“You ever watch that TV series ‘Mad Men?’ ” Clinton asked. “If I keep watching this program, will I ever find a happy person? Great television. Good drama. But a lot of really painful reminders in that show about how black people were supposed to run the elevators… were supposed to ask permission before they get on an elevator. The way women were treated is appalling, and only occasionally funny to me.”
Yes, it was appalling how the female underlings at a fictional 1960s advertising firm were treated. Quite unlike how White House interns were actually put to work in the 1990s.
Has he ever seen the show? We’ve never had a president who was more Don Draper-esque than Bill Clinton.
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Doesn’t Bubba realize that this is how blacks and women were treated in the early sixties? Doesn’t he remember the colored only and white only drinking fountains around Arkansas?
I’ll bet he doesn’t like Gone With the Wind either because it portrayed blacks as slaves and stuff.
Apparently, Clinton wants to trump Obama’s audacity. Of course, he IS an expert on how to treat women poorly, so I suppose he would know it when he sees it.
Bubba’s a good argument for castration.
The only reason he doesn’t like Mad Men show is because he is jealous. Now that he is out of office and Hillary is the one in office you can guarantee none of the interns working for the Clintons are Bills type.
Inserting cigars isn’t Don Draper it’s Roger Sterling.
In light of Don Draper’s mysterious past and long lost relatives with criminal pasts, one might argue that Barack Obama was the most Don Draper of any president.
Keep their mouths shut and pretending to be good leaders are hallmarks of both.
Lest we find out you’re 1) not who we thought you were, and 2) completely incompetent.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7176683.stm
I doubt Bill has any memories of the 60s that don’t include “Take Your Child To Work Day” with mommy at the strip joint/honkytonk. That’s no doubt where he learned how to stay so classy. Between addressing reporters as “cu*ts”, sexually assaulting women, and doing unspeakable things to the Devil with a Blue Dress On, it’s a wonder he even found time to bomb that Chinese embassy in Belgrade. What, has he suddenly taken holy orders with the Been-a-Dicktine brothers?
Then again, the Current Occupant makes Clinton look like Teddy Roosevelt.
I was thinking the same thing, FS.
Roger Sterling is the prematurely gray guy with a very loose job description spending his time bare back riding interns around the office.
And no, Obowma isn’t Don Draper, he’s Michael Scott. Jobs Summit in the conference room, five minutes!
What he’s really thinking is: “Man, that Draper guy has it MADE!”
CLINTON(loudly)
This TV show is closed until further notice! Clear the room at once!
Draper comes up quickly to Clinton.
DRAPER
How can you close me up? On what grounds?
CLINTON
I am shocked, shocked to find such treatment of women in here!
MONICA (under the desk)
Bill! XYZ!
CLINTON
Oh. Thank you very much.
I’m sure that he never misses this show, has it on DVD/DVR/VHS, and any other kind of recording media possible, in all of his limos. I bet seeing an exec riding a half-dressed girl around the office like a pony brings back memories for him. Blech.
I know all of the cool kids are gonna make fun of me, but I’ve never seen this show. And I don’t plan on it. If someone longs for the days when people wore suits, and drank at work, just wear a suit and drink at work. Is that really a TV show? I don’t know, I have a record of missing the point of TV shows like this I guess.
I won’t make fun of ya, Pasta. I only started watching it for the retro factor, which I love. Clinton is correct in that it is about a depressing bunch of reckless people, who keep screwing up their lives and everyone’s around them with abandon. This season it finally got some pertinent plotlines, due to the current events of the era. But visually it is beautiful, if a person likes that retro-modern look of the architecture, cars, design, etc.
No, Minnow. Michael Scott has SOME redeeming qualities. Don’t disparage him like that. Similar levels of cluelessness, though. Who’s the Jim who’ll keep the country from going under?
I am sorry, but I could not even read the article because I was laughing so hard at the title to this post. Bill Clinton thinks women are treated horribly in this show? That is kind of like Geither telling us to pay taxes, oh wait a minute.
just reading the post did get me laughing, i have to admit. hilarity. the myopia of some people….to think he may have actually said that in all seriousness? wow.