Dick Morris writes that the public finally got to see the private Bill Clinton that those who worked for him saw. He also takes apart his disingenuous strawmen and falsehoods.

Apparently, the times that Clinton seems most angry and finger poking ("I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinski") are the times that he's most vociferously defending his lies.

[Update at 4 PM EDT]

Paul Sperry recalls his own encounter with an enraged Bill Clinton:

What happened over the next 10 minutes was nothing short of a "scene." The party-goers collapsed in around us. I watched the blood rush to Clinton's gargantuan face as he launched into a tirade against ex-Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour, the FBI, Bob Dole and Republicans in general, similar to his Sunday attack on right-wingers and Fox News and Rupert Murdoch and Karl Rove during the Wallace interview. All the while, he tried to intimidate me by getting in my face, just as he did Wallace.

Clinton's not just intellectually intimidating, he's physically imposing. He's tall (6 feet 2 inches) and big-boned. Luckily, I'm the same height and was able to stand toe-to-toe and eye-to-eye with him. I'll never forget the maniacal look in his bloodshot eyes. There was a moment, fleeting, where I sensed he wanted to try to take a swipe at me. His volcanic temper, hidden so well from the public by his handlers, erupted less than 12 inches from my eyes.

[Update at 6 PM EDT]

Myrna Blythe says that Bill is Hillary's biggest problem.

That's because those are the times all he has left to fall back on is his size and thus his ability to intimidate. I imagine that's a tactic that dates back to third grade for him.

Oh, and, uh... Can we have a link to the Morris piece, please?

The uncut version is here:
http://www.mininova.org/get/433678

Be aware that after orders from above, Fox News is now circulating a second highly edited copy which removes all of Chris Wallaces personal attacks. They've also had all of the original versions on Youtube removed.

Chris Wallace' "personal attacks"?

I watched the whole interview. What were you watching?

God, does that fat bag of dough ever intimidate anyone not within visual range of his armed bodyguards? He played saxophone in the marching band when he was in high school, for goodness' sake.

He picks his targets carefully--just those he thinks can be intimidated--and he has bodyguards wherever he goes. He's not a man.

Myrna Blythe has it wrong. Hillary is EVERYONE'S biggest problem.

Mike James, I believe it is standard operating procedure to maintain bodyguards for the remainder of an ex-president's life.

Neither Morris nor Perry strikes me as a sufficiently unbiased judge of character and they both have a financial stake in exaggerating Clinton's behavior. As I recall, there's plenty of evidence from court testimony, Clinton's own words, etc of Clinton's pathological tendencies, eg, his inability to take responsibility for many of his actions. We don't need to rely on sources of dubious merit.

Chris Mann: "Chris Wallaces personal attacks."

You are an idiot.

OK, so I downloaded and watched Chris Mann's bittorrent stream. And? How does it differ, precisely, from what has already been out there? Wallace asked a question, and Clinton lost it. On purpose or genuine doesn't matter here: it's just another Clinton lie and smear job masquerading as personal injury. Clinton has never been, and never will be, anything more than white trash dressed up. Good on him for getting so far, but what a jerk, a creep and an ass.

"I believe it is standard operating procedure to maintain bodyguards for the remainder of an ex-president's life."

Only for Clinton and those living ex-Presidents before him. He signed a law that limits Secret Service protection for future ex-Presidents to ten years.

I'm not sure that it's quite fair to argue that Clinton is somehow unique in his use of his physical attributes to cajole (or coerce) others.

LBJ, quite the big man himself, was well known to get into people's faces, tower over them, and even make them bend backwards a bit, all in the name of getting his policies and bills through.

He did this in Texas as he was coming up the system, as well as while serving in Congress and as President.

I like Glenn's spin of the news:

New Clinton scandals
Janet Jackson in the news
Dow approaching record territory
It's the 1990s all over again

Somehow, I don't think this is the 1994 scenario that the Democrats were hoping for...

Steve:

Wrong. Hillary is not everybody's biggest problem, although she will probably be in 2009.

The biggest problem right now for everybody (not just every American) is the man who is the reason for Hillary probably becoming one. Guess who that is?

Uh, Dick Cheney?

I mean, it's not like Dubya's running in 2009, after all, Fletcher.

And Hilary's been angling for the '09 spot since at least 2000.

[snap]

Oh, of course, Al Gore! The only man who could take a country at peace, with a decent economy, and still run a campaign so inept as to lose to Dubya!

You're right, Fletcher. Dang that Gore.