STRANGE PRESS RELATIONS
CONVENTIONAL MEDIA FAILURES - NBC
CONVENTIONAL MEDIA FAILURES - GENERAL

Ironwood 12/13/98 notes ".Liberal Democrat Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank is the brother of White House Communications Director Ann Lewis. And lefty journalists Steve Roberts is the first cousin of Barney and Ann. Now, it doesn't take much of a leap of faith to figure out where Steve's wife, "Kookie" Boggs Roberts, gets her talking points for her NPR and "This Week" pro-Democrat diatribes." . Freeper Spyone adds ".Don't forget Al Hunt is married to Judy Woodruff of CNN. Don't forget Greta Van Sustern is married to that lawyer representing Judy Hiatte Steele, a straight out conflict that has never been disclosed by CNN." . Freeper Cicero about Cokie's mom Mrs. Boggs ambassador appointment ".Yes, she is in Vatican City right now, unless she's home for the holidays. Far as I can make out, and I don't know much, she's a big cut above her daughter."

Freeper TexMex 12/13/98 observes ".Tommy Boggs, Cokie's brother, has been for many years the head of the most powerful PACs/law firm in Washington and is sometimes given credit for originating the concept of political activists committees as a vehicle to circumvent campaign contribution laws.."

Freeper TC Rider 12/13/98 observes ".Ann Douglas at ABC and that cute Little Rock couple, Webb and Suzie Hubbel are best buds, they go on vacation together after Webb left Justice.."

MSNBC 1/28/99 Jeannette Walls by Freeper fintan ".IT TURNS OUT that Van Susteren doesn't just support the president's policies; her husband works with Clinton's brother-in-law. Van Susteren's husband, lawyer John Coale, has been working for years with Miami lawyer Hugh Rodham . Hillary Rodham Clinton's kid brother. Coale and Rodham have been working on a class-action tobacco case in which a group of Pennsylvania smokers are bringing suit against all the major U.S. tobacco companies.."He [Rodham] was almost certainly hired to lend credibility to their side - but more importantly because he would have access to Hillary." The Clinton connection doesn't stop there. Coale - who was referred to as "Bhopal Coale" after he signed up clients there after thousands died from a chemical leak - is also representing Julie Hiatt Steele..A spokeswoman for CNN says Van Susteren's analysis isn't influenced by her husband's affiliations with Clinton and "is based on her knowledge and interpretation of the constitution." But, quips one detractor, "It's another example of the vast left-wing conspiracy." ."

Washington Times 5/18/99 Wesley Pruden "....It's an unusual alliance, one highlighted in this newspaper and elsewhere: "There is something unhealthy when the recently married State Department's James P. Rubin and CNN's Christiane Amanpour cover the same 'breaking news' story." Kosovo being the latest. "There is clearly a conflict here," opined one writer. "Mr. Rubin should step down as spokesman for the State Department. How can he have any credibility considering with whom he shares pillow talk?"...There was even a suggestion that were it not for Mrs. Amanpour's daily dose of "pre-crisis" stand-ups from atrocity-ridden Kosovo, President Clinton, as former President Jimmy Carter put it Thursday, might never have made the "mistake" of going there...."

Associated Press 8/8/99 Anne Gearan "...The Clinton administration, dismayed by the success of anti-American propaganda worldwide, is striking back with an information offensive of its own: a State Department unit that will control the flow of government news overseas, especially during crises. The new International Public Information group, or IPI, will coordinate the dissemination of news from the State Department, Pentagon and other U.S. agencies.....In the recent Kosovo war, the Pentagon, State Department and White House poured out information each day but no single agency tried to assemble it so that the United States spoke with a coordinated message overseas. The group came about partly in response to the spread of unflattering or erroneous information about the United States received abroad via electronic mail, the Internet, cellular telephones and other communications advances. ...President Clinton signed a directive April 30, in the thick of the Kosovo war, that set out plans for IPI, although the White House did not formally announce the group's existence or role. An unclassified mission statement obtained by The Associated Press described IPI's role: ``Effective use of our nation's highly developed communications and information capabilities to address misinformation and incitement, mitigate inter-ethnic conflict, promote independent media organizations and the free flow of information, and support democratic participation will advance our interests and is a critical foreign policy objective,'' the document said...."

Chemical & Engineering News Magazine, pp. 86, 89. 2/14/00 "…… What Will Happen to the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) ……. Public diplomacy promotes U.S. national security and other interests by seeking to understand, inform, and influence foreign publics and policy-makers, and by broadening the dialogue between American citizens and institutions and their counterparts abroad. In comparison, public affairs is the provision of information to the public, press, and others about the policies and activities of the U.S. government.
* Bureau of Information (I), Area Offices, and USIS Posts Abroad -- Inform and seek to influence foreign opinion-makers by presenting U.S. positions on policy issues through a variety of products, including the daily Washington File, expert speakers (in person and in digital video or telepress conferences), Information Resource Centers overseas, electronic journals and Web sites, and print publications.
* Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (E), Area Offices, and USIS Posts Abroad -- Broaden long-term dialogue with foreign publics through a variety of person-to-person exchanges, including the Fulbright Program for scholars, teachers, and students; the International Visitors program to bring foreign leaders to the U.S.; Citizen Exchanges efforts to develop international exchange programs through nonprofit American institutions; and programs to affiliate U.S. and foreign academic institutions, advise foreign students about American colleges and universities, foster the teaching abroad of U.S. studies and the English language, and strengthen educational institutions abroad.
* Office of Research and Media Reaction (R) -- Seeks to understand foreign publics through opinion polling abroad and, utilizing reporting from USIS posts abroad and other media, to analyze attitudes toward U.S. policies and activities in the foreign media.......

……Proposed Integration into State …..

The Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs will advise the Secretary of State on public diplomacy and public affairs. The Under Secretary will provide policy oversight for two bureaus dealing with public diplomacy and public affairs, and coordinate such activities in State. State's Strategic Plan will encompass public diplomacy goals, and respective Bureau and Mission Performance Plans will reflect targets and projects for each region, country, and functional area. The office will have nine full-time permanent positions, all from USIA. The Under Secretary will chair the interagency international public information (IPI) Core Group, which will develop and coordinate U.S. public information strategies and activities to address regional and transnational threats and crises………

………The two bureau structure will bring together all elements charged with presenting and interpreting U.S. foreign policy to public audiences. It will give public diplomacy practitioners greater access to the foreign policy formulation process. The new structure will ensure that the policy content of State's domestic and international outreach programs is consistent and coordinated, yet tailored for specific target audiences. It will ensure that all applicable legal requirements are adhered to. And it will strengthen State's Bureau of Public Affairs by increasing its press expertise.

Diplomacy for the Digital Age Secretary's Open Forum 5/11/99 "….. Panel:
Dr. Ernest Wilson, Moderator, Director for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland
Captain Richard O'Neil, President, Highland Forum
Dr. Jamie Metzl, Senior Coordinator for International Public Information, U.S. Department of State

…….Dr. Wilson discussed the transformation occurring in society with the advent of information revolution and the resulting effect on diplomacy. He stated that information is of accelerating importance, as it is a means of obtaining global power. As a result of this new emphasis on information, the traditional bases of power also are shifting which in turn effect diplomacy………. This information revolution has an indelible impact on diplomacy. The tools of diplomacy have changed to include the Internet, digital radio and teleconferencing. With increased access to information through open sources, the role of the government is diminished while the private sector gains importance. In addition, the following new issues are of central importance:

* Developing laws governing cyberspace
* Treating telecommunications as a trade and a service
* Developing policies towards NGOs

……. Dr. Wilson also discussed the flow of information into and out of the U.S. There are 500,000 channels broadcasting information out of the U.S. and far fewer channels broadcasting information into the U.S. With the rapidly changing structure of the world, the U.S. government needs to pay attention to the information and opinions from international open sources. The world is changing rapidly and the U.S. will miss opportunities unless it reorganizes internally to provide leadership globally……….

……..Similarly, in the diplomatic realm, government has dealt with other states over the years in the resolution of problems. In order to engage effectively in diplomacy in the future, the government has to face the growing importance of NGOs and perhaps the loosening of the control it has enjoyed in the past. Information technology allows individuals to connect and develop a strong collective voice. In addition, the tempo of the information society is much faster than in the past. Diplomatic decisions must be made very quickly, with little time for reflection. And often times, government officials only possess the same information as the public. The government is faced with opening up to the private sector in terms of the information revolution, and with trusting actors outside of government who may be in a better position to effect outcomes……"

Evelyn S. Lieberman Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Biography

…..On October 1, 1999, Evelyn S. Lieberman was sworn in as the first Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Mrs. Lieberman was nominated for that position by President Clinton on June 23, 1999 and confirmed by the Senate on July 30.

The Office of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs was created by the merger of the U.S. Information Agency and the Department of State. As Under Secretary, Mrs. Lieberman oversees the State Department public affairs and international public information operations, and education and cultural programs.

Prior to becoming Under Secretary, Mrs. Lieberman, served as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State since May 1999. From March 1997 to May 1999, she was Director of the Voice of America. Before joining VOA, Mrs. Lieberman served as Assistant to the President and Deputy White House Chief of Staff, the first woman to hold that position. At the White House, she also served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy White House Press Secretary and as Assistant to the Chief of Staff in the Office of the First Lady.

From 1988 to 1993, Mrs. Lieberman was press secretary to Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE). She has also served as Director of Public Affairs for the Children's Defense Fund and Communications Director for the National Urban Coalition....... Statement at Senate Confirmation Hearing…."

Drudge Report 1/29/99 ".There is now less than a 50-50 chance NBC will air Lisa Myers' in- depth interview with Juanita Broaddrick, network sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. "There is a feeling that NBC brass do not want to get directly involved in the impeachment trial and throw it into chaos," explains one insider..One pro-Myers source on Thursday night questioned why her network is holding back the interview. "Why was it okay to release the first story at the height of the Paula Jones case, and now running the actual interview with the woman is seen as interfering with the president's impeachment?" asked the insider. "And we did cover Anita Hill, didn't we?". An NBC spokesperson said the network "does not comment on our newsgathering," but categorically denied there has been under pressure from the White House to hold the interview. One NBC NEWS source explained that the network is still working to corroborate Broaddrick's story and it will not run "until it is rock solid" and "fit for air." But a pro-Myers insider tells the DRUDGE REPORT the official NBC explanation is way off base. "The story is done, our investigation is over!" declared the source. "I challenge anyone to point out the holes in Lisa's piece." .. According to a well-placed source, Myers explained to Broaddrick during the conversation how she is being given the run around by her superiors at the network. And Myers recently confided to an associate that she is not even sure if she will have a say in the final cut, should NBC finally air the interview. There are growing fears that NBC has lost complete control of the situation. According to one report, NBC sponsors are starting to complain of receiving calls from angry viewers. The network itself been hit with nearly non- stop phone messages and e-mails on the subject. The story surrounding NBC's interview has turned into a talkradio sensation.."

Newsmax 12/22/98 Christopher Ruddy Freeper chuck allen ".A civil war is brewing in the news room of ABC's World News Tonight over allegations that in 1979 Bill Clinton may have raped Juanita Broaddrick, an Arkansas woman, when he served as the state's Attorney General. NewsMax.com has obtained an internal ABC News memo that was emailed to the top news producers earlier today about the controversy... NewsMax.com has learned that Isham's memo comes as a result of a feud between World News Tonight Executive Producer Paul Freidman and network anchor Peter Jennings. Jennings -- reputed to have a eye for the ladies much like the President's -- has vehemently objected to ABC news reporting on the subject. The memo, in an apparent shot at Jennings, states, "...the potential that a rape charge could be leveled at the President makes the story one that can't be totally ignored." ."

The Ether Zone 1/29/99 Freeper Roscoe Karns ".NBC said late yesterday that they are sitting on the Jane Doe #5 interview until they can corroberate the story. However, close sources told the Zone last night that this is nothing bit a smoke screen, "They have serious internal problems if they run the interview. Even Brokaw has threatened to quit. We also get word that the White House operatives have been putting pressure on NBC to withhold any airing until after the trial.",according to one source.."

NewsMax 1/28/99 Hugh Davies ".A FURIOUS row was reported at a major television network yesterday over whether to broadcast an interview with a woman who was allegedly raped by President Clinton in 1978 when he was the attorney general of Arkansas...Another network source was quoted as saying: "There is a civil war developing between those pushing for the interview to air and those who think it is completely reckless."."

