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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBL who wrote (60357)	9/20/1999 1:40:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 67261

Yes! Isn't it invigorating?<VBG>.....

To: JBL who wrote (60357)	9/20/1999 2:05:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

There are whores, intellectual whores, and then there's Whoraldo: Geraldo Rivera's defense of Clinton's pardon decision, in which he lashed out at "sanctimonious" Senators, disturbed NPR's Mara Liasson and Roll Call's Morton Kondracke, who realized the obvious: "This guy is a total shill for Bill Clinton." On last Thursday's Special Report with Brit Hume on FNC Hume set up a video clip of Rivera at a dinner: "There is someone here who is backing the President on this, and he is a colleague of ours from NBC. And he spoke at a Hispanic gathering here in Washington, and let's listen to what he had to say." Rivera: "In an America where so-called conservative politicians can support clemency, or at least more lenient treatment, for anti-abortion violence, or for the IRA, or for Israeli spies, 311 members of Congress voted to condemn the president for doing what we begged him to do....Ninety-three members of the United States Senate, without a single vote in opposition, voted like those members of the House did before them to condemn our president for releasing the Puerto Rican radicals. Where were those same sanctimonious Senate voices when our government treated as royalty such prominent former terrorists as Menachem Begin and Yassir Arafat? Where was their outrage when we reopened relations with Vietnam, a land where the blood of 50,00 of our fellow citizens, many of them from Puerto Rico, still stains the soil?" Actually, two Senators voted against the resolution. Hume turned to the FNC panel for reaction. Kondracke exclaimed: "Wow. You know, this guy is a total shill for Bill Clinton, and will attack any enemy of Bill Clinton's, no matter what, no matter how transparently flimsy the grounds. I mean, it makes me speechless." Liasson jumped in: "There's another issue. I mean, he's an anchorperson, supposedly a journalist, and there he is, a pretty partisan Puerto Rican there giving a speech. I mean, that was what was stunning to me. I mean, I don't know if, that was more impressive than the fact that he's supporting President Clinton." Kondracke: "No, this was an anti-, this was an anti-Clinton-critic diatribe, and in defense of Clinton." Fred Barnes countered some of Rivera's claims: "I don't know where, Mort, maybe you remember him, I don't know conservatives who are out there saying you have to give a pardon to Jonathan Pollard, or ones who are even out there saying that anti-abortion activists who have committed violent acts should be given clemency. I don't know, maybe there are some conservatives who have been involved in either of those things. I don't know of any." Kondracke: "You know, and also you -- if a country elects a Menachem Begin or a Yitzhak Shamir as their president, you got to deal with them, right? It's not as though you -- you approve of what terrorist acts they may have committed way back in the distant past." Barnes: "See, I don't remember Geraldo getting all worked up when they, when either of those people came over here." Hume wrapped up the September 16 segment: "I don't recall Geraldo as a big, as a big supporter of the Vietnam War either, but anyway, he's a sweet guy personally." Maybe, but it's nice to see some fellow journalists taking on the political activism of another. mrc.org