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� 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON -- "When the 'Monica situation' broke
in January 1998, it touched off one of the most incredible
series of leaks, lying, stonewalling and obfuscation I've
ever seen."
No, Cal Thomas didn't say that. It was Helen Thomas,
dean of the White House press corps, in a rare fit of
candor about a Democratic president.
It's quite a damning statement, too, particularly in the
context of just one scandal. Thomas has covered every
president since JFK, including Nixon, so she's seen a fair
piece of lying and stonewalling.
But she buried the complaint in her latest book. Like
others in the press corps, she never put it to President
Clinton directly. Republican presidents weren't so lucky.
"Reporters at every turn accused Reagan of duplicity,
challenged his credibility and shattered his composure,"
writes Thomas, celebrating the feverish Iran-Contra
coverage.
The press corps even took the liberty of bundling that
scandal with minor ones and associating Reagan with
what it called an overall "sleaze factor."
Nixon also wasn't spared. His administration was written
off as "crooked." He was branded "Tricky Dick."
Yet Clinton is still just "Mr. President."
The national press, usually so good at calling things by
their proper names -- cruelly so at times - has yet to coin
any nickname for Clinton. (Paul Greenberg, the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette's editorial editor, came up with "Slick
Willie." But no big East Coast newsroom has
rubber-stamped its use.)
After eight years of rank corruption, reporters in this
town are by and large still reserving judgment on Clinton.
Maybe it's because they'd be judging themselves, too.
Most have a personal, not just political, stake in Clinton.
A whopping 89 percent of Washington reporters and 60
percent of bureau chiefs voted for him in 1992 --
compared with just 43 percent of the electorate.
Surveys going back to the '60s show the press has
always voted to the left of the public. But the Clinton
disconnect (a gap of 46 percentage points) is the greatest
of all, which makes me think the attraction is more than
ideological.
Maybe it's because most editors today are baby
boomers and, like Clinton, smoked pot and loathed the
military. Maybe it's because he's a reflection of their own
morals. Or maybe they just like his cool hair.
Whatever, the national press remains intoxicated by
Clinton and can't seem to summon the spit to call him for
what he is -- the most corrupt president in American
history, and quantifiably so.
That phrase, "the most corrupt president," has been
bandied about so often in Republican circles that it's
become a cliche. And that's allowed the press corps to
dismiss it as hyperbole.
It's not, and I'll prove it for any of the White House court
jesters willing to stop batting their eyelashes at His Nibs
for five minutes. The Clinton administration has the
dubious honor of breaking the record for the most
number of:
Convictions and guilty pleas
Cabinet officials under criminal investigation
Independent counsels named (Attorney General
Janet Reno has had to tap more than all other
attorney generals combined)
White House lawyers
Claims of executive privilege
Presidential legal bills
Witnesses who fled the country or took the Fifth
Key witnesses who died unexpectedly
Illegal foreign donations accepted
Now let's zero in on Clinton. No other elected, sitting
president has ever been:
Impeached
Recommended for disbarment
Guilty of violating The Privacy Act
Held in contempt of court and fined for giving false
and misleading answers under oath
Sued for sexual harassment
Forced to settle a sexual-harassment lawsuit
Accused of rape
In business and/or good pals with more convicted
felons
Now after 39-plus scandals (the White House counsel's
office's own internal count) and seven special outside
investigations, you'd think Clinton's crookedness would
be bumper-sticker obvious to even his sappiest apologist
(Dan Rather) and shrillest shill (Eleanor Clift).
Fat chance.
Just witness the last press conference. Clinton called the
scandals "bogus" and reporters sat there with their faces
flapping. Gee, what beautiful silk you're wearing today,
Emperor.
"The word 'scandal' has been thrown around here like a
clanging teapot for seven years," Clinton huffed. "And I
keep waiting for somebody to say -- I noticed there was
one columnist in the Washington Post that had the
uncommon decency to say, will no one ever stand up
here and say that a whole bunch of this stuff was just
garbage and that we had totally innocent people
prosecuted because they wouldn't lie (about me and my
wife)?"
Clanging scandals
Yeah, and I'm still waiting for somebody among the
media elite to stand up and call all your clanging scandals
by their proper name: Corruption. And you by yours:
crook.
By holding back and affording this president an unusually
high degree of respect, the group of people who are
supposed to report history are letting Clinton revise it, as
he grapples for a clean legacy.
Even the nation's mostly liberal scholars acknowledge the
Clinton crime wave.
C-SPAN's recent survey of historians ranked Clinton the
most unethical president -- more so than even Harding
and Nixon. As presidents go, that makes him lower than
a snake's belly in a wagon rut.
Sure, the press had taken some stabs at stereotyping
Clinton. But the closest we've gotten to an unvarnished
expression of all these scandals is "Clinton fatigue." How
polite. How conveniently vague.
The normally brutal wordsmiths can't even bring
themselves to say Clinton's lied. Instead, we get a garden
variety of euphemisms, from "dissembled" to "parsed" to
"shaded the truth."
Look, he lied. There, was that so hard? Now try this:
He's still lying. Now the big step: He's a liar, a certified
public liar.
This is not name-calling. This is simply reporting facts.
Let it go, you say, Clinton's headed for the exits soon
anyway. Does it really matter?
White House ostrich corps
Does weather to a pilot? If the press keeps glossing over
the lies, they'll let our most powerful elected official
institutionalize lying. Who will trust a president again?
And if the White House ostrich corps keeps talking
around the stinking elephant in the middle of the Oval
Office, they'll let Clinton institutionalize corruption. Who
will trust the Constitution again?
If they really wanted, the adversarial press could have
turned Clinton into a pariah by now. If they really
wanted.
Instead, they've acted more like his Praetorian Guard,
saving their barbs for the "Clinton-hating zealots" in the
"vast right-wing conspiracy."
Look how they went into high dudgeon over Newt
Gingrich. No one was stricken with writer's block then.
Epithets were minted like pennies. They couldn't pin the
derogatory labels on poor, old Newt fast enough.
When Clinton lost Congress in 1994 -- a loss of epic
proportions -- the media didn't call Clinton a loser. No,
they went after the winner: "The Gingrich who stole
Christmas," jabbed one newsweekly cover.
They saved the "loser" insult for the 1998 election --
literally. Over a cover photo of Gingrich, Newsweek
blared: "The Loser."
The media won't think the worst of Clinton. Just his
detractors.
With this presidency, we're expected to buy that his
scandals are like so many potato eyes -- disfiguring but
nothing rotten. We're expected to swallow the notion that
a fish rots from the tail up.
We're expected to believe that there is no engine driving
this White House scandal machine. Just a bunch of
independently operating parts.
Felonious friend John Huang, for one, is a free-spinning
wheel unconnected to a drive train. Charlie Trie's a spark
plug detached from an engine block.
With Clinton -- the man who single-handedly created a
cottage industry for independent counsels -- the
three-monkeys media sees no evil, hears no evil and
reports no evil.
And nicknames escape them. Help them out, won't you?
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We'll publish the Top 10.
Paul Sperry is Washington bureau chief for
WorldNetDaily.
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