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THE NEW CURRENCY is obedience. Meanwhile, remember how the left went crazy over Ari Fleischer?s a?

By Glenn Reynolds

THE NEW CURRENCY is obedience.

Meanwhile, remember how the left went crazy over Ari Fleischer’s advice to “watch what you say?” But now Bill Clinton is comparing Tea Partiers to Tim McVeigh and proffering rather Fleischeresque advice. Maybe Clinton should watch what he says, when it comes to branding large numbers of nonviolent Americans as terrorists. But this statement serves as a useful reminder to those who have come to think of Clinton as some sort of cuddly, not-so-bad figure. He was a demagogue who would say whatever he thought might work when he was President, and he still is.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 17, 2010 (boomark / email).