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Pastimes : Impeachment=" Insult to all Voters" -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (1266)	1/5/1999 12:03:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2390

You know, Atty. Hodgkin, there is some ambiguity in the English language. I would assume you'd know that. But maybe you've never lost a case, and your unambiguously correct interpretation of legal matters makes you the preeminent attorney in our land. After the next election, you'll be up for the first SC vacancy, right? Anyway, there appears to be some precedent for the hairsplitting here. Newt's glass house salonmagazine.com For one thing, Gingrich pioneered a denial of adultery that some observers would later christen "the Newt Defense": Oral sex doesn't count. In a revealing psychological portrait of the "inner" Gingrich that appeared in Vanity Fair (September 1995), Gail Sheehy uncovered a woman, Anne Manning, who had an affair in Washington in 1977 with a married Gingrich. "We had oral sex," Manning revealed. "He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'" She added that Gingrich threatened her: "If you ever tell anybody about this, I'll say you're lying." Manning was then married to a professor at West Georgia, the backwater college where Gingrich taught. "I don't claim to be an angel," she told Sheehy, but "he's morally dishonest." Gingrich refused to comment on Manning's charges, though he has admitted sexual indiscretions during his first marriage -- hey, it was the '70s, man! But Newt's oral sex denial proved embarrassing at a time when he was the secular leader of the "family values" crowd, appearing frequently at Christian Coalition gatherings. During Gingrich's 1995 summer book tour, when he was testing the waters for a presidential bid, demonstrators hounded him about his oral sex hypocrisy. I was covering Gingrich for a PBS documentary when the speaker appeared at a book signing in Los Angeles and was confronted by a man waving a Bible and shouting, "I want to know here where it says that oral sex doesn't count as adultery." The gentleman was hustled out of the bookstore by the Secret Service before Gingrich could answer his theological question. Legally, who knows, but I take Anthony Lewis' word about the lack of an open/shut case on the matter more seriously than your alleged legal certitude.