Yes, spin is placed by all the participants. Since this woman is a journalist, however, and is well connected in Washington, she has always seemed knowledgeable to me, and does not have any personal ax to grind of which I am aware.
I url'ed it primarily because, like Time magazine last week, it is discussing an admission that there was some sort of attempted sex with Willie, simply that it was consensual. I still find that a troubling strategy, for reasons I do not fully understand at the moment. Probably because Clinton thinks he can get away with it.
And how can we tell spin from the truth? It is getting harder and harder. But the fact is that many women have now come forward, and while some of their motivations are clouded by magazine deals, Borger has a valid point about Gennifer Flowers.
I think this gets back to a question I raised for discussion last week here--does selling your story necessarily always make it less credible? If it does, then we need to immediately discredit Julia Hyatt Steele, who changed her story after she received $7000 for a photograph, which many people are quite sure was a payoff from the White House, through his attorney Kendall, who also works for the National Enquirer.
If we are going to smear people, it should at least be equal opportunity smearing, and that would logically cause us to wipe Steele's negative comments about Willey from our minds entirely. |
