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

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (31523)	2/1/1999 8:50:00 PM
From: JBL	Respond to of 67261

"I'm sorry that you think that a particular inconsistency in Jordan's testimony is an impeachable offense" Jordan categorically denies meeting Lewinsky at the Hyatt for breakfast in December (when Lewinsky testified to the contrary and Amex billing records confirm what she said they had for breakfast) , and you act as if this were a detail ? Jordan swears he never saw a copy of Lewinsky's affidavit before it was submitted, but she testifies to the contrary and that's not supposed to be significant ? I'm sure most people in the public have no idea that Jordan lied through his teeth on something so obvious. Why, because most rely on CNN, CBS, ABC, Washington Post, and the NYT, Times and Newsweek, the crown jewels of our media, to get their info, and this elite media never reported it. They've pretended the information is not there, and will try to burry it through the "Starr's new leaks" fabricated scandal, a creation of the NYT and the White House. This is not Journalism, it is propaganda. People are being manipulated, and they need to wake up.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (31523)	2/1/1999 9:32:00 PM
From: JBL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

"You know my line on the dreaded liberal press bias. The sources you like are "objective" and the ones you disagree with are "biased". Daniel, Let's see if your favorite source, the NYT, has more integrity than the dreaded and sleazy Drudge Report. Do you think Drudge made up the following story, or is the NYT a propaganda tool ? May be you can help ? XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX 02/01/99 17:21 UTC XXXXX MEDIA DECEIVED: WHITE HOUSE AIDE BLUMENTHAL MADE UP QUOTES FOR NY TIMES, SMEARED STARR OFFICE It has been seven months since NEW YORK TIMES columnist Anthony Lewis printed questions that White House aide Sidney Blumenthal said were posed to him before the Lewinsky grand jury. Questions, it would later be revealed, that were never asked! In his June 29, 1998 column -- slugged "Questions that Degrade" -- Lewis wrote: "Sidney Blumenthal, assistant to the President, made his third appearance before Kenneth Starr's grand jury in Washington last Thursday... Mr. Blumenthal decided to tell me about the experience, as a grand-jury witness may do... Prosecutors asked Mr. Blumenthal to leave the room so they could consult. After five minutes he was called back, and Mr. Wisenberg asked him: 'Does the President's religion include sexual intercourse?'" But according to transcripts of Blumenthal's grand jury testimony, released four months after the NEW YORK TIMES column ran, that question was never asked by prosecutors! Lewis continued: "There was another sexual question in last week's grand-jury session, conducted by two new prosecutors. It was, 'Does the President believe that oral sex is sex?' It was just that -- a general question not tied to any particular matter." No. It was a general question not tied to any particular reality. Another question that prosecutors never asked! Lewis summarized: "What we have here, I think, is third-rate prosecutors full of hubris and obsessed by sex... It is sneering, smart-aleck stuff, the tone of Clinton-haters on cable television and the Internet." The NEW YORK TIMES even worked some of the phony questions into its news copy. "In two recent visits to the grand jury, Mr. Blumenthal said, he was asked, 'Does the President believe that oral sex is sex?' and 'Does the President's religion include sexual intercourse?'" -- JAMES BENNET's "The Titillating, Zigzagging Focus on Sex at 1600" June 30, 1998, Section A; Page 17. Seven months later, Bennet still has not informed his readers that Blumenthal's statements were false. And columnist Lewis has never straightened up his mess for the "newspaper of record." NEW YORK TIMES executive editor Joseph Lelyveld could not be reached for comment. A Starr associate explains that the Office of the Independent Counsel could not alert the media at the time of the smear due to restrictions covering grand jury secrecy. But the grand jury foreperson personally lectured Blumenthal during the closing moments of the session last summer: "We are very concerned about the fact that during your last visit that an inaccurate representation of the events that happened were retold on the steps of the courthouse." "I appreciate your statement," Blumenthal responded. "If Ken Starr is interested in the truth, he heard it today," Blumenthal told reporters just moments later. Sidney Blumenthal, still employed at the White House, is scheduled to be a witness in the Clinton impeachment trial on Wednesday. Will reporters print his version of the secret Senate questioning? Or wait for the videotape.