Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often said, in trying to sort out the rights and wrongs of some public controversy, that the scandal isn't the illegal behavior--the scandal is what's legal. The press understandably tends to concentrate on whether laws were broken. This is a bright line that relieves journalists of the need to make (or, worse, be seen making) moral judgments. But in this world of sinners, the fact that some people choose to cross the line is less interesting and important than the question of where society chooses to draw the line...
...woul d wind up biting them as well, the GOP leadership had previously rammed through a deal that would limit Thompson to investigating only "illegal activities" that took place during the 1996 race. The Republican turnaround was spurred by the growing re alization that, while the White House fundraising scandal certainly looks like a mess, it is not clear whether laws were broken. If not, Thompson's committee would not touch the White House. According to Janet Reno's interpretation of the law, finance restrictions don't apply to the hundreds of millions of dollars in unregulated, soft money. Senate...
...White House mess, indeed. There comes a moment in every political scandal when the fog starts to clear. In the intricate matter that is Democratic fund raising, the moment is now. For much of that we can thank Harold Ickes. In response to a request from congressional investigators, Ickes has been turning over thousands of pages of documents from his three years as Clinton's deputy chief of staff, the job he left in January, thus forcing the White House to release them before they leak. While most appear to be harmless to the White House, a few priceless pages...
What Starr has done so far to fix it is to express abject remorse swiftly and ignore his most vocal critic, the irrationally exuberant James Carville, who Mary Matalin, his wife, calls a "rabid dog" on the subject. The press has lost interest in Whitewater as yesterday's scandal, unlikely to deliver any Pulitzers and has moved on to overpriced White House overnights. Even Senator Al D'Amato wants no part of Whitewater. Starr may be tired of it as well...
...impartial. Starr is now beholden to Pepperdine to hold open a job, for which it is partly beholden to benefactor Scaife. It may be the Scaife connection that prompted Starr's announcement in the first place. Maybe it's only appearances, but so is much of what counts as scandal these days. It's a heck of a time to say appearances don't matter after...