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...Because the press scared the hell out of people. These Washington press bozos love tumult so much they forget how much ordinary people dread it. Unless, of course, all that breathless pomposity on the Sunday-morning talk shows was no accident...
...Tasty was an establishment to get worked up about because it stood for something: grease with charm, reinforced by more than 80 years of tradition. The entrance of Friday's into our lives can only leave us wondering who the hell cares...
Where does all this leave Mrs. Clinton? Her performance on last week's Today show was an interesting fusion of political hackwork and personal calm, though one would assume that she is going through hell again. Yet in marriages, both successful and serviceable, a weakness in one partner is often compensated for by a strength in the other. No one knows better than Mrs. Clinton that her husband will not find true love with another person, since he can't find what he doesn't truly trust. He needs her for that understanding, but she may need him as well...
...whole culture's different now: sitcoms, daytime talk shows, Saturday Night Live. The whole idea of a President with sexual urges is just not that shocking. And in your case the country's been laughing about your...uh...alleged...uh... appetites for years. Hell, the first time most of them heard about you, you were on 60 Minutes talking about the pain you had caused in your marriage...
...many cases in which the media has been guilty of egregious failures of perspective. The grotesque frenzies surrounding the O.J. Simpson trial, the nanny trial or the birth of septuplets in Iowa seem entirely out of proportion to their actual significance. I believe there is a special circle in hell reserved for any television network that ever opened a broadcast with a story about Tonya Harding. And I detest local news stations that never once offer a decent, thoughtful story about education, but are always on the scene the moment someone falls down a manhole or gets an ear bitten...