Hypocrisy is the most prominent disease in politics, now and always. Incredibly, a flair for preaching often comes from those who have the least credibility to lecture on the topic, having failed in their own duties.
Bill Clinton, an impeached president of the United States who lied under oath and had an affair in the Oval Office—the place he now claims should be a “command center”—seems to bank on the idea that America’s memory is the shortest.
To make things worse, on the night of his speech at the Democrratic National Convention, the Daily Mail dropped the previously unseen pictures where Clinton enjoyed a neck massage by the Epstein accuser Chauntae Davies.
Interestingly, Bill Clinton’s pictures with Jeffrey Epstein, along with the hypocrisy expressed in his DNC speech, did not attract media criticism. It’s as if no one remembers that Monica Lewinsky revealed she had nine sexual encounters with President Clinton in the Oval Office between November 1995 and March 1997. Is this the kind of “command center” Clinton wants to hold up as an example of presidential leadership?
If similar photos of Donald Trump receiving a neck massage had surfaced, they would have made headlines filled with all kinds of conclusions.
The emergence of photos showing Clinton getting a neck massage from Epstein accuser Chauntae Davies is bad optics, to say the least, especially in the Me Too era and with everything happening in the Epstein case.
With Bill Clinton, however, this is not even a news story and those who say something about Clinton’s connections to Epstein, mostly on the Republican side, such as Mike Cernovich, are quickly dismissed as “right-wing conspiracy theorists.” They can be right-wing, but they can also tell the truth. Being left-wing as opposed to right-wing does not make anyone a truth teller by default.
The DNC’s message this election season is that the “choice is clear,” but is it? Bill Clinton’s time in the White House troubled many Americans. He is the last person who should lecture anyone on how the Oval Office should be used. Why would anyone take advice from Clinton? By lecturing Americans from a stylish armchair about how the Oval Office should be a “command center,” he shows a complete lack of self-awareness and disregard for his own misuse of the Oval Office.
If the media is so quick to turn a blind eye, voters should not be. He failed on many counts, but certainly in terms of political morality, given the affair he carried out in the Oval Office.
“Those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel,” said the Corinthians.
Or, to quote Colbert: “Those in glass houses should not be allowed near the interns.”
Bill Clinton’s Oval Office was a “sex center,” not a “command center.” He should get off his high horse, and the DNC should not give him one.
