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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?
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To: Les H who wrote (8204)10/14/1998 2:52:00 AM
From: Borzou Daragahi  Read Replies (3) of 13994
 
Congress' roster of hypocrisy

From Salon

When the House of Representatives rushed the
Starr Report out of its cartons and onto the Web,
we were one of several sites to point out the
hypocrisy of the act -- since this was substantially
the same Congress that passed the notorious
Communications Decency Act in 1996. Under the
CDA, which was eventually struck down by the
Supreme Court, the Starr Report's sexual content
would quite likely have made it illegal to publish
online.

Pointing to hypocrisy is one thing; detailing it is
another. Keith Dawson, who runs the useful
technology-news site and mailing list known as
TBTF, has done the hard work of compiling the
precise members of Congress who voted for both
the CDA and the Starr Report release. They're
listed, with much loving care, on a page titled "The
284 Most Hypocritical U.S. Representatives." The
lengthy roster include not only conservative
Republican stalwarts like Speaker Newt Gingrich
and Reps. Henry Hyde, Tom DeLay and Dan
Burton but also Democrats like David Bonior,
Richard Gephart, Charles Rangel and Charles
Schumer.

Of course, now that Congress is en route to passing
a new version of the CDA, who knows what fresh
opportunities for hypocrisy will present
themselves?
-- Scott Rosenberg
SALON | Oct. 14, 1998

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