Word: denialism
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...doesn't work very well in a serious life. The thing about the present is precisely its confused instability, its blurriness, its sleight-of-hand. Now you see it, now you don't. It is a fog of particles in motion, a montage of denial and fantasy and sidelong perception. And therefore a most congenial medium for the current President...
...They may have a point. So does the White House. Presidential lawyer James Kennedy says the Jones team made the mistake of asking for the documents from Clinton personally, rather than from the White House, and that they were well aware of the distinction. It?s a denial that sticks within the letter, if not the spirit, of the law -- and leaves the Clinton administration somewhat open to the charge made by Orrin Hatch, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, in Sunday?s New York Times. ?The White House,? Hatch wrote, ?appears as interested in the truth as O.J. Simpson...
...cases of alleged sexual harassment--so painful, so private, so often unknowable--Americans have grown accustomed to weighing the word of one defendant against that of one plaintiff, the steadfast denial against the angry accusation: he said, she said. But last week, in the matter of Jones v. Clinton, the accusers avalanched on the accused. Once, twice, three times now, a woman has sworn under oath that she had one or more sexual encounters with Bill Clinton and then got pressured to cover it up; each time the President has denied the charge. In each case someone is lying...
...hold the office of President in the highest regard, but not the man [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 16]. President Clinton and his cohort need to come clean and stop blaming everyone else for their troubles. I commend independent counsel Kenneth Starr for his perseverance in the face of denial. Starr didn't bring the thunder down from the heavens onto the Clintons; they did it themselves. I am ashamed that Clinton is still in office. TARYN SANFORD Sheffield...
...leadership are daring to talk about this scandal openly. "I found her credible," opined Trent Lott. "I watched the body English and listened to what she had to say." If that kind of talk continues in Congress, Clinton may have to go to the next stage of denial: Ignore it and act Presidential. And with trips to Africa, China and England coming up over the next few months, he'll have plenty of opportunity to do just that...