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By Michael Scherer | @michaelscherer | May 28, 2009 | +

My arch-enemies at Newsweek’s newish Gaggle blog note the early posting this morning of Peter Baker’s What-Has-Become-Of-Bill Opus, which will be published in print this Sunday in the New York Times Magazine. The former president, it turns out, remains very much the same, though he seems to have traded the pure stuff for something more indirect. Call it methadone:

In between his globe-trotting philanthropy, speech making and legacy burnishing, Clinton is a regular at crafts stores around the world and can tell you the best ones in Hong Kong or Arusha. “They’re a great thing,” he said. “If all of your staff are women and all of your family are women, you just buy what you like and bring them home and then figure out who to give them to.”The store owner showed him a selection of shoulder bags for women. Clinton selected one he thought would be great for his friend, Frank Giustra, the Canadian mining mogul, to give to Giustra’s girlfriend. Clinton said he likes picking out gifts for his friends’ wives and girlfriends.

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    Arch-enemy? Isn’t Holly one of your fellow tire-swinging barbecue journos, Michael?

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  • stuartzechman

    Michael Scherer:
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    The former president, it turns out, remains very much the same…
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    Err…great?
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    When will you guys get it through your heads that nobody in their right minds (this, of course, excludes much of the ennui-afflicted Village) has the least bit of attention-span reserved for manufactured Clinton stories?
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    In fact, so many Americans –mostly the young– were so terminally bored by the press’ Clinton-tic that they didn’t elect one of them President last time around.
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    I know full well that Tweety would love to have you on his show to spend two segments on this magpies’ occupation, but can you at least have the conscience to acknowledge that this is the Beltway press corps’ obsession, and not the country’s?

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  • Rorschach

    The good thing about Internet, stuartzechman, is that there are no space limitations. By that I mean, as opposed to a print magazine, if someone writes something it isn’t taking the place of something else. In a blog format there can be 1, 10, or 100 articles and it won’t really much matter. You don’t have to worry about wasting paper, which is nice. It means that someone can post a few sentences about something and there is no harm. You simply don’t read it if you don’t want to.
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    You seem to be criticizing one of the best things about Internet for the exact reason that makes it great: The mass information. This piece is information you don’t care about. But if you complain about information you don’t care about on Internet you will have lots to complain about. It’s better to simply read what you want and ignore the 99.99% of the stuff that is out there that you don’t care about.
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    I hope you found this helpful. Cheers.

  • stuartzechman

    Rorschach:
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    I hope you found this helpful. Cheers.
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    Thanks so much for your response, you make excellent points.
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    Another “good thing about Internet”, Rorschach, is that there is a direct method by which audiences are now able to assist the political press corps in determining the value of their work to engaged news-consumers. As opposed to the far more lengthy and indirect processes of letting a two year subscription eventually lapse, or putting the hard copy down at the dentist’s office in order to stare at the wall, we are now almost miraculously able to be a normal, interactive part of the news-creation and dissemination process, which is as it should be in a society structured by representational democracy.
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    Far from merely “switching the channel” (and letting Nielson “aggregate” us into questionable statistical data), we are now able to participate in the production of news analysis –to be engaged in a process so central to the proper functioning of our information systems.
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    Cheers, Rorschach.

  • cfukara

    “remains very much the same ..”

    Yeah, the same *

    Isn’t there something you’d rather spend precious, unrecoverable minutes of your life blogging about?

  • Rorschach

    I’d reread your first post and think about whether or not the tone is going to get anyone to change their mind. It comes off pretty petulant, but if you find that to be an effective strategy I guess keep it up?

  • rose83

    As soon as I read that passage of the article I knew the media would obsess on it.
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    And it’s interesting – by which I mean suspicious – that there’s no direct quote…
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    But sure, he apparently likes buying craft store gifts for women he knows. Let’s stone him and ask Hillary how she can handle being married to that kind of monster.
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    And Chris Matthews should talk all this over with Obama Girl.

  • stuartzechman

    Rorschach:
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    comes off pretty petulant
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    I had hoped that the tone was that of good-natured jibes (ennui-afflicted Village) thrown at hard-boiled, pro-journo Michael Scherer (Tweety would love to have you on his show) in off-handedly literate (this magpies’ occupation) language. The goal was entertaining, lite criticism.
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    …But thanks for your commentary, Rorschach, I’ll keep it in mind.

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