October 11, 2011

Now They Tell Us: Bill Clinton Has A Photographic Memory
— Ace

A fact that might have had some legal relevance in 1998, eh?

In addition to Clinton's many other talents, he is known for having a near photographic memory.

The term gets tossed around a lot, but to actually have the ability is quite rare. According to an article from the Washington Post, Clinton "stunned a friend visiting the White House by saying, 'Let's call your parents!' and then reciting a number he hadn't dialed in more than a decade." When Clinton spoke with Oprah about his autobiography, he said had no trouble remembering "what happened to everyone's children and grandchildren," a talent that came in handy while writing his life story.

And yet a talent which failed him entirely when questioned during a deposition.

I guess this post is a little off-base, because Clinton's claim wasn't that the forgot, but that he defined things differently than most people. Asked point-blank if he had ever been "alone" with Monica Lewinsky, he said, sworn to the truth, that he had not been.

When it was revealed he'd done all sorts of things with her, he said "I guess we were alone, but I never thought we were."

Just talking from personal experience-- people are generally alone when they're doing the Disappearing Cigar trick.


Thanks to Dave @ Garfield Ridge.

Posted by: Ace at 07:08 AM | Comments (95)
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1 The standard myth that I hate the most about Clinton is that he "triangulated" to the center after the Newt takeover.

His rhetoric triangulated but the rest of him was just as liberal as before. And that should sound familiar.

Posted by: Vic at October 11, 2011 07:11 AM (M9Ie6)

2

Arrrgggghhhhh now I'm thinking about Bill Clinton and the cigar and arrrrgggghhhhhh.

Dear Cob-loggers:  Please to be posting some hotassery to make up for this.  Love and kisses, alex.

Posted by: alexthechick at October 11, 2011 07:11 AM (VtjlW)

3 Just talking from personal experience-- people are generally alone when they're doing the Disappearing Cigar trick.

Prudes

Posted by: taylork at October 11, 2011 07:11 AM (5wsU9)

4 It depends what the meaning of "alone" is.. anyway.. there's some things I remember really well.. and others? not so much..

Bubba

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 11, 2011 07:11 AM (f9c2L)

5 If the Secret Service was watching, were they really alone alone??

Posted by: Mama AJ at October 11, 2011 07:13 AM (XdlcF)

6 alone, in front of a webcame, same difference

Posted by: Ben at October 11, 2011 07:13 AM (wuv1c)

7 Just talking from personal experience-- people are generally alone when they're doing the Disappearing Cigar trick.

So were you the disappear-er or the disappear-ee?  (Sorry, it was there, I had to take it).

Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.  He is a failure of such magnificent proportions that he makes me long for the Clinton years.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at October 11, 2011 07:14 AM (8y9MW)

8 The standard myth that I hate the most about Clinton is that he "triangulated" to the center after the Newt takeover.

His rhetoric triangulated but the rest of him was just as liberal as before. And that should sound familiar.
Posted by: Vic
..........
He really had no choice.  He embraced parts of Newt's contract with America and even took credit for it.

I would call it capitulation.. but, Dick Morris preferred to think of it as triangulation to make it seem more like it was Clinton forming new policy as a hybrid between left and right.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 11, 2011 07:15 AM (f9c2L)

9 He even recalls those churches that weren't burning while he was a lid.

Posted by: JWF at October 11, 2011 07:15 AM (1l37M)

10 The memory trick sounds more like old age. As we get older, it is easier to remember things that happened 20-30 years ago than what happened last week. 

Posted by: mike at October 11, 2011 07:15 AM (eno6u)

11 Good for him, he would have prolly hurt his back from carrying all of the porn.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at October 11, 2011 07:15 AM (ZDUD4)

12
Is Ace missing a "not" in there?

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 11, 2011 07:16 AM (G/zuv)

13

My favorite Clinton quote from the impeachment embroglio?

"I was just stretching my feet out to stick 'em up on the Resolute desk, whilst talking on the phone to Yassir Arafat, and my dick just fell into her."

Ahh, good times.  Good times.

Posted by: Sharkman at October 11, 2011 07:16 AM (wMsKw)

14

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose - Kant

Is it right to lie? By not following the universal definition, Clinton is the source of the current distrust in the government. That is his legacy.

