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The Laissez Faire City Times
March 22, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 12
Editor & Chief: Emile Zola
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The Ice Man Meets a Lady
Writers & Reporters:
William DeVore, Mickey Pall & Rex Rogers
Editors: Brenda C. Jinkins, Penny Motherpence & Nancy Smith
Plus a Score of Independent
Researchers, Investigators, Contributors & Associate Editors
Click for List
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PROLOGUE
"Ladies from the South don't tell."
- American folklore
=== Around Christmas, it gets cold in Crawford County. One day near the
end of 1998, it was both wet and cold. The dull morning sky was almost
pink. A slight bite in the wind was a sudden reminder to Juanita
Broaddrick that she wasn't wearing a coat. As she stepped back inside,
the telephone rang. It was probably Lisa Myers again. Persistence could
easily be Lisa's middle name.
"Take a message David," she told her husband, as she headed out the door
again. "Tell her I'll call her back in a couple of hours." The phone
continued to ring. "How do you know it's her?" David yelled,
instinctively knowing that she meant Lisa. "It is!" Juanita yelled back
as the double storm door slammed behind her.
Juanita had just gotten up and wasn't fully alert yet. She wanted to
avoid talking to Lisa until she was clear-headed. She had forgotten to
bring in yesterday's mail, and the walk down to the main road in the
brisk air would give her a chance to think. Over the months, a bond of
trust began to form between the two women. Lisa was as determined as any
reporter, but not rude and arrogant, like the rest of them. Juanita
wasn't kidding herself. Lisa wanted the same thing they all did - every
dirty detail. Dredging all that up would be painful. Juanita was still
avoiding going 'on the record'. She wasn't ready for that, not yet and
maybe never.
For twenty-one years she had kept the whole thing bottled up inside,
except for confiding in a very few close associates. She did not report
the assault because who would have believed "little ol' Juanita Hickey"
against the chief law enforcement officer of the state? Surely in a
trial the defense would have delved into her sex life. Her reputation in
the small town of Van Buren, once people knew about her affair with
David Broaddrick, would have been ruined. Bill Clinton probably had
counted on her silence because of her fear of losing her place in her
small southern community. Juanita was "healthy, wealthy and wise," as a
friend liked to say. "Wise enough to keep her mouth shut."
It was crucial that her husband was also firmly against her going
public. Their hard-won privacy was starting to suffer. If her story came
out now, would that give the senators enough spine to remove Bill
Clinton from office? She doubted it. And why put herself though the
trauma of a nationally televised interview unless she would be believed?
It seemed to her that most of her fellow citizens were in no mood to
take Bill Clinton to task. She stopped and leaned on a rustic wooden
fence by the driveway, looking out at her fields. She mused about how
quickly the White House released Kathleen Willey's letters.
Earlier in 1998 Juanita had nearly convinced herself she could go
forward. When she first watched Kathleen Willey put her reputation on
the line on 60 Minutes, she felt an almost sisterly affinity for her.
Willey was credible on TV, and maybe together they could force the
sexual crimes of Bill Clinton into the open. But by late that evening
her need for self-protection overcame her renewed outrage at the preside
nt. She would be trashed like Kathleen and like all the others.
All too often, Juanita thought about telling her story. Then the
televised House impeachment hearings began. Those evenings, she would
watch Geraldo Rivera who is a master of manipulation. As he worked his
spell, she was tempted to speak out in order to disput him. She despised
Geraldo's fawning whilst spinning for Bill Clinton, the man who raped
her and later became President of the United States.
She pushed those thoughts aside when she reached the road and realized
she hadn't brought the key along. The gate was locked. The mailbox was
on the outside of the property, but it was mounted on a post close to
the fence. By walking a few feet down the fence line, she retrieved her
mail by reaching around from the back. Then she started back towards the
house, wondering why some neighbor boys were sitting for so long out at
the road in their truck. She didn't know it at the time, but they were
there trying to take her picture for $500, offered by a foreign
journalist.
