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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?

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To: Borzou Daragahi who wrote (6800)9/23/1998 4:29:00 PM
From: Liatris Spicata  Read Replies (1) of 13994
 
Borzou- A Patently Idiotic Statement-

<<I merely get annoyed by the hypocrisy of those who claim to want to protect our children from smut and then ruthlessly disseminate it when it suits their political ends.>>

You fail to draw the most elemental of distinctions- which is the hallmark of a critical mind. Starr's purpose, unlike the pornographer, was not to entertain people- it was to document what he learned during the course of his investigation of a man whose life could very well be the subject of a low-grade porno flick. If his clinical prose strikes some as erotic- well that says more about them than about Starr or his report. But Starr believed he had to report what he did to substantiate the charge of perjury that he made against Clinton. Could his serious charges of perjury have been made without the accompanying evidence??

Starr's report is no more pornographic than an academic study of human sexuality such as those conducted by Masters and Johnson. I would expect that you could make basic distinctions.

Larry

P.S. We do agree on one thing: the government should not ban pornography, at least where it concerns only consenting adults.
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