Original Source 1/29/99 Mary Mostert Freeper hope ".This promises to become a double- header in the news next week, as Monica Lewinsky testifies for the U.S. Senate impeachment trial of William Jefferson Clinton and, the London Telegraph suggests, may have been casting a long shadow over the "backroom dealings at the Senate trial of Mr Clinton, with argument raging over how a videotape of her cross-examination was to be handled." Could it be that fear of the rape story is the real motivation behind the strange behavior of Senate Democrats lately? A major portion of the Democrat plank in their effort to halt the Impeachment Trial before witnesses could be heard, and their incredible determination to get the trial over with by the end of next week seems suspicious.."Miss Myers said NBC talked to four people who confirmed that the woman had spoken of the assault at the time. The woman denied any sexual encounter with Mr Clinton in an affidavit prepared to assist him in the Jones suit. She later told the FBI during the Starr investigation her affidavit was 'false'. This, I suggest, is pretty serious stuff. Far more serious than Anita Hill's charge that Clarence Thomas talked dirty to her. She never charged, and no one ever claimed, that Clarence Thomas did anything worse than that, and yet Sen. Tom Harkin dramatically appealed for a postponement of the confirmation vote to allow the Senate time to "investigate" her salacious charges against Judge Thomas. It appears that THIS time the Democrats have been desperately negotiating a plan to short-circuit the first Impeachment trial against a president in 168 years by eliminating all witnesses, if possible and simply closing down the process. I'm not one to jump to conclusions, but based on the behavior of Senate Democrats in 1991 when they demanded immediate inquiry into the unsworn statements of Anita Hill, their determination to cover-up serious charges, felony charges no less, of perjury, obstruction of justice and now rape, ought to slow down the rush to short-circuit the Clinton trial. ..If there is a court document charging Bill Clinton with rape in the Paula Jones court documents, that would certainly explain why Clinton suddenly decided to buy her off Paula Jones with a settlement after years of claiming she made it all up. And, if there is such a document, and NBC has it and is refusing to broadcast the story - the American people are simply being manipulated by a propaganda campaign managed by the White House to keep Bill Clinton in the Oval Office. Increasingly, the area of greatest concern to me as a journalist, is the seemingly total lack of independence and integrity in the Networks and major newspapers of America. Voters in America should not have to read the London papers to find out what is going on, or has happened, to our own president.."

Daily Republican 2/1/99 Rich Davis ".During the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, a woman (Anita Hill) came forward with a very old, poorly corroborated story. The story was a stretch in it's attempt to accuse Judge Thomas with a watered-down sexual harassment accusation. At the time, however, it was considered to be newsworthy..An old, highly corroborated story has been discovered about the President. It is not sexual harassment. It concerns rape. And later intimidation of the victim (Juanita Broaddrick) that resulted in her signing a false affidavit for the benefit of the President. The charge is relevant to the impeachment proceedings because the President has been accused of encouraging the signing and filing of a false affidavit in a sexual harassment case (Paula Jones). The affidavit was needed to unfairly de-rail that sexual harassment claim against the President. Now, whether or not the Senate considers this old story may largely depend upon the news media. The media (NBC news), whose responsibility is to inform the public about corruption by public officials, is struggling with whether to share such information with the public... Hiding relevant information from courts is punishable by law. Hiding relevant information from citizens is a breech of responsibility. Both types of cover-ups are corrupting influences. Both are manipulative acts geared to protect, in this case, a master manipulator. Both are corrosive to the fabric of trust that should exist between our judicial branch and citizen and between media and citizen.."

Newsmax 2/2/99 Freeper FISHHOG ".IMUS: Does a taped interview exist between Lisa Myers and this woman? RUSSERT: ah, er, ah, I'm not going to get into where we are. It's a work in progress about a whole lot of things. IMUS: In other words, the answer is yes. Thank you. RUSSERT: Well, ah, er, alright Mr. Falwell. IMUS: (laughing) No, I just wondered. RUSSERT: I mean, you know - there's a videotape available if you want that says President Clinton murdered people. I mean, put it on the screen.After Russert left, Imus said he doubted NBC would be a party to any Rapegate cover-up, then tossed this barb at his erstwhile friend: "It would be as if they set a truck on fire, or accused somebody of planting a bomb." The references were to past NBC News debacles involving a staged car explosion passed off as spontaneous and a false report fingering Richard Jewel as the Olympic Park bomber. ."

Newsmax.com 2/2/99 InsideCover Freeper chuck allen ".According to the insider political tipsheet "Hotline", NBC sources claimed on Thursday that Lisa Myers and her "Dateline" team are still working to corroborate serious allegations, believed to involve rape, leveled by Juanita Broaddrick against President Clinton. Reportedly, the network wants the story to be "rock solid" before airing it. The Drudge Report blames White House pressure for the apparent media-cover-up, which NBC, not suprisingly, denies. But early last week, Inside Cover's exclusive on the scene source revealed that Broaddrick's claims had been corroborated in NBC interviews by multiple witnesses close to the victim. "They are still stalling," our source revealed last week. "NBC's investigators have gone through everything." Broaddrick's husband and four of her friends were interviewed; people in whom Broaddrick had confided within days of her alleged Clinton attack."

Drudge 2/2/99 ".White House spokesman Joe Lockhart personally warned a news network on Tuesday not to air a story on Juanita Broaddrick, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The development comes two weeks after Broaddrick sat for an exclusive in-depth interview with NBC NEWS reporter Lisa Myers -- an interview that NBC NEWS executive have determined is not fit for air. FOX NEWS CHANNEL on Tuesday evening ran with a story about the interview and questions swirling around NBC NEWS. According to network sources, earlier in the day, Lockhart called FOX NEWS CHANNEL's White House correspondent and warned him not to pursue the story. "You guys will regret this," Lockhart told the reporter. "Clinton haters have been putting this story out for a decade now, as far back as the '92 campaign." Lockhart warned: "If you go with the story after NBC NEWS decided not to there won't be any argument about whether FOX NEWS is right wing or not." Meanwhile, Lisa Myers has been told by management not to comment on her spiked interview with Broaddrick. Over the weekend, Broaddrick told an confidant that she is now deeply disappointed in NBC, a network she says "hounded" her for nine months to get the interview and is now giving her the run-around.."

New York Post 2/3/99 Richard Johnson w/Jeane MacIntosh and Kate Coyne ". The Internet is buzzing over the fact that NBC has yet to air the piece, and the assumption is that Broaddrick is now claiming the tale of her sexual assault is true. But nobody outside a small group at NBC and Broaddrick herself knows for certain what Broaddrick told Myers. The NewsMax.com website reports Broaddrick gave an ''exclusive bombshell interview'' and was told that the story would run last Friday. It didn't, says the cyber report, because ''network executives had come down with a case of cold feet.'' ."

Freeper Yaya123 2/3/99 reports on Today show ".Russert was on TODAY show a few minutes ago and in answer to questions, said: "No, Jordan did not contradict his earlier testimony. No, Jordan did not contradict Monica's testimony." I couldn't believe Russert was spouting these lies without even blinking an eye."

Freeper ridensm 2/3/99 reports on CSPan ".NBC sitting on the story was just on C-Span Washington Journal. The dam is breaking.."

Freeper republic 2/3/99 observes ".Britt DOES have bigger . than Imus. I'm surprised is a way. I would have been thrilled for Kathleen Crier on Fox or Bill O'Reilly---Two reporters/journalists I deeply respect---to report on Juanita's heartwrenching story, but that BRETT, possibly the finest reporter/commentator on televisioin today, to have the integrity to take on this story is ASTOUNDING!."

National Review 2/2/99 Jonah Goldberg Freeper Marcellus ".The Fox News Channel was the only network to report that Lewinsky's lawyers and the White House lawyers exchanged knowing glances, winks, etc. In fact, Fox reported that at times White House lawyers were signaling Lewinsky to stop talking....Many of us have written about the possibility of legal (and illegal) collusion between Monica and the White House. Is this more grist for the conspiracy mill?...Another example is the Lisa Meyers interview with Jane Doe #5....we do know that the White House put considerable pressure on NBC....The New York Times story that Ken Starr is weighing whether or not he can indict the president is another example. Clearly this story has been inflammatory. Why did the Times choose to run a story helpful to the president, while NBC chose to kill a story detrimental to his interests? Where did the story come from? Why did it appear the day before Lewinsky was going to testify? .."

WorldNetDaily 2/4/99 Joseph Farrah ".Why is it that investigators all seem to know there is much more at stake in this impeachment debate than the issues surrounding Monica Lewinsky, yet none of this ever seems to get on the table as a matter of record? There is overwhelming evidence that Clinton has used the IRS to pursue his political enemies, yet the media and Congress have pretended they know nothing about it. I have personally testified before a congressional inquiry into the political abuse of the IRS against my own news organization. I have made it my business to make key members of the House and Senate aware of the pattern of audits of Clinton enemies and adversaries. Yet, this issue has never been taken seriously -- even though it is the kind of offense that could not be dismissed out of hand by political partisans..We are pressing a $10 million civil rights lawsuit against representatives of the IRS and Clinton administration for their overtly political audit of the Western Journalism Center, parent company of WorldNetDaily..If I got half the media coverage for this aggressive and well-documented case against the government that I got when a U.S. park policeman filed a nuisance suit against us for raising questions about the death of Vincent Foster, I wouldn't complain. But I am convinced the officer in that case was put up to his suit by the administration and its allies -- and, of course, no one ever bothered to report its dismissal on summary judgment. I sometimes wonder if the establishment press will even bother to cover our IRS case when we win our judgment.. Do you see the problem here? There is an amazing double-standard at work. You can see it in the way NBC refuses to air its own reporter's exclusive interview with Juanita Broaddrick, who has claimed Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her 20 years ago. You can see it in the way the U.S. press selectively reported the massive $655 million Canadian class-action lawsuit last week on the tainted blood trail that leads right back to Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. You can see it in dozens of ways -- from slanted reporting to outright self-censorship.."

newsmax.com Inside Cover 2/4/99 Freeper chuck allen ".Is NBC trying to discredit its own Rapegate exclusive by leaking details of Juanita Broaddrick's blockbuster interview to Clinton friendly reporters? Anyone who heard Newsweek's Eleanor Clift Wednesday night certainly got that impression, as she slammed the Rapegate victim as a less than credible witness. Appearing on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, Clift claimed that Broaddrick's story had "numerous discrepancies" and insisted that NBC was sitting on her story because it didn't check out. "She can't even remember that date when it happened," Clift barked, after host Sean Hannity challenged her on NBC's cover-up. Clift's apparent insider revelation about Broaddrick's story begs the question: How does she know? Since she told all to Dateline, Broaddrick and her husband have refused to comment on the content of the interview, hanging up immediately on most reporters who call. The detail Clift cited has not been reported elsewhere.. But Clift's claim that NBC is sitting on Broaddrick's story because it lacks credibility flies in the face of what Broaddrick herself was told by NBC's Lisa Myers last Tuesday. Explaining NBC's skittishness, Myers warned Broaddrick: "The good news is, you're credible. The bad news is, you're very, very credible." The network's private investigators combed through the Clinton accuser's backround and deemed her "squeaky clean". On Monday, NBC Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert also tried to discredit his own network's Rapegate exclusive, comparing the story to videos distributed by the Rev. Jerry Falwell charging Clinton with complicity in murder.."

Judicial Watch 2/4/99 ".Today's story in The Washington Times that the White House effectively threatened Fox News to keep the Juanita Broaddrick (Jane Doe #5) story off the air comes as no surprise to Judicial Watch and others who have investigated the corruption in the Clinton Administration. Despite 12 hours of blockbuster testimony, during which time Ms. Tripp detailed the misuse of FBI files in The White House, and implicated Hillary Clinton and the President's agents in the illegal and impeachable scheme, only FOX and AMERICA'S VOICE have aired large segments of the testimony. CNN and MSNBC have aired about two minutes each. The major VHS networks have aired nothing. Given that Ms. Tripp had never before been seen on video, and given the importance of her testimony, one can only come to the conclusion that White House pressure had been applied to keep her testimony off the air during this crucial and volatile period for The White House. Recently, Ms. Tripp testified that Bruce Lindsey, the President's closest advisor, threatened that talk of what she had observed in The White House would destroy her. This video has yet to be seen on television."

FoxNews 2/4/99 Freeper Prince Charles reports ".Right at the end of his Special Report show, Brit took time to send good wishes to Lisa Myers over at NBC News. The camera then zeroed in on a big button he was sporting on his jacket, which read: FREE LISA MYERS FReepin' Hilarious!".Freeper dittomom adds ".The others on the panel were wearing the buttons too! Great slam at NBC!!!!."

American Spectator 2/1/99 Wlady Pleszczynski ".In the suffocating politesse of Washington, much remains unstated, which is the final reason for the Democrats' unease. Bit by bit by bit, what really happened to Kathleen Willey is being pieced together by the likes of ABC and the Washington Post. NBC has reportedly deep-sixed an interview with Juanita Broaddrick, but it was conducted by Lisa Myers, a mainstream pro with no known ideological axes of any sort. Sooner or later, one way or another, its contents will become known. The behavior of NBC's brass in this case recalls what honchos at the Los Angeles Times did in trying to kill their reporters' story about Clinton and the Arkansas state troopers who pimped for him. Another reporter working on the story for The American Spectator was thus freed to run with it first, and it became known as Troopergate. The L.A. Times confirmed its essentials by publishing its version a few days later. Back then, liberal denial and anti-conservative outrage saved Clinton. This time around the same crowd will be too spent to defend him against new evidence of congenital sleaze.."