Juanita suspected she was not the first to be raped by Bill Clinton. She
had heard rumors of incidents, but she wasn't going to be the one to
reveal other victims' stories, at least not on purpose. She would need
to be careful in this regard if she decided to make her own episode
public. Being 'outed' was something Juanita had always dreaded herself.
Several people with political agendas had tried to get her to come
forward after hearing of her story through the Arkansas rumor mill. A
few contacted the national press about her rape story back in 1991 but
had failed to attract major interest. Now the latest set of
circumstances involved actual legal jeopardy for her. In late 1997,
Juanita did something wrong because she hadn't thought through the
consequences. In attempting to avoid becoming entangled in the Paula
Jones case, she signed a false but vaguely worded affidavit. Kenneth
Starr was alerted by the material he subpoenaed from Paula Jones'
investigators. On an audio tape, Juanita was heard admitting a
"horrible" experience with Bill Clinton which she did not want to talk
about. Starr then sent his own investigators to her doorstep. They
wanted the truth.
Where would she be without her son, Kevin, a law graduate and manager of
the family nursing home? She had been forced to tell him the whole
sordid tale back in 1991. He told her she had no choice but to set the
record straight with Starr�s investigators. Lying to a federal
prosecutor was far more serious than an ambiguous affidavit filed in a
civil lawsuit. So in an immunity agreement with the special prosecutor,
Juanita recanted her Jones affidavit and told the truth regarding the
rape. Still, she did not implicate Bill Clinton for 'obstruction of
justice'. Since this was the only link Starr was pursuing with Juanita's
story, he backed off. She became a footnote in the Starr Report. Being a
mere footnote did not protect her from the onslaught that followed.
After investigators with the House impeachment inquiry interviewed her,
she spoke with Asa Hutchison, a Congressman and an Arkansan. She knew by
his expression that he did not think her story would help. Of course,
some of the "Jane Doe #5" story had leaked, so the pressure from the
media was coming to a head. Converging events were propelling her to
make a decision.
The Jones' lawyers, the local politicians, Ken Starr, House
investigators: all had pushed or pulled in different directions in order
to advance their own agendas. None of these agendas would enhance the
comfortable life Juanita had struggled to build. She was virtually a
pioneer businesswoman in her town. As Juanita entered her home, she took
off her coat and laid yesterday's mail on the counter. She thought of
her nieces and granddaughters who looked up to her and realized the high
price of her silence.
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EPILOGUE
Washington, DC
Eight Days Late &
Damn the Republic
'It's All You Need to Know'
Motto: NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
=== The unintended last straw dropped from a libelous tabloid article
which accused David Broaddrick of accepting bribes from Clinton cronies
to keep his wife quiet. Juanita decided that her long silence had left a
gap that was filled up by many false stories. She then came forward to
'set the record straight'. Naturally, the one person who Juanita
trusted, Lisa Myers of NBC, was given the exclusive. No one else got
anything. Lisa and the lawyers at NBC made sure of that by having her
sign an exclusivity agreement. Now Juanita felt an obligation to tell
the truth as she knew it, and to do so before the Senate made its
decision on the fate of William Jefferson Clinton.
But as with most things in life, the plans didn't quite work out. She
told her story to NBC's cameras all right, but the trust she had
invested in Lisa Myers and her network was ultimately abused. Later Lisa
Myers told Juanita that her TV interview was "too credible." She was so
believable, the network ran for cover. NBC lost the scoop of the decade
and hurt its own credibility.
NBC shot eight hours of tape including Juanita and at least seven
corroborating witnesses. They told her that her story would be edited to
one full hour. They verbally promised her it would air before the
Senate's vote to remove. Both of these promises were broken, a breach of
good faith. This was, in fact, what allowed her to disregard her
exclusivity contract with NBC and authorize an interview with the Wall
Street Journal. So the Lady exposed the Iceman behind the facade of a
caring president.
