Former President Bill Clinton has been showing up lately and it just so happens he has a book out, Citizen: My Life After the White House. This is also the 20th anniversary of Clinton’s presidential library. I think it was quite savvy of Joe and Mika to travel to interview him as they try to climb back up in the ratings, or even stay on the air after the trip to Mar-a-Lago debacle.

Say what you will about Bill Clinton (and there is no need to remind that he signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that brought us insane media consolidation, a huge problem now). There are many other complaints perfectly valid, some not, about Clinton. But he’s a heck of a politician who left office with an astounding 66% approval rating, the highest exit approval rating of any president since the end of World War II.  This despite being the first target of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News that hit cable TV in 1996.

Let’s digress for a moment.  Little known factoid: Murdoch actually paid cable to put Fox on the air.

“It was routine for cable companies to pay networks such as HBO or MTV for the right to broadcast their content, but Murdoch reversed the equation, paying cable providers to carry Fox News. As a result, when the network first took to the airwaves on October 7, 1996, it was viewable in more than 17 million homes.”

Anyway, President Clinton has some interesting things to say.  I hope he can help Democrats get back on our feet because our side is going nuts right now when we need to be able to think clearly.  It’s 12:40 minutes.