Time 2/22/93 William Henry III ".NBC News might have been touting itself for having exposed the danger of GM's controversial ''sidesaddle'' gas tanks in a riveting Dateline NBC segment. Instead the network singed its reputation, and the car company won in the court of public opinion the safety battle it had lost in the courthouse. Dateline's report on Nov. 17 featured 14 min. of balanced debate, capped by 57 seconds of crash footage that explosively showed how the gas tanks of certain old GM trucks could catch fire in a sideways collision. Following a tip, GM hired detectives, searched 22 junkyards for 18 hours, and found evidence to debunk almost every aspect of the crash sequence. Last week, in a devastating press conference, GM showed that the conflagration was rigged, its causes misattributed, its severity overstated and other facts distorted. Two crucial errors: NBC said the truck's gas tank had ruptured, yet an X ray showed it hadn't; NBC consultants set off explosive miniature rockets beneath the truck split seconds before the crash -- yet no one told the viewers. There was plenty of sarcastic speculation about what happened between Monday afternoon, when NBC was defiantly dismissing GM's charges, and Tuesday morning, when it drafted an abject apology largely on GM's terms. NBC News president Michael Gartner says he simply realized that he had goofed by speaking first and asking questions later: ''The more I learned, the worse it got.."

Associated Press 1/4/97 ".NBC paid more than $500,000 to Richard Jewell to avert a lawsuit over comments Tom Brokaw made about the one-time Olympic bombing suspect, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday... NBC issued a statement saying that it had agreed to the settlement to protect confidential sources. It offered no apology or retraction. .Mr. Jewell, a 34-year-old security guard, found the knapsack that contained the pipe bomb just before the July 27 blast that killed one person and injured more than 100. He was the only named suspect before he was cleared by the government in October. Mr. Jewell's attorneys contended that Mr. Brokaw insinuated last summer that Mr. Jewell committed the bombing. "The speculation is that the FBI is close to making the case," Mr. Brokaw told sports commentator Bob Costas. "They probably have enough to arrest him right now, probably enough to prosecute him, but you always want to have enough to convict him as well. There are still some holes in this case."."

Dallas Morning News 12/3/96 David Bauder AP ".A rape victim whose story will be told on Dateline NBC Wednesday complained after seeing an advance screening that the documentary is distorted and "fans the flames of racism." The show tells the story of Karen Pomer, a Santa Monica, Calif., woman who was raped at gunpoint and subsequently went public with her story when she was dissatisfied with the police investigation. "Screams in the Night" is narrated by Maria Shriver and is billed as an effort to "document one woman's journey from crime victim to crusader." "I'm stunned," NBC senior producer Claudia Pryor said of the criticism. "Most of the hour is based on her description of what she went through and is narrated by her." Ms. Pomer, in a letter to NBC officials, said she was "publicly disassociating" herself from the show. She accused the network of playing the "race card" by concentrating on the racial angle of her assault and opening the documentary with reaction to the O.J. Simpson verdict, which was announced on the day of her attack in 1995. She is white and her attacker was black.."

Newsmax 2/5/99 ".Colleagues Call for NBC Reporter's Release... "Free Lisa Myers" Those were the words emblazoned on Brit Hume's blue lapel button as he closed his Thursday night Fox News Channel news broadcast. Hume was joined by FOX 's Jeffrey Birnbaum and Morton Kondracke, who also sported Myers buttons. Hume explained: "And finally we wanted to send our best wishes to our colleague at NBC News, Lisa Myers. She has done remarkable reporting on the Clinton-Lewinsky case. And her latest coup is the only interview anyone has done on tape with the mysterious Jane Doe # 5. NBC News, however, has yet to air that interview. And we just wanted Lisa to know that we were thinking about her over here at FOX News and we wish her well." (Camera close-up of "Free Lisa Myers" button) .."

Freeper imdoug 2/5/99 reports FoxNews ".CNN is working on a Juanita Broderick interview. Drudge on Hannity just gave out this little tidbit Also, just reported that the Wash. Post spiked a story about NBC spiking their story.."

Accuracy in Media 2/5/99 Reed Irvine ".It is obvious that nothing short of a bombshell could shatter the unity of the 45 Democratic Senators and persuade a dozen of them to vote to convict President Clinton and remove him from office. NBC News has been sitting on such a bombshell. It is an eight-hour on- camera interview by Lisa Myers with Juanita Broaddrick in which Mrs. Broaddrick charges that she was brutally raped by Bill Clinton in 1978, when he was attorney general of Arkansas. Lisa Myers first reported this on the NBC Nightly news last March. The airing of her story by NBC might have forced the Senate to convert its pro forma exercise into a genuine trial where her testimony might have had some impact on those Senators who say that the fuss is about nothing more than consensual sex between two adults... They still have three investigators in Arkansas working on it, but a reliable Arkansas source says that all the major elements have been documented, and the investigators are busying themselves with minor details. What has kept it from being given an air date? Robert Wright, the chairman of NBC, told me that they were still missing a piece of very crucial information, and he didn't feel comfortable airing the story until they got it. He told me, off the record, what the missing information was, and he okayed my checking it out with Mrs. Broaddrick. She informed me that NBC had that information and the documents that proved it. I was able to confirm this and inform Bob Wright that he had been given false information. He responded that he must be out of the loop farther than he thought. He said he would look into it. In an earlier conversation he had acknowledged that there were people with clout at NBC News who, like CNN's Rick Kaplan, were friends of Clinton's. When, in our second conversation, I told him that I was going to write that it looks like the Kaplan clones at NBC are responsible for the delay, he did not agree, but he did not protest my saying it. The prime suspect would be the president of NBC News, Andrew Lack. Washington bureau chief Tim Russert reports to him, and Lack reports to Wright... Russert assured me that there were no phone calls to NBC from the White House about this story, but he could not possibly know if Clinton or one of his aides had spoken to Lack.In 1992, Rick Kaplan, who was then with ABC News, was suspected of having been behind ABC's sacrifice of a big scoop-Clinton's infamous 1969 letter to Col. Eugene Holmes. The letter explained why he had not kept his promise to enroll in the ROTC at the University of Arkansas, a promise he made to escape induction. ABC's delay in reporting the story helped save the Clinton candidacy. It appears that a Kaplanesque official at NBC News has now helped save Clinton's presidency by sabotaging the timely airing of NBC's exclusive interview with Juanita Broaddrick..."

Progressive Review 2/4/99 Sam Smith ".The story the White House pressured the media not to run -- with highly positive results so far -- was the lead in the February 4 Washington Times: "The Clinton story that's too hot too handle. White House accused of pressuring networks to spike tale of Arkansas rape." Suppressing the rape story has been key to the media-enabled White House spin that whatever Clinton has done wrong sexually simply involved consensual acts. In fact, serious journalists have long known that Clinton's sexual activities have left a trail of false affidavits, physical threats, public abuse, and heavy pressure from state police and private investigators -- far removed from the over-hormoned frat boy image projected by the Clintonista press.."

2/6/98 Drudge Freeper report ".Drudge said that NBC is in fear that a transcript may be on the loose containing all or much of the interview. He also showed pictures of the NBC protest.."

IMUS 2/8/99 Freeper yikes ".Stuart Taylor was a guest this morning. He said that acquittal will not mean the end of scandals...there are new revelations to come, without being specific. Imus pressed him and Taylor alluded to the Juanita Broaddrick story. Imus indicated that his sources at NBC News tell him that it would help if Ms. Broaddrick could remember "when it happened". Indicated that she is hazy about details, as would I be about events 20 years ago. Taylor pointed out that NBC ran with the story last March, subtly suggesting that NBC wasn't concerned then about hazy details. Imus said he didn't know anything about that.."

newsmax Inside Cover 2/8/99 ".Is the press really so afraid of Juanita Broaddrick's story that they'd deliberately fib about the grass roots groundswell rallying to her cause? That's what Free Republic protestor Andrew Amirault says the Associated Press did, when they covered a pro-Broaddrick rally outside NBC's New York studios on Saturday. Amirault claims that an AP photo-journalist waited for an hour to get the right shot; one which featured a protest placard reading "The Media is Out of Control." When the photo turned up in some Sunday newspapers, the caption explained that marchers were angry over the fact that Monica Lewinsky's videotaped grilling by G.O.P. prosecutors was being broadcast to the nation.Juanita Broaddrick has at least one friend in the Senate, and he showed his support during closing arguments in President Clinton's impeachment trial. That was Senator Charles Grassley (R - Iowa) sporting a "Free Lisa Myers" button as he and his colleagues watched Monica Lewinsky make her small screen speaking debut. The same pro-Broaddrick button adorned the lapels of FOX News anchor Brit Hume and two of his colleagues on Thursday.."

Investors Business Daily 2/8/99 Editorial ".It was Drudge who broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal. And more recently, his ''Drudge Report'' ran a story about NBC News withholding a bombshell story, reported by Lisa Myers. In it, Juanita Broaddrick alleges Clinton sexually assaulted her in the late 1970s. She's the Jane Doe #5 cited in Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's materials as having retracted a denial that Clinton pressed her for sex. At this writing, no Broaddrick story has appeared, even though Myers got an on-camera interview with the woman. Drudge also reports that ''Nightly News'' anchor Tom Brokaw threatened to resign if the Broaddrick interview were broadcast. NBC News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert has been doing damage control. .Russert did not deny that the story exists within NBC, having called it ''a work in the process.'' .Too bad NBC and other major outlets follow the Russert standard at their convenience. The network has failed strikingly on stories containing explosive sexual content, according to the Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog group. In 1991, NBC's ''Today'' show aired not one, but three days of segments on author Kitty Kelley's allegations, including one that Nancy Reagan had an affair with Frank Sinatra. Nor has NBC always balked at inserting itself into an ongoing story. Remember Anita Hill? The network broadcast an interview with her before the Senate decided to delay its vote to confirm Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. NBC even ignored the Russert standard on possible criminal wrongdoing. The MRC documents air dates of a story, since recanted, that all but accused the late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernadin of having sexually abused a teen-age boy. The reporting was based on rumor.."

Newsmax 2/9/99 Carl Limbacher ".A women's advocate and rape crisis counselor who has befriended Juanita Broaddrick told NewsMax.com on Sunday that the Clinton accuser has no political or financial motive and has not timed her allegation to coincide with the President's Senate impeachment trial. But despite Broaddrick's lack of ulterior motives, her friend believes that NBC News will not air the January 20 interview Broaddrick gave to Lisa Myers until the trial is over... Since the Rapegate controversy exploded two weeks ago, Broaddrick's friend has become the target of what appears to be a White House inspired intelligence-gathering operation.How do rape victims and their counselors feel when feminist leaders turn away from sexual abuse victims like Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick? "We keep in contact with women across the nation who've had things like this happen. And I can tell you, they were really upset with Clinton even before Juanita's case came to the forefront. It's annoying when people think Gloria Steinem and Patricia Ireland speak for us.".. If NBC won't run her interview, why doesn't she just go to another network? "People who say she should take her story elsewhere don't understand that most victims are emotionally exhausted after an interview like that. It's not easy to recount the intimate, embarrassing details of a rape experience. Now that NBC won't run it immediately, it's almost like saying they don't believe her. That's every rape victim's nightmare. Besides, what guarantee does she have that the next network won't do the same? ..The person who counsels women like Broaddrick won't say what her friend actually felt at that moment, adding only: "Right now I'm concerned for her because I believe NBC is jerking her around. And the longer NBC waits, the more time the White House has to discredit her. It took all that she had to make the decision to grant an interview. Now that she has made that decision, Juanita's story should be heard." ."

Newsmax 2/10/99 ". Sgt. Schultz would be proud. The comedic "I know nothing, I see nothing," obedient Nazi soldier from "Hogan's Heroes" has nothing on CNBC anchorman Brian Williams, who told a Boston talk radio audience Tuesday that he'd rather not know why his own network is keeping Juanita Broaddrick's bombshell interview on ice... Carr then confronted Williams with examples of other stories his network had deemed germane, like a false TODAY Show report based on rumors that Chicago's Cardinal Bernadin had molested a boy. The anchorman explained that NBC didn't want to make a similar mistake with Broaddrick's allegation against Clinton. NBC's must have discovered it's journalistic conscience very recently, since just weeks ago Williams' CNBC colleague Geraldo Rivero let investigative pornographer Larry Flynt debut his dirt on Rep. Bob Barr to a national television audience.."

newsmax.com 2/9/99 ".This morning when jolly Al Roker greeted the crowd outside of NBC's "Today" show fishbowl studio in Rockefeller Center, he wasn't all smiles. Clinton critics from the FREEREPUBLIC.com have been showing up to wave placards denouncing NBC for not airing the interview with Juanita Broaddrick aka Jane Doe #5. NBC camera crews have been instructed to avoid wide angle camera shots and to be on the lookout for anyone engaging in free speech about Broaddrick, Inside Cover has learned. "Gotcha," was the only thing we could say when we saw Roker introduce one smiling fan who unfurled his poster reading "NBC Rape Cover-Up, Free Juanita." Roker turned, as if to say "Oh my God, I hope Bob Wright didn't see that," and immediately segued back to the bunker-studio where Lauer and Katie are holed up pretending business is as usual. FREEPERS -- the nickname for Freerepublic.com aficionado-- are not letting NBC off the hook for censoring the Broaddrick story.."