"This is the part that always stays in my mind, the way he put on his
sunglasses. Then he looked at me and said, 'You'd better put some ice on
that.' And then he left."
Affiliates' Plans Thwarted
Special surgeons at NBC literally cut the life out of what should have
been the TV Event of the Year. NBC edited the piece down to 23 minutes,
and they ran their mini cut a month after it was first scheduled. NBC
then put Juanita's story up against the Grammy Awards without advance
promotion, and late enough so that TV Guide and the other scheduling
services could not alert viewers. It was a story made for TV. One novice
NBC producer said, "It wasn't easy for the top brass to avoid a wide
viewership. But they tried every trick in the book." These efforts were
only partly effective.
Local NBC producers like those in NY, not in the executive loop, planned
contingencies for focus groups: men, women's groups, politicians, etc.
Many affiliate stations, which were not under political duress, wanted
to do their own community focus groups for integration with the
affiliated stations' late news programs. The way NBC handled Juanita's
story squelched their plans.
Some of the news producers were embarrassed. Enough so that, in what
appeared to be a snap judgment, someone at CNBC or MSNBC� ordered a
rerun of the full 23-minute cut again on Thursday's "The News with Brian
Williams." Wednesday night, however, it was obvious the 'someone' was
not Williams, who seemed visibly shocked as he received instructions
over his earpiece. In spite of his surprise, he dutifully delivered the
rerun announcement live.
� The primary outlet for "The News With Brian Williams" is MSNBC, where
it airs live at 9pm EST Mon-Fri. It is replayed throughout the night on
both CNBC and MSNBC.
What Was Left on the 'Cutting Room' Floor?
NBC quotes Juanita as saying it was a "fair presentation" covering all
the important points. But sources inside NBC tell a very different
story. Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert allegedly watched the five
hour 'first cut' and became so sick to his stomach that he was forced to
leave the room. Although Russert refuses to confirm or deny if he in
fact became ill, another source who also viewed the uncut version but at
a separate time said, "He may have gotten sick. I mean it is really
bad!"
"So bad in fact," continued the source, "that I was told of one GE
[General Electric is NBC's parent corporation] executive who believed
the content so explosive that he felt an obligation for 'national
security officials' (probably in the White House) to see it prior to any
public airing." This source could not confirm whether or not this
preview ever happened. Nor would he explain in detail why he had
characterized Juanita's taped interview as "really bad." We suspect that
before the Senate vote, parts of her interview were made available to
Clinton 'spinmeisters' such as Eleanor Clift. On the few cable TV shows
that broached the subject prior to the impeachment vote, she and others
were soon hammering away. They emphasized that Juanita could not recall
the exact date of the incident. So draw your own conclusions.
One little known fact: on Monday, March 1st, NBC took the unprecedented
step of restricting its own affiliates and other divisions from
re-broadcasting exclusive Juanita Broaddrick interview footage.
(Referring to footage which has already been aired, not the unreleased
portions.) The head honchos at NBC and GE knew this story would remain
explosive. This tactic enabled them to censor their affiliated stations'
news departments as well as the lowly line producers at CNBC and MSNBC.
Under these 'orders from headquarters,' a special team was set up to
grant or refuse rebroadcast requests. "No wonder the White House isn't
concerned -- no one will see her anymore," said one frustrated MSNBC
anchor off air.
The Ice Man Always Rapes Twice
Juanita won't comment publicly, but leaks are filling in the rest of the
story. The investigators working for the Paula Jones lawyers are a very
talented husband and wife team who interviewed hundreds of people while
chasing down Juanita Broaddrick and a score of other Jane Does. Their
work is a major part of the infamous treasure trove of unreleased raw
investigative files still in the Ford building. These are the very same
files that supposedly triggered some wobbly Republicans to vote for
impeachment.
According to several sources who claim to have read these files, one of
the unreleased interviews with Juanita reads, "Clinton raped me twice!"
After the first violation the Ice Man laughed at her, grabbed his
erection and (quoting his words directly) said:
"Here, I got some more for you."
