Carville: Sex Was Clinton's Top Priority
Former White House consigliere James Carville inadvertently admitted on Sunday that while his former boss Bill Clinton served as president of the United States, his top priority was his own sex life.
Carville's comment was offered in the heat of an argument with his wife, Mary Matalin, over whether the Bush administration had lied about arrangements for the president's visit to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln last week.
It went unnoticed until WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg reviewed the Carville quote for his Sunday overnight audience.
A transcript of the Clinton spinmeister's remarks, delivered just hours before on "Meet the Press," quoted him as saying that Republicans tend to lie about what's important to them - money. But for Clinton, his sex life was what he cared about most.
The exchange went like this:
CARVILLE: Of course they lie ...
MEET THE PRESS MODERATOR TIM RUSSERT: You may be in the freezer, Mr. Carville.
CARVILLE: Of course they - I mean, look, I can't help it, because the record is ...
MATALIN: Oh.
CARVILLE: President Clinton lied about the thing that mattered, you know, he cared about: his sex life. Republicans lie about the thing they care about the most: money. Money. [End of Exchange]
Former White House consigliere James Carville inadvertently admitted on Sunday that while his former boss Bill Clinton served as president of the United States, his top priority was his own sex life.
Carville's comment was offered in the heat of an argument with his wife, Mary Matalin, over whether the Bush administration had lied about arrangements for the president's visit to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln last week.
It went unnoticed until WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg reviewed the Carville quote for his Sunday overnight audience.
A transcript of the Clinton spinmeister's remarks, delivered just hours before on "Meet the Press," quoted him as saying that Republicans tend to lie about what's important to them - money. But for Clinton, his sex life was what he cared about most.
The exchange went like this:
CARVILLE: Of course they lie ...
MEET THE PRESS MODERATOR TIM RUSSERT: You may be in the freezer, Mr. Carville.
CARVILLE: Of course they - I mean, look, I can't help it, because the record is ...
MATALIN: Oh.
CARVILLE: President Clinton lied about the thing that mattered, you know, he cared about: his sex life. Republicans lie about the thing they care about the most: money. Money. [End of Exchange]