hillary Clinton, September 22, 1993
"Ken Starr drops another load on President Clinton....Good evening. Just as President Clinton was enjoying a day talking up the economy, officially announcing the first U.S. budget surplus in three decades, Ken Starr hit him again. The Republican independent counsel and special prosecutor decided late in the day to announce his decision to press his subpoena for samples of Monica Lewinsky's handwriting, fingerprints and her voice." — May 26, 1998. {Aww Poor Bill, should have given him a Cigar to cheer him up.}
"I would not be astonished to see Hillary Clinton be the Democratic nominee in 2000....Hillary Clinton is the Person of the Year in that, you talk about a comeback kid -- be the strongest candidate for the Democrats." Interview with Larry King, December 3, 1998.
"Once a political lightning rod, today she is political lightning. A crowd pleaser and first-class fundraiser, a person under enormous pressure to step into the arena, this time on her own." 60 Minutes II, May 26, 1999
In a infamous Evening News interview Dan Rather aggressively grilled Vice President George Bush about Iran-Contra, repeatedly stopping him mid sentence and argumentatively assaulted him. Rather recklessly declared "You've made us hypocrites in the face of the world." In Stark contrast to a 1999 interview of President Clinton where he allowed Clinton to portray himself as a virtual choir boy, and the conservative Republicans who sought to impeach him as an evil force lurking in the shadows. January 25, 1988
President Reagan submits a budget:
"It contains more for guns, less for butter, and it is out of balance and will add to the deficit." -- CBS Evening News, January 9, 1989.
"In America in the 1980s, what former President Reagan and those who support him call the Reagan Revolution put more money in the pockets of the rich. We already knew that. But a new study indicates that those who did best of all by far were the very richest of the rich." --CBS Evening News, March 5, 1992.