Posted on 01/02/2002 5:59:06 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:13 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
IF NEWSPAPERS ARE indeed the first draft of history, Bill Clinton's chance for a favorable reappraisal of his presidency is in trouble.
His supporters have hoped that as time adds perspective, Clinton's personal peccadilloes will shrink in memory, while underappreciated accomplishments will grow in importance.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
They were to busy covering Clinton's rear end because like Clinton .. they also had an AGENDA ..
Just think IF these Liberal Rags had the guts to report the TRUTH about Clinton before the 92 Elections .. Clinton would NEVER have been elected and we as a Nation would not be in the mess we are in today ..
With respect, that wasn't the case. The media made sure that all the emphasis was on that aspect of Clinton's wrongdoing - remember "it's all about sex?" - because it was easiest to defend. But in fact they did so in an effort to cover up the other, less defensible aspects of his administration, and quite successfully, too. What that allowed was the sort of moral equivalencey encapsulated in the statement "they all do it" and validated by all the dirt they could dig up on GOP sexual pecadillos, which were held to an even higher standard than that of the Dems because they were held to be hyprocritical. A nice game, well played, and successful because of the nearly monolithic support Clinton enjoyed among the print and broadcast media.
It was his own stinking fault that he was burried in scandle, and his own stinking fault for choosing to fight for his personal power (at the expense of the nation) instead of resigning like he should have done.
Ummmmm, The GOP was focused oin the whole ABUSE OF POWER Aspect...The media was fixated on the Sex aspect, because they knew the Sheeple would find it easier to understand, and believe, and make X42s problem survivable.
But for those who were there - and aware - it had nothing to do with sex. After all, a fellow traveler of BJ named OJ got away with murder that could be described as "more about sex". The felonies, obstructions, and perjuries committed by William Jefferson Clinton cannot be excused merely because they were committed in order to cover up something totally legal and fairly common among politicians. Unfortunately, that blazingly obvious principle was covered up in the smokescreen layed down by the DNC and left-leaning media to confuse those who need to have their news and interpretations delivered gift-wrapped.
AMAZING ABILITY TO COMPARTMENTALIZE HIS WORK FOR "the people". Where is all the talk about that NOW!!!!!!!!!
The China stuff got deflected by the "conservative media" (what a rip-snorting laff that liberals are trying to sell that pile of pony-poop!), who focused on the easy issue, as you said.
Not a bad idea. I know Lehigh sometimes responds to email from the hoi polloi, and he seems like a very decent guy.
Why Starr/the GOP/Whomever decided to make her the focal point of our case against Clinton, I'll never understand.
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