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

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (13249)	4/10/1998 9:27:00 AM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 20981

Weekly Commentary The American Spectator April 10, 1998 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. About fourteen months ago one of the most successful and competent investigative reporters in Washington told an influential congressman of my acquaintance that he gave President Bill Clinton eighteen months before he would vacate the White House. In a few months I may reveal the names of the journalist and his interlocutor. A fever of desperation does seem to have crept upon Clinton World. The Clintons' threats against the press are increasingly ludicrous. Their threats against other politicians are as implausible as the president's claims of persecution. Whether the Paula Corbin Jones case continues or is interred in Arlington National Cemetery with former administration ambassadors, consider what we now know. Nearly a dozen witnesses have come forward under oath saying the president has lied. They have attributed to him over one hundred felonies. He has been accused by at least two witnesses of sexual assault. He also stands accused of perjury, the suborning of perjury, and obstructing justice -- to say nothing of abuse of power. Then there are the witnesses from other scandals who link the president to similar felonies along with bank fraud, real estate fraud, and numerous campaign violations. Four of his cabinet members -- present or former -- are under investigation by independent counsels. At least one other cabinet member is in danger of receiving the attentions of her own independent counsel. And, forget not, that the president had Buddy castrated, and they are not even related by blood. "It's all politics," declaims Professor Begala, the White House's bewitched political adviser. "Sex, Sex, Sex, Money, Money, Money," harangues James Carville, the president's demented outside hatchet man, known to seasoned Washington observers as "the Skull." Well fellows, how come Eisenhower never found himself pursued by so many charges, or Kennedy, or Johnson? And these charges are all well-documented. For that matter even Richard Nixon never attracted this many allegations -- and the allegations against Boy Clinton are drawn from a broad range of witnesses. In some cases they go back into the last decade. The charges have been made under oath. Perhaps when this lurid presidency draws to an end the Clintons will make their livings by establishing a theme park of the Clinton scandals. Tourists to America will take the children to Disney World and the adults to Clinton World. There will be exhibits dramatizing every episode in the scandals. One of the most famous will be the fantasy production based on Mrs. Clinton's "vast right-wing conspiracy." Her aides identified two new members of the conspiracy this week. One is House Majority Leader Dick Armey, who called the president "shameless" in light of his "documented personal conduct." Begala identified Armey as a conspirator. The other conspirator to be identified was the Washington Post's reporter Susan Schmidt. She was included in the conspiracy for reporting what everyone in Washington must already know, to wit, that Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report to Congress is well underway. That White House aides became so exercised by Schmidt's report is but another sign of the White House's desperation and of their ardor to intimidate the press. Their most ludicrous effort to silence the press is their effort to have the attorney general investigate The American Spectator, whose masthead I am glad to adorn. They began by including the magazine in Hillary's "vast right-wing conspiracy." Then their desperation takes over. Working with their hacks on the Internet they uncover a "source," one Caryn Mann. She and her teen-age son claim that agents of the magazine gave money to one of Starr's witnesses against the president, David Hale. It all took place in a Hot Springs, Arkansas bait shop. There the Bait Shop owner, a former journalist and outdoor writer, sent faxes to The American Spectator, and he kept information on A COMPUTER! Attorney General Janet Reno promises to investigate -- and I urge her to try her hand at fly fishing out behind the shop. But wait! Time and Newsweek put reporters on the story. The "source," Mann, admits she never saw money change hands. The American Spectator and the witness, Hale, deny any money was paid, not even night crawlers, not even minnows! In fact the owner of the bait shop never had any contact with the magazine until after Hale had taken his story public. And what of the witness? Miss Mann is a former tarot card reader and astrologer at Hot Springs' Golden Leaves Book Store. She is a self-professed psychic and clairvoyant. She not only claims to have cracked the Bait Shop Junto (as we call it at the Spectator), but she also knows the final resting place of Jimmy Hoffa, the secret of turning the rain on and off, and how the Gulf War was won. As a CIA employee she used her powers of mental telepathy to direct Desert Storm's troop movements. When it comes to sources the Clintons certainly know their stuff. Doubtless Mrs. Clinton chose Mann herself during one of her swami sessions with Eleanor Roosevelt and Gandhi. As I say, there is desperation over at the White House. American Spectator