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Minutes later, Black told viewers of CNN's Crossfire that "Microsoft really was created" from "the old IBM monopoly" and that the company relied not on "innovation" but on illegal strong-arm tactics, like in The Godfather . Crossfire co-host David Corn joked that Microsoft even "stole the operating system from Apple."
Foreigners remain baffled by the Clinton scandal, however: One attendee joked, "The French ask why he hasn't had more women; the Africans ask why he didn't make her pregnant; and the Russians wonder why the girl is still alive."
Clinton joked that his apple reference was "a pander to Washington state," but it was more than that.
"If I'm wrong about Y2K, I'll just check into the Betty Ford Clinic for delusional economists, publicly state that I'm on industrial-strength Prozac, and then ask for forgiveness," Ed Yardeni joked this past September.
"You're seeing the inevitable cashing in of politicians on the Internet," joked Downey, a former 18-year congressman from Long Island, who is now a high-powered lobbyist in town.