The only "fact" of impropriety as far as adultry, sexual harrasement or otherwise poor judgement in liasions with women, is the Flowers episode. And that one is on shaky ground with me. (I concede I did not hear Clinton's admission, did you?).
This is a point worth repeating, and worth considering. According to yesterday's Washington Post:
In recent days, based on anonymous sources, various newspapers and television networks have reported such stories as: that Mr Clinton has claimed to have had sex with "hundreds" of women; that he said he does not consider oral sex to be adultery; that White House staffers once saw Mr Clinton and Ms Lewinsky in an intimate encounter; that Mr Clinton admitted under oath to having an affair with Gennifer Flowers; that Mr Clinton may have had an affair with a distant cousin, and that Mr Clinton had an affair with Shelia Davis Lawrence...
Interesting, no? None of this is proved, all of it anonymously-sourced rumor. Yet many of us have been accepting nearly all of it as fact.
And come to think of it: why would Clinton admit to the affair with Flowers while denying that with Lewinsky? If he's gonna commit perjury, two counts rather than one isn't gonna make much difference. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Why not deny both, or admit to both? |
