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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Catfish who wrote (3157)	8/26/1998 12:34:00 AM
From: Doughboy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13994

I find the article's suggestion that Ken Starr take to the TV and explain the process to the press absolutely laughable. I've met and spoken with Ken Starr and he comes across as an earnest dork with a tin-ear for public relations. Just two examples come to mind in public appearances recently: he made a big courthouse steps speech in Arkansas and he sounded so deadly dull it made me wince. He loves going on and on and on about abstract concepts like "the Rule of law," "Truth" "Respect" etc. People like Ollie North or G. Gordon Liddy can make them exciting. Someone like Starr is incapable of it. The second public image I have of Starr was his statement following Jim McDougal's untimely death. Starr gave this sappy speech about how McDougal changed his life around and Starr said (I'm paraphrasing) "I'll always remember one of the last things Jim said to me, he said that he is proud that he is telling the Truth, and that the Truth is important to him." It was so transparent to everyone that Starr was doing this heavyhanded attempt to rehabilitate the credibility of a dead witness, there were some members of the press snickering. That's a problem for Starr, he's a lawyer's lawyer; he's never going to light the world on fire. Doughboy.