MSNBC’s Katy Tur and her MTP Daily panel today criticized former President Bill Clinton over his heated interview on Monica Lewinsky.
Clinton insisted that people have “conveniently omitted” certainfacts of the case, saying people “are frustrated that they got all these serious allegations against the current occupant of the Oval Office, and his voters don’t seem to care.”
Tur asked, “Why was he so combative in that interview? Why didn’t he just say ‘hey, listen, it’s a different time, I feel badly for the way things went down, I feel badly for how Monica Lewinsky was treated, I’m sorry’?”
Zerlina Maxwell noted how Clinton “led with his defenses” instead of showing more contrition.
John Podhoretz brought up a speech Clinton gave in September 1998 in which the then-President said, “I don’t think there’s a fancy way to say that I have sinned. It is important to me that everyone who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine — first and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.”
“I guess he didn’t mean it,” Podhoretz added.
He also noted how much of a “pacifying figure” Lewinsky has been before agreeing that it wouldn’t have cost
“She’s the victim clearly in this,” Tur said. “And the way she treated afterwards.”
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