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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (65135)1/21/2000 8:04:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (2) of 67261
 
Look, I'm not banging the drum for the Mark Furman defense league here. But I always root for the underdog. The Media declared he was the epitome of evil and he was painted as the true villain in the OJ case. So naturally I gravitate to his defense.

Ben Stein wrote a piece in the American Spectator a couple of years ago. He interviewed Furman from Idaho, where he had taken a job as a small town cop, after being run out of LA like a dog. Stein is as squishy as anyone and would have painted the racist label on him if he thought it was deserved. He did not think it was deserved, he thought Furman was given a bad rap. The article painted a positive picture. He had gone there ready to eviscerate him, but he came away liking him.

I'm reaching here, that article is old, but I think Stein said Furman was bragging about things that never happened. He was trying to prove to that reporter (who he was sweet on) he was a street savvy, tough cop. That makes him more of a lout than a racist.
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