According to former President Bill Clinton, “young people are drunk” — not from alcohol — but from “the power of the new technology.”
“All of these young people drunk with the power of the new technology said the first thing that came to their heads, so some of these emails were mildly embarrassing,” he told host Stephen Colbert during Monday’s episode of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report.”
Clinton explained that while email became popular during his presidency (shortly after his vice president invented the Internet), it was maybe not the best thing for him to receive these “embarrassing” emails.
Continuing to talk technology, Clinton admitted he uses Facebook but is too “insecure” to create a Twitter account.
“I think I’m so, sort of insecure. What if you tweet and nobody tweets back?” Clinton asked Colbert. “There’s nothing worse than a friendless tweeter, right?”
Colbert, not taking no for an answer, took the liberty of creating a Twitter account for Clinton. Because all the other Twitter handles were taken, according to Colbert, he ultimately decided on @PrezBillyJeff. Earlier in the show, the host asked Clinton if he was allowed to call him Billy Jeff short for William Jefferson.
Colbert, acting as Clinton’s scribe, helped “Billy Jeff” type out his first tweet.
Just spent amazing time with Colbert!Is he sane? He is cool! #cgiu
— Billy Jeff Clinton (@PrezBillyJeff) April 6, 2013
As of Tuesday morning Clinton’s account already had close to 40,000 followers, but was only following one person back: Stephen Colbert.
Colbert also attempted to list all the zillions of Clinton initiatives during Monday night’s episode, asking the former president how he continued to accomplish so much after his two terms as president ended in 2000.
“Well, when you get older you have more time to work,” Clinton responded. It could also be, however, that they’ve found ways to make themselves less “untired.”
Colbert, after already nicknaming Clinton “Billy Jeff” during the show, gave him the title: “The Medusa of political persuasiveness.”
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The Colbert Report
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