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

To: Les H who wrote (6287)	9/30/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: j_b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Remember the quote from Starr (from an appearance on 60 Minutes) regarding keeping descriptions of sex acts out of the public media? People on this board were bashing Starr for being hypocritical. Turns out the quote was a hoax, and Starr had never appeared on 60 Minutes. thestandard.com WEB LIES: E-mail Rumor a Case of Starr-faking Who could resist hitting the forward button? When we received an e-mail that attributed a quotation from a 1987 episode of 60 Minutes to Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr, it seemed that here, at last, was definitive proof of something many had suspected all along: The Independent Counsel was a hypocrite. "Public media should not contain explicit or implied descriptions of sex acts," Starr was quoted as saying. "Our society should be purged of the perverts who provide the media with pornographic material while pretending it has some redeeming social value under the public's 'right to know.'" But – alas – the quote was just another scrap of Internet misinformation. When we called CBS hoping for a transcript, an annoyed operator cut us off in midrequest. "It's not true," she snapped. "We're getting eight or nine requests like this a day. Kenneth Starr was never on 60 Minutes. It's just a lie." Oh, no, we thought. Not another one. Starr's representatives sounded equally annoyed. CBS released a statement to squelch the rumor. – Dianne See