Mayhill Fowler: Bill Clinton: Purdum a "Sleazy" "Slimy" "Scumbag"

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Clinton calls 'Vanity Fair' writer a 'scumbag'
Published 6/2/2008 by Ann Oldenburg at USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live
... - of Bill Clinton. Written by Todd Purdum, who is married to former Clinton White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers, the piece criticizes the former president for bringing negative attention to Hillary Clinton's candidacy and for surrounding himself with friends who might discredit her campaign. Clinton, caught in Milbank, S.D., heatedly denounced the writer, calling him "sleazy," "dishonest," "slimy" and a "scumbag."

Bill Clinton Calls Vanity Fair Writer "Scumbag" [Scandal]
Published 6/3/2008 by Ryan Tate at Gawker
... . Clinton told a Huffington Post reporter Purdum was awful, and that the Vanity Fair piece has "five or six blatant lies," but then added he had never read it. But that didn't stop him from continuing to trash it, nor did the fact that Purdum is married to Clinton's former press secretary Dee Dee Myers: ...

Purdum vs. Clinton Spin
Published 6/3/2008 at Hollywood Elsewhere
... about Bill Clinton , and Clinton's enraged reaction to it (audio and video). Clinton's spokesman Jay Carson issued a statement in response to the Huffington Post piece about his comments, to wit: "President Clinton was understandably upset about an outrageously unfair article, but the language today was inappropriate and he wishes he had not used it."

What Are The Odds?
Published 6/3/2008 at The Hot Blog
There have been two surprising "secret" tapes in the election season. First there was the secretly taped tape of Barack Obama at a private event in San Francisco, where he explained what he sees as some of the reasons for resistance against his candidacy by small town Americans. And now, we have Bill Clinton calling Todd Purdam a scumbag. Both tapes were recorded by the same "citizen journalist," Mayhill Fowler. I'm not 100% sure how I feel about this... except that it seems so very odd... Who is this woman and why isn't ...

Listen to Bill Clinton Throw David Granger Under the Bus
Published 6/3/2008 by Jossip at Jossip
... that propagated all those lies about Whitewater to Kenneth Starr. He’s just a dishonest guy– can’t help it.” And that’s when he brought up David Granger. “The editor of Esquire– he sent us an email yesterday and said it was the single sleaziest piece of journalism he’d seen in decades. He said it made him want to go take a shower and he was embarrassed to be a journalist when he read it.” [Audio Clip: HuffPo] ...

Lohans Back in Divorce Court
Published 6/3/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
... On language : Bill Clinton lost his cool Monday over a scathing Vanity Fair article by Todd Purdum criticizing his recent activities. Clinton called Purdum "sleazy," "dishonest," "slimy," and a "scumbag." Writer Purdum is married to former Clinton White House Press Secretary, Dee Dee Myers . A Clinton spokesman later issued a statement saying the former prez's language was "inappropriate and he wishes he had not used it." ...

Bitterroot, Or How We Came To Discuss Charlie Black And Mark Penn [Crappy Hour]
Published 6/3/2008 by Megan Carpentier at Jezebel
... MOE : Dude: "He's just a dishonest guy, he can't help it." Said Bill Clinton re the writer of the Vanity Fair piece. Followed directly by: "The editor of Esquire he sent us an email yesterday and said it was the single sleaziest piece of journalism he'd seen in decades. He said it made him want to go take a shower and he was embarrassed to be a journalist when he read it." Um, David Granger? If you were thinking about cooking up yet another "how Bill fucked Hillary" expose, can I suggest that certain of your psychographics might be fatigued by this topic? But if the former ...

HuffPo's Double-Edged Sword Cuts a Clinton
Published 6/3/2008 by James Poniewozik at TIME.com: Tuned In
... and having his or her embarrassing words or images posted on the Web. This time, the catch-ee was Bill Clinton, recorded on a rope line calling a Vanity Fair reporter a "scumbag" for a story questioning his post-presidential behavior and personal associations. The audio went up on the Huffington Post , and Clinton ended up apologizing for his word choice. If the byline on the HuffPo piece seems familiar, it should: Mayhill Fowler is ...

Clinton v. Purdum (And Everyone Else) [Bill Clinton]
Published 6/3/2008 by Pareene at Gawker
... , who, despite being married to a former Clinton staffer, has written a number of negative things about Clinton over the years, is now the target of a raging tirade by the former president. All because he insinuated some untoward things using dozens of unnamed anonymous sources ...

Clinton v. Purdum (And Everyone Else) [War]
Published 6/3/2008 by Pareene at Gawker
... , who, despite being married to a former Clinton staffer, has written a number of negative things about Clinton over the years, is now the target of a raging tirade by the former president. All because he insinuated some untoward things using dozens of unnamed anonymous sources ...

Bill Clinton Says Vanity Fair is Helping Obama
Published 6/3/2008 by Hollywood Grind at Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors celebrity scandals Hollywood gossip blog from Hollywood Grind
... Bill called the Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum, "sleazy," "dishonest," "slimy" and a "scumbag." Bill went on to say: ...

Vanity Fair says Bill Clinton had affair with Gina Gershon
Published 6/3/2008 by JayBird at Cele|bitchy
... fifty anonymous sources. “Anytime you read a story that slimes a public figure with anonymous quotes, it oughta make the bells go off in your head. Because anytime somebody uses those things– he wrote the story in his head in advance, and he just goes around and tries to find some coward to say whatever they want to say, hoping to get some benefit out of it. It didn’t bother me. It shouldn’t bother you.” [From the Huffington Post] Clinton’s spokesman had to apologize on his behalf for the ...

Cristal Conners Is Irresistable
Published 6/3/2008 by Michael K at Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
... Conners is pretty hot. Todd writes that, " Clinton has been seen visiting with the actress Gina Gershon in California. There has been talk of a female friend in Chappaqua, a woman in a bar at a meeting of the Aspen Institute, and a public sighting of Clinton, Bing, and a ravishing entourage in a New York elevator that, a former Clinton aide told me, led a business leader who saw them to say: I don’t know what the guy was doing, but it was so clear that it was just no good ." Billy responded by calling Todd " sleazy " and " slimy ." Takes one to know one! Gina Gershon's rep ...

Bill Clinton and the press: Two ethics-challenged enablers who seem to deserve each other
Published 6/3/2008 by Eric Deggans at The Feed
... Or, is it Huffington Post blogger Mayhill Fowler, who recorded an angry diatribe by Clinton against Purdum's piece after asking the former president about the magazine's "hatchet job." What she didn't do: identify herself as a journalist or indicate that she was recording Clinton's words for publication online. ...

Bill Clinton Gena Gershon Affair Vanity Fair Article Fallout
Published 6/4/2008 by Joy A at poponthepop.com

'Citizen Journalists' Don't Get a Pass on Ethics
Published 6/9/2008 by Jeff Bercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... at a fundraiser, and she's also the one who, last week, recorded Bill Clinton fulminating about Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum. In neither case did she warn her subject that his remarks would be published. ...