Time for the media to fess up »
Posted By ameliog 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
At this late date, it is scarcely radical to suggest that Whitewater and all the other "scandals" deployed by the Washington press corps to besiege the Clinton White House (before the Lewinsky affair) were without substance. In the pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post, which created and promoted those stories, even such media mandarins as Thomas Friedman and Evan Thomas now casually assure us that they were overblown, even "bogus." And former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan today admits that the famous takedown of the Clinton healthcare reforms he published in 1994, Betsy McCaughey's "No Exit," was essentially a fake too.
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And why did Susan McDougal refuse to testify against Clinton? Answer she was already facing a seven year state prison sentence,so a two year federal sentence was a no brain-er,and the hush money wasn't bad either.
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