[billhilly]

Well, bloke, maybe this just isn't your day. I was involved with The American Spectator when it broke the story about Clinton's sexual history, and that was in 1993. He didn't get caught doing his thing with Ms. Lewenski until January, 1998.

That pretty well obviates your thesis that he had, and expected to continue to have, protection from the press on the issue of his brutish sexual behavior.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..that pretty well obviates your thesis that he had, and expected to continue to have, protection from the press on the issue of his brutish sexual behavior...

Well we're getting off the topic, but I don't think even Emmett Tyrell would describe the Spectator as 'the press.' Back then it was always portrayed as some sort of right wing tinfoil scandal sheet. I meant the mainstream networks, and left and east coast dailies, which when they finally had to comment, eagerly went with the 'it's just about sex' spin.