[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.

[billhilly]

You know, I'm finding you to be a boor, and a pretender. To drop the name of the editor of a publication as if you are in his mind, when I have known and worked closely with him for over thirty years says a lot more about you than anything else you have written.

That obscure, tinfoil publication, got more than 1,200 press clippings over just that one story in December, 1993, and those were just the ones that our own clipping service caught.

It also led to a very public (perhaps you missed it) federal investigation against a publication presumably protected by the first amendment.

If you haven't gotten the point yet, you are more obtuse than even I have suspected.