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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Abner Hosmer who wrote (10488)	3/14/1998 12:19:00 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

&#147Those progressive knights of the liberal popular press, who trashed Jennifer Flowers (cheap tramp cabaret singer), Paula Jones (trailer park trash) and Monica Lewinsky (kneepad nympho)&#133&#148 The only crime he's guilty of, so far, is having really bad taste. I've only got my Square-Headed Girlfriend tonight, so I'm not going to whine about the sex issue. People might get the wrong impression that I'm simply envious. It's more the after-moments (legal?) I'm concerned about. -MrB

To: Abner Hosmer who wrote (10488)	3/14/1998 12:40:00 AM
From: DD™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

I suggest all tune-in to Nightline now. Reviewing the Wiiley deposition. Klinton is in deep trouble. DD

To: Abner Hosmer who wrote (10488)	3/14/1998 1:40:00 AM
From: halfscot	Respond to of 20981

Well said. Love your passion. halfscot

To: Abner Hosmer who wrote (10488)	3/14/1998 10:08:00 AM
From: Thomas G. Busillo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Thomas, hypocrisy is like oxygen down in DC - you need it to survive. Probably the reason why a lot of good people never go into politics. The press has been played, they know they've been played, and yet they give in anyway. Bob Bennet's news conf. out in L.A. was a media event designed to counterbalance the coverage of the release of the filing by the Jones team in time for the Saturday morning papers. (Bennett calling the filing "a pack of lies" - what a shocker!) They know it was crafted to fit the weekend news cycle, but they have to cover it. When the networks book Begala, Emmanuel, and Lewis, knowing fully well that since the gameplan out of Washington is "deny, delay, attack" they're not going to get any straight answers, they willingly play into the spin and give them free TV time to bash Ken Starr and shift the public's attention. They know this is exactly what's happening (Nightline recently devoted an entire show to "spin cycle") and yet they play along. IMHO, the femminist "agenda" is nothing more than common sense bashing down some of the barriers that history has erected. I support it, but the bargain they seem to be making in terms of muting their outcry because Clinton has been a supporter I find myopic and troubling. Part of what Patricia Ireland is saying to me by her silence is "I'm not so sure the movement can make progress w/o Bill Clinton", and that's bull. Long after Clinton is cutting the tape on the Clinton library, women will continue to make strides. IMHO the tactic of "selective outcry" is embarassing and has no place in a movement based on principles. Good trading, Tom