Page Six - New York Post 2/11/99 Richard Johnson with Jeane MacIntosh and Kate Coyne ".During Tuesday's ''Today'' show, portly weatherman Al Roker went out into the street to greet the throngs of fans gathered outside. As Roker chatted on-camera with tourists, he approached one smiling person holding up a large sign proclaiming he was from Hawaii. But as soon as Roker began to talk to the ''Hawaiian,'' the man flipped the sign over to reveal a different message: ''NBC Supports Rape! Free Lisa Myers!'' Roker, and the camera crew, quickly zoomed in on a different crowd member.."

Freeper 4Liberty reports on Drudge ".Matt said on the radio today that "Juanita has been talking to the Wall Street Journal during the past 24-36 hours." ."

Inside Cover (NewsMax.com) 2/12/99 ".The folks at NBC aren't the only insiders who know the secret details of Juanita Broaddrick's story, which she recounted to NBC's Lisa Myers last month in an eight-hour interview the network now refuses to air. The House Judiciary Committee still retains control over sealed evidence stored in D.C.'s Gerald Ford Building -- evidence known to include Broaddrick's account of her alleged 1978 rape by Bill Clinton. On Thursday, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) hinted, in an exchange with WABC radio's Sean Hannity, that the veil of secrecy over the sealed Broaddrick evidence could soon be lifted.Flashback to impeachment eve. Wexler's House colleague, Rep. Tillie Fowler (R-FL), tells CNBC's Chris Matthews that material on Broaddrick "and others" is under seal because of tentative plans to use it at trial. But those plans never materialized. Now that Clinton's trial is history, the need for secrecy is gone. And, as Wexler suggests, the House Judiciary Committee could release the Ford Building evidence with a simple majority vote. That evidence, after all, was gathered on the taxpayer's dime. And, presumably, "we the people" are now entitled to know why congressmen left the Ford Building "horrified" (Rep. Chris Shays) and "nauseated" (Rep. Matt Salmon). Or why another was reportedly reduced to tears by what he saw (Rep. Mike Castle).."

New York Post 2/15/99 ".THE fallout over NBC's shelving of Juanita Broaddrick's bombshell interview - which many suspect revisits her old claims she was raped by Bill Clinton - continues. The other day, CNBC anchor Brian Williams told a Boston talk-radio show he's "recused himself from knowing too much about this story." But Williams toed the company line when pressed by WRKO radio's Howie Carr on why the segment hadn't run. "The story is still in play, I think," Williams said. "It's still being reported ... They're searching for germaneness."."

Freeper Tatze and MMMike reporting on Lucianne Goldberg Radio interview of Steve Maltzberg WABC Talk Show Host ".Interesting news: .just says he talked to Juanita today and she is, through her laywers, filing a motion in court to stop NBC from airing the interview. He says that she doesnt trust NBC to handle the interview anymore. Neither . nor Trixie seem to think she has a case to stop NBC. Still an interesting development.."

Wall Street Journal 2/19/99 Dorothy Rabinowitz ". To any reporter, it was the kind of story that doesn't come along often in a career--an alleged 1978 sexual assault involving William Jefferson Clinton, then attorney general of Arkansas. From the viewpoint of Juanita Broaddrick, it has been a trial and concern ever since reports began emerging in the 1992 presidential campaign, through the Paula Jones case and into the impeachment proceedings. Indeed, her story was crucial to the outcome of those proceedings--just one among several reasons it is far more than another now-irrelevant Jane Doe account.. Mrs. Broaddrick finally agreed to see NBC's Lisa Myers, who had already done a brief report on her in March and who had been calling her regularly for nearly a year. .The interview took place Jan. 20, just over a month after the president's impeachment on Dec. 19. The Senate trial had been under way for nearly two weeks--focused, at this point, on whether Monica Lewinsky should testify. At NBC, the debate was what to do about the Broaddrick interview--a large question. NBC had scheduled the program for airing on the Jan. 29 episode of "Dateline," Mrs. Broaddrick heard--but it did not air then or later. The network had an explosive story on its hands, to be sure, and also an exhaustively investigated one. NBC's researchers had combed through the Broaddricks' entire lives, through dusty basement files and court records. .As the days passed, with no Broaddrick interview--and the Feb. 12 Senate impeachment trial vote imminent--NBC News spokesmen told all callers the "Dateline" report was still a work in progress, requiring more investigation. Other sources at NBC asked--profoundly off the record--how much more confirmation could the story need? They had four witnesses giving corroborating testimony--citizens with nothing to gain and possibly much to lose by going public and talking, as the husband of one witness kept warning her..NBC had investigated and investigated, and it was not yet enough. Word went out from NBC that the network had to cross-check dates, or lacked enough dates.. All she had tried to avoid by refusing all these years to talk to the press, all that she had feared--that she would not be believed, that she would be passed off as just another bimbo with a Clinton story--had now come to pass, in her view. As soon as it was evident there was to be trouble about airing the piece, she recalls, Lisa Myers told her: "The good news is you're credible. The bad news is you're very credible.". It meant that to encounter this woman, to hear the details of her story and the statements of the corroborating witnesses, was to understand that this was an event that in fact took place. "Too credible" sums the matter up nicely. It isn't hard to see what had given NBC pause. There was, first of all, the detail. Then the subject herself--a woman of accomplishment, prosperous, successful in her field, serious; a woman seeking no profit, no book, no lawsuit. A woman of a kind people like and warm to. .."

Wall Street Journal 2/19/99 DoughtyOne ".The pride and joy of General Electric's news gathering service, NBC has just passed over one the most sensational heart wrenching stories of abuse, this nation will ever see. riminal assaults of women occur each and every day. All too many go unsolved. But when the President of the United States is reported to have been the perpetrator of such a perverted and devious act, wouldn't you think an organization which prides itself in being a women's oriented network, would sit up and pay attention? I wonder how little Katie Couric will feel, when she finds out. Better yet, how will all those self aware totally in-tune women who watch NBC feel when they find out? It's 1999, decades of sensitizing later, and NBC News still doesn't get it. .. NBC certainly didn't want the truth to be aired at such a critical time. So they stonewalled! But low and behold, the nation wouldn't sit still for this complicity. And thousands upon thousands of people flooded their phone lines, fax lines, and front doorsteps! Enter the Wall Street Journal. What nailing down the story issues NBC couldn't iron out in three weeks or more, the Wall Street Journal accomplished in much less time, airing thousands of words on the subject this morning... for this NBC will forever be known as the accessory network! Not only did NBC elect to give the first pervert a free pass on the claims of Broaddrick, but they elected to give him a free pass on an issue that most certainly would have led to his being bounced out of office, or better yet jailed! It's one thing to have a preference of who you wish to support. It's okay to even present the positive aspects of that individual. But when you essentially become an accessory after the fact, then you're aiding in the cover-up of a crime. And this was a crime NBC, even if you couldn't recognize it as such. .."

NewsMax 2/19/99 Carl Limbacher ".What might have happened had NBC News broadcast its Jan. 20 interview with alleged Clinton rape victim Juanita Broaddrick during President Clinton's impeachment trial? With Clinton's sky-high poll numbers weathering a torrent of Sexgate revelations for more than a year, many believe the answer to that question is: nothing. But American public opinion wasn't always impervious to the Monica maelstrom. In fact, polling data from the first days of the scandal reveals that Clinton's popularity went into a tailspin almost immediately; one which, if repeated during his Senate trial, could have very well cost him his presidency..NBC executives surely worried about the impact of Broaddrick's rape allegation against Clinton as they ran out the clock. The Rapegate shocker threatened Clinton's popularity as no other revelation had since the opening days of the Lewinsky scandal.. Would NBC's timely broadcast of Juanita Broaddrick's story have caused it all to come out? Would one Rapegate revelation after another have replicated in spades the public's early revulsion over Monicagate? If Clinton's popularity began to slide all over again, how would Democrats explain their votes to acquit? Apparently, those are questions NBC News decided were better left unanswered -- even at the risk that history would be altered by "newsmen" who kept from the public vital information about a president they feared was all too guilty."

ATLANTA JOURNAL 2/19/99 Benita Dodd ".Broaddrick's story has been widely discussed and debated in media circles, but The Wall Street Journal, which ran the story on its opinion page, is the first mainstream publication to print the story. Broaddrick was interviewed about her allegations by NBC's Lisa Myers for a "Dateline NBC" segment on January 20. NBC scheduled the program for airing on the Jan.29 episode of "Dateline", Broaddrick told the Journal, but it has not yet been aired. NBC officials, asked at the time why the interview did not air, said it was a work in progress requiring more investigation. NBC now says it is still planning to air the interview, but that investigators are waiting for the White House to answer about 40 questions relating to the matter. Asked for a response to Broadrick's charges, a White House spokesman told the Journal Thursday tht the story was so old that Clinton's personal lawyer, David Kendall, should be the one to answer it. Kendall's assistant said he was unavailable for comment, the Journal said.."

AP 2/19/99 ".In the first published account of her story, an Arkansas woman claims she was sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton 20 years ago while he was the state's attorney general..White House spokesman Joe Lockhart was dismissive of the story. "I spend very little time reading the Wall Street Journal editorial page,'' Lockhart told reporters. "They lost me after they accused the president of being a drug smuggler and a murderer.'' . In the hotel room, Clinton forced her to have sex, Mrs. Broaddrick told the Journal in a detailed account. In a brief interview Friday with The Associated Press, Ms. Broaddrick said she did not go to the police at the time "because of the mentality of the '70s. There I was, I was married, I was also in a relationship with another man, and ... I was there alone in a hotel room with the attorney general and I didn't think anyone would possibly believe me.'' Asked why she was telling her story now, she said she was countering rumors that she had been bribed and intimidated to stay quiet. She also did an interview with NBC that has not been broadcast. Mrs. Broaddick said she felt NBC had let her "hang out to dry.'' .As for Clinton, Mrs. Broaddrick said, "I don't have an agenda where he is concerned. I could care less what happens to the man.'' ."

Freeper truthkeeper on Fox O'Reilly reports 2/19/99 ".O'Reilly made the following points: 1) Corroboration was provided by the nurse and others; 2) Juanita never tried to take money for the story; 3) She "should have been heard" because her story, if true, shows "a pattern of behavior" on WJC's part that would be of concern to America; 4) She desperately did not wish to get involved in this story, even going so far as to run from a FoxNews truck; 5) NBC and Lisa Myers "spiked" the story after pursuing her for months and this makes O'Reilly suspect their motives; 6) He has heard L.Myers is "not happy" about these developments and that NBC is "taking heat" over this; 7) NBC should say SOMETHING to its viewers on the air about it "developing the story" to dispel "conspiracty theories" (i.e., that GE is spiking the story); instead, it says nothing at all. This makes him very suspicious."

AP Pete Yost 2/19/99 ".In the first published account of her story, an Arkansas woman claims she was sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton 20 years ago while he was the state's attorney general..Clinton's personal attorney, David Kendall, denied Mrs. Broaddrick's account of the events. ``Any allegation that the president assaulted Mrs. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false,'' Kendall said. ``Beyond that, we're not going to comment."."

MSNBC 2/19/99 Freeper chuck allen reports ".Brian Williams just mentioned the story, with only Kendall and Lockharts Comments. He made mention the NBC may have a story, but that the News division doesn;t comment on it's News gathering Facts. Absolutely Amazing!!."

Drudge 2/19/99 Freeper marshmallow reports ".Drudge reporting now, that Washington Post is going to put it on the front page....Kosovo seems to be taking the heat out of this story rather nicely at the moment. Amazing.."

Howard Kurtz Washington Post 2/20/99 Page A9 ".Under pressure from angry viewers, NBC News has wrestled for weeks with whether to air an exclusive interview with an Arkansas woman who has accused President Clinton of sexually assaulting her 21 years ago. NBC correspondent Lisa Myers got the first on-the-record interview with the woman last month, but NBC News President Andrew Lack and his top deputies have yet to run the story, maintaining that the network lacks sufficient corroboration of the woman's allegations. Yesterday, the accusations exploded into public view when Dorothy Rabinowitz, a Wall Street Journal editorial board member, published her own account of a lengthy interview she had with the woman, Juanita Broaddrick. But NBC is still holding back its taped interview. "There are moments in your life when you know . . . you know this is not a story that should be suppressed," Rabinowitz said yesterday. Broaddrick, she said, "is wealthy. There's no motive to lie. She's done nothing but hide from the press." ."