Recently, a respected Arkansas reporter who had a lengthy conversation
with Juanita subsequent to NBC's broadcast told of even more threats to
her. They were vicious, biting threats that were made directly to her at
the time of the alleged rape. A seething, and "red faced, hunching, and
sweating," Bill Clinton said :
"Lie still! Lie still! Don't you move, you bitch, or I'll bite you again
right on your mouth!"
It's just 'he said kiss, she said bite' .... we'll never know the truth
... he didn't kill her, did he? OK ... let's just get it behind us, and
moove on!
Not so Fast ...
The 'Adopted Child' of the Internet
The Juanita Broaddrick story has been 'adopted' by the emerging
independent internet press. One can find new twists and turns almost
hourly. At the speed of light, highly efficient new Sun and Cisco
internet routing systems serve up fresh tidbits to a rapidly growing
audience. The public files of, Capitol Hill Blue, The Drudge Report, The
Free Republic, The Laissez Faire City Times, News Max.com, and World Net
Daily are on-line and contain, collectively, the best information
available on this story. Salon Magazine is another on-line source closer
to Clinton's point of view.
After the Lady Told All
For many famous media stars, the consequence of their arrogance is lost
credibility as they defended the indefensible for "their boy" Bill.
Their best weapon against Juanita's story is silence. Fortunately, other
major media outlets are not lap dogs. Cal Thomas writes in a recent
syndicated column that Juanita Broaddrick is increasingly becoming the
symbol of Clinton's crumbling administration and of him as a broken man.
Thomas also quotes the Boston Globe's John Ellis, "The charge of rape
has changed the moral arithmetic. It will get worse before it gets
better, because the truth is it will never get better until Bill Clinton
is gone."
NOW [National Organization for Women] president Patricia Ireland had not
seen a Clinton scandal egregious enough to disgust her until Juanita's
story broke. "There's no way that Bill Clinton can look into the cameras
and deny it and have anybody believe it," Ms. Ireland said. To which
Katha Pollitt responded in The Nation, March 22, "That [his low
credibility] is a problem entirely of the President's own making, and it
would be a grave mistake for feminists, environmentalists, trade
unionists and civil rights and civil liberties advocates to lend him a
penny more of their moral capital... As the anti-impeachment slogan put
it, 'enough is enough'."
Richard Goldstein of The Village Voice observes the worry of feminist
Gwendolyn Mink: "What the left has lost in capitulating to Clinton is...
it's going to be very hard, the next time a woman comes forward in a
sexual harassment case, to insist that her complaint be fairly heard."
To Mink, Juanita's rape charge proves the point, "This isn't about
social conservatism, it's about civil rights law." Obviously, some on
the left are waking up to find they have been winning, but it will prove
to be a Pyrrhic victory.
Christopher Hitchens, writer for The Nation and Vanity Fair, has seen
Bill Clinton for what he is for some time. He has cut away from the
pack, taking as one of his recent cause celebre, Juanita Broaddrick. In
Salon Magazine (March 16, 1999) Hitchens commented on the increasing
difficulty the White House has finding Democrats to defend the president
against a rape allegation. "If the allegation is false ... she is
deliberately fabricating one of the most damning and seriously damaging
charges one person can make against another. She must be a wickedly
deluded and vicious person [if this is the case]." Hitchens recently
mused, and consequently asked rhetorically, "Where is the famous rapid
response team?"
And where is James Carville?
Christopher Hitchens writes that he knows of three other women,
victimized as Juanita Broaddrick was, who could come forward. When he
sees Bill Clinton's habit of biting his lower lip, Hitchens has "... an
additional reason for the powerful nausea I have always felt. I imagine
his teeth in Juanita Broaddrick's lips, after he told her to lie still,
threatening to bite her again. But hey, it's time to move on. So forget
it if you can."
We can't, Chris.
The End
Links to the Breaking Stories
they first appeared:
The DRUDGE Report
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post
Associated Press
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