Word: nightgeist
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Dates: during 1998-1998
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...Happily, NBC's tab "Dateline" resisted the maudlin nightgeist, and accentuated the political in a jail-house interview with Whitewater convict Susan McDougal. Ken Starr sent her to the pokey, she claimed, "because I refused to lie for him." Another bombshell: McDougal's husband Jim came to her from Starr with an offer of freedom if she'd testify to having an affair with Clinton, she maintains. "Bill would never tell anyone to lie," she insisted,wide-eyed. And then the crowd-pleasers: "I know this is bad for the country...Kenneth Starr has become Jerry Springer...It's time...
...even Leno's monologue captured the nightgeist: "Let's move on." He then closed with three nice, clean, bland, always-good-for-a-laff jokes about Twinkies. Remember those? Letterman was playing catch-up with Air Force One jokes about the "right-wing conspiracy." It was sad. Really...
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