Drudge 2/20/99 ".President Lack may become Juanita Broaddrick's first victim as media outlets worldwide blared rape allegations against President Clinton -- allegations that Lack suppressed when he refused to allow NBC hot shot Lisa Myers' 30-minute interview with the once Jane Doe to clear air. NBC News President Lack was being hit with all of the blame for the Broaddrick debacle late Friday night. "Andy Lack should resign. Resign now. We have to save our face," declared one television insider Friday night as word spread throughout elite media circles that the WASHINGTON POST had frontpaged a chilling story of sexual assault and coverup. Myers fought to get it on the air. Washington Bureau Chief Russert fought to get it on the air. Thousands of phone calls jammed NBC's phone lines after the DRUDGE REPORT revealed that NBC News put Broaddrick on ice for the second time. "I feel so betrayed by NBC," Broaddrick told the WASHINGTON POST.. It was Lack who personally blocked the interview, and continued to thwart NBC's Washington bureau going into the last week of network sweeps. Behind the scenes on Friday night, calls for Lack's resignation accelerated. And there are new signs that Lack knowingly stood by as the White House manipulated NBC owner GENERAL ELECTRIC. "The White House pressure to prevent the Broaddrick interview from reaching air worked its way to the highest levels of the parent company GE," says a senior executive at another network. .It is not clear if White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart has been in personal contact with NBC News President Lack, or to what lengths Lockhart has gone to keep the story bottled up. One thing became clear Friday night. The cork had popped and had shot around the world. .. "

Drudge 2/23/99 "... On Wednesday night at 8 pm ET [Family Hour?] NBC NEWS will broadcast an exclusive television interview with Juanita Broaddrick, a woman who has accused Bill Clinton of rape.... The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that NBC NEWS Washington Bureau chief Tim Russert got sick to his stomach when he viewed the five hour session between NBC NEWS reporter Lisa Myers and Broaddrick., Russert told associates that Broaddrick's story left him speechless and upset him physically after he viewed raw tapes of her interview. Broaddrick tells NBC NEWS, in graphic detail, how Bill Clinton raped her back in 1978.... "NBC is just trying to compete with the GRAMMY AWARDS," one White House source told the DRUDGE REPORT on Tuesday afternoon...."

Hockenberry - MSNBC 2/25/99 "...Hockenberry: ...The reason we know about this rape accusation is because of the ambitions of a reporter, not because of a search for the truth. What do you say to that? Meyers: Well, I would say that reasonable people could disagree about whether this kind of story should be pursued. Yes, there is a statute of limitations on rape. But there isn't a statute of limitations on whether somebody is fit to be president. In that context, an allegation like this one is relevant. Now one of the reasons we proceeded carefully is that is it 21 years ago, there aren't any records, you want to be fair to the president which is why we gave the White House more than 2 weeks to answer -- to give us any reason at all not to believe Juanita Broaddrick or not to consider her story credible. Hockenberry: If all of the "i"s and "t"s are dotted and crossed, and this story was ready for broadcast on the day of the impeachment vote in the Senate, are you confident that this network would have run it? Meyers: I don't think it would have run on the day of the impeachment vote. I don't think it would have been proper. There's kind of an unwritten rule in the news business that you don't run an explosive story like this on the eve of an election and I certainly don't think that it should have been run on the eve of a vote in the Senate. Hockenberry: Some have said that this network held this story.... Meyers: (interrupting quickly) But let me add, it wasn't ready then. So it was not a matter... "

***Media Research Center CyberAlert*** 2/25/99 Vol Four No 36 "...1) NBC's Lisa Myers denied any unwarranted delay with her Broaddrick interview, insisting Wednesday that "this story finally was ready yesterday when Andy Lack made the call." But then why were staffers still working on it Tuesday night? 2) MSNBC's John Hockenberry: "If this has no legal standing now, if it's past the statute of limitations, why are we bothering with it at all?" 3) Helen Thomas obliquely raised the Broaddrick matter to Clinton at a joint press conference, but only FNC bothered to mention Clinton's refusal to respond. 4) NBC's euphemisms for rape. Tom Brokaw cited "controversial accusations" while MSNBC employed the term "sexual encounter."..."

Freeper Evocatus observes 2/25/99 "…NBC may have been sold a little short on the Lisa Myers -- Juanita Broaddrick story. They are now doing a full court press -- the big slam. All of their MSNBC cable shows are reinforcing the message and re-running Juanita's footage. It's powerful all by itself, and yet, it's much more powerful under the constant reinforcement. NBC is in to this big time and this reinforcement doesn't happen by accident. It's centrally directed. Whether it's being done for naked commercial gain or (gasp!) journalistic patriotism, it's hard to tell. This is not going to go away. Listen to the beat, beat, beat of the drums. Feel the slow burn…."

***Media Research Center CyberAlert*** 2/26/99 Vol Four No 37 "...1) White House wants Broaddrick story to "fade away." Actually, it never even became a story this week on any broadcast network evening show, not even on NBC, nor on ABC or CBS in the morning. 2) NOW President Patricia Ireland labeled Broaddrick's charges "devastating" and warned Clinton to not impugn her, but only MSNBC and FNC found it newsworthy. 3) Thursday morning only Today discussed Broaddrick. 4) Howard Kurtz maintained he knows "people at NBC who felt this interview was ready for airing at least a couple of weeks ago." Lisa Myers conceded there was internal debate about whether NBC should run the story....."

The American Spectator 2/26/99 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. "...NBC's long-delayed broadcast of Juanita Broaddrick's charge that Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Bill Clinton raped her adds still more evidence to my growing understanding of how a man with such a gamy biography could become president of the United States. The interview was to be aired on January 29. Andy Lack, NBC News President, explains the delay by claiming that he had to be sure that all the i's were dotted and the t's crossed. During his dottings and crossings my contacts with Broaddrick made it clear that Lack's labors were make work. Weeks ago her story was solid. In fact I cannot perceive any significant corroboration that NBC came up with while it delayed broadcast of the Broaddrick interview. Ah, but officials at NBC feared that by airing the interview during the impeachment trial the network would be unduly influencing the trial. On the other hand, to delay broadcasting the interview was to influence the trial, too. Influencing life is an unavoidable consequence of being alive...."

2/28/99 Matt Drudge "…NBC NEWS executives are washing Juanita Broaddrick right out of their hair. NBC NEWS has issued an order restricting the use of Juanita Broaddrick's DATELINE interview, it has been learned. Effective March 1 at 12:01 AM, NBC outlets will be restricted from using the exclusive Broaddrick footage. "No wonder the White House isn't concerned, no one will see her anymore," one frustrated MSNBC anchor said off-the-air. MSNBC and CNBC producers will have to work through NBC lawyers, on a case by case basis, to receive authorization to use any of the Lisa Myers/Broaddrick session…."

Laissez Faire City Times 3/22/99 William DeVore Mickey Pall Freeper Rex Rogers "… Special surgeons at NBC literally cut the life out of what should have been the TV Event of the Year. NBC edited the piece down to 23 minutes, and they ran their mini cut a month after it was first scheduled. NBC then put Juanita's story up against the Grammy Awards without advance promotion, and late enough so that TV Guide and the other scheduling services could not alert viewers. It was a story "made for TV," one novice NBC producer said, "It wasn't easy for the top brass to avoid a wide viewership. But they tried every trick in the book." These efforts were only partly effective…."

Media Research Center/Washington Times 5/19/1999 Brent Baker "...The morning after Mr. Richardson's appearance, as Mr. Russert told radio's Don Imus how Mr. Clinton has handled the espionage situation recklessly, NBC "Today" viewers were watching co-host Matt Lauer broadcast live from Mt. Everest, interrupted only for co-host Katie Couric's interview with daytime talk show host Jenny Jones about a jury holding her show liable for a murder. ABC's "Good Morning America" also featured a talk with Jones as well as, in its relatively more newsy first hour, tips on barbecuing. Asked by Mr. Imus why Mr. Richardson was so reluctant to tell what he knows, Mr. Russert asserted: "Because if he does, then he has put the President of United States in a position where he is lying about national security." Mr. Russert scolded the Clinton team: "You don't spin your way out of national security breaches. It happened on their watch and they're trying to spin their way out of it. You confront 'em, you accept responsibility." Though he carries the title of NBC News Vice President, hours after Mr. Russert offered his grave assessment "NBC Nightly News" skipped the China story. Instead, NBC featured an "In Depth" segment on how a deadly Louisiana bus crash demonstrated the need for more regulation of buses. ABC's "World News Tonight" also ignored Chinagate and allocated nearly six minutes to how retirees are becoming more active. The "CBS Evening News" explored whether more regulation is needed to protect consumers from aggressive credit card pitches..."

Drudge 5/30/99 "...Bill Carter of the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to unleash a new media scandal, according to publishing sources. Carter is set to accuse the ABC-TV Network of checkbook journalism in the Columbine High School Massacre! Carter will charge: "ABC News paid a friend of one of the teen-age gunmen in the Columbine High School shootings $16,000 for the exclusive broadcast rights to home videos and other materials containing details about the killers. Then last Monday, the network presented what it called an exclusive interview with the 18-year-old, Nathan Dykeman, on GOOD MORNING AMERICA." "It is gross on some level to profit off this tragedy,'' Jeff Zucker, the executive producer of NBC's TODAY show, tells Carter. "It's a clear example of buying a story and it's an unseemly thing for ABC to do.'' ..."

**Media Research Center CyberAlert*** 6/14/99 Vol Four No 106 "...1) ABC found support in Iowa for Bush's "call for compassionate conservatism," NBC determined they are only backing "a Republican who they think is going to win," while CBS insisted "the Texas Governor is still more curiosity than candidate." 2) Suggesting that Democrats will paint George W. Bush as a "hardline conservative," CNN's Jeanne Meserve asserted they will only be following what his father did to the "moderate" Dukakis. 3) Newsweek's Evan Thomas compared the Christian Coalition's activities to the Spanish Inquisition. 4) CNN/USA President Rick Kaplan complained that Ken Starr is "putting obsession ahead of the best interests of the nation" while Bill Clinton has had "extraordinary" achievements. ..."

Judicial Watch 6/15/99 Larry Klayman and Monty Warner "...."The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce," a 331-page manifesto and brainchild of Associate White House Counsel Jane Sherburne and the DNC, was circulated to select reporters in a tortured effort to describe how the "right wing" conveyed "fringe" stories into the mainstream American media. In essence, this document was an effort to "alert" friendly journalists that such a "conspiracy" was being promulgated by certain groups dissatisfied with the moral lapses of the Clinton White House. In short, it was a 1990's enemies list...... In December of 1994, Associate White House Counsel Sherburne prepared a memorandum that outlined strategies to use against individuals and organizations perceived to be adversaries of the Clinton Administration. The memo also assigned staff members to carry out these strategies - and specifically identified the Western Journalism Center for having investigated Foster's death. WJC was the only news organization targeted for action...."

Judicial Watch 6/15/99 Larry Klayman and Monty Warner "....In July 1996, after absorbing months of swirling rumors of a pending audit, Joe Farah answered a knock on his door at the Western Journalism Center. Thomas Cedarquist, an IRS official and one of the chief defendants in Judicial Watch's lawsuit on behalf of WJC, strode in and announced that, having seen the WJC's work on "60 Minutes," he had arbitrarily decided (as this Administration does) that WJC was a political and not a non- profit organization. Cedarquist then confirmed he and others in Washington were going to challenge WJC's tax-exempt status and audit their 1995 tax returns..... Regrettably, our sensibilities to this end would be quickly overwhelmed when we saw - as Joseph Farah did - that the search Cedarquist and the IRS were conducting was not for financial reasons, rather to review the content of WJC's work. Farah was asked about his affiliation with Christopher Ruddy, a thorn in the side of the Administration, and why WJC chose to work with him. Nearly every query posed to Farah was related to a story or developing story concerning the White House - an IRS search completely devoid of concern for money. Rightfully exasperated, Farah questioned the tactics of the agency and received the following rejoinder from Cedarquist: "Look, this is a political case, and the decision will be made at the national level." Taxpayers Bill of Rights? Over the course of the investigation of WJC, nearly 20 other conservative organizations - including the Heritage Foundation, NRA and Citizens Against Government Waste - felt the close, warm touch of the Clinton audit machine. Ironically, all of these groups happened to take issue with its policies and political hatchet work. Even more oddly, the media who knew of the "Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce" never saw any pattern developing that would signify an orchestrated White House effort - much less actually troubled themselves to report it. Meanwhile, the Western Journalism Center's offices were being broken into, with, mysteriously, nothing stolen. Their phone messages were apparently being monitored, and some of these developments happened to coincide with WJC breakthroughs in Clinton investigations....The scrutiny of the WJC by the IRS lasted 9 months. During this time the Center almost went bankrupt. One donor called Mr. Farah and told him that Hazel O'Leary, then the Energy Secretary, had related to him that he would lose his federal contracts if he continued to support the Western Journalism Center. WJC employees lost their jobs and livelihoods...."

