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To: jimpit who wrote (41)	12/30/1998 7:39:00 AM
From: jimpit	Respond to of 165

The Washington Times washtimes.com Inside Politics News and political dispatches from around the nation By Greg Pierce THE WASHINGTON TIMES Dishonest historians Earlier in the week, this column noted a George magazine report that presidential adviser Sidney Blumenthal orchestrated the "nonpartisan" ad in which more than 400 historians declared there was no reason to consider impeachment of the president. The ad appeared in the New York Times just days before the November elections. Now, the American Enterprise adds another piece to the puzzle showing just how dishonest were the historians who organized the statement. The media "missed one aspect of the affair: the invaluable assistance these 'historians speaking as historians' -- as one organizer put it -- received from People for the American Way (PAW), a left-wing activist group .." the American Enterprise says in its January-February issue. "Though the historians neglected to mention it in their ad, or in their press releases, or at their press conference, they were only able to publish their Times ad because PAW's tax-exempt foundation purchased it for them and served as the receiver for the donations that paid for it. The mailing address given in the historians' ad is actually the Washington office of PAW, though nobody in the major media seems to have bothered to discover this. Somehow we suspect that if 400 non-liberal scholars took out such an ad and listed an address that in fact belonged to, say, the Christian Coalition, the information might come out in news stories."(Emphasis jimpit) Not this time The contradictions of late have apparently become too much for Katha Pollitt, columnist for the Nation. "At war? Did I miss something," Ms. Pollitt writes in the leftist journal's Jan. 11 issue. "Sheila Jackson Lee offered thanks to 'our American troops who are now fighting for our liberty.' Saddam Hussein threatens our liberty? Is it too much to ask that a member of the House recognize that a president who bombs foreign countries without consulting Congress is the threat to liberty she ought to be worrying about? This is the sort of paranoid jingoism progressives can usually be counted on to mock. Not this time: Jesse Jackson, rallying the anti-impeachment crowd in Washington, passed over the airstrikes entirely in favor of weepy revivalism. ... Not a peep from the 400 historians who signed Sean Wilentz and Arthur Schlesinger's anti-impeachment petition, with its reverential defense of the institution of the presidency, presumably even as embodied in some $500 million worth of airstrikes." Ms. Pollitt suggests that the left's support for President Clinton has been a one-way street: "Why are 'progressives' always the ones who rally around the president without getting -- or even asking for -- anything in return?" Looking back Human Events, the conservative weekly, notes that 27 sitting Democratic senators voted to remove federal District Judge Walter Nixon back in 1989. Mr. Nixon had been impeached for lying to a grand jury. "My impression is that Judge Nixon is not a bad or evil person. Instead, Judge Nixon struck me as someone who dug himself into a hole -- and then kept digging when he realized he was stuck," Sen. Herb Kohl, Wisconsin Democrat, said at the time in remarks delivered on the Senate floor. "He's probably not a liar at heart, but in my judgment, he probably did lie in this instance." washtimes.com