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Columnist Mary Jo Melone is again proving why the St. Petersburg Times has the reputation of being the most left-wing daily in Florida. You'd think she'd be ashamed and apologetic after claiming that the women raped and molested by Bill Clinton wanted to be. But no, instead she's lashing out at anyone who dares criticize her lunatic pro-Democrat bias. Melone now whines that readers flooded her with phone calls and e-mails. She had been "thinking of Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers. The callers and e-mailers had other names in mind. Paula Jones. Kathleen Willey. Juanita Broaddrick." Darn, she just "overlooked them."...

Musings on the pastime of politics with blindersBy MARY JO MELONE, Times Staff WriterPublished October 14, 2003 My office phone rang and rang Sunday. The voice mail quickly filled up. Same with the e-mail. I had written a piece raising the question of why women voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor of California, given his alleged history of manhandling women. I compared him to Bill Clinton. I said in the column that unlike Schwarzenegger's accusers, the women Clinton hit on had welcomed his advances.When I wrote that, I was thinking of Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers.The callers and e-mailers had other...

Mary Jo Melone, a columnist for the left-wing St. Petersburg Times, says it's impossible to compare Bill Clinton the rapist to Arnold Schwarzenegger the groper because "Clinton's women wanted him." In a hysterical 627-word tantrum denouncing the male and female voters who "elected a serial groper," Melone rages, "Whatever were they thinking?" As the campaign ended, we heard Schwarzenegger compared to the illustrious and sexually industrious Bill Clinton. You know what followed. If Clinton could be forgiven, why not Schwarzenegger? There was a difference, if not in their conduct than in their choices. Clinton's women wanted him. Will Melone...

Mary Jo Melone, a columnist for the left-wing St. Petersburg Times, says it's impossible to compare Bill Clinton the rapist to Arnold Schwarzenegger the groper because "Clinton's women wanted him." In a hysterical 627-word tantrum denouncing the male and female voters who "elected a serial groper," Melone rages, "Whatever were they thinking?" As the campaign ended, we heard Schwarzenegger compared to the illustrious and sexually industrious Bill Clinton. You know what followed. If Clinton could be forgiven, why not Schwarzenegger? There was a difference, if not in their conduct than in their choices. Clinton's women wanted him. Will Melone have...