Judicial Watch 6/15/99 Larry Klayman and Monty Warner "....Finally in October of 1996, Farah exposed these corrupt practices in a piece in The Wall Street Journal, and the tide began to turn. Margret Milner-Richardson, IRS Commissioner and close friend of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, abruptly resigned. The New York Post attributed her departure to political audits of conservative organizations. Some began to probe these rampant abuses, and the audit of the Western Journalism Center was "concluded" - a verdict of "no wrongdoing" rendered in May of 1997. Under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights enacted by Congress, Farah requested his case file from the IRS so he could review its contents. In keeping with the Clinton Administration standard practice, these rights were trampled on with a terse refusal to turn over the documents - the IRS frivolously citing "government privilege" as a means of keeping Mr. Farah from seeing justification for what had nearly bankrupted his organization. But Farah would not be deterred. On behalf of WJC, Judicial Watch, a public interest watchdog group, filed a $10 million lawsuit against Ms. Richardson, Mr. Cedarquist, numerous unidentified agents involved in the case and the IRS itself. We are determined to ensure that Mr. Farah sees justice in this case, and that every American is free to express his or her First Amendment-protected views without vicious, detached harassment from its own government...."

Judicial Watch 6/14/99 "...Last week, Roberto Suro, Attorney General Janet Reno's and the Clinton Justice Department's favorite reporter at The Washington Post -- and the person who routinely discloses tactically-timed Justice Department leaks -- published an article on Sunday, June 6, 1999, entitled "Justice Department Puts Starr Investigation on Hold, Sources Say," which suggested that Reno would not proceed with an investigation into alleged ethics violations by Judge Starr's Office of Independent Counsel ("OIC"), if the OIC would drop any on-going investigations of the Clintons. With yesterday's article in The New York Times that indeed Starr is ending his investigations, and will issue a final report recommending against indictments of Bill and Hillary Clinton, it would appear that Reno's "message" may have been favorably received by the independent counsel. In Judicial Watch's cases, it has learned that Judge Starr and his team have not completed their investigations, and that key witnesses have never been approached or put under oath on important issues. "If the reports are true that Judge Starr is about to 'throw in the towel,' we therefore hope that Judge Starr -- whose criminal mandate provides him with important powers -- will reconsider," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman and President Tom Fitton...."

The scandals have been consistently described as having begun last January, when major concerns about Clinton actually surfaced as far back as the 1992 primary.

The Starr investigation is consistently portrayed as only (or primarily)interested in Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky. The significant issue of Kathleen Willey (and attempts to deep-six her story) have been ignored or underplayed. Little or no mention is given to the many other aspects of the Starr investigation.

The conventional media have dismissed reports by Sally Perdue, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey and Linda Tripp having been personally threatened (Tripp was even put in a safe house for a while by the FBI). The treatment of these women has been disparaging and of the sort the police once accorded women who claimed to have been raped.

The conventional media have dismissed Filegate and Travelgate even though what is even publicly available about these scandals rates them as stunning abuses of power.

The conventional media have failed to tell the public such simple facts as how many of Clinton's associates have already been convicted, how often the Clintons and their associates have given evasive answers under oath, how many witnesses in the scandals have pleaded the Fifth or left the country, how many witnesses have been subjected to physical threats and how many sudden deaths have occurred.

The conventional media have badly misrepresented the cost and length of the Starr investigation compared to other such inquiries by independent prosecutors.

The conventional media have failed to tell the public of ties between the drug trade and organized crime and the Clinton administration.

The conventional media have failed to tell the public of a 20-page statement that supervising judges ordered attached to the Starr report on Vincent Foster's death. The statement recounts highly suspicious events affecting Foster witness Patrick Knowlton.

The conventional media have ridiculed those journalists and independent investigators who have produced leads and stories that might threaten the Clinton myth.

The conventional media have failed to describe in an understandable fashion the import of successful attempts by foreign and domestic power brokers to buy influence in the Clinton administration.

Washington Post 9/9/98 David Broder ".But it is not only the political world that has been wrestling with the issues of honesty and credibility so starkly framed by Clinton. The September issue of the American Journalism Review, published by the University of Maryland, devotes most of its news coverage and commentary to the scandals that have shaken newspapers and television in recent weeks, raising fundamental questions about the trustworthiness of my business.."

Freeper Report on CBS Evening News Dan Rather 9/24/98 "Last week during the Cristian Coalition's anual meeting in Washington D.C., on the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather refered to the Christian Coalition as "The lobbying group that calls itself quote: The Christian Coalition""

Washington Weekly 8/3/98 Carl Limbacher ".But it's Clinton's pattern of witness intimidation that should scare the daylights out of every American. And that pattern would no doubt put a severe crimp in those sky-high presidential approval ratings if the media began calling attention to the terrorist tactics employed against so many who cross this president. Just a month before Linda Tripp went public about her own "dangerous" predicament, Kathleen Willey reported that her property had been vandalized - after which a stranger approached her, invoked the names of her children and then said, "I hope you're getting the message?" No doubt this was a bone chilling experience for the widowed Ms. Willey, especially after she had exposed the president on "60 Minutes" as a crude sexual predator. There were a handful of reports about the threat against Willey, but the press decided it wasn't worth raising a fuss over. The media did a similar tap dance around the case of Juanita Broaddrick, a woman uncovered by detectives working for Paula Jones. Reportedly Jones' investigators tape recorded Broaddrick as she unburdened herself about a traumatic encounter with Clinton when he was Arkansas State Attorney General, an experience that she said turned her life upside down and caused her to flee to California. Broaddrick would not go into detail, saying she did not want to "re-live" the episode. But two network news divisions, ABC and NBC, spoke to witnesses who recounted Broaddrick's story, as told to them years ago by Broaddrick herself. Back then, according to these witnesses, Broaddrick had claimed Bill Clinton had brutally raped her. NBC's Lisa Myers actually interviewed the nurse who had treated Broaddrick's swollen lips after the attack. ABC identified that nurse as Norma Rogers, and named another witness to whom Broaddrick had confided. Broaddrick hastily issued an affidavit recanting her allegation. But questions remain as to why she changed her story. Nevertheless, the media played dumb. Instead of running down an obviously substantial story, the press blamed attorneys for Paula Jones for leaking such a scurrilous charge. According to the London Telegraph (3/30/98), Ken Starr has subpoenaed all relevant evidence gathered by investigators on the Broaddrick case, in an effort to determine if Juanita Broaddrick has been silenced by the Clinton attack machine. The list of Clinton scandal witnesses who claim to have been approached by operatives bearing bribes and/or threats is astonishingly long, and promises to grow longer as journalists ignore the phenomenon.."

9/26 The Sun Jonathan Weisman [SEE REBUTTAL BELOW] "."At this point, we have no evidence that would indicate a referral [to the Judiciary Committee] is even a remote possibility," said Brent Bahler, the select committee's spokesman. "No smoke, no fire," he emphasized, but he noted that the investigation will continue until the end of the year.. But when Gingrich suggested the Judiciary Committee include the China issue in an expanded impeachment probe, Cox bridled. Cox said there is little conceivable way his probe could show impeachable offenses. The White House did override national security warnings from the State Department in 1996, when it shifted oversight of satellite-licensing authority to the less restrictive Commerce Department. And that shift did coincide with campaign contributions from satellite companies that had been clamoring for the policy change for years. `We don't have much' But, Cox said, "the problem is, we know as much about these campaign contributions as we're going to know. Unless we come across a memo that says, `This is going to violate national security, but this is so much money, let's go for it,' we don't have much." Moreover, he said, the committee would have to show the president was personally involved in wrongdoing, not simply his minions at the State, Commerce and Defense Departments who make such policy changes. Rep. Norm Dicks of Washington, the lead Democrat on the select committee, reported not a single witness testifying in secret sessions has said he was pressured by superiors or political appointees to make policy decisions or behave in any particular way.. "This is simply not a premise for impeachment," Cox said. Said Dicks: "There are maybe some policy changes we may want to recommend, but any wrongdoing is already being investigated by the Justice Department, and it involves companies that have admitted violating the terms of their [export] licenses." "And that is the consensus of all nine members of the committee," Dix said, referring to Republicans as well as Democrats. Those conclusions mirror what many Democrats have been saying for months: The satellite technology issue relates to policy decisions that date to the Reagan administration, not to criminal wrongdoing. ."

Reply from Rep. Christopher Cox, Chairman House Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military-Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China - to The Sun: "Your article "Inquiry adds no Clinton charges" (Sept. 26) is false and inaccurate in several respects. First, given the nature of the House Select Committee on National Security's nondisclosure rules, Rep. Norman D. Dicks, the ranking Democrat, is unlikely to have told The Sun anything about the substance of testimony by witnesses in "secret sessions" concerning Clinton administration wrongdoing. Moreover, Defense Department officials have publicly testified before other committees that they were pressured by superiors and political appointees to make decisions harmful to national security. Second, "the consensus of all nine members of the committee" most definitely does not mirror "what many Democrats have been saying for months: The satellite technology issue relates to policy decisions that date to Reagan administration, not to criminal wrongdoing." The Reagan administration never granted a satellite waiver. The Clinton waivers are the subject of ongoing criminal probes into national security violations by the firms involved, including President Clinton's $1 million donor, Loral Chairman Bernard Schwartz. Third, I told The Sun reporter nothing about the ongoing work of our committee. The inferences drawn in your article are directly at odds with the formal statement issued by our committee, to which I referred him: "The Select Committee has reached no conclusions about what the evidence will or will not show."

USA Today 10/12/98 Richard Benedeto "One of the great myths going unchallenged in the impeachment debate is that the process has fallen into shameful partisanship and unfairness in contrast to the Watergate inquiry. Republicans and Democrats were supposedly models of bipartisan comity in that probe. Most of the media and much of the public have bought the line, carefully spun by the White House and Democrats in general as they try to delegitimize the investigation of President Clinton led by Republicans in Congress.."

10/15/98 CJ Barr ".Within the last several weeks, many potentially explosive facts have floated by on the surface of the Clinton cesspool: The OIC Referral revealed that Juanita Broaddrick (Jane Doe #5) had lied in her affidavit denying that she was sexually assaulted, virtually raped, by Bill Clinton in 1978. (This journal interviewed her shortly after the disclosure. She confirmed the assault.) The story has had no traction in the established press. A subcommittee of the Reform Committee of the House of Representatives recently released a detailed report documenting a systematic misuse of Federal assets by the Clintons for partisan, party purposes -- a misuse amounting to outright theft. The subcommittee also referred a senior White House aide to the Justice Department for obstruction. This story aroused little notice. The Reform and Oversight Committee, itself, just released an Interim Report containing dramatic proof of massive campaign finance abuses by the Clinton administration. The report has been ignored. Judicial Watch recently released a report on its several legal cases arising from abuses of office in the Clinton Administration. Were they a Nader organization exposing the perfidy of corporate America, the report would have led the news. It has, instead, been virtually overlooked. There have been several reports and columns exposing the Clinton administrations systematic breaches of U.S. security, either out of gross negligence (like the averted release of nuclear weapons secrets) or cupidity (like the transfer of Motorola's missile guidance technology). They were mere flashes in the pan; no wider fire was kindled. But yesterday NPR interviewed Gil Davis and learned that he had once made a series of telephone calls to Starr to sound him out on the law of presidential immunity. There is nothing new about this. Everyone knows that Starr was, at one time, actually thinking about contributing to an amicus brief in the case. It would not have been extraordinary for him to have had some casual words with other lawyers, including Davis. Carville has, in fact, long been asserting overt collusion between Starr and the Jones team based on this tenuous connection.."

7/6/98 Washington Weekly Marvin Lee "The last two months have seen more dismissals of journalists for fabricating stories than almost the entire decade before. At least that is how it seems: Stephen Glass, Patricia Smith, (James Fallows), Mike Gallagher, April Oliver, Jack Smith, and Pam Hill have all been dismissed just recently. What happened? There may be several contributing factors but we trace the shift to one key event in January: a split inside the White House. For years, there had been unity between the White House and its defenders in the mainstream press..But in January, Matt Drudge broke the Lewinsky story.The split within the White House turned to a split in the media: those who followed the Lewinsky story believing it could finish the Clinton administration, and those who stayed loyal to Bill Clinton and started attacking their fellow journalists for deserting the cause. By June it turned into an open, public food fight. Steve Brill led the Clinton camp in a charge that named mainstream reporters had become shills for Kenneth Starr. The reporters responded with anger.The latest in the series is James Fallows, another one in the Clinton camp who as editor allowed U.S. News and World magazine to be used for a defense against the Lewinsky charges just as Brill had allowed the use of his "Content" magazine. Fallows was removed last week."

