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> I think Clinton is not going to be internet friendly after this! It
>is the internet that has catapulted him to his pariah status.
Difficult to say on that. Clinton's job approval rating has gone UP since
the report.
The report proves what it doesn't state: There was nothing whatsoever in
Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate, Vincent Foster, etc. Starr couldn't find
anything there at all. $40 million dollars, hundreds of lawyers, five years,
90,000 subpoenaed documents, and they were forced to pad it out to 500 pages
with gushy pillow talk.
The report isn't really 500 pages long. The body of the report is 280 pages.
Starr's staff used very wide margins, large fonts, and double or triple
spacing. I have the report on my machine. Looking at the body of the report
(no table of contents or footnotes), the word count is 30,824 words. In my
standard Word format (one inch margins, 11 point font), it's 36 pages.
That's it. 36 pages single-sided.
If one deletes the trivial material and just states the facts, one is left
with a few pages of very dubious legal arguments. So Clinton was right all
along. Whitewater was a fantasy of the extreme Right and Starr was chasing
after whatever he could find. Imagine if there were no Monica Lewinsky. What
then would Mr. Starr have published?
Thus Clinton's approval ratings go up.
> Congressional computers are jammed, and some web servers, such as the
>ones for some elected representatives pages, just don't respond during
>the daytime anymore.
But they were never meant for such massive use. I fetched my copy from
Yahoo, and it downloaded instantly.
> If anything, this is going to each Congress that The Net is
>important. I just hope they eventually reflect upon what happened, and
>realize that The Web is more valuable an asset than the national postal
>system, or perhaps the national highway system. If they do, they might be
>half right. I would say it is now MORE important than the national
>telephone system!
Oh, bigger than that. The web has replaced the entire news media as the
primary media for dissemination of information. Tens of millions watched the
web as the NASA spacecraft touched down on Mars. They didn't get their news
from TV, newspapers, or radio.
With the Starr report, people got it directly, and read it at the very same
moment as newspeople and Congress were reading it. The news media was left
behind.
The net has struck total terror into politicians. Helen Chenowitz,
Republican senator from Idaho, attacked Clinton. The following day,
journalists revealed that she had a six-year affair with a married man. Dan
Burton, Republican from Indiana, who also attacked Clinton, turned out to
have a mistress and an illegitimate child on whose birth certificate his
name is not listed. Both of them ran on extreme right Family Values
platforms. Both of them are politically dead now.
In both cases, traditionally the editors would often suppress it, due to
political considerations or alliances. Chenowitz, as a senator, can exert
quite a bit of pressure on a newspaper (tax breaks, or refusal to grant tax
breaks, etc.) Eisenhower careened around, drunk as a skunk, in his Cadillac;
Kennedy screwed his girlfriends two at a time in the White House pool;
Hollywood rumors of Reagan's bisexuality were never mentioned; Nancy
Reagan's lesbian past was buried; and George Bush's ten-year long affair
with a Republican treasurer was known in Washington, but no one spoke of it
in public.
But now, with the Drudge Report www.drudge.com , control is completely gone.
This is what happened with the Lewinsky story. Tripp approached US News and
World Report with the tapes. They refused to print it because they only had
her word for it and no other confirmation. So either Tripp or unhappy
journalists at US News and World Report e-mailed the story to Matt Drudge, a
guy who lives in a small apartment in West Hollywood, and he published it on
his rather bizarre site. He's out of control, he's too small to matter, and
he has no connections. Nobody can blackmail him or entice him with generous
tax breaks.
Thus Chenowitz and Burton knew they couldn't suppress the story and if they
didn't confess immediately, the low-level journalists would walk around
their editors and go to the Drudge Report, where it would be read within a
few hours by everyone.
We're going to see a total massacre in Washington. There's a 4 to 1 ratio of
women to men in Washington. We all know that 95% of all women are paragons
of virginal saintliness. But that still leaves the others. Ms. Tripp, who in
her youth was arrested for "loitering" when she was apparently working as a
teenage prostitute in hotels, once said "If you're tall, blond, and you got
big boobs, you can get anything you want." Practically every politician has
had a girlfriend or two. They're going to sit in judgement of the President,
and journalists are going to ferret out these girls by waving hundred dollar
bills and use the Drudge Report to spread the news.
But... will the stories be true? Is it really true that Kenneth Starr was a
male hooker in college? Who cares? Just send it in to the Drudge Report, and
if Matt publishes it, Starr will be ruined.
That's the point: with the net, there's no control anymore. Anyone can say
literally anything and it can flow to 40 million readers instantly. The
proof of this is that Vincent Foster's death, Ron Brown's death,
blah-blah-blah, are all bizarre conspiracy theories spread by the net and
these are believed by tens of millions of Americans.
Some people might be grinning and thinking that this is cool that no one can
control the net. But it also means a breakdown in the political process.
With a sex witchhunt and a lynch mob mentality, many politicians will be
destroyed and we'll end up with self-righteous prigs such as Kenneth Starr
who are scandal-proof.
> As to many who go asking for the Starr Report on the search engines,
>they get the Foster suicide information and critiques...
Big deal. Just conspiracy theory. Starr says nothing about it.
Another side effect of the Starr report: it's Republicans themselves who
posted porn to the net. Now how the devil are they going to pass legislation
that prohibits net porn, yet doesn't incriminate Starr?
Back during the 70s, a number of porn movies and magazines protected
themselves by throwing in a statement against the Vietnam war. Some bimbo,
in the middle of a blowjob, would raise her head and say "Stop the war!"
Thus pornographers defended themselves by arguing that government anti-porn
prosecutors were "really" trying to suppress anti-war freedom of speech.
Larry Flynt's disgusting Hustler magazine took great advantage of this
strategy. Silly argument, but it worked.
Any porn site merely has to include the Starr report on their site and
they'll be immune. To prosecute a porn site, they'd have to prosecute Starr,
Gingrich, etc. The extreme right, in their monomaniac hatred of Clinton,
have blown the door wide open to sex on the net. We're going to get much
more details in the next few weeks as Starr begans to show his tapes and
videos.
andreas
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