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CURRENT WISDOM The Australian In a great antipodean gazette, they got it right the first time: Correction A story headlined "Syria seeks our help to woo US" in Saturday's Weekend Australian...
...I didn't want to lie to you, and I thought that I had to, as I said in the book, buy two weeks time for things to calm down in order to avoid having Ken Starr and his boys win this long fight that they were fighting against me, and—but I also said in the book that I hated it and I tried to—after I did that interview with you—I tried to confine my comments thereafter just simply saying that I didn't violate any laws and I didn't ask anybody else to, and that's pretty much what I said from there on out...
...JIM LEHRER: You wrote about it in the book, that because we had a pre—already prearranged interview, you went ahead with the interview, and I did the first interview with you, and I asked you if you had had a sexual—improper relationship...
...July 7, 2004) Glamour In the leading intellectual review of the Clinton wing of the Democratic Party, Mr...
...we do not have college degrees...
...My question to you is, was that—that was an intentional dodge, was it not...
...He, in effect, says that the reason why he acted stupidly and immorally with Monica Lewinsky was that he was so angry at Ken Starr...
...We thought you'd be interested because you bought Mussolini...
...Am I right about that...
...And he emphasized to Michael Duffy and I twice that he really believes in therapy...
...My husband is a blue-collar worker...
...and we live in a rural area in a mobile home...
...Dude, we are the "trailer park" elite...
...He really believes in the process...
...August 2004) SEPTEMBER 2004 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 69...
...Are you just tired of talking about that...
...CURRENT WISDOM The Australian In a great antipodean gazette, they got it right the first time: Correction A story headlined "Syria seeks our help to woo US" in Saturday's Weekend Australian misquoted National Party senator Sandy Macdonald...
...We have never been to a NASCAR event, and we oppose the strong-arm tactics of the N.R.A...
...And, of course, the undercard in the fight: Bambi meets Godzilla...
...SHERRY FORLAND Bloomfield, N.M., July 1, 2004 (July 6, 2004) Meet the Press Joe Klein, the modern Frederick Lewis Allen, again under the influence: On the Monica Lewinsky case and the psychological point that Katty made, he now—I mean, I once described him as the analysand from hell because he would always be, like, three steps ahead of the shrink, I think, and agreeing with everything...
...7.spect The gallimaufry of adjectival sapphires mined by a celebrated Am Prosp book reviewer from a cow paddy: My Life by Bill Clinton....genuine intelligence that formed much of the essence of the man....this driven, complex, frustrating, but irresistible figure, who ranks alongside John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan as one of our most compelling modern presidents....a rewarding and revealing portrait of an endlessly fascinating man....What is clear from these accounts is the deep attachment these two talented, ambitious young people developed....remarkable people....remarkable story....evasive and dishonest....captivating book, and like the man who wrote it, mostly right...
...So by a Republican definition, our beliefs are more those of the "liberal elite...
...August 1, 2004) Americi...
...An exhaustive, soul-searching memoir, Bill Clinton's My Life is a refreshingly candid look...
...If a woman is just beautiful, well, that will fade with age and I'd be bored...
...There are many people like us, however, who could never consider themselves conservatives...
...Michael Moore speaks to our truth, not Bill O'Reilly...
...The quote stated "Syria is a country that has been a bastard state for nearly 40 years," but should have read "Syria is a country that has been a Baathist state for nearly 40 years...
...June 22, 2004) New Yc, k Times Ardent sentiments from Sherry of Bloomfield, conveyed to the correspondence page of the venerated Times just hours before the All Points Bulletin was put out for her and her husband: G.O.P., I'm Not Your Gal To the Editor: Re "Dude, Where's That Elite?," by Barbara Ehrenreich (column, July1): 68 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 2004 C U R ENT WISDOM I am one of those Americans the Republicans seem to be confident of having squarely in their camp...
...August 2004) Amazon.com Possibly a practical joke e-mailed to select users ofAmazon...
...JIM LEHRER I have to ask you one question about it for the record, and I'm sure this is not going to be any surprise to you because six years ago, the day the Lewinsky story broke—you mentioned this in your book...
...and possibly not—the attached book review appears to be heartfelt and characteristically fla fla: My Life was released today...
...PRESIDENT CLINTON: It was an intentional dodge because I didn't want—I respect you...
...July 3, 2004) NewsHour With Jim Lehrer A prayerful Jim Lehrer approaches the Archbishop of Balderdash, heart thumping, palms moistening, and, as he genuflects, pants splitting: JIM LEHRER: I've read the transcripts of all the interviews you've done thus far since the book came out, and it seemed to me—now you correct me if you think I'm wrong—but it seemed to me as they've progressed, you've gotten increasingly annoyed about questions about the Monica Lewinsky matter...
...Forever could be, like 50 years, so if I'm stranded with one person she better be kick-ass both upstairs and downstairs...
...Jack Black, wag and philosophe, answers one of mankind's timeless questions with a thrilling answer sure to provoke readers to lascivious reveries and sinful solitary moments: Glamour: If you could be stranded on a desert island with one woman, who would it be...
...He now says that he led parallel lives, going back to his childhood when he had to hide his anger at his stepfather and be sunny and optimistic up front...
...Talk about drowning in metaphor...
...Jack Black: I'd have to go with Hillary Clinton...
...PRESIDENT CLINTON: I wrote it about...
...In this case, he's come up with a unified field theory of his whole life and he puts it in psychological terms...
...I kept using the past tense, and you kept saying is, "There is no relationship...
...members, and we don't listen to country music...
...We are card-carrying A.C.L.U...
...Republicans, beware...
...June 20, 2004) New York Times Another incomprehensible prelude to another girlish column by Maureen Dowd, thus far winner of only one Pulitzer Prize "for distinguished commentary": Boston—So here's the race: Skipper takes on the Sheriff...
Vol. 37 • September 2004 • No. 7
