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Scrapbook FTRST FREETOADERS Okay, it's not an impeachable offense, but there's something cheap and tacky about Bill and Hillary Clinton's freeloading on their vacations. This is not what other...
...There's a name for the Rev...
...The Clintons don't bother with such ethical niceties...
...She was shot through the temple...
...Lynn's notion...
...But that doesn't excuse their willingness to pay nothing for their five-day stay last week at plush White Oak Plantation in Yulee, Florida, near Jacksonville...
...Specifically, Tor-ricelli said, the Justice Department's refusal to allow the FBI to tap the phone of suspected spy Wen Ho Lee was "almost inexplicable...
...The 17-year-old was shot in the leg by her giggling classmates, who then asked her if she believed in God...
...It's nice to see at least one Democrat tell something like it is...
...And when she answered yes, they taunted, "Then go be with Him now," and shot her again...
...At a meeting of Senate Democrats last week, the N^'w York Times reports, several female senators scolded Torricelli, claiming his remarks about Reno were "unfair...
...True, the Clintons don't own a vacation home, or any residence for that matter...
...Torricelli isn't returning calls about his comments, a sure sign that someone has told him to cool it...
...And in fact, someone has...
...It's called "blaming the victim...
...What happened...
...This is not what other presidents and first ladies have done—all those folks the Clintons claimed they'd be more ethical than...
...Then there was the stay at film mogul Steven Spielberg's spread in the Hamptons in 1998...
...Still, there was enough wrong with taking free-bies that Gerald Ford felt obligated to pay rent for his twice yearly stays in Vail, Colorado, and Jimmy Carter paid the going rate to vacation at a government guest lodge in Grand Tetons National Park in Wyoming...
...In 1994, they spent all-expenses-paid days in Coronado, California, thanks to Democratic fundraiser Larry Lawrence, whose body was later disinterred from Arlington National Cemetery because he'd lied about his military record...
...This continued a Clinton family practice that started with their stay on Martha's Vineyard in 1993 at the home of former secretary of defense Robert McNamara...
...But then so were Torricelli's remarks...
...But here's a question the press might ask: Is a president whose vacations are paid for by movie execs likelier to go easy on Hollywood after something like the Littleton massacre...
...After weeks of silence, the parents of the murdered Rachel Scott have recently allowed their daughter's story to be told...
...Our plea to the senator: Don't stop now...
...But perhaps she just got what was coming to her for carrying a Bible around...
...During a discussion of the Chinese spying scandal, Sen...
...We thought we had heard every meretricious explanation for the April 20 Columbine High shootings by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, but Barry W. Lynn—the Methodist pastor who heads Americans United for the Separation of Church and State—has come up with a new one...
...THE TORCH BURNS For those who missed it, something remarkable happened on Face the Nation last week...
...As Matthew Rees's story in this issue shows, the department's refusal was indeed inexplicable...
...Jay Rockefeller's spread in 1995 and financier Max Chapman's in 1996...
...The Clintons came back for three more freebies in 1994, 1997, and 1998, staying at the Vineyard house of real estate developer Richard Friedman...
...Contact Borden Flanagan at 1225 19th St., NW, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036...
...But apparently she must have deserved it, for she was a pretty, young evangelical who wanted to cut off her long blonde hair to make wigs for cancer victims and who spent her weekends handing out doughnuts and religious tracts to the drug addicts and gang members down in the worst neighborhood of Denver...
...When the 17-year-old Cassie Bernall answered yes to the question "Do you believe in God...
...Robert Torricelli became the first Democrat in the Senate to suggest that Janet Reno should resign...
...The Fords and Carters paid rent for vacation homes, and the Reagans and Bushes went to their own spreads for rest and relaxation...
...Think how "alienated and ostracized" she must have made those poor boys feel...
...The Beltway press corps, with the exception of Tom DeFrank of the New York Daily News, has ignored the question entirely...
...At least...
...But it seems she only got her just deserts...
...Why, there ought to be a law against people like Rachel, and Cassie, and Valeen...
...And it's a good lesson for the White House: The thing about loose cannons is that they sometimes swivel 180 degrees...
...We know from experience that school-sponsored religious displays and worship invariably make some students feel like second-class citizens...
...The 18-year-old Valeen Schnurr was wounded nine times and survives with permanent nerve damage