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Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 7:25 PM
Subject: DRUDGE-REPORT-FINAL 02/10/99
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PAPER: CLINTON SET TO DECLARE WAR ON GOP!
The redhotfirehot NEW YORK TIMES is back in the lead again on Thursday with
a high impact story about to be slugged exclusive and sent off to the
printing press: CLINTON SAID TO DECLARE WAR ON HOUSE REPUBLICANS OVER
IMPEACHMENT!
According to publishing sources who have seen the Page One, reporters James
Bennet and Richard Berke take dictation from their White House sources and
learn that President Clinton is "so furious" at House Republicans over his
impeachment, he has personally vowed to mount an "all-out offensive to knock
off many of his foes and win back the House" for Democrats in 2000!
Clinton now viewed winning back the House as almost as important an
affirmation of his legacy as electing Vice President Al Gore, says the
report.
One Clinton aide tells the TIMES: "It will be a personal crusade. The man
knows he's done wrong. But he also knows they should not have taken it to
the extreme they have. He says: 'It's the unfairness of this whole
process. These right-wingers who tried to undo the election.'"
The TIMES, which is creating maxi-NEXIS action during the impeachment
finale, has left the WASHINGTON POST in the dust with a string of stories
that have captured media attention.
A WASHINGTON POST/NEW YORK TIMES feud has been developing behind-the-scenes
in recent months over which paper can grab the best impeachment story.
One NEW YORK TIMES staffer tells the DRUDGE REPORT that the POST has
suffered because it has been too anti-Clinton in its coverage!
"Almost from the very begging of this thing, the POST has been perceived as
too anti-Clinton," whispers a NEW YORK TIMES insider. "They burned a lot of
their sources, who now have been coming to us."
The POST will just have to sit back and watch once again on Thursday when
the TIMES jumps ahead of the pack with its CLINTON WAR story.
GEFFEN GOES AFTER ROGAN
Hollywood mogul David Geffen has his eyes on Rep. James Rogan [R-CA] -- and
it's not to star in a DREAMWORKS movie.
"After these years of Ken Starr, people are more energized than I've seen
them since the '60s and '70s," Geffen tells the TIMES.
"Many of us are looking forward to spending time and money and effort to
defeating James Rogan."
X X X X X
NO HEROS, SAY GERMOND AND WITCOVER
"Watergate was serious business. But the Monica Lewinsky episode has been
both too shabby and too trivial to produce any political winners, let alone
heroes."
Jack Germond and Jules Witcover, circa 1999.
The seasoned ones at the BALTIMORE SUN issue a column on Thursday that
describes the Monica Lewinsky impeachment as a "penny-ante crisis" that was
a "stinking mess."
Jules, more sour than usual, writes long about his Watergate days, when
there "were winners all over the spectrum."
Now 25 years later, during Lewinsky, everyone is a loser.
"Great crises in American history usually produce memorable figures. But
this has been a penny-ante crisis, caused by the self-indulgence of the
president and seized upon by moralists with their own political agendas.
Rather than memorable figures, it has produced laughingstocks for late-night
television shows."
But not all old timers have a completely cynical view of the new impeachment
generation. David S. Broder and Dan Balz writing in Thursday's WASHINGTON
POST quote one societal expert: "I think this is another Vietnam and
Watergate that will degrade and divide our politics for years to come."
Broder/Balz pick the brian of Don Eberly, director of the Civil Society
Project in Harrisburg: "The scandal will further hollow out our
institutions. Trust is eroding. Goodwill is gone. I think there is a thick
cloud of moral corruption overhanging all our political institutions."
X X X X X
SAFIRE ON CLINTON ACQUITTAL: 'THE SYSTEM WORKS'
"The System worked. What a great country."
That is what NEW YORK TIMES columnist Bill safire is set to write in a
column being prepared for Thursday newspapers.
According to publishing sources, the NYT star is set to declare that the
constitutional form of government worked like a charm in the
Lewinsky/Clinton drama.
Just hours before a verdict is rendered, Safire writes that "we trusted the
Senate and it went by the constitutional book."
"Removal of a president in the absence of public outrage would be a
Draconian mistake," writes Safire. "Impeachment was an ineradicable mark on
his record; the Senate trial was public purgatory. That's a powerful warning
to future presidents contemplating obstruction."
Safire concludes: "Starr's non-Monica reports may be mired in molasses, but
likely to come are memoirs of disillusioned aides, toots from
whistle-blowers and straight reporting about an unraveling administration.
These sources may open some of the hatches that Ruff Lindsey & Co. has so
fiercely battened down."
"Thus can the nation say, with Vernon Jordan, 'Mission accomplished.'"
FOOTNOTE: Days after the scandal broke on the Internet in January 1998,
Safire appeared on NBC's MEET THE PRESS and analyzed the developing
situation. Safire warned Russert, Isikoff, myself and MTP viewers to allow
for the possibility that the president was telling "his version of the
truth."
Safire suggested: "When he says there was no improper sexual relationship,
perhaps in his mind he's thinking of there he is in the White House, and it
can be a lonely job, and he's going through a mid-life crisis, around 50,
and here's this adoring, fun, young thing and, over the course of 18 months,
he becomes friendly with her and a kind of mentor to her and gets some
genuine pleasure out of being with her and talking to her late at night on
the telephone or in person. Now, it may be that he slipped a few times and
some sex was involved, but that's why he can say that truthfully, in his own
mind, that it was not primarily a sexual relationship. And that, I think,
may be at the heart of his defense."
Kinda sorta.
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