Posted by: The Robot Devil at October 11, 2011 07:16 AM (136wp)

15 Oh, sorry.  I thought the title to this post was:  "Now They Tell Us:  Bill Clinton has a Pornographic Memory."

Posted by: Sharkman at October 11, 2011 07:17 AM (wMsKw)

16 Is it right to lie? By not following the universal definition, Clinton is the source of the current distrust in the government. That is his legacy. Don't forget all the middle school girls having oral sex with boys. Because it's not really "Sex".

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at October 11, 2011 07:18 AM (ZDUD4)

17

Maybe Clinton will remember that his economic recovery took place after a Republican House and Senate were elected.

If there was not a surplus of liars in this country, there would be no Democratic party.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at October 11, 2011 07:18 AM (qwK3S)

18

Dear Cob-loggers:  Please to be posting some hotassery to make up for this.  Love and kisses, alex.

This is from The Berry:

http://tinyurl.com/5wt8hza

Posted by: The Robot Devil at October 11, 2011 07:19 AM (136wp)

19
Clinton, just like Kris Kristofferson*, was a Rhodes scholar.

Obama, Man With 160 IQ, was not, nor did Obama achieve any type of scholarly notice or accolade. Weird, eh?

*Yes, really.
(Waterhouse looked it up and noticed that more than a few hillbillies (from Arkansas, no less, were Rhodes scholars.)

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 11, 2011 07:19 AM (G/zuv)

20 'When it was revealed he'd done all sorts of things with her, he said "I guess we were alone, but I never thought we were."' In Bill's world, sodomy is a spectator sport.

Posted by: George Orwell at October 11, 2011 07:19 AM (AZGON)

21 Triangulate this.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at October 11, 2011 07:20 AM (qwK3S)

22 Don't forget all the middle school girls having oral sex with boys. Because it's not really "Sex".

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at October 11, 2011 11:18 AM (ZDUD4)

Ok, just scared me. My son is going to middle school next year.

Posted by: The Robot Devil at October 11, 2011 07:20 AM (136wp)

23 I think they meant he had a pornographic memory.

Posted by: Andy at October 11, 2011 07:21 AM (5Rurq)

24 In Bill's world, sodomy is a spectator sport. It's not?

Posted by: OWS at October 11, 2011 07:21 AM (ZDUD4)

25 I suppose in a strict sense you could state that you're not "alone" when you're with another person.  Can you be "alone, together?" 

Maybe the better deposition question would have been were you in a room in which Monica Lewinski was in - at the same time - and in which no other human being was in at that time?

Posted by: Alec Leamas at October 11, 2011 07:21 AM (mg08E)

26

"Just talking from personal experience-- people are generally alone when they're doing the Disappearing Cigar trick."

You've never been to a OWS rally, have you?

Posted by: NotCoach at October 11, 2011 07:21 AM (Whvb9)

27 It's easy to have a photographic memory when you're a pathological liar!

Posted by: Bill Clinton at October 11, 2011 07:22 AM (eytER)

28 OT:  The OccupyDC crowd is planning on storming the Senate building in about 10 mins.  Get your popcorn ready.

Posted by: Tami-Cardinals! at October 11, 2011 07:22 AM (X6akg)

29 The Robot Devil at October 11, 2011 11:20 AM Oh yeah, if he is even mildly attractive he will be getting more head than you.

Posted by: OWS at October 11, 2011 07:22 AM (ZDUD4)

30 23 I think they meant he had a pornographic memory.
Posted by: Andy

+100

Bwahahahahahaha

Posted by: mpfs, TPT at October 11, 2011 07:22 AM (iYbLN)

31

In Bill's world, sodomy is a spectator sport.

I guess Bill should run for Congress. It's often televised.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at October 11, 2011 07:23 AM (qwK3S)

32 Darn the Sock

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at October 11, 2011 07:23 AM (ZDUD4)

33

Dialing a phone number you hadn't dialed in 10 years is now a photographic memory? Ok.

Since we're apparently taking Clinton at his word here for remembering all this stuff, let me tell you all that I can move things with my mind.  It's true.

Posted by: Heralder at October 11, 2011 07:23 AM (/Mxso)

34 Maybe the better deposition question would have been were you in a room in which Monica Lewinski was in - at the same time - and in which no other human being was in at that time?

It's repugnant that a man who was elected to POTUS would have to be chased around a rhetorical bush to get a straight answer.

