# Old tape Hillary Clinton interview tape emerges from 1974. **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 17, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966 "2014-06-17T05:55:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/21 "2014-06-18T01:55:23Z")
Has there ever, in the history of the world, been a defense attorney say to a client “Yeah, my gut’s telling me you’re guilty as sin. I’m not gonna take your case.”? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/22 "2014-06-18T02:33:11Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I said that Hillary Clinton represents a real problem for conservatives. Because they used up all their good material against her back when she was first lady. They can’t just re-use it because nobody cares about old rumors. Trust me, they won’t let that stop them. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/23 "2014-06-18T03:54:11Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Trust me, they won’t let that stop them. Sure, but old rumors just don’t work as well. Do you really think conservatives are going to be able to get people talking about Vince Foster or Whitewater or Bosnian snipers again? They’re boring now. People only get excited by new stories. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/24 "2014-06-18T04:10:03Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > People only get excited by new stories. People get excited by **Bible** stories. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/25 "2014-06-18T04:15:49Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I’d hit it. What? > > The only reason I don’t want Clinton to run is that we’ll have x many more years of this level of idiocy and lunacy. Every singe day. Think about that. If Clinton serves until 2025 that’s 3120 more threads started by aceplace on 40-year-old scandals. Does anybody want to go through that? But he’s very concerned about her and doesn’t want this to have a negative impact on her politically. He’s only pointing these things out because he wants to make sure Hillary is seen in a positive light. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/26 "2014-06-18T04:19:05Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I’d hit it. What? > > The only reason I don’t want Clinton to run is that we’ll have x many more years of this level of idiocy and lunacy. Every singe day. Think about that. If Clinton serves until 2025 that’s 3120 more threads started by aceplace on 40-year-old scandals. Does anybody want to go through that? Don’t forget, we can always ignore it. Unless it manifests in Congress, which it almost certainly will. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/27 "2014-06-18T04:40:33Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Sure, but old rumors just don’t work as well. Do you really think conservatives are going to be able to get people talking about Vince Foster or Whitewater or Bosnian snipers again? They’re boring now. People only get excited by new stories. Some of them are so old they can be new again. In 2016, there will be voters who can’t remember the Clinton administration at all. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/28 "2014-06-18T04:53:45Z")
Heck, I’ve been voting since at least 2008 and I barely remember the Clinton Administration. Also, aceplace is adorable even if he’s as transparent as the window in a utility bill envelope. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/29 "2014-06-18T04:55:35Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Also, aceplace is adorable even if he’s as transparent as the window in a utility bill envelope. No, “adorable” is not a fitting word. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/30 "2014-06-18T06:11:25Z")
I started the thread because its a legitimate news story about a possible Presidential candidate. I thought it merited some discussion. I doubt it will effect Hillary’s political chances in any significant way. So far the public seems disinterested. That’s really good news for the Clinton camp. Simply posting a link to a news story doesn’t mean I’m attacking her. > [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > But he’s very concerned about her and doesn’t want this to have a negative impact on her politically. He’s only pointing these things out because he wants to make sure Hillary is seen in a positive light. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/31 "2014-06-18T06:50:13Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I started the thread because its a legitimate news story about a possible Presidential candidate. I thought it merited some discussion. I doubt it will effect Hillary’s political chances in any significant way. So far the public seems disinterested. That’s really good news for the Clinton camp. > > Simply posting a link to a news story doesn’t mean I’m attacking her. > [@aceplace57](#): > > No make up, thick glasses, very plain clothes. All traces of femininity gone. She looked like a typical college girl when she first started college. [photo1](http://img.spokeo.com/public/900-600/hillary_rodham_clinton_2003_03_21.jpg) [… photo2](http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/11_116829142.jpg?h=372&w=563) Her liberal Ivy league college studies changed her, OK. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/32 "2014-06-18T06:57:28Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I just don’t see the problem here. Everyone deserves a defense. …Welp, this _definitely_ isn’t a story. ---
**Author:** ![independentDemocrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ba9def/32.png) [@independentDemocrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/independentDemocrat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/33 "2014-06-18T07:22:32Z")
Hillary needs to stop. Its enough now… ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/34 "2014-06-18T07:25:14Z")
May I thank **Lightnin’** in the thread for that term “[concern trolling](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Concern_troll)”, ? Very useful concept, I didn’t know it yet. Also thanks to **aceplace57** for his brilliant example of concern trolling. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/35 "2014-06-18T07:55:20Z")
You guys love shooting the messenger. I tried to give some context of how Hillary was initially received in my state when they first entered politics. She rubbed a lot of the older people the wrong way back then. Feminism was still quite new in the rural areas in the 70’s. I mentioned earlier that Frank White cleverly used that controversy and other issues to defeat Clinton in his 2nd Gov’s race. I only brought it up because this news story dates back to those days. I was barely 18 when Clinton was in his first term. We talked about his policies in college and I always admired his desire to help our home state. He made a lot of important changes that improved life in Arkansas, Hillary often worked with him on many projects. He appointed her to head a commission to update and improve the schools in the mid 80’s. They became quite a team in the 80’s. Hillary has changed a lot. She’s a much shrewder politician now. Theres a good chance she could be the 1st female President. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/36 "2014-06-18T10:29:25Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I started the thread because its a legitimate news story about a possible Presidential candidate. I thought it merited some discussion. I doubt it will effect Hillary’s political chances in any significant way. So far the public seems disinterested. That’s really good news for the Clinton camp. > > Simply posting a link to a news story doesn’t mean I’m attacking her. Apocryphal, but… > [@](#): > > In one of his early congressional campaigns, Lyndon B. Johnson told one of his aides to spread the story that Johnson’s opponent fucked pigs. The aide responded “Christ, Lyndon, we can’t call the guy a pigfucker. It isn’t true.” To which LBJ supposedly replied “Of course it ain’t true, but I want to make the son-of-a-bitch deny it.” ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/37 "2014-06-18T12:46:06Z")
That would have been quite mild, by LBJ’s standards. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/38 "2014-06-18T13:50:07Z")
I guess “I am not a pig fucker” is a bit worse than “I am not a witch”. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/39 "2014-06-18T14:05:56Z")
If you really want to discredit Hillary, focus on [her affiliation with the Fellowship](http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/11/take-two-hillarys-choice/305292/). ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966/40 "2014-06-18T14:07:58Z")
Well, “I successfully defended a child rapist and found some aspects of the experience amusing” might be up there too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-hillary-clinton-interview-tape-emerges-from-1974/690966.md?page=3)