Brill retracted statements in his article concerning Judge Starr and the press - relating to the a Wall Street Journal interview evidently because the interview was taped (Brill misrepresented the interview.)Syndicated columnist James Pinkerton: Steve Brill praises Watergate reporting while he laments that the press has fallen short of that high standard.

U.S. News and World Report associate editor Elise Ackerman heard two hours of tapes or read transcripts, but was not allowed to take notes on Lewinsky tapes that said she was looking for a job two months before she was subpoenaed in the Jones case.

White House: "There are some staffers up on the Hill who think that if we embargoed every country we'd have the world's best nonproliferation policy, whether it impeded anyone or not." Congressional staffer: "When it comes to implementing sanction laws the Executive traditionally takes the view that ends justify the means. But the problem is that it degrades the credibility and, thus, the deterrent effect of these sanctions if they're not implemented when flagrantly triggered, even if the executive finds some legal loophole." Robert Kagan of the Carnegie Endowment said he believed that Chinese access to sensitive American technologies and exports should "not be an inducement for changing behavior, but a reward for changed behavior."

WorldNetDaily 10/14/98 Joseph Farah ".Where did the press go wrong? It allowed itself to become hostage to a narrow worldview. It permitted itself to become captive to a political and social agenda. Worst of all, the press stopped comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable and became an advocate of bigger and more intrusive government in the lives of all Americans."

AP 10/16/98 Michael White ".Almost nine in 10 Americans believe journalists use illegal or unethical methods, according to a study released Friday that underscored the need for stricter attention to ethics and accuracy in the news business. Of those responding to surveys by the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, 88 percent said they believed reporters often or sometimes use unethical or illegal techniques. Seventy-six percent said journalists often or sometimes plagiarize material and 66 percent said stories are made up and passed off as real."

Compare coverage of Police beating of Rodney King v. Teamstears beating Anti-Clinton protestor

Compare coverage of Clinton behavior v. Starr behavior

Compare coverage of death of Shepard v. deaths of others

USA Journal Online 10/20/98 Jon Dougherty ".But Americans love an underdog. And if there is one force more powerful than money in this country it is favorable public opinion and support. Such is the case of the Free Republic, an Internet information web site that has billed itself as a shining example of the First Amendment in action in the age of the online news source. The kind of information forum provided by the Free Republic is wholly legal, but it is irksome to the big media conglomerates because the biased stories which pass for news in the corporate-owned media outlets usually appear as fodder in the Free Republic..In the end, this lawsuit is just another attempt to stifle dissent and freedom of speech. It's also a classic example of how nasty the "fair" and "objective" mainstream news organizations can get when they are getting outdone and overlooked. Corporate news organizations have so obviously been bought and paid over the decades that readers have, in record numbers, begun to look elsewhere - mostly to independent news sites like the Journal and select others - for their information. This paradigm shift in readership was born out of necessity and caused by the very "objective" news organizations that sold their souls out to big government ideals long ago. My guess is that the LA Times and the Washington Post don't even care whether or not they win their case. Perhaps they don't even believe they can win - but they will go through with this because they want to break the will and the finances of Jim Robinson, and they hope to kill the Free Republic web site in the process.."

Media Reality Check 10/22/98 Keith Appell ".So far, the national media have totally ignored Monday's front-page scoop in The New York Times headlined "Chinese Said to Reap Gains In U.S. Export Policy Shift." (Web browsers could not find the article on the Times home page. You had to click on "Politics" to get it.) Reporters Jeff Gerth and Eric Schmitt announced: "An examination by The New York Times of the administration's export control policies on China, based on interviews as well as government and industry documents, shows that the looser regulations enabled Chinese companies to obtain a wide range of sophisticated technology, some of which has already been diverted for military uses." Gerth and Schmitt tied the real-world dangers of Chinese technology acquisition to Clinton's anything-goes fundraising tactics.. What was going on in the world Monday that the networks had no time for Clinton aiding China's military? In the morning, ABC found Westminster Abbey is selling chairs used at Diana's funeral. CBS found a teen trying to build a nuclear reactor. NBC interviewed British CEO Richard Branson on his book Losing My Virginity. That night, ABC showed that 100 pilot whales died after beaching themselves in Tasmania. CBS noted arson is suspected in a ski resort fire in Vail, Colorado. CNN relayed that five more victims were pulled from the wreckage of a train crash in Egypt. NBC covered the Kroger supermarket chain's latest acquisition. The networks haven't aired a single story on Clinton's export-control repeal since June. Since the Times broke the story in April, the breakdown of evening news stories is: ABC 7, CBS 3, CNN 3, NBC 2. Even in the missile story's brief heyday in late May and early June, Monica stories outnumbered it on TV morning and evening shows 78 to 21. Is it any wonder the public believes that Clinton scandals are mostly about sex?."

Washington Weekly 10/26/98 Edward Zehr ".We have experienced political crises before, but this one is different. At long last the country is coming face to face with some very unpleasant truths about the way we are governed. We have seen a President of the United States lie brazenly to a grand jury on nationwide TV. Nobody doubts that he lied, but the press is chock full of denial and sickly rationalization. The pundits and presstitutes act as though they believe that so long as they take no notice of the obvious fact that the emperor is starkers, we can all pretend that he is nobly attired. Yet, here we are a few years later, with the president's supporters turning a blind eye to the fact that he has publicly committed a felony which carries a penalty of four years in prison, as though they feel privileged to ignore any statute that doesn't suit their fancy of the moment..Well over a hundred daily newspapers in this country have called for his resignation. Still, many newsies continue to play the smelly, deceitful spin and smear games dreamed up by the White House to protect the guilty. In this they depend heavily upon the assumption that the public are too dumb to figure out what they are up to. Some of us couldn't help notice how the mainstream press feigned moral indignation at Clinton's misbehavior until the polls indicated that his public support had not collapsed, at which point they resumed defending the miscreant in their accustomed underhanded manner..Just as the Middle Ages culminated in a weakening of religious belief, the Age of Reason ended with a lot of intellectuals losing faith in reason itself, thus paving the way for the monstrous excesses if the Twentieth Century. If it doesn't get written that way in the history books that is only because they are written by intellectuals.."

The New York Times 10/28/98 Frank Rich ".The question raised in the full-page ad from the Anti-Defamation League in Sunday's Times was plaintive: "Is there no moral responsibility at NBC News anymore?" What prompted the ad -- an open letter to NBC's president, Bob Wright -- was Louis Farrakhan's appearance on "Meet the Press" the previous Sunday. Under the cover of the flimsiest of news pegs -- the otherwise unremarked third anniversary of the Million Man March -- Farrakhan had been invited on air to give his opinion of "the President's moral behavior and his possible impeachment.".Welcome to the "New News" -- as it has been appropriately christened by Marvin Kalb, in a paper just published by the Shorenstein Center on Press and Politics at Harvard. While the extent of Monicagate's stain on our civic institutions is not yet fully known, its effect on our culture is already profound. The 10-month saga has solidified for good a 20-year trend in which the media -- especially the electronic media, by which the vast majority of Americans get the news -- have steadily replaced journalistic standards with those of show business. Crowding out the old ideals of public service and truth-seeking are the imperatives of star performances, suspenseful plot twists, sex, celebrity and box-office profit..Good or bad, that accuracy record -- the historic criterion for journalistic quality -- is now almost beside the point. The real flavor of the Monica marathon could be found during the days and sometimes weeks when there was no news at all, and the story filled up endless hours anyway. The time was passed with show-biz stunts: new bit players, mindless speculation that became the journalistic equivalent of sideshows, and Emmy-caliber."

AP 10/28/98 Freeper noting the deceptive headline "Clinton To Give $156M To Fight AIDS."

From Freeper Born Free - Labor's Untold Story Richard Boyer Herbert Morais ".One night, probably in 1880, John Swinton, then the preeminent New York journalist, was the guest of honour at a banquet given him by the leaders of his craft. Someone who knew neither the press nor Swinton offered a toast to the independent press. Swinton outraged his colleagues by replying: "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it . There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. "The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." ."

Freeper Coyote 10/29/98 shares ".Of course you all remember when conservative Senator Jesse Helms made a joking comment that Bill Clinton would need a bodyguard if he came to North Carolina where Clinton's unpopularity had just cost Democrats four House seats in the '94 election. You know, the election where the unbiased media anchor Peter Jennings referred to the American voter after the conservative landslide as "children having a temper tantrum...and in need of more parenting?" The media jumped all over the Helms story in a whirlwind of scandal. White House Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta called Senator Helms, "reckless ... dangerous and irresponsible." Liberal columnist Carl Rowan's headline read, "GOP's Helms, Gingrich Lead Parade of Hate," the New York Times called him a "mean -spirited, loose- lipped legislator," and The Chicago Sun-Times reported that "Helms rears Ugly Head." The ultra-liberal Cleveland Plain-Dealer newspaper went so far as to call Helms "a 73-year old thug." But during the Bush Administration, liberal Massachusetts Senator John Kerry cracked that the "Secret Service is under orders that if Bush is shot, to [then] shoot Quayle." Kerry's slur was subdued and ignored by a media that claims to have no bias. The watchdog organization, Accuracy in Media, found exactly three articles in all newspapers and periodicals about Kerry's remark, while there were an astronomical 375 about conservative Jesse Helms! Now someone could be in complete disagreement with Helms and still have to admit that this is clearly one sided reporting by a media that claims no bias... And then there's yesterday. When I did a metasearch using six different search engines, I came up with exactly ONE article under "March for Justice." With Connie's publicity, Alan Keyes on his talk show, and even the ever loud Rush Limbaugh discussing it for weeks, it's difficult to imagine that the press hasn't picked up on the march even in an effort to discredit it. One could easily get the idea that they're suffering the common fate of being conditioned to ignore anything they disagree with. Another way of describing such willful denial is "brainwashed." ."

WorldNetDaily 10/30/98 Alan Keyes ".A few days later, I caught a little bit of Crossfire on CNN. Anne Coulter was the guest, and they were talking about whether the Founders meant it when they wrote that only virtuous men should serve as president, and if you weren't virtuous, if your conduct violated virtue, you should be impeached. And Anne Coulter was, of course, saying that was the Founders' position. The liberal, Bill Press, said "Oh, you mean to tell me that the Founders meant that only virtuous people would become president?" And he laughed.I will not assume that the Democrats are so corrupt as to be traitors to speech and reason, nor will I think them so ignorant as to suppose that the Founders wanted vicious presidents. What is left? Press and his friends must be ridiculing the notion that the Founders of this country considered sexual propriety to be a part of virtue. And I sat there, in my living room, marveling at how being in front of a camera can give someone like Bill Press the effrontery to posture and to spout demonstrable falsehoods. Because, you see, what he said was false. Of course it was false. How do I know that? Because the Founders showed what they thought about sexual impropriety and virtue in the case of Alexander Hamilton, and they reacted to Hamilton's impropriety very harshly indeed. I did my doctoral dissertation on Alexander Hamilton. And studying Alexander Hamilton years ago, I noticed a number of things. First, in raw talent and intellectual power Hamilton was probably the most capable individual of his time, and many of his colleagues would have acknowledged the fact -- even Madison, Monroe, John Adams, and others whose names we know better.. If anybody in that generation was marked by destiny for real leadership and the presidency, it was Alexander Hamilton. He had two strikes against him, one of which probably wouldn't have mattered enough to be a permanent barrier: He was illegitimate.. But do you know what was a permanent barrier? Do you know the reason he wasn't even considered as somebody who might eventually become president of the United States? It's because, while he was secretary of the Treasury, he got himself involved in a scandal: he had an affair with a married woman, and even though it was hushed up, his colleagues and a congressional committee knew all about it. And that was it. That was it for Alexander Hamilton. He could go so far and no farther. In fact, before the end of the Washington administration, he resigned from his secretaryship. And though he was the universally acknowledged head of his party, the Federalists, the next president was John Adams, not Alexander Hamilton..Once it became a matter of general public knowledge, Hamilton could never hold elected office in the American Republic, and he never did. All these things our cynical modern academics claim to have discovered about who was sleeping with whom in those days don't mean a thing. There was a public standard, and it was applied to Alexander Hamilton. It was the chief thing that limited his career in spite of what was acknowledged to be his enormous talent and ability. So I watched Bill Press, not knowing whether I should feel pity or anger. If you knew anything about the Founding period, you hoped that he was simply ignorant, because if he wasn't ... well, if he wasn't, then he was lying through his teeth, trying to fool uninformed people by sneering: "Oh, you can't be serious that the Founders would actually consider as disqualifying improper sexual activity." And the point of this sneer is to cover his party chieftain, Bill Clinton. How sad! Or, worse, how base! ."

Freeper Semi Civil Servant 10/31/98 ".Almost everyone on this forum could have could have predicted an attack story on Starr coming out this weekend: one turned up in the LA Times. The "negative attack ads backlash" story was predictable as well. Why don't Conservatives with a national voice point out this type of press partisanship for what it is? The American people already dislike the press. The press is the weak link in the liberal monolith.."

