Nightline catches Sid Vicious in a flat footed lie:
***Media Research Center CyberAlert***
Monday October 5, 1998 (Vol. Three; No. 163)
> 5) Remember when Sidney Blumenthal stepped outside the
courthouse and blasted Ken Starr for improperly focusing on
Blumenthal's contacts with reporters and what he said about
Starr's staff? It quickly became a common point of attack for
Starr haters. Well, by reading the grand jury transcripts
Nightline discovered Blumenthal's statement outside does not quite
match what happened inside.
Pointing out Blumenthal's lack of cooperation, on the October
2 Nightline David Marash asserted that Blumenthal "visited with
his lawyer outside the grand jury room more often than a classroom
of first graders going to the bathroom. And after his first day's
testimony was done, Blumenthal and his lawyer William McDaniel
said this to the news media and the world:"
McDaniel outside courthouse: "Mr. Blumenthal was hauled down
here today in a blatant attempt to intimidate him from searching
out and speaking the truth about Mr. Starr and his prosecutors."
Blumenthal: "Today, I was forced to answer questions about my
conversations, as part of my job, with, and I wrote this down, the
New York Times, CNN, CBS, Time magazine, U.S. News, the New York
Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Observer and there
may have been a few others, I don't remember right now. Ken
Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and
what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors."
Marash then read from the transcript: "A look at the grand
jury transcript shows prosecutors pressing Blumenthal not about
his contacts with the media, but with the President, the First
Lady and other top White House politicos and about the messages
that they wanted Blumenthal to spin into the media."
Prosecutor: "Has the White House produced any document like a
talking points document relating or referring to the Monica
Lewinsky matter?"
Blumenthal: "I've seen talking points from the Democratic
National Committee."
Prosecutor: "And you received this from the DNC?"
Blumenthal: "Yes."
Prosecutor: "Did you distribute it to anyone outside the White
House?"
Blumenthal: "If reporters called me or I spoke with reporters
I would tell them to call the DNC to get those talking points, and
those included news organizations ranging from CNN, CBS, ABC, New
York Times, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, New York
Observer, Los Angeles Times."
Marash bluntly concluded: "So if Blumenthal was telling the
truth on the courthouse steps, he is indeed a remarkable man,
capable of quote, 'writing down,' notes on his own testimony even
as he gave it."
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