Few would disagree that George Bush is the worst president since—at least—Herbert Hoover. Bill Clinton will have a roll of historical toilet paper trailing off his heel wherever he goes, thanks to his bad judgment in the Paula Jones case, but George Bush is forever manacled in history’s dank dungeon by his bad Read More
The Hunting of the President: The 10-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton , by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons. St. Martin’s Press, 413 pages, $25.95.
“You boys have to remember, I don’t give a fuck who the governor of Arkansas is,” Lee Atwater said back in 1989, echoing the sentiments of a nation. Read More
What the hell was that all about? I think we may have just arrived at Stage III in the Natural History of National Scandals: Call it the Huh? Moment. It’s exactly two years after the Monica feeding frenzy first exploded, two years since the Presidency of Bill Clinton seemed to hang by a thread, virtually Read More
Michael Isikoff was the guileless Candide of the Clinton scandal. Things kept happening to him. Even when he tried to get away from the Jones-Lewinsky-Willey-Broaddrick beat, he was dragged back (as were we all) by the sheer exorbitance and squalor of the President’s behavior. At one point, his Newsweek editor told him to do what Read More
Michael Isikoff was the guileless Candide of the Clinton scandal. Things kept happening to him. Even when he tried to get away from the Jones-Lewinsky-Willey-Broaddrick beat, he was dragged back (as were we all) by the sheer exorbitance and squalor of the President’s behavior. At one point, his Newsweek editor told him to do what Read More
The Monica interview, like Monica Lewinsky herself, has now been much chewed over and sits among us like an old doggy bone, unraveling, splintering while everyone waits for someone else to take it off the living room rug. Bear with me for a little more nibbling. I was interested in the President’s statement to her, Read More
As the herd of Republican lemmings thunders toward its chosen precipice, indignation continues to resound at the abuse of power by then-Gov. William Jefferson Clinton at the expense of Paula Corbin Jones. The recent arousal of Republican interest in the victimization of (yes) Southern Womanhood reeks of Confederate noblesse oblige, a sentiment apparently inapplicable when Read More
WASHINGTON-She was always an inconvenient woman; she is now fast becoming the forgotten woman of the affair. She was not down here for the Senate trial, but I found myself thinking about her as I headed home from the drone. She’s not making the scene, although her act of defiance created the scene. Paula Jones Read More
In a nation whose public discourse has turned pornographic and puerile, the “politics of personal destruction” is almost universally deplored-unless, of course, the target is Bill Clinton. Many of the people infuriated by stories that have tarnished the reputations of Congressional Republicans such as Bob Livingston, Dan Burton and Henry Hyde, relish and promote such Read More
The mysterious author is the Anonymous of 1998, but this Anonymous has avoided even a fraction of Joe Klein’s scrutiny. Maybe that’s because this Anonymous never wanted a wide audience. No, this Anonymous had only one buyer in mind, and she rejected his work in January.
This Anonymous is the author of the “Talking Read More
