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

To: Bilow who wrote (7647)	10/2/1998 2:27:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Do anyone see PBS's News Hour last night? The New York Times' Anthony Lewis had his head handed to him last night by National Journal's Stuart Taylor. I know that Taylor was first in his class at Harvard Law and I believe that Lewis is not trained in the law, though I remember that he wrote "Gideon's Trumpet". So the most shocking thing said by Lewis was that Taylor had once been Lewis's student. If that is true, then the student easily surpasses his teacher. The student has become the teacher. On that show Taylor destroyed point by point Lewis's hysterical and utterly non-lawyerly rendition of the Starr inquiry. Lewis put on a very unfortunate performance for his side, doing what the Left always does when cornered by reality, he called names, this time Judge Starr as Stalin. When Lewis claimed prosecutorial excess and "perjury trap", Taylor displayed full command of the situation by stating that nothing Starr has done is unusual for a prosecutor and that Starr has beaten Clinton every time in the Federal courts. Lewis then counter-intuitively blamed Starr for what Clinton had himself done in his cover-up - eviscerating Presidential privilege for future Presidents. As for the "perjury trap", Taylor noted that Clinton chose to commit perjury in an effort to protect his earlier lies, not his "privacy", which he had already given up by testifying to "improper relations". All in all an exhilarating performance by Taylor and one that anyone interested in Clinton's impending impeachment should see. Not so proud is to see Tony Lewis, the author of "Gideon's Trumpet", argue that power should trump justice, as his politics have trumped all, including his principles.

To: Bilow who wrote (7647)	10/2/1998 2:38:00 PM
From: ILCUL8R	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13994

Bilow -- and others who responded. My question still remains, I guess. It seems something dramatic must have happened 20-25 years ago in Arkansas to motivate Scaife and others to generate so much hatred against Clinton. Maybe there is no simple "smoking gun" or magic button cause and effect. There are liberals and conservatives, politicians of all affiliations have been found in all kinds of compromising situations. But for Scaife and others to spend millions for years to "get" Clinton seems to rise above simple political partisanship. But, maybe they saw Clinton as a symptom of changing times that they wanted to expunge from American culture if possible. Clinton has created a compelling and disturbing period of time, that's for sure.