Posted by: The Robot Devil at October 11, 2011 07:23 AM (136wp)

35

Just talking from personal experience-- people are generally alone when they're doing the Disappearing Cigar trick.


Ah, now this is a thread I can really bite into!!

Posted by: Barny Fwank at October 11, 2011 07:24 AM (8ieXv)

36

Progressive: Lying is an important social skill. Never mind that a lie doesn't exsist and that lying makes one a loser.

 

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at October 11, 2011 07:24 AM (0fzsA)

37 Disappearing Cigar trick? I prefer playing "Hide the Salami"

Posted by: Barney Frank at October 11, 2011 07:25 AM (vYB+W)

38 If the propaganda wing of the DNC, the MSM, says something positive about a donk politician you will not lose a nickel betting that it is exactly opposite.

Posted by: jukin at October 11, 2011 07:26 AM (vkkNZ)

39

Darn the Sock

Based on this economy, Darn the Sock will soon become a franchise opportunity.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at October 11, 2011 07:26 AM (qwK3S)

40 He was out of film.

Posted by: ahem at October 11, 2011 07:26 AM (ZUqYq)

41 Lemon Kitten at October 11, 2011 11:24 AM Don't paint all lying as evil until you have had to answer the question, "Does this dress make my ass look big"?

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at October 11, 2011 07:26 AM (ZDUD4)

42 Triangulating is Demospeak for lying. As is "moving to the center".

Posted by: kansas at October 11, 2011 07:26 AM (mka2b)

43

Progressive: Lying is an important social skill. Never mind that a lie doesn't exist and that lying makes one a loser.

I would take it further, that lying in a position of power leads to universal mistrust. Thus, SCOAMF and Billie have lead this nation into the morass of mistrust by their prevaricating natures.

Posted by: The Robot Devil at October 11, 2011 07:27 AM (136wp)

44 I hope the site of that blue dress haunts his sleep for eternity.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at October 11, 2011 07:27 AM (mnkEc)

45

Bill Clinton had a photographic memory for "best pussy".

For everything else, his memory was pretty much centered around manufacturing plausible deniability.

Posted by: ConservativeMenAreJustHotter at October 11, 2011 07:27 AM (k8CH1)

46

Based on this economy, Darn the Sock will soon become a franchise opportunity.

I gonna trademark it now...

Posted by: The Robot Devil at October 11, 2011 07:28 AM (136wp)

47

Posted by: The Robot Devil at October 11, 2011 11:19 AM (136wp)

See, see how nice people post links like that and not links to spiders, clowns and/or any combination thereof.

 

 

Posted by: alexthechick at October 11, 2011 07:28 AM (VtjlW)

48 He really had no choice.  He embraced parts of Newt's contract with America and even took credit for it.

Not really except for the "credit" thing on welfare reform. He vetoed that twice before congress sent it to him veto proof.

Posted by: Vic at October 11, 2011 07:28 AM (M9Ie6)

49

Clinton does not look very healthy now that he has embraced the vegan lifestyle. Perhaps it isn't a photographic memory, but rather hallucinations brought on from a severe state of hunger.

Posted by: ParanoidStillAGirlInSeattle at October 11, 2011 07:28 AM (RZ8pf)

50 dfbaskwill at October 11, 2011 11:27 AM Are you kidding me? That narcissistic prick masturbates to it.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at October 11, 2011 07:28 AM (ZDUD4)

51

I can remember my home phone number from 35yrs ago. At 6 years old its drilled into your brain.

No BFD. But I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday...go figure.

 

Posted by: dananjcon at October 11, 2011 07:29 AM (8ieXv)

52

Based on this economy, Darn the Sock will soon become a franchise opportunity.

O/T but have you noticed how many store are advertising their layaway plans now? It really does feel like the 70s again.

Posted by: ParanoidStillAGirlInSeattle at October 11, 2011 07:29 AM (RZ8pf)

53 I was overseas when that all went down, the Euro/Arabs were so in our shit over how Bill couldn't do better then Monica.  Embarrassing, though they had grudging respect for the cigar bit.

Posted by: Jean at October 11, 2011 07:30 AM (WkuV6)

54

You know, it's sad that I now long for the days when all I really had to worry about was my President having sex with chubby interns in the Oval Office, raping women in trailer parks, making illegal campaign finance transactions with Chinese nuns, perpetrating shady real estate deals, and generally being a disgusting human being with a bulbous nose and a shrewish wife.

