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

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (5002)	9/23/1998 2:01:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

They gave short shrift to Paula Jones while she was an individual supported by right wing zealots to complain and make noise. And rightly so. She was not personally credible at all; she was most unpersuasive; her story was thin and poorly supported, beyond perhaps a pass that she rejected (for not "paying" enough); and her motives were highly suspect. They started taking her seriously when her very deep pocket funders reved up the fearsome machinery of a sexual harassment lawsuit, with the awsome dragnet possiblities to pry with power of subpoena into all corners of Clinton's private sex life that it soon became clear that opened up. Far be it for the heavily feminist media to question whether all of that was appropriate. (I'm a feminist in most things, but think harassment law has the potential, and sometimes the reality of being terribly abusive, and badly needs reform. To my surprise, a poll I saw a month ago or so indicated that well over 60% of the public, and a majority of women, agree that harassment laws go too far.) Doug