Daily Inspiration Quote by Dee Dee Myers

"Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt" is the kind of line that works because it pretends to concede while actually controlling the damage. Dee Dee Myers, speaking as a public servant and former Clinton press secretary, isn’t gossiping; she’s translating a potential liability into a manageable personality trait. The opening "Yes" is tactical. It signals candor, an almost weary acceptance, as if to say: we’re not insulting your intelligence by denying what you can see. Then comes the reframing: not "predator", not "philanderer", not even "unfaithful" - just "a big flirt", the verbal equivalent of smoothing sharp edges with a soft cloth.

The subtext is a classic Washington move: domesticate the scandal. "Flirt" puts the behavior in the realm of social awkwardness and charm, not ethics and power. It invites an eye-roll instead of an investigation. It also leans on a gendered script where a powerful man’s boundary-pushing can be recast as roguish charisma, and where the consequences are treated as PR problems to be managed rather than harms to be addressed.

Context matters: the Clinton era was saturated with rumors, allegations, and a media ecosystem that increasingly fed on the collision between private conduct and public authority. Myers’s intent reads like crisis communication with a human face - an attempt to preserve Clinton’s political viability by acknowledging the trait that made him compelling (his intimate, magnetic attention) while insisting it’s merely a trait. The line is small, but it’s doing heavy lifting.