Be Quiet, Bill

Former President Bill Clinton, in an insidious move, drew a parallel today between the mood in the nation leading up to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the tea party movement of today. The reason for this is clear: the left, terrified of what is coming in November, is attempting to discredit the entire assembly of tea party protesters, overwhelmingly composed of ordinary Americans, by casting them as violent (white) extremists, hell-bent on anarchy. They are being assisted in their efforts on a daily basis by an army of sycophantic accomplices in the mainstream media, the ever-willing cat's paw to the Democratic Party. People like Clinton love to make outrageous assertions, like linking the "mood" of 1995 to that of today, and then backpedal somewhat so as to avoid being pinned down as having actually said what they in fact said. They will make a radical claim and then equivocate on it, or bury it in a mountain of words so that later they can say "Well, I never actually said that." Their objective is to sway the fence sitters and those who are disengaged and not interested in studying up on the real facts of the story.

For whatever reason, leaders who should be thoroughly discredited, either as a result of proven and embarrassing incompetence in office (Jimmy Carter), or proven and embarrassing scandal in office (Bill Clinton), are held up as serious, respectable statesmen and commentators.

This, from CNN:

(CNN) – Former President Bill Clinton said he sees parallels in the mood of the country now and on April 19, 1995, when the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City killed 168 people while he was in the White House.

"There's the same kind of economic and social upheaval now," the former president told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview to air on Friday on "The Situation Room."

"Then you had the rise of extremist voices on talk radio. Here you have a billion Internet sites," Clinton said.