America was simply paying for the Crusades, last winter, Bill Clinton says bizarre and deceitful things because Bill Clinton is bizarre and deceitful. By the way,Toms Shoes Sale, contrast this with, for example, the liberal fixation on “Bushisms” — the mangled malapropisms of Bush-speak. There’s no defending against the accusation that President Bush occasionally butchers the English language more than a New York cabbie. But how far does that take you? People know what he means and, more importantly, that he means what he says. But for some reason the Slate types (their new editor Jake Weisberg collects “Bushisms”) believe that Bush’s inability to articulate precisely what he believes is somehow more damning than Bill Clinton’s genius at articulating things he doesn’t believe. Better to have a clarity of expression of one’s moral confusion, says Ivy League liberalism, than to have confusion of expression of one’s moral clarity.Anyway, that’s a fight for another day. Back to Bill Clinton: host of “Press the Meat.” First of all, Peggy Noonan is right. He’s too lazy to do a daily TV show of any kind. It’s just too much work. So, what if he does it? Well, the most likely scenario is that he’d do a weekly Charlie Rose-type show, with big-name eggheads and authors. Of course, the assumption here is that Bill would shut up long enough to let Sean Wilentz or Douglas Brinkley tell him how great he is. His producers would have to yell in his ear that he needs to let the guests talk, which would result in his trademarked self-deprecation, “Enough about me, what do you think of me?” But let’s assume that’s possible. If he had serious people on, talking about serious things, I can guarantee you that Clinton would get himself into trouble almost every week. He’d be telling Noam Chomsky that he stands shoulder to shoulder with him about the evils of corporate fascism, only to return the following week to declare that there’s not an inch of daylight between him and Milton Friedman. Now, if it’s a daytime Oprah-style thing, as some people are reporting, he will either be very good or very bad at it. If he’s very good — weeping at dyslexic kids who can’t take the SAT in the allotted time, getting outraged over husbands who leave the toilet seat up — people won’t say, “Dang! this guy really was a great president,cheap toms shoes!” They’ll say, “Dang, he should have been doing this all along!” Which is something even the most committed Clinton foe can agree with wholeheartedly. In fact, I’m perfectly comfortable saying that Bill Clinton has what it takes to make a great TV host if he’s willing to put in the effort. He’s a smart guy; he’s a good talker; he fakes sincerity better than Paul Begala, Bill Press, Sam Donaldson, and Geraldo Rivera combined; and, oh yeah,Toms Shoes Outlet Sale, he has important hair. He’s certainly less self-absorbed than, say, Bill Maher, and he’s probably funnier too. Indeed, it’s a mistake to assume that someone who made a bad president would necessarily be bad at other things. All the talk about how Clinton was “neither above the law nor below the law” and how “if they can do this to the president they can do this to anyone,” always missed the fundamental point. Nobody would do “this” (whatever “this” was) to anyone but the president, because the president isn’t like anybody else. He should be held to a higher standard. Clinton may not have met the standards of a good president, but it’s unfair to him to say he doesn’t meet the far lower standards of a daytime talk-show host. And, besides, I could be wrong. He might be terrible at it. He might get bogged down trying to make housewives understand that the Blue Light Special at K-Mart is really the culmination of the globalization process set forth by his administration. He might become obsessed with defending his presidency as a bulwark against Newt Gingrich’s hordes, while most of the people in the audience are saying “Newt who?” And if that happens, there’s plenty of upside there. First, he’ll be cancel Related articles: http://www.cntjzx.net/bbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1234826 http://discuz.72ym.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=27082 http://bbs.harley8.com/home//space.php?uid=57853&do=blog&id=810445