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

To: John Lacelle who wrote (23637)	12/21/1998 3:29:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Seems more like a case of EEOC discrimination by Clinton. Sexual harrassment law currently targets use of punitive measures by offender rather than rewards.

To: John Lacelle who wrote (23637)	12/21/1998 3:39:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

So on one side we have the physical and ethical gropings of Bill Clinton. But on the other are the hidden tape recorders and pornographic inquiries of Ken Starr. What most people decided this year is that if those are our choices, then Clinton at his most unbuckled and slippery is still less a threat to American values than Starr. They decided that Starr's questions are worse than Clinton's lies. That's a moral judgment too. cnn.com Time magazine, as largest of the news weeklies, is the ultimate poll. They not only take the polls, but then side with the winners and explains their stories. I know the Radicals will say its evidence of liberal media but it's not. It's just the story of the majority for that week and written to appeal to the widest audience. Well this weeks stories confirm that we have seen the high water mark of the Radical movement. TP

To: John Lacelle who wrote (23637)	12/21/1998 6:04:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 67261

Radical leader Hyde on the relevance of perjury. And the rule for Republicans seems to be that lying under oath about things other than adultery is not actionable. Hyde explained this standard best when excusing lies in the Iran-contra affair. It did not make sense, he said, to "label every untruth and every deception an outrage...in the murkier grayness of the real world, choices must often be made." Ronald Reagan could remember very little about his efforts to arm the contras, but when confronted with facts indicating that he'd been told about it, he insisted his "heart and [his] best intentions" proved otherwise. After Ollie North bragged about his own lying and got off on a legal technicality, the G.O.P. wanted him to be the Senator from Virginia. cnn.com TP