Hillary Clinton Biography Bombing Joke
A biography of Hillary Clinton, written by Gail Sheehy and published in late 1999, stated that Mrs. Clinton had refused to talk to the president for eight months after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. She resumed talking to her husband only when she phoned him and urged him in the strongest terms to begin bombing Serbia; the president began bombing within 24 hours. Alexander Cockburn observed in the Los Angeles Times,
A newspaper-style text excerpt claims Hillary Clinton stopped speaking to Bill Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, then contacted him to urge the bombing of Serbia. The joke is the absurdly powerful implication that her personal intervention caused the president to launch a military campaign within a day, mixing political scandal with dark satire.
- @threedotssavetogallery / 6045 2025-02-05
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- image
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- 800×695 · 82.5 KiB
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- darkly satirical
- Language
- en
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