WND’s Washington bureau chief Paul Sperry — who became the talk of Washington when, surrounded by media peers, he sparred verbally with an unusually agitated President Clinton – is now taking on the U.S. Congress.
“Federal Feeding Frenzy: “Why government’s voracious appetite for your money always increases regardless of party in power,” is Sperry’s blockbuster report on the way the U.S. government spends ever more of your hard-earned money – regardless of who sits in the White House. The report highlights the June edition of WorldNet magazine, WND’s popular monthly print publication.
Sperry, who before joining WND in February 2000 and breaking many major stories – like the White House porn-gate and e-mail scandals — spent 12 years reporting for Investor’s Business Daily and won a prestigious media fellowship at the Hoover Institution.
And though his reports on national security issues have been picked up by virtually every major news agency in the world, Sperry is perhaps most well-known for a White House picnic confrontation with then-President Clinton in late 1999.
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“I stood there slack-jawed,” he later wrote, recalling the lavishly catered picnic and giddy press corps arrayed on the White House’s south lawn, “watching one powerful journalist after another clamor like so many fawning teen rock-idol fans to grasp the hand of the most corrupt president in U.S. history.
“So many scandals, so many unanswered questions — so many unasked questions,” Sperry pondered as his media colleagues drank in the good times.
“Maybe I just cared too much. Relax. Yes, have a good time; it is a party after all. Don’t be so serious. Loosen up.
“But just as I was about to give in to the perverse euphoria, suspending disbelief about the harmlessness of old Slick like everyone else around me, I recalled a Proverb I’d read that morning – ‘Do not envy wicked men, do not desire their company’ — and I closed my eyes for strength.
“It was my turn to meet the celebrity president. As he approached me, I politely, if coolly, asked him when he would hold his next formal press conference. It had been several months since his last and he’s had fewer than any recent president. I admit I was trying to agitate the proper forum for questions about the FBI agents’ charges. But, to me, this was still a rather innocuous question, even within the supposedly neutral zone of a party. A relevant question, too, given the gathering. Other hard-nosed reporters surely were wondering when they’d get another crack at Clinton.
“Or so I thought. My simple question was rewarded with boos and hisses from the adoring Clinton groupies around me. So much for the adversarial press.
“But that was nothing compared with Clinton’s reaction to my inquiry about his next press confab. In an instant, his 100-watt charm shut off, replaced by a taunting belligerence. ‘Why?’ he barked.
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“‘Because the American people have a lot of unanswered questions,’ I replied, struggling to hold my bladder. At that point, he moved back down the rope, pulling up square in front of me, and demanded, ‘Like what?’
“‘Well, like illegal money from China and the campaign-finance scandal. …’
“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. All the while, he tried to belittle me by making faces (to get a rise out of his fans) and intimidate me by getting in my face.
“And now I can see how he can do that to people. Clinton’s not just intellectually intimidating, he’s physically imposing. He’s tall (6-2) 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. I was getting full frontal Clinton. His volcanic temper, hidden so well from the public by his handlers, erupted less than 12 inches from my eyes. …”
There’s much more, of course, and readers can see Paul Sperry’s lively first-person account of his journalistic combat with Bill Clinton in “My Picnic with Bill.”
“Now it’s time for Round 2,” said WorldNetDaily.com CEO and Editor Joseph Farah. “Paul Sperry has gone back into the ring to mix it up with the U.S. Congress. And guess what – Paul wins again.”
In June’s issue, Sperry exposes the secret dirty tricks employed by Democrats and Republicans alike to hide pork in ever-larger bills, increase spending while claiming to be cutting, hide surpluses to avoid future budget cuts, use phony “emergency spending” to get around budget caps, and much more. And he proves conclusively that congressional gridlock is good! Eleven stunning full-color charts and graphs illustrate this shocking truth — that the more government “helps,” the worse off Americans are.
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June’s edition, said Farah, is “the best issue of WorldNet yet. You simply don’t want to miss this rare pull-off-the-veil look at how Congress really works by Paul Sperry.”
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