NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on C-SPAN's Morning Journal

Along with telephone calls, Brian Lamb will make this more exciting than the NewsHour. Then again, maybe not.

Well, I made it through the blind pomposity of Jim Lehrer.(He thinks if he doesn't own up to being a liberal, we won't catch on that he is.)

Gwen Ifill is lapping up the lauds from the the black callers.

Brian Lamb is such a goober! He missed the point of the female caller who asked if the number of conservative callers had dropped. Of course the number has dropped.....the conservative line is always clogged with pretenders!!!

I like Gwen Ifill and think she tries hard. However, she was very defensive with that one caller when she said she knew he would eventually get around to her race and gender. Then, almost the next caller, a black woman was fawning all over Gwen and saying things like we need more of "her kind" on the program and she lets that kind of stuff go by.

I'm still a fan of Brian Lamb, though.

Gwen Ifill and Kwame whatever. Is this racism?

A democrat just called in to say their mind had been changed (to in favor of) on the subject of school vouchers based on what they had seen and heard on the NewsHour. There is hope.

I guess the House is taking Friday off. This program is going to run three hours afterall.

Kwame Holman is on for the next half hour. He's a pretty straight shooter.

Last night Jay Sekelow (sorry about the spelling) of the ACLJ appeared on the PBS evening news show with Lehrer. Although Jay has been at the forefront of the legal battle against the forces of the Left for a decade, and has fought many a battle all the way to and before the Supreme Court, Lehrer, the liberal doofus, did not know who he was.

Feigning ignorance is the instinctive lefty defense mechanism. According to Mr. Lehrer this morning, he didn't know Bill Clinton was lying to him in the January 21, 1998 interview.....and pigs fly. Here's the interview:

"The White House, January 21, 1998

JIM LEHRER: Mr. President, welcome.
PRESIDENT CLINTON: Thank you. Jim.

JIM LEHRER: The news of this day is that Keneth Starr, independent counsel, is investigating allegations that you suborn perjury by encouraging a 24-year-old woman, former White House intern, to lie under oath in a civil deposition about her having had an affair with you. Mr. President, is that true?

PRESIDEN CLINTON: "There is no improper relationship" There is no improper relationship and I intend to cooperate with this inquiry, but that is not true.

JIM LEHRER: No improper relationship, define what you mean by that.

PRESIDENT CLINTON: I think you know what it means. It means that there is not a sexual relationship, an improper sexual relationship or any other kind of improper relationship.

JIM LEHRER: You had no sexual relationship with this young woman?

PRESIDENT CLINTON: There is not a sexual relationship. That is accurate. We are doing our best to cooperate here, but we don't know much yet, and that's all I can say now. What I'm trying to do is to contain my natural impulses and get back to work. It's important we cooperate. I will cooperate, but I want to focus on the work at hand.

JIM LEHRER: Just for the record, make sure I understand what your answer means and there is no ambiguity about it --

PRESIDENT CLINTON: There is no ambiguity.

JIM LEHRER: You had no conversations with this woman, Monica Lewinsky, about her testimony, possible testimony, before -- in giving a deposition?

PRESIDENT CLINTON: I did not urge anyone to saying anything that was untrue. That's my statement to you.

JIM LEHRER: Did you talk to -- excuse me.

PRESIDENT CLINTON: Beyond that, I think it's very important that we let the investigation take its course. But I want you to know that that is my clear position. I didn't ask anyone to go in there and say something that is not true.

JIM LEHRER: What about your having -- another one of the allegations is that you may have asked or the allegation has been investigated that you asked your friend, Vernon Jordan, to do that.

PRESIDENT CLINTON: I absolutely did not do that. I can tell you I did not do that. I did not do that. He is in no way involved in trying to get anybody to say anything that is not true at my request. I didn't do that. Now, I don't know what else to tell you. I don't even know, all I know is what I've read here. But I'm going to cooperate. I didn't ask anybody not to tell the truth. There is no improper relationship. The allegations I have read are not true. I do not know what the basis of them is other than just what you know. We'll just have to wait and see, and I will be vigorous at it but I have got to get back to the work of the country. I was up past midnight with Prime Minister Netanyahu last night , I've got Mr. Arafat coming in. We have got action all over the world and the state of the union to world to deal with. I will do my best to cooperate with this just as I have through every other issue over the past several years, but I have got to get to work.

JIM LEHRER: Would you acknowledge though Mr President, this is very serious business, this charge against you that has been made?

PRESIDENT CLINTON: And I will cooperate with the investigation.

JIM LEHRER: What's going on? If it's not true, that means that somebody made this up. Is that --

PRESIDENT CLINTON: Look, you know as much about this as I do right now. We'll just have to look into it and cooperate, and we'll see. But meanwhile, I've got to go on with the work of the country. I got hired to help the rest of the American people...."

Mr. Lehrer didn't know Clinton was lying? The sad part of this morning's interview is that Brian Lamb didn't follow up with the obvious question: "Mr. Lehrer, why didn't you know Clinton was lying? Everyone else on the planet did."

Someone called (this show?)and told Lehrer that she didn't know if he was a Democrat or a Republican. Her implication was that he was so impartial. He seemed complimented by her statement. I wondered how informed that caller considered herself.