"Let me just say this. One of the reasons he [Kenneth Starr] got away with it is because people like you only ask me the questions.

"You gave him a complete free ride. Any abuse they wanted to do. They indicted all these little people from Arkansas; what did you care about them. They're not famous, who cares that their life [sic] was trampled. Who cares that their children are humiliated."

Continuing to berate Dimbleby, Clinton complained:

"Nobody in your line of work cared a rip about that at the time. Why? Because he was helping their story. And that's why people like you always help the far right, because you like to hurt people and you like to talk about how bad people are and all their personal failings."

The ex-president blamed the media for spending so much time on the scandal that turned him into the only elected president in U.S. history to be impeached, telling Dimbleby:

"Look, you made a decision to allocate your time in a certain way, you should take responsibility for that, you should say 'yes, I care much more about this than whether the Bosnian people were saved and whether he brought a million home from Kosovo'."

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