SATIRE

The Great Liberal Insurrection of 1999

When the Democrats fought to defend Bill Clinton’s honor

Jay Sizemore
Parlor Tricks
Published in
4 min readJan 11, 2021

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As shocking as the events were to witness on January 6th, 2021, this of course isn’t the first time in American history that the Capitol has been stormed by angry citizens. We are coming up on the 22 year anniversary of the Great Liberal Insurrection of 1999, when supporters of Bill Clinton refused to allow their great president to be dishonored by impeachment. Americans should never forget what happened that fateful day.

For months the Monica Lewinsky scandal had completely pervaded the news cycle. Fans and lovers of Bill Clinton were simply appalled that their political hero’s private life and dirty laundry were being aired for all to see on national television. Spurred on by the punditry of great liberal thinkers such as James Carville and Chris Matthews, the liberal elites decided they must act. They could not simply stand by and watch the greatest Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt be dragged through the mud of smut and yellow journalism.

Meeting up in online chatrooms via AOL and AOL Instant Messenger, which was largely unregulated, the liberal militia began to flourish and allow its roots to take hold in the college campuses and educational centers across the country, and then to spread to…

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Jay Sizemore
Parlor Tricks

Provocative truth teller, author of APNEA & Ignore the Dead. Cat dad. Dog dad. Husband. Currently working from Portland, Oregon. Learn more at: Jaysizemore.com.