Posted on 02/21/2005 8:39:55 AM PST by srm913
No Media Interest in Secret Clinton Tapes?
The New York Times thought it was front page news on Sunday when they obtained secret recordings of presidential candidate George Bush sharing a few personal insights, like admitting that he once tried marijuana.
But the Times and the rest of the prestige press don't seem particularly interested in another set of secret tapes, recorded while one of the participants actually occupied the Oval Office. Only last June, former White House paramour Monica Lewinsky revealed that she's sitting on a stash of never-before-heard tapes of her own - recordings of President Clinton whispering sweet nothings into her answering machine.
At the time, Lewinsky actually threatened to make the tapes public, telling London's Daily Mail:
"If I chose to, I could bring out . . . the messages on the answering machine tapes that no one's heard. I could make it into something big to try to demonstrate that this wasn't just inappropriate intimate contact - that it really was something."
Really something?
Whatever Mr. Clinton said on those still secret recordings, it doesn't sound like Monica's tapes are going to be particularly helpful to Hillary's 2008 presidential campaign.
But if the Times or any of their American counterparts are interested, they have a strange way of showing it. The US media has yet to print a single word about Monica's secret tapes.
Don't forget the old couple who illegally picked up Newt's phone conversations......
Will Vincent Foster/Ron Brown become an issue in Hillary's 08 campaign? Or are Republicans still afraid to make that an issue?
bttt
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