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Whatever the truth, Clinton realized that his denials of Flowers' charges were not enough, so he agreed to appear with his wife on CBS's 60 Minutes Sunday night. How to effectively stem an anticipated "bimbo du jour" problem had become a tactical consideration because Clinton was dissatisfied with how his denials played through the print media's filter. "Too little control of how it goes over," explained a Clinton aide. "The only way out is through television." With 60 Minutes' post-Super Bowl audience expected to approach 100 million people, the state of the Clintons' union was certain...
...opening, and I asked if he knew that the wife of a Bush Cabinet member had told some friends that the Republicans had "the goods" on Clinton's alleged womanizing but wouldn't pounce until the general election campaign. "Yep," said Clinton, who then detailed every other "bogus, smoking bimbo" allegation he's heard for over a decade. Clinton and his wife Hillary have already described their 16-year marriage as less than "perfect" (an admission of something), but the most interesting part of Clinton's analysis involved a political calculation. "I wish I could find...
...with journalists. With Hillary sitting next to him pushing scrambled eggs around her plate, he said their 16- year marriage, like others, had had its ups and downs, but "we believe in our obligation to each other." So far, an army of reporters has failed to uncover a smoking bimbo...
...about living in Washington, which seemed too loose and unbuckled a place. "She was a real straight arrow," says Michael Middleton, who worked with both Hill and Thomas at the Department of Education and later at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. "Very proper and straitlaced. She was certainly no bimbo...
...response to the crybaby's complaint. Ever mindful of the genuine or imagined sensitivities of women and minorities, the University of Missouri's Multicultural Management Program has produced for newspaper reporters a 22-page dictionary of loaded words and phrases. Some of the proposals in the lexicon are unarguable (bimbo and broad are derogatory when applied to women). Other entries, listed mainly to pacify various groups, are questionable. Burly should be used with care, since it is "too often associated with large black men, implying ignorance and considered offensive in this context." Articulate could be deemed offensive "when referring...