Bill Clinton Has Had It With the Coverage

Q-CNN-Dick Harpootlian has called some of the tactics used in the campaign reprehensible and reminiscent of Lee Atwater to try to appeal on the basis of race and gender and for suppressing the vote in Nevada. A-I would ask Dick Harpootlian -- he wasn't in Nevada - I personally took 6 Hispanic women who came to me to say we're so glad to see you and we'll be there for you in November-at one of the hotels - I said well, aren't you gonna caucus for her today? And she said no we can't. And I said why? She said well u had to s up by wed and we didn't. and I said why didn u? she said well because we're for Hillary and ... our union told us we couldn't sign up for her, we could only caucus if we weren't going to be for her. Now that's six people we were told that hundreds of times. Dolores Huerta-she doesn't need any lectures from Mr. Harpootlian about civil rights and she said that she had never been through a campaign like that. Now it's okay. We're not hung up about it, we're just pointing it out-to say that that's Lee Atwater - stating facts -- that's a little stretch- Now you know long before South Carolina, when we were in Iowa months ago, I never heard a word of public complaint when Mr. Obama said Hillary was not truthful, had no character, was too poll driven when he had more pollsters than she did -- when he put out a hit job on me, at the same time he called her the senator from Punjab. I never said a word and I don't care about it today. I'm not upset about it... The only thing I've pointed out was that there is no significant difference between her record on Iraq and his and that he said in 2004 that he there was no difference between his position and President Bush. And he said that was somehow dishonest but he never answered how it's inaccurate- This is crazy, this rhetoric is getting a little carried away here. There are still too people alive who marched with Martin Luther King risked their lives, John Lewis and Andrew Young they both said that Hillary was right and the people that attacked her are wrong and that she didn't play the race card but they did, so I don't have to defend myself. This is almost like once you accuse someone of racism and bigotry the facts become irrelevant-the first thing I'd like to say -- you asked me about this -- not one single solitary citizen asked about any of this and they never do... They are feeding you this because they know this is what you want to cover, this is what you live for, but this hurts the people of South Carolina-what they care about is not going to be in the newspapers tonight because you don't care about it – what you care about is this and the Obama people know it - and they just spin you up on this and you happily go along... Q_Are you saying the Obama camp is bringing up these racial issues? A-"You just want one more story -- shame on you! Shame on your, you just want one more story! Print the facts. Nobody ever prints any facts."