Commentator Gives Clinton and His Memoir Two Thumbs Down
by Chad Groening
June 24, 2004
(AgapePress) - A conservative pundit says watching Sunday's installment of 60 Minutes was a very unpleasant experience, and he turned the show off as soon as possible. The program was dedicated entirely to a Dan Rather interview with Bill Clinton, during which they discussed the former president's new book, My Life.David Horowitz is the publisher of Front Page magazine and heads the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. He says although he had to watch a bit of Rather's interview with Clinton in order to comment on it, "I find it very hard to watch Clinton because he's such a compulsive liar. You can't put credibility in anything he says."
Horowitz also says he detests Dan Rather, so watching the program was an unpleasant experience and he "turned it off fairly quickly." And as far as the former president's book goes, the conservative spokesman says he agrees with Rush Limbaugh's assessment of it:
"Rush is calling it 'My Lie' instead of My Life. I think that's probably fair enough," Horowitz says. Although he had to purchase a copy of Bill Clinton's memoir, the magazine publisher notes with distaste that "it still has this fantasy of the 'vast right-wing conspiracy' out to get him."
Horowitz says while Clinton generally is not liked by people who believe in traditional family values, he is a popular figure among a certain segment of America -- the masses that are largely uninformed and morally lax anyway. According to the pop culture pundit, Clinton definitely knows how to woo that demographic.
"I know that to the audience I'm talking to, he's a despised figure," Horowitz says, "but to the great, unwashed mass out there that don't pay too much attention to things -- and half the country has pretty loose morals anyway -- Bill Clinton is a charmer, he's a seducer, and he's good at it.
Horowitz is a nationally known author and public speaker, and previously was a founder and longtime proponent the New Left movement in the 1960s. He has gone on to become a voice for conservative activism and to pen numerous books, including The Politics of Bad Faith, The Art of Political War, and his autobiography, Radical Son.