If I weren't so angry, I'd be suicidally depressed.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at October 11, 2011 07:30 AM (4df7R)

55

If you don't accept that Democrats are allowed to use the office staff as a humidor, you are a racist.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 11, 2011 07:31 AM (/qkBU)

56 Yeah well...I *think* we knew what Bill was up to at the time, didn't we?  To tell the truth, I'm sick of the whole personal politics sex scandals stuff, for either party.  I say that after all the Anita Hill nostalgia that was on the networks last night.  Sick of the whole thing, feel as bad for Clinton as I do for Clarence Thomas.

Posted by: jeanne! at October 11, 2011 07:31 AM (GdalM)

57 sight, (blushing profusely)

Posted by: dfbaskwill at October 11, 2011 07:31 AM (mnkEc)

58
alone, in front of a webcame, same difference

Posted by: Ben at October 11, 2011 11:13 AM (wuv1c)






With some typos, the jokes write themselves.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 11, 2011 07:33 AM (o1ki4)

59 If you don't accept that Democrats are allowed to use the office staff as a humidor, you are a racist. Well, you could say Bill wanted to line Monica with his "cedar."

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure at October 11, 2011 07:35 AM (AZGON)

60 It depends on what your definition of photographic memory is

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 11, 2011 07:36 AM (1Jaio)

61 The thought of Bill Clinton replaying the "hide the Cigar" trick over and over in his mind makes me vomit in my mouth a little.

Posted by: Quilly Mammoth at October 11, 2011 07:37 AM (MYL+K)

62 I can remember my home phone number from 35yrs ago. At 6 years old its drilled into your brain.

LOL, how true. I remember my home phone number from the 50s but when someone asks me for my cell phone number I have to look it up.

Posted by: Vic at October 11, 2011 07:40 AM (M9Ie6)

63 Ah....the rehabilitation of Clinton presidency since he has been complaining lately that he doesn't get enough credit.  So off the MFM goes on their fellating campaign.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at October 11, 2011 07:41 AM (qpKJT)

64

GW Bush again stated that as a former President, he won't insert himself into the current administration and comment on their performance.

Clinton & Carter both have had no such honor.  They are attention whores who constantly need the media's bootlicking and the left in general to help them feel relevent.  To hell with them both. 

Posted by: Cheri at October 11, 2011 07:42 AM (G+Wff)

65

Sick of the whole thing, feel as bad for Clinton as I do for Clarence Thomas

You really compare these two as the same??  You feel bad for Clinton?

Wow. 

Posted by: Cheri at October 11, 2011 07:44 AM (G+Wff)

66

Clinton never forgets that Obama is a stuttering clusterfu*k of a miserable failure.

Posted by: Roy at October 11, 2011 07:45 AM (bm4vI)

67 Even a photographic memory depends on what is is.

Posted by: didn't take long at October 11, 2011 07:46 AM (lpWVn)

68 If only I could remember the color of that dress.

Posted by: billy bob clinton at October 11, 2011 07:46 AM (qpKJT)

69 Clinton never forgets that Obama is a stuttering clusterfu*k of a miserable failure.

Coffee, please.

Posted by: William Jefferson Clinton at October 11, 2011 07:47 AM (lpWVn)

70 95% of those photographs are nude women.

Posted by: Roy at October 11, 2011 07:47 AM (bm4vI)

71 71 If only I could remember the color of that dress.

Wasn't it blue with white spots?

Posted by: Doofus at October 11, 2011 07:47 AM (xKC/c)

72 He prolly remembers there was an 8 year old living there at the time and thought he'd remember that number for when she became legal age.

Posted by: The Schwalbe : © at October 11, 2011 07:48 AM (UU0OF)

73

IIRC Clinton was asked if he and Monica were ever "alone in the White House". Clinton later claimed he interpreted the question to mean if the two of them were ever the only two people present in the entire building.

Yeah, he's an honest fellow.

Posted by: Have Blue at October 11, 2011 07:48 AM (IKTC8)

74 I believed I was alone when I made that cigar appear out of thin air.

Posted by: Guy Crapping on a Cop Car at October 11, 2011 07:49 AM (CKx1M)

75

I seem to recall the photographic memory thing (obviously my memory is not quite photographic, nor would I want it to be).  They used to say that's why he was such a wiz at crossword puzzles, could do them in minutes, even the hardest ones (no pun intended).

