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

To: greenspirit who wrote (24732)	12/28/1998 2:29:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 67261

Tell me Mr Democrat Flynt. What exactly gives you the moral authority to spy and pry into our nations representatives lives? Read closely. He has answered it already -- the First Amendment, and his belief that notwithstanding what those prosecutors and pundits and politicians say, this is all about sex.

To: greenspirit who wrote (24732)	12/28/1998 2:49:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

You call that pathetic? I call you pathetic, Mr. Smiley. If you want to get back to the sanctimonious moralizing business, perhaps you might consider this little bit from Time: This is precisely where the media got it wrong as well. Government and media--two bumptious and vainglorious institutions--are not the best places to look for judgments on anybody's personal life. To admit that is not the same as saying that "nobody cares" what Clinton and Lewinsky did. Or that no one is willing any longer to render moral judgments or apply those judgments to others. Or to say that jumping the interns, even the ones who snap their thongs, is anything other than pathetic, unseemly and wrong. It simply means that most people do not accept either government or media, those two clanging vessels, to speak for them on questions touching upon the most private of private behavior. 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. (http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1998/12/21/right.html) Of course, when you know the only correct moral judgement that can be made here, none of this counts. Clinton is the root of all evil, right Michael? So whatever can be done to bring him down is good, and anything that detracts from the process is bad. We're so lucky to have you and the other sinless stone throwers around here to explain it all to us.