Steve Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
This ones a classic <bg> so I got used to the fact that the President of the
United States had an affair or 10. And know an air hostess (there also
known as flying mattresses in the R.A.F) say that Clinton fondled her breast
for 40 minutes and he never got any further than that in that amount of
time, and with an air hostie <lol> that is about the funniest think I have
heard in ages.
Steve (definitely guilty of lewd behavior).
Oh and just so Im not left out, I was fondles by Clinton on that plane too.
<lol>
-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 7:59 PM
Subject: L&I Flight Attendant Tale Lands With a Thud
>Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>Tabloid Show Touts Story, Then Shoots It Down
>
> By Howard Kurtz
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Tuesday, May 5, 1998; Page C01
>
> Last night, the syndicated program "Inside Edition"
>aired eye-popping
> charges by Cristy Zercher, a former flight attendant,
>that Bill Clinton
> groped her on a 1992 campaign flight.
>
> Tonight, in Part 2 of the "world television
>exclusive," the program adds
> crucial details of how Zercher flunked a lie detector
>test administered by
> "Inside Edition." In fact, "she failed miserably,"
>says Jan Murray, a
> spokeswoman for the King World show.
>
> Which raises the question: Why air the story at all?
>
> "You have to set up the premise of what her story is
>in order to thoroughly
> examine the results," says Marc Rosenweig, a King
>World vice president.
> Since "we didn't want to withhold the headline from
>people," he says, last
> night's show included a sound bite "that there's a 99
>percent probability
> she's not telling the truth."
>
> "Inside Edition" did not plan to disclose the
>polygraph results in Part 1 until
> what Murray called a "last-minute change" in
>programming. The mention
> came in the final minute of last night's report.
>
> The show's first press release last Friday avoided
>spilling the beans. "Cristy
> Zercher Claims Presidential Candidate Bill Clinton
>Groped and Fondled
> Her While Hillary Slept Just Feet Away," it roared.
>The release urged
> viewers to "stay tuned for the results" of the
>polygraph exam in Part 2.
>
> A second release announcing the polygraph results went
>out yesterday
> afternoon, too late to be published before last
>night's program. It said that
> in the examination, Zercher had negative ratings for
>truthfulness on four
> questions asked last week.
>
> "She's not telling the truth," Bob Brisentine, a
>former president of the
> American Polygraph Association, told the show.
>
> Zercher is quoted as saying, "I want everybody to know
>that I'm not lying.
> . . . I had no resistance in doing the test because I
>knew I was telling the
> truth."
>
> If Zercher's tale sounds vaguely familiar, that's
>because she sold it to the
> Star supermarket tabloid in March. Apparently she also
>made a financial
> deal with "Inside Edition," which pays for interviews
>but would not confirm
> that it bought Zercher's story.
>
> In an account largely ignored by the mainstream press,
>the "stunning
> blonde," as "Inside Edition" calls her, said that
>Clinton fondled her breast
> for 40 minutes on the plane and she accused him of
>other lewd behavior.
> (In a 1994 interview with The Washington Post, Zercher
>made no mention
> of being harassed by Clinton.)
>
> Rosenweig says that "Inside Edition," which airs
>locally on WBDC-TV
> (Channel 50), interviewed another former flight
>attendant who challenges
> Zercher's account. "We feel this is an important
>story," he says. "We made
> sure we did it right."
>
> But White House spokesman Joe Lockhart sees it
>differently: "It used to
> be, you checked your facts first and did the story
>second. Now you do the
> story and then you check your facts. Anyone can see a
>problem with that."
>
> As for the allegations themselves, Lockhart says: "We
>don't comment on
> tabloid stories -- especially this one."
>
> Bye Bye
>
> Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke, two longtime mainstays
>of the
> "McLaughlin Group," are jumping ship to launch their
>own political show
> for Fox News Channel.
>
> Adding insult to injury, the still-unnamed Saturday
>night program, which
> debuts next month, will appear on the cable network
>opposite McLaughlin
> in the Washington market.
>
> Barnes, executive editor of the Weekly Standard, and
>Kondracke,
> executive editor of Roll Call, are the latest to
>defect from McLaughlin, the
> high-decibel former priest who essentially invented
>the shout show in 1982.
> Both prognosticators were already Fox contributors.
>Their departure
> follows that of columnist Jack Germond, who quit for
>the syndicated
> "Inside Washington" in late 1996.
>
> "I've enjoyed it for 10 years," says Barnes, long
>called "Freddy the Beadle"
> by McLaughlin. "But at some point you want to go out
>and do a show of
> your own." He says the McLaughlin gabfest has
>"unbelievable" visibility
> and that "we'll be performing for a much smaller
>audience" on the Fox
> show. Barnes said the new show will focus on "politics
>at the lowest
> possible level: who's gonna run, who's gonna win. We
>won't be doing a
> show on how the IMF guidelines affect Indonesia."
>
> In a letter to McLaughlin, Barnes said he was
>"enormously grateful" to the
> "master" for having "taught me practically everything
>I know about
> television."
>
> Kondracke says the new program will be "more like a
>magazine," featuring
> interviews with pollsters and media consultants rather
>than round-table
> discussions. "It's going to be fun and interesting and
>different and a chance
> to develop something," says Kondracke, who also wrote
>McLaughlin a
> "grateful" letter.
>
> McLaughlin took the high road, saying: "That is the
>type of challenge that
> cannot be resisted. Business is business. I am proud
>of the fact they were
> grown on the 'McLaughlin Group.' " He says Barnes and
>Kondracke
> appeared on only half the shows this year and that he
>still plans to use them
> as "irregular" guests.
>
> Fox News, part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, has
>been on a
> spending spree, signing up such big-name contributors
>as former Clinton
> strategist Dick Morris, "McLaughlin" panelist Eleanor
>Clift and Internet
> gossip Matt Drudge.
>
> Less Than Live
>
> Stung by criticism of its live coverage of a man
>committing suicide on a Los
> Angeles freeway, MSNBC now plans to delay certain live
>shots by several
> seconds. The Thursday tragedy was also carried live by
>a half-dozen L.A.
> stations, some of which have apologized for not
>cutting away. "We deeply
> regret that we aired this disturbing scene," MSNBC
>spokeswoman Maria
> Bataglia told USA Today.
>
> Sam Sounds Off
>
> Sam Donaldson, ABC's high-profile White House
>correspondent, says his
> network was "wrong" not to carry President Clinton's
>news conference live
> last week, as CBS and NBC did. ABC executives say they
>concluded that
> Clinton would probably not make news, but Donaldson
>told the
> Philadelphia Inquirer: "There are some events that
>major news
> organizations have to cover, even if it's unlikely
>that news will happen. . . . I
> regret that we didn't take it live. I think we should
>have."
>--
>Two rules in life:
>
>1. Don't tell people everything you know.
>2.
>
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