Freeper report LarryLied 10/31/98 ".The local CBS affiliate in West Palm Beach FL just ran a story about ministers protesting Ken Starr in DC today.When I called and asked why they covered a protest with less than 100 in attendence and ignored they Freeper rally, I was told, "Clinton protests happen all the time. People protesting Starr is news!" The station was WPEC News 12 CBS.."

Washington Weekly 11/2/98 Robert Stowe England ".Seeing themselves as modern-day patriots responding to a moral crisis in the nation, thousands of protestors hailing from Honolulu to Boston descended on the nation's historic mall here Halloween day for an old-fashioned protest rally that repeatedly and vigorously called for President Clinton's impeachment, conviction and removal from office. The rally, held near the Washington Monument, was the successful culmination of a concerted effort by volunteers who had never met one another, and who organized the event in only three weeks. Its organizers are all members of the conservative Free Republic web-site, www.FreeRepublic.com. It was the largest anti- Clinton demonstration since protestors began to dog the President in his travels around the country after he went on national television in August and admitted he had lied to the American people when he had no sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. Media coverage was thin, with C-SPAN and CNN apparently among the few broadcast media present."The mainstream media tell us no one cares, but the truth is that the American people are sick are tired of people lying to them" says Hair. "They make people who care think they're rabid. We're not. We're people you live next door to, or people you work with, or people you go to church with," she said.."

Freeper Son_of_Liberty report on 11/2/98 CBS Evening News ".Dan Rather closed tonight's broadcast by reminding people that the "...election tomorrow will determine the fate of President Clinton." Or something real close (I'm typing fast!). Dan looked very sad. I was shocked!."

Capitol Hill Blue 11/2/98 Doug Thompson ".My guess is some overworked web programmer is going to have his head handed to him by morning for the Election '98 "results" posted on ABC's news site this evening. What happened is that the ABC screwed up the pre-election test feed from Election News Service (ENS), the computer vote count service that many news organizations, including Capitol Hill Blue, subscribe to to for up-to-date tallies on election night. We've been receiving the same numbers as a test feed from ENS for most of the day now (at least we didn't screw up and put them on the web). The test is necessary to make sure the automatic updates on our web pages work properly. It's supposed to be an internal test, but ABC apparently let their test go live. Both AP and Reuters are also running the same tests over their wires. At least they're smart enough to keep the numbers from going public. Don't let the numbers get anyone down. In 1996, the first ENS test feed had Dole beating Clinton.."

Washington Weekly 11/9/98 Wesley Phelan ".(following from interview with Larry Klayman, Judicial Watch).".QUESTION: On Saturday, October 31 you attended the Free Republic March for Justice. You were one of the major speakers in the morning. How would you characterize that event? KLAYMAN: It was truly an excellent event. I enjoyed being there among our supporters and friends. Those are the kinds of people who are going to bring the country back. They are out there in greater numbers than people realize. They just need leaders, people who believe in something. When we spend time with individuals of conviction it reaffirms what we're doing and what others are doing to see justice done in this country. It gives us all the courage and energy to continue, even in the face of a completely disingenuous Congress and an Independent Counsel who was for many years lost in the wilderness of irrelevance. QUESTION: What do you think about the fact that the mainstream media did not mention, or mentioned only in passing, that the event took place? KLAYMAN: I thought it was amazing that some news broadcasts showed a demonstration in front of Ken Starr's office by ten or so people, yet did not publicize thousands of people at the Washington Monument, marching for justice. It does show the skewed coverage that exists.."

The Dallas Morning News 11/11/98 ".A word of sympathy, brethren, for the "religious right." And before I proceed, one innocent question: Anybody remember the last time our all-knowing media dissected something called the "secular left"? Just asking."

Freeper Jack Aubrey 11/15/98 reports ".When I referred to my pals in the White House "swamp" as "whores," I know exactly whereof I speak because I was a whore myself until I got religion about five years ago. By that I mean I have behind me (and I do mean BEHIND me) a thirty-year career in "broadcast news" as .Over the years my various jobs took me to 22 countries in Asia (including four years in Vietnam, 71--75); 22 countries in Central and South America, plus Iraq (5 times), Israel, and Russia among other places, obviously almost aways working as a foreign correspondent, or in the United States on stories with a domestic foreign-affairs angle, like the Iran-contra mess. I know PRECISELY how the media (often, Harvard) harlots tilt, slant, distort, omit, lie, and basically behave like whores. I know many of these people personally, and I would and will say to their faces what I said at the White House today. Most, but, it is very important to note, NOT ALL, are whores and flacks for the White House. They do it on remote control. Nobody explictly says, "Write this, say that." Nope, to get up that slippery, greasy, cut-throat-loaded ladder of the broadcast media, you learn how to do it yourself. It doesn't take a lot of brains to figure out what the PARTY LINE is and to follow it slavishly.."

Media Research Center CyberAlert 11/16/98 ".1) Al Hunt called Starr's indictment of Hubbell "outrageous." MSNBC's Keith Olbermann compared Starr to Joe McCarthy and the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne endorsed the historic analogy. 2) On the Jones settlement only FNC and NBC even alluded to Clinton's insurance deal and how the court was looking at his perjury. Only FNC noted he will pay more than Jones asked for. 3) Dateline also looked at a woman under house arrest for lying about sex in a civil case, but Josh Mankiewicz bizarrely asserted: "It is painful as well to the President and so far, at least, Bill Clinton isn't being held to a different standard." 4) Letterman's "Top Ten President Clinton Screen Names." ."

Washington Post 10/30/98 Charles Krauthammer ".Whoever said that history is written by the victors has not seen CNN's 24-hour epic documentary "Cold War.". But "Cold War's" bias is deep and disturbing. It consists of a relentless attempt to find moral equivalence between the two sides. This is not easy, seeing as millions of Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Germans and others wept with joy when liberated from one side and permitted to join the other. "Cold War" tries nonetheless..In Episode Six, however, subtlety is abandoned. ("Reds 1948-1953" airs this Sunday at 8 p.m. Don't miss it.) The premise is explicit: There was paranoia on both sides of the Iron Curtain. "Both sides turned their fear inward against their own people. They hunted the enemy within." In the Soviet Union it produced the gulag; in the United States, the Red scare. Half the show on one, half on the other. This is moral equivalence with a sledgehammer. Forget the fact that the gulag long predates the Cold War and derives instead from the savage intolerance of Leninism. The gulag -- a vast continental system of arrest, torture, disappearance, execution, forced labor, starvation -- is juxtaposed with what? The Hollywood Ten! Jailed, we are told. But not told that the sentences ranged from four to 10 months. For about a decade, too, they were blacklisted. Some were forced to write under pseudonyms. The horror. Yes, of course, this shouldn't have happened. It is a blot on our history that these men's civil rights were trampled. But a blot is no mirror to an ocean of blood. Enter the one U.S. "Red scare" execution of the Cold War, the Rosenbergs. (This to match the 20 million to 40 million murdered by Stalin alone.) Extensive footage of the Rosenbergs' lawyer saying that the judge condemned them to death for craven political reasons. What were they convicted of? "Spying for the Soviet Union," we are told. What kind of spying? No mention. A high-schooler watching this might imagine they passed a picture of a power plant to a Soviet attache. ."

From Media Check 11/12/98 Keith Appell Freeper reports the following quotes about Newt Gingrich ". "These are some of the things said about your son. A very dangerous man... visionary...bomb-throwing guerrilla warrior...abrasive." -- CBS's Connie Chung to Newt's mother on his first day as Speaker, January 4, 1995..

WorldNetDaily 11/13/98 Joseph Farah ".Pretty bizarre. Klayman's report offers substantial evidence of Clinton administration corruption at the highest levels, abuse of power, and illegal activity that should cross even John Conyers' threshold of impeachable offenses. So why is Hyde entertaining the idea of limiting the inquiry to Monica Lewinsky? Why do the Republicans avoid Filegate, Chinagate, Commercegate, Travelgate, Trustgate, IRSgate, Campaigngate, Fostergate, Browngate, Renogate, and on and on?. Some suggest Hyde's approach is merely a strategic ploy -- that he knows Clinton will never agree to answer his 81 questions and, therefore, all bets are off on the limitation of the scope of the hearings. I don't think so. This is a very tough White House to outmaneuver politically. Should Hyde decide to broaden the hearings at this point, the White House spinmeisters would have a field day picking that development apart. How many Americans realize that Hyde's offer to limit the scope and witnesses in the hearings was conditional upon Clinton answering the questions truthfully and completely? Very few, thanks to the pathetic job of reporting by the establishment press."

Reuters 11/14/98 ".By huge margins, Americans do not want to hear more about the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, think press coverage influenced Congress' decision to hold impeachment hearings and say the media have the same moral standards as President Clinton or lower ones, a new poll has found. The poll of 1,000 Americans nationwide conducted for New York magazine on Oct. 14-18 found that 79 percent of Americans thought the media distorted or rearranged facts to make for better copy, 71 percent said the more respectable media had sunk to the level of tabloids and 67 percent thought the media's morals were the same as Clinton's or lower."

Freeper Kristinn 11/14/98 report ".A new element was added to our Saturday protests at the White House today when Peter, aka "Jack Aubrey" led the heckling of the WH press corps. Startled producers and talent fumed as cries of "Wolf Blitzer, stop flacking for Clinton !", "where's the coverage of the Mike Espy trial ?" and "tell us the truth !" filled the air. A uniformed Secret Service officer approached us to issue an order : Do not use profanity when heckling the media. After we got over the shock of not being ordered to cease and desist, we listened as the officer explained to us that it is perfectly okay to yell criticism at the media in the swamp (the outdoor reporting area between the Northwest gate and the West Wing of the White House complex). However, he said, the press corps had complained to the Secret Service that we were cursing at them. We told the officer that none of us was using profanity and he replied that the media told him that we had called them "whores". Peter explained that he had asked a reporter which outfit he worked for and the man said the A.P. Peter declaimed that the A.P. is a media whore. The officer said that because of the presence of children we should not use the word whore to describe the media. I asked if it was permissible to call them prostitutes, instead. He broke into laughter, but shook his head, no. He said that would be abusive. We carried on our guerilla assault on the WH press corps all morning long and into the afternoon. Each time we were at the NW gate during our walk along Penn. Ave., we would stop and hurl a few choice words their way: "Tell the public about the Judicial Watch report !", "John Palmer, you used to have credibility !","Hey Wolf, it's the MEDIA that's obsessed with sex !" and "Clinton News Network !". The tourists mostly agreed with us and marvelled at our audacity. Even David Blum, a reporter for NBC, agreed with us. When Ken, aka "Patriot", yelled "CNN LIES !", Mr. Blum (who stood within earshot of Wolf Blitzer and the CNN crew) yelled back, "you're right !" At one point, a producer came out to the sidewalk in an apparent effort to silence us. We had moved up the sidewalk to the front of the WH by then and he didn't find us. In a later conversation with the Secret Service officer about the press corps trying to silence us, the officer agreed that we had a First Amendment right to call the WH press corps whores. Basically he was trying to maintain some decorum and keep the media crybabies off his back."

Washington Times 11/17/98 John McCaslin ".Perhaps we now know why David Brock, the one-time conservative journalist who dug into the "Troopergate" story for the American Spectator, later apologized to President Clinton for delving into his marital infidelities. Human Events sheds light this week on a "very cozy relationship" between Mr. Brock and senior White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, a former New Yorker Washington correspondent who refused at the time to write about Whitewater. "Turns out that Blumenthal has admitted under oath in his libel suit against Matt Drudge that he has not only dined with Brock, but also has been to his house," reports the weekly newspaper. "He estimated that he has had 30 to 50 conversations with Brock." Ironic, Human Events continues, given that Mr. Blumenthal, as part of his lawsuit, has been trying to detail Mr. Drudge's contacts with conservative journalists."

CAS List 11/18/98 Carl Limbacher ".Throughout Tuesday, the electronic press was filled with snippets from the Tripp-Lewinsky tapes. Monica laughing, Monica sobbing, Monica explaining that oral sex isn't sex. (Where'd she get that from?). No matter where you tuned in, the same 15 or so audio clips were being recycled ad nauseum. Almost immediately the press complained that by releasing the Tripp- Lewinsky conversations, the House Judiciary Committee had "turned us into a nation of voyeurs." But if the media really find the purient aspects of this audio soap opera so objectionable, why don't they move to a more G-rated topic; one that might be an even bigger ratings booster.."

CAS List 11/18/98 Carl Limbacher ".Why aren't the networks, the cable stations or even talk radio playing Lewinsky's explosive taped remarks about being afraid for her life, which were part of the transcripts released in early October? It was precisely that fear, explained the former intern on the tape recorded Jan. 13, 1998, that was her primary motivation for filing a false affidavit in the Paula Jones case. Here Tripp is heard begging Monica to reconsider that desision: Tripp: You - you are - are you