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...reason he did not disclose the D.U.I. arrest specifically, she says, is that he did not want his behavior to set a bad example for his twin daughters, now freshmen in college--an excuse that struck some listeners as similar to one that President Clinton gave for lying about Monica Lewinsky...
...media had not spoken their last on campaign 2000. The morning after the Great Panhandle Mishandle, instead of doing election postmortems, the news industry received a spectacular lagniappe: a fractious postelection campaign, made and played for TV. It was Monica with a side of Elián and a glass of O.J., polarizing and interminable, with disputed facts and plenty of lawyers. Elder statesmen James Baker and Warren Christopher, brought in as recount "observers," held dueling press conferences, like Cochrans and Ramsays. In battles like this, television news is a better divider than uniter: its formats, from "Hardball" to "Burden...
Bring back the Dream Team. Reassemble the legal samurai who pettifogged Bill Clinton through the Monica Lewinsky mess. Frog-march the presidency through months of exhausting litigation. It will tear the nation apart. The stock market may head south and keep going...
...Lazio was running against an anti-anti-Clinton sentiment; in other words, though plenty of people in New York State were disgusted by the president's affair with Monica Lewinsky, at least as many had come away from the last six years equating Lazio's former boss (Newt Gingrich) with Satan incarnate. For pretty much every Clinton-fatigue vote that went to Lazio, at least one GOP-fatigue ballot went to Clinton. And Bill Clinton's wife picked up quite a few sympathy votes, as well - because while Hillary never showed a weepy face to the public, her anguish...
...That means four years of heated partisan argument, Monica-style ratings and Monica-sized stars being created among the commentariat, cashing in for the unfortunate president's entire term. And what could be more American than that...