|
?:reviewBody
|
-
In October 2016, a video purportedly showing former President Bill Clinton saying that his wife communed with the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt appeared and was subsequently widely circulated: The video (which was uploaded by former mayor Michael Bloomberg on 18 October 2012) shows Clinton's comments at around the fifteen minute mark: The video displayed here was widely circulated as evidence that the Democratic presidential nominee spoke to the dead, or was involved with other Satanic rituals, a rumor that may seem outlandish but that has persisted for decades. Similar rumors circulated in 1996 in anticipation of Bob Woodward's book The Choice: How Bill Clinton Won, which offered a behind-the-scenes look at the Clintons: While many media outlets reported that Woodward's book documented Clinton holding seances and speaking to the dead, Dr. Jean Houston, the advisor who worked with Clinton during these imaginary chats, said that the exercise was more akin to brainstorming than a religious ritual: In The Choice, Woodward described the exercise in this way: It is true that Bill Clinton said that his wife communed with the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt; Clinton was referring to actual therapeutic sessions, not an attempt to conjure up ghosts.
(en)
|
![[This page as RDF]](http://data.gesis.org/claimskg/static/rdf-icon.gif){kind=icon}