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

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (28380)	1/17/1999 8:14:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Well a trial without witnesses. This will be new.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (28380)	1/17/1999 9:06:00 PM
From: jimpit	Respond to of 67261

Daniel, I thought you'd enjoy, as I did, a glimpse of DRUDGE from HIS viewpoint. He tells about events in his world since breaking the Lewinski story one year ago. Also, on his website, you can click on the text below to view some of the congratulatory messages (and some that are not so congratulatory). "E-MAILS SENT TO DRUDGE REPORT..." ------------------------------------------- XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUNDAY, JAN 17, 1999 21:45 UTC XXXXX CONFESSIONS OF AN INTERNET REPORTER "You're having your 15 minutes of fame right now, and you're enjoying it," SLATE Editor Michael Kinsley laughed at me during a debate. That was November 17, 1997. Where are you now, Kinsley? I wish you were here today so you could help me screen all of these requests that were left on my answering machine this morning by the world press. 87 messages, most wanting comment on the one year anniversary of the Internet exclusives that told the story of the president and the intern. "Mr. Drudge, could we fly you to Paris to appear on our show?" "How are you spending the day? This is the BBC. Please us call back at 01687970-4783040-56849586-764." "We are the largest radio news network in South Africa, we would like to put you on this morning." "Drudge is as dumb as a box of rocks! But his accuracy is better than you might get from a roomful of monkeys banging at a typewriter." [A message left by a friend reading a Sunday NEWSDAY slam written by one of those too-hip-for-the-room writers, David Futrelle.] "Please -- a comment for the SOUTH CHINA POST." "Hi, Matt. Remember your call for POLITICALLY INCORRECT this Tuesday night is 6:30. We'll start the show right after Clinton finishes the State of the Union speech so please be on time. Molly Ringwald is now confirmed." "Can we send a crew out, we are an Italian TV show and are big followers of your report." "I think the mainstream media has given Matt Drudge too long a ride! He's wrong again and again. He should be nailed!" [A message left by a CNN staffer, quoting SALON's chief David Talbot on the network's RELIABLE SOURCES over the weekend.] I laugh and I smile and I understand as I hit delete on that one cause I know Talbot must be dealing with more than San Francisco fog after he was named #20 on NEWSWEEK's "Titans of 'tude" list last week. This report was #4? With too much intrigue on the message machine, I hit the jogging track at Hollywood High Sunday morning to clear head, choose life instead, and to think about Lewinsky one year later. It was a year ago tonight that I reported the story after Michael Isikoff was told that his was not going to run. For four days, a series of exclusive reports moved on the e-mail list and were posted on the DRUDGE REPORT website, which grew from about 9 million visits in 1997 to over 123 million in 1998, according to logs. "You've just broken the biggest story in 20 years," WASHINGTON POST media legend Howard Kurtz told me in hurried breaths during an interview back then. Kurtz had called to get comment after his paper went with the story on January 21. Kurtz, a few days earlier, had sent an e-mail joking about the DRUDGE Lewinsky reports. "Gee. Are there any pictures?" Kurtz wrote. On lap #5 of my morning run, I make a promise to myself to always be nice to Howard Kurtz; to be nice to the POST's Mary 'How long will the country endure such noxious fumes and put up with Drudge sludge' McGrory. From this moment on, I will always wink when I see the Frank RichDowdRussertRiveraKingConasonKoppelRatherSesnos. It hit me during lap #6 that they're all just nervous about change. [There are too many to thank for that insight.] And I do not blame them. What does it say about the state of things if Kurtz's "biggest story in 20 years" can break and quake from a moldy apartment just off Hollywood Boulevard? Thousands of miles away from the fancy newsrooms that promise to watch closely and report back when those in power take advantage. Mistakes, I've made many. I suppose I could have blown up a few trucks, put bad food back on the deli counter or accused the military of nerve-gassing deserters and kept my journalistic integrity throughout. But I realized early on, it is easier to sleep at night if you can say at every step that you reported the truth as you knew it. Even if you were born with a funny face and a name like Drudge. (c)DRUDGE REPORT 1999 Not for reproduction without permission of the author ---------------------------------------- drudgereport.com

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (28380)	1/18/1999 1:21:00 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Respond to of 67261

>''assumes that we Republicans are singularly stupid,'' Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah Clinton Witnesses May Be Inevitable newsday.com Also check out: Message 7340578