Seriously, I think that's why he's such a phenominal liar.  You and I would have trouble keeping things straight (again, no pun intended), when someone who knows what lies he told to which people would find it relatively easy.

Posted by: Burt TC at October 11, 2011 07:51 AM (TOk1P)

76 That memory thing is not a big deal.  I can do it, and I'm just not that smart.  It's like I have number glue in my head.  What is a big deal is that Bubba is a fucking liar.  Most people, and I am not including Eric Holder in this, take being under oath very seriously.

Posted by: teh goats at October 11, 2011 07:52 AM (fecOD)

77 Old Slick is nothing if not consistent. Always a liar, always a worthless POS. You cannot believe anything the bastard says, because he mixes lies with the truth, making the presence of the second irrelevant due to the presence of the first.

Posted by: Snort! (the wunder hawg) at October 11, 2011 07:53 AM (OlN4e)

78

I remeber those days hanging out the Village Green...engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans...

Aaah good times. heheh..

 

Posted by: Billy Joel Clinton at October 11, 2011 07:56 AM (8ieXv)

79

19
Clinton, just like Kris Kristofferson*, was a Rhodes scholar.

 

Paradoxically, people in Oxford hold Rhodes Scholars in relatively low regard, viewing them as rah-rah jocks from the colonies. Only in the colonies are they highly regarded.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 11, 2011 07:59 AM (kolVJ)

80 He couldn't be alone with Monica, because Monica was there.

Posted by: Jeffrey Quick at October 11, 2011 07:59 AM (g9neE)

81

Clinton did claim that he "forgot" an important detail while being questioned under oath.  From the Washington Post:

During his Jan. 17 deposition, just three weeks after his meeting with Lewinsky, Clinton was asked,"Have you ever given any gifts to Monica Lewinsky?" He answered, "I don't recall. Do you know what they were?"

Clinton later conceded that he "could have given her a gift, but I don't remember a specific gift." Under questioning, he said he bought souvenir items from the Black Dog store in Martha's Vineyard that were given to Lewinsky by Currie.

Posted by: Matt at October 11, 2011 08:04 AM (90w0O)

82 Yeah Clinton was a Rhodes scholar. Do you know what his Oxford GPA was? Think Animal House. 0.0

Posted by: polynikes - Texan for Romney at October 11, 2011 08:11 AM (loxcN)

83 He also fictionalized, uhhhhh, I mean PHOTOGRAPHICALLY REMEMBERED the burning of black churches in Arkansas: "In our country during the '50s and '60s, black churches were burned to intimidate civil rights workers. I have vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child."

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2011 08:12 AM (iAUf+)

84 How could I have been alone when she was there? Idiots.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at October 11, 2011 08:36 AM (FcR7P)

85 Quoting 27: "It's easy to have a photographic memory when you're a pathological liar!"

And, it's easy to be a pathological liar when you have a photographic memory!  Works both ways.

Posted by: Mr_Write at October 11, 2011 09:16 AM (VJUQK)

86 Ah....the rehabilitation of Clinton presidency since he has been complaining lately that he doesn't get enough credit.  So off the MFM goes on their fellating campaign.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at October 11, 2011 11:41 AM (qpKJT)

Slick used to use the MFM like a bunch of rubes at the carny; they'd be in the White House and report "ZOMG; he does crossword puzzles while discussing policy!!"  The simple fucksticks didn't know just how idiotic it made them look.

Posted by: Captain Hate at October 11, 2011 10:02 AM (AOB4B)

87 So what Clinton is telling us is that he'll never forget that money shot, right?

Posted by: Fritz at October 11, 2011 10:52 AM (FabC8)

88 Listened to Clinton speak TODAY at a banking conference in Chicago.  Sat there amazed at the hero worship this guy still gets.  He actually looks better than I expected.  He's also as full of crap as ever.  Good God, it never changes.  And as I sat there, listening to the world's greatest citizen pontificating, I kept thinking, blue dress, what the definition of "is" is, etc. etc.
But hey, he's just a good deed doing citizen of the world... charging $250k a pop for a 1 hr speech.  Love those anti-capitalist liberals.

Posted by: Banker at October 11, 2011 11:23 AM (IN5QR)

89 It's a typo.  He has a pornographic memory.

Posted by: Jimbo at October 11, 2011 02:16 PM (O3R/2)

90 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

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