WASHINGTON — Radio shock jock Don Imus had no fans in the Clinton White House, newly released documents show.
Imus came to DC in 1999 and asked Bill Clinton to appear on his show, prompting in-house joke writer Mark Katz to craft a blistering response.
His proposed answer to Imus: “Hell, no. Notta chance. Negative. Nyet. N.O. O-Nay. That’s a big 10-No, good buddy. Take a regular ‘no’ and super-size it.”
The president might reconsider, Katz wrote, “when you stop calling [White House press secretary] Mike McCurry ‘weasel boy.’ ”
But the letter — one of 7,500 pages released Friday by the Clinton Presidential Library — was never sent.
Also released by the library was a 1993 document in which a staffer rants about a Moscow Radisson hotel, fearing a press mutiny on a planned visit that would exacerbate Clinton’s “not swell” press relations.
“I really need you two to . . . decide whether this damn hotel is worth the aggravation,” the staffer wrote.
Even the 1998 White House Easter Egg Roll was a source of debate as aides wondered whether they should invite kids to send e-mail messages to the president.
“I’m against any encouragement to send e-mail from any public event,” vented aide Stephen Horn. “Especially an Easter event, a religious celebration.”