On Feb. 12, 1999, the Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton of impeachment charges. Twelve days later, NBC aired a report in which a woman named Juanita Broaddrick accused Mr. Clinton of having raped her in 1978. Why did NBC not broadcast the story until after the impeachment vote? Philip Weiss filed the following Read More
Hillary Clinton was late getting to the library in Bath and reporters stood in the front door looking at signs people were holding up across the way, in front of a Coastal gas station. “That’s harsh,” a reporter said. I thought she meant the one that said, “I Want to Be Your Intern.” A skinny, Read More
Sitting in her bedroom before the Jan. 20 interview on NBC with Lisa Myers, Juanita Broaddrick could not believe that she was actually going to walk down the hallway into the living room and go through with it, that she, a very private and dignified woman, would say the word rape to a camera. “To Read More
Watching television sporadically, I am blind to the ongoing daydream. But when something does catch my eye it glows like a pillar of fire.
The most recent something was an MTV game show. Two ex-lovers came on to squabble about their defunct relationship. They each had a pseudo-lawyer, and a pseudo-judge presided. It’s a Read More
Blacks and Jews have often helped one another politically, and this has been the case in the Clinton scandals. We’re constantly being told about black support for the President. “Blacks Stand by a President Who ‘Has Been There for Us,’” The New York Times says. Or Toni Morrison declares that Bill Clinton is black, in Read More
New York Feminists Stand By Their Bill, Not By Broaddrick
Needless to say, Hillary Rodham Clinton was a hit.
Even before midday on Wednesday, March 3, when the incredible beatifying First Lady was due to dazzle the sisters who lunch at the Women’s Leadership Forum, a component of the Democratic National Committee, she Read More
But that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead. It is one of the all-time great heartless dismissals in all of literature (soon to be joined perhaps by “You ought to put some ice on that”). To be accurate, it’s a satire of heartless dismissal. Was it from Marlowe’s Jew of Malta Read More
