Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most recently, he said, his decision to leave the Pope in Cuba and fly to Washington to cover the presidential scandal reflected the difficult decisions that news broadcasters face. Do they cover the most newsworthy or the most sensational story...
...bizarre coincidence of the breaking of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal and the crisis in Iraq as the movie Wag the Dog opened seemed to be the epitome of life imitating art. Yet most of us misread the imitation. The real Wag the Dog phenomenon in the Clinton scandal is not about using Saddam to distract from Monica. Rather, it is about using the increased attention on the President to distract from the crisis facing the Democratic Party. The problem facing the Democrats is not Clinton's extracurricular activities. It's the sad truth that their party just doesn...
From the time he joined the White House three years ago, at a low point in relations between Clinton and the media, McCurry made it clear that he did not want scandal to be part of his portfolio. Through Whitewater and Donorgate, McCurry was able to shovel those questions to the counsel's office. But even while savvy, media-wise lawyers such as Mark Fabiani and his replacement Lanny Davis took the calls from investigative reporters, McCurry had to wage a vigorous internal campaign for openness. "What Mike McCurry has stood for is that if you give reporters...
...misleading statement he had made over the weekend based on information provided to him by the White House counsel's office. Specifically, McCurry had flatly denied that anyone connected with the White House had hired or authorized private investigators to probe the background of prosecutors in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. A day later, on Monday, longtime Democratic operative Terry Lenzner acknowledged that his detective agency was indeed working for Clinton's lawyers and told the Washington Post that he found "nothing inappropriate" about investigating the prosecutors. So McCurry was left to reconcile a contradiction not even of his own making...
McCurry's frustrations have at times spilled over into the briefing room. One week into the scandal, he told reporters, "I think you all know the constraint that I'm laboring under here, and I don't want to belabor the pain and anguish I feel." Two weeks ago the spokesman himself became the story, when he suggested to a Chicago Tribune reporter that Clinton's ultimate explanation of his relationship with Lewinsky was not likely to be simple or innocent. (McCurry later explained his comments as "a lapse in my sanity.") Even McCurry's famous jokes...