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Scrapbook The 89 Percent Solution It is a common right-wing plaint that the prestige media are reluctant to report on the Clinton scandals. Is it true? Well, on June 5, the House committee looking...
...There were a lot more articles, too, between page one and page 24...
...But, the Post's Judith Havemann wrote, that just won't work, and we should all forget about it, because of one Dakeyia Scott of Lansing, Mich...
...More Hijinks with Hillary's Pals When Bill Clinton nominated his old friend Mickey Kantor's wife to the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting last week, the embarrassing saga of Martha Buchanan officially became ancient history...
...A few days later, Smith called back and said it was very important that Cruz change his vote to Buchanan...
...Travelgate did not get the attention it deserved, surely, because the editors at these papers thought they had done enough scandal coverage with the Whitewater guilty verdicts the week before...
...Clinton that $100,000 in instant profit trading cattle futures...
...You remember Blair...
...That mindset-that inclination to give Clinton an easier time of it than the mainstream media would a politician with whom they are out of sympathy-is what press bias is all about...
...a full seven months after he was fired...
...And the form featured a false claim, also illegal, that the information was needed because Dale was being considered for "access" to the White House...
...Not Clintonites...
...But sometimes carpers have a point...
...In September 1994, with Diane Blair's backing, Buchanan decided to run for board chairman...
...He's the fellow who made Mrs...
...And whom do these voters especially detest...
...Oh, the Times had an article on a French colonial fort in South Carolina and one on a gadget that is supposed to track political advertising on television...
...It, too, had an FBI story: about the bureau's Internet home page...
...It ran page-one stories on "infant TV actors" and a species of shrimp found off the coast of Belize...
...The deciding vote fell to board member Frank Cruz, who had to vote by absentee ballot from California...
...So what did the New York Times and the Washington Post put on their front pages the next morning...
...A mother tries to exercise some authority over her teenager...
...Cruz got a phone call from White House aide Craig Smith informing him that Bill Clinton himself wanted Cruz to vote for Buchanan...
...And the mother tells the girl, who got pregnant when she was 15, that she is young and maybe not totally responsible...
...Heidi Schulman (Mrs...
...FBI director Louis Freeh quickly vowed a "thorough inquiry...
...Libertarian candidate Harry Browne beats Clinton 61 percent to 39 percent...
...So Dakeyia is entitled to live apart from her mother, supported by the taxpayer...
...He declined...
...The America Online politics page conducts a poll on the presidential race...
...You're Havemann My Baby On June 4, the Washington Post featured a front-page story criticizing the current round of welfare reform...
...CPB sources say that Diane Blair tipped the White House to Cruz's intention to vote against her friend Buchanan...
...She can't...
...How about the Post, watchdog of the nation's capital and proud linchpin of Watergate...
...The midday news shook Washington, because the request form bore the name of ex-counsel Bernard Nussbaum...
...After Buchanan's shenanigans made news earlier this year, Clinton White House spinners were only too eager to point out that Buchanan was named to the CPB board by George Bush...
...And it even had an independent-counsel story: on the expense of the four counsels now investigating the Clinton administration...
...All because of fellow board member Diane Blair-Hillary Clinton's close friend and the wife of Tyson Foods lawyer Jim Blair...
...She makes me feel bad...
...In a head to head matchup, Dole beats Clinton 74.6 percent to 25.4 percent...
...And why those who deny its existence, and pooh-pooh the recent report that 89 percent of the American press voted for Bill Clinton in 1992, are being deliberately obtuse, or dishonest, or merely stupid...
...Well, on June 5, the House committee looking into Travelgate released documents showing that the White House had requested and received confidential FBI background materials on travel-office martyr Billy Dale...
...Buchanan lost out...
...Okay, Havemann has convinced us: Cancel welfare reform...
...And why...
...Scott just turned 17 and has a one-year-old son, Davion...
...Maybe they've been reading The Weekly Standard...
...So now we have a new standard for parental abuse...
...And poor Dakeyia just can't live with her mother...
...We have fights and arguments...
...Clearly and unquestionably, someone at the White House was digging for dirt on Dale in order to justify what the administration had done to him...
...But Dole shouldn't get too excited...
...Between 275 and 700 people post their votes each day...
...When Dakeyia and her mother live together, Dakeyia says, "she calls me names and stuff, that I'm so young...
...Keyes for AOL President Who's on the Internet...
...Good for them...
...Davion's my child, and she acts like she's the boss...
...The world wearies of conservative carping about press bias...
...And guess what...
...It was on page 24 that a brief account of the travel-office revelation finally appeared...
...After Clinton's election, the opportunistic Buchanan struck a strategic alliance with Blair...
...And two local New York stories...
...Kantor) will replace Buchanan, who resigned in March after the White House made it clear that the furor over her alleged sexual harassment of a male CPB staffer in 1992 meant she had to go...
...Either it was Nussbaum, in which case the White House counsel broke the law, or it was somebody who used Nussbaum's name, in which case somebody in the White House was using Nussbaum's name illegally...
...Cruz explained that he'd already voted for Buchanan's rival, Henry Cauthen...
...It also published an FBI story-on the bureau's strategy in the Montana-ranch case...
...Ross Perot...
...What they didn't say was that only two years ago, the Clinton White House quietly tried to make Buchanan the board's chairman...
...The reformers, you see, want single mothers under the age of 18 to live at home with their parents...
...The paper's travel-office report appeared on page four...
...Bizarre, no...
...Dakeyia could think of no examples...
...Alan Keyes beats the president 64 percent to 36 percent...
Vol. 1 • June 1996 • No. 39
