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

To: Achilles who wrote (5691)	9/27/1998 5:02:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I don't think this is word quibbly. I'll try to show you what I mean. "Ms. Lewinsky has stated that the President never explicitly told her to lie" is what you say is in Starr's report (and I'm not challenging that). That sounds as though the meaning Lewinsky herself is trying to convey is that the President DID strongly imply that he wanted her to lie, without EXPLICITLY saying so. Now listen to this, which is what Lewinsky apparently did insist on saying at the end of her questioning by Starr and the grand jurors: "President Clinton never told me to lie under oath. He never promised me a job in return for my testimony." Conveys a very different sense, doesn't it? As does the information that she insisted on saying that herself, no? You know, the presence or absence of the single word "not" can also have some pretty dramatic effects on meaning. <g> Doug