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To: jimpit who wrote (98)	5/28/1999 11:24:00 PM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 165

jimpit, Thanks for posting this. This is simply more confirmation that the primary purpose of the network news is to support the spin of the current President. This is just a thought, but I would like to see a boycot of the advertisers by the Freepers over on Free Republic and others elsewhere who feel that network news is unjust and unfairly biased in their newscast. What they are doing is trying to "create" public opinion with their spin. Unfortunately, too many people think that network news is the real truth. They need to be exposed. Darrell

To: jimpit who wrote (98)	5/29/1999 2:31:00 AM
From: Bob Lao-Tse	Respond to of 165

How about a class-action lawsuit against NBC for misrepresentation? We have an implied contract with the networks, we watch what they present as the truth, believing it to be the truth because they tell us it's the truth. If it's not the truth, then they have misled us. They have failed to carry through on their part of the contract. I guess in effect they have defrauded us and that might be the better term. So what say you, o' legal eagles? Not a snowballs chance? Hmmm...? Well, it's kind of a nice thought. -BLT

To: jimpit who wrote (98)	8/28/1999 11:59:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 165

Jim, more gross media bias. Jonathan Leaf THE OTHER PRESIDENTIAL COCAINE STORY nationalreview.com The press is gorging itself. It's eating at the entrails of George W. Bush's reputation. The press thinks it's gotten hold of Bush's name and turned this into the carcass at which it sups. Whether this reporting on Governor Bush's possible past cocaine use is fair or relevant to the present Presidential campaign is an interesting question. More revealing though about the press's prejudice is its failure to report on questions concerning President Clinton's involvement with cocaine when he was Governor of Arkansas. The malicious stories about Governor Bush hinge exclusively on rumor and hearsay. There are no eyewitnesses to corroborate accounts that he used narcotics. Nor is there even circumstantial evidence in support of these charges. The story with President Clinton is quite different. Much of the matter was laid out in 1996 in Roger Morris's book Partners In Power: The Clintons And Their America. Morris is hardly a Republican operative. A liberal Democrat with a doctorate from Harvard, Morris left his position as an aide to McGeorge Bundy in the Johnson administration because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. Afterwards Morris served as one of Walter Mondale's top aides and then became a full-time historian and investigator. His biography of Richard Nixon was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In Partners In Power Morris demonstrates beyond all possible refutation that Clinton was deeply enmeshed in the Little Rock drug circle of Dan Lasater. Lasater was a friend of the Governor's whose bond brokerage company was given license to sell bonds in 1982. By 1983 — just one year later — it was sixth in underwriting of Arkansas state housing authority bonds. This placed it ahead of longtime Clinton contributors like Goldman, Sachs and Merrill Lynch. Its explosive growth though was just beginning. By 1986 the Arkansas Development Finance Authority had given it deals which offered fees of over $1.6 million and sales above $600 million. This stunning expansion in Lasater and Company's business with the state is especially notable given that the firm had been formally censured by the National Association of Securities Dealers in every year from 1982 through 1984: in '82 for "excessive markups and unlicensed sales", in '83 for "buying and selling bonds for a savings and loan without authority of the thrift's board" and in '84 for "unauthorized trades". These activities were so manifest that the state Securities Commissioner in 1982 frankly stated that the firm had been "cheating customers". Moreover, throughout this time Lasater was one of the most open cocaine dealers in the state, holding huge parties with tables of nothing but cocaine laid out on them and appearing at public functions with the Governor and Chuck Berry, a convicted murderer who acted as Lasater's chauffeur and as one of his bodyguards (not a relation of the singer). It was for this reason that Governor Frank White had received briefings about Lasater's leading role in narcotics activities from state police as early as 1982. Why then did Clinton give Lasater such favor upon his return to the Governor's mansion the following year? And why did Clinton later give Lasater a full pardon for his admitted crimes? The pardon permitted Lasater to get back into regulated businesses from which he had been barred by his 1986 drug convictions. This was certainly of advantage to Lasater. Why did Clinton do it? And why, on the countless occasions when Lasater went to visit Clinton at the Governor's mansion in Little Rock, would he come in by the back entrance and the kitchen — a privilege ordinarily reserved only for senior staff and family of the Governor? Why was it that when Clinton's brother Roger faced indictment because of his involvement in drug-smuggling, Clinton asked notorious drug-dealer Dan Lasater to keep his brother at Lasater's horse farm in Ocala, Florida and find him a job? Roger Clinton may have provided the answer on an undercover videotape made by Arkansas narcotics investigators. Asking for an especially large amount of cocaine, Roger Clinton remarked, "Got to get some for my brother. He's got a nose like a vacuum cleaner." This matches the accounts of, among others, Jane Parks, a Little Rock apartment complex manager, that the Clinton brothers used cocaine during their joint parties in the building she oversaw. Others who maintain that they knew of then Governor Clinton's cocaine use are bartender Sharlene Wilson, testifying as a drug informant before an Arkansas Grand Jury in 1990, and former mistresses Sally Perdue and Gennifer Flowers. (In her book Passion And Betrayal — no part of which has ever been successfully contradicted — Flowers said that Clinton used marijuana in front of her and unabashedly discussed his cocaine use.) A few days ago James Carville attacked the press's reporting on George W. Bush's possible drug use. Could it be that those living in glass houses know it's not wise to throw stones?