[Political Junkie Too]

I will concede the point to Mr. Clinton that he wrote the book on manipulating the media. I will credit President Bush for learning from the research of his predecessors and treating Clinton's tactics as textbook study.

The media have only themselves to blame. I am currently reading the book John Adams, by David McCollough, and the part about Washington's and Adams' presidency and the emergence of activist journalism is fascinating when juxtaposed against the era of Clinton and Bush.

-PJ

[dsutah]

I've been reading it too. I even showed it to my sister. She teaches high school; and I think it would be an excellent source for supplementary reading for high school and college students. They had politics of personal destruction ongoing in those days too, although in a slightly different, more polite way. Those pamphleteers could be vicious, couldn't they?