Clinton's lies catch up with her

Tisk, Tisk. We learn very early on in life that telling a lie will always come back to haunt you. The truth will always set you free!!

The Clinton administration is going to be the most difficult presidency for historians to record accurately. This is because the Clintons are inveterate liars and frauds. They are not particularly competent — they often get caught. Just the other day, Bill was caught lying about opposing our invasion of Iraq, and before that, his lovely wife, Bruno, was caught lying about a questioner her campaign planted at an Iowa campaign event. However, the Clintons lie so frequently and across such a wide range of matters from the petty (Hillary's lie about the origin of her name) to the serious (Hillary's lies about finances) that there is an infinitude of discrepancies for future historians' ministrations. Moreover, the Clintons are a part of a historic generational shift. Their left-wing cogenerationists are characterized by stupendous narcissism, amorality and an endless hustle for political advancement. It is not just the Clintons who confuse the historic record — it is all their fellow 1960s Coat and Tie Radicals in the media. That is why the work of L. Brent Bozell III and his colleague Tim Graham is so valuable. Their Media Research Center has been monitoring the networks and major newsprints for 20 years, doing yeoman service to preserve the truth from the Kultursmog, the political culture that our soi-disant liberals have polluted with their lies, misrepresentations and oversights.

In point of fact, no presidential candidate as beset by scandals and brushes with the law as Sen. Clinton has ever existed. The runner-up is her husband. Historically speaking, then, her candidacy is improbable. If American voters have the percipience I believe they have, it is doomed. The authors have played an indispensable role in reminding Americans of the Clintons' extraordinary mendacity. "Whitewash," fortified by MRC's research, exposes the mainstream press' role in keeping the Clintons politically alive. The media's rescue work began during the 1992 campaign, when reports of Mr. Clinton's irregular life were minimized in the press, his lies accepted or forgiven. It continues today. An unforgettable example of it came in 1994, when one of the rare mainstream journalists to ferret out Clinton errancies, the New York Times' Jeff Gerth, reported that as Arkansas' first lady, Hillary walked off with some $100,000 in profits from a cattle futures deal arranged by a lawyer for Tyson Foods, one of the state's most politically well-connected and heavily regulated corporations.

"Whitewash" is one of the most important books I have read about the Clintons' relationship with the press, and I myself have contributed a number of books to this field. For me, one of the most interesting revelations revolves around a Clinton scoop I was intimately involved in, the American Spectator's "Troopergate" story. A sexual harassment case filed by Paula Jones, one of the women mentioned, led directly to Mr. Clinton's impeachment. I have always suspected that the media came very close to overlooking the Troopergate story. "Whitewash" confirms that suspicion of mine and intensifies another, to wit, CNN's crucial role in Troopergate. According to Messrs. Bozell and Graham, "the troopers' story attracted only twenty-two evening news stories in its first twelve days, nine of them on CNN." Troopergate might have died like the earlier Gennifer Flowers story, but CNN's weekend interviews with the troopers and subsequent broadcasts ensured the story's longevity. At the time, I was amazed by CNN's interest, and I was more amazed when one of our writers involved in Troopergate told me that CNN's coverage was the work of a friend of his at the network. Historians ought to get to work on this matter. The secret agent was as responsible for Mr. Clinton's impeachment as was the American Spectator. "Whitewash" reports, "None of the Big Three evening newscasts devoted a full story to the mysterious trades until eleven days after the original Times scoop. Ultimately, the four networks reported only eighteen evening news stories between them." In one example of a hilarious media whitewash, Eleanor Clift remarked in Newsweek that "The public might even be tickled to discover that the prim and preachy First Lady has a gambler's streak." Tickled indeed — anyone knowledgeable of commodities trading will tell you that Hillary's $100,000 had to be stolen from another trader.