Pity Him, Or Else

The fall of the one-time high & mighty - and I DON'T mean Hillary:

Tightly gripping this reporter’s hand and refusing to let go, Clinton heatedly denounced the writer, who is currently married to former Clinton White House Press Secretary, Dee Dee Myers.

“[He’s] sleazy,” he said referring to Purdum. “He’s a really dishonest reporter. And one of our guys talked to him . . . And I haven’t read [the article]. There’s just five or six blatant lies in there. But he’s a real slimy guy,” the former President said.

When I reminded him that Purdum was married to his former press spokesperson Myers, Clinton was undeterred.

“That’s all right– he’s still a scumbag,” Clinton said…

“You know he didn’t use a single name, cite a single source in all those things he said.. It’s just slimy. It’s part of the national media’s attempt to nail Hillary for Obama. It’s the most biased press coverage in history. It’s another way of helping Obama. They had all these people standing up in this church cheering, calling Hillary a white racist, and he didn’t do anything about it. The first day he said ‘Ah, ah, ah well.’ Because that’s what they do– he gets other people to slime her. So then they saw the movie they thought this is a great ad for John McCain – maybe I better quit the church. It’s all politics. It’s all about the bias of the media for Obama. Don’t think anything about it.”

“But I’m telling ya, all it’s doing is driving her supporters further and further away – because they know exactly what it is – this has been the most rigged coverage in modern history – and the guy ought to be ashamed of himself. But he has no shame. It isn’t the first dishonest piece he’s written about me or her.”

Wow.  Wow.  Wowee-wow-wow-wow.  Tell me I didn't just read that.  Bill Clinton - Bill F'ing Clinton - Sick Willie himself, whining and moaning and bitching about....about....I can scarcely believe I'm typing this....media bias.  Hell, Bill Clinton accusing another human being of having "no shame" - an aspirsion he has to be shameless to cast by definition.  Man, it's like Michael Moore complaining about smorgasbords and then calling Viscera tubby.

Rich Lowry has a column on what may truly be the Boy President's "big goodbye".  Money quote:

Few things are sadder than former greats past their prime. A bloated Elvis Presley in a sequined suit; a diminished Michael Jordan making one last comeback with the Washington Wizards; and, we can add, a gaunt Bill Clinton desperately plugging his wife’s doomed presidential campaign — the Big Dog in winter.

With his media enablers gone, with his most faithful constituency (African-Americans) lured away by another, with the prospect of again attaining the commanding heights of American politics lost, with his magic touch in abeyance, Bill Clinton has been whittled down to a long, self-pitying plaint....

What changed? Clinton has been campaigning against the great, young liberal hope that he himself represented back in 1992. Now that he’s on the wrong side of history, liberals can see all the shortcomings they formerly looked past because Clinton had all the right (in every sense) enemies. [emphasis added]

Can't add much to that, other than to observe that if this were anybody else, it'd be sad.  But for the ex-Fornicator-in-Chief to go out, in T.S. Elliot's legendary phrase, "not with a bang, but a whimper"?  That, my friends, is orgasmically poetic justice.