Remember When 115 Newspapers Called on Bill Clinton to Resign?

Jane R. Eisner, the editorial page editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, knew the jagged contours of the debate before it started. Long before the release of Kenneth W. Starr's report, it was clear that some colleagues believed, passionately, that President Clinton's deceit made him unfit to remain in office. An equal number felt just as passionately that his resignation now would weaken the nation's most cherished institutions.

But Ms. Eisner said she was not expecting the feelings of profound exhaustion and ''nausea'' she experienced when finally, after two and a half hours of anguished arguments, Chris Satullo, the deputy editorial page editor, went to write the Sunday editorial that began with the words ''Bill Clinton should resign.''

By yesterday, The Inquirer, once a staunch supporter of the President, was one of at least 115 daily newspapers in the country -- out of more than 1,500 -- to make the same plea to Mr. Clinton.

It didn't matter, of course. Clinton never had the slightest intention of resigning, and his supporters never wanted him to. Indeed, they reveled in his defiance and laughed at the old-fashioned, moralist editors who wanted him to do the right thing. Further, the nation's most influential papers stayed out of the fray:

Among the nation's largest newspapers, USA Today has called for Mr. Clinton's resignation but The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post have not. ''As a general practice, we don't discuss the details of editorial board deliberations,'' said Howell Raines, the editorial page editor of The New York Times.

But they had (alleged) physical evidence all along: the blue dress.
http://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/09/time/cohen.html
“The dress made its first appearance in cyberspace. On Jan. 21, Matt Drudge reported on his Internet Drudge Report that Linda Tripp had told investigators Lewinsky allegedly confided she “kept a garment with Clinton’s dried semen on it—a garment she allegedly said she would never wash.”
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Jan. 23, ABC became the first major news outlet to break the dress story based on its own sources. Jackie Judd reported that “Lewinsky says she saved, apparently as a kind of souvenir, a navy blue dress with the President’s semen stain on it.” “

And then it was no longer merely alleged...
http://www.famous-trials.com/clinton/889-lewinskydress
“In late July, 1998, Lewinsky turned the dress over to Kenneth Starr’s investigators after signing an immunity agreement. A blood sample was taken from Clinton on August 3, and on August 17, the FBI reported its conclusion that Clinton was the source of the semen on the dress “to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty.”

When news of the the existence of the dress surfaced in published reports in early August, politicians and commentators alike agreed that the blue dress proved Clinton lied when he denied a sexual relationship with Lewinsky.
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Not only that, we need to jab a sharp stick in the eye of every leftist out there every time they try this scumbag, political-warfare bull$hit.

We need to take the fight to them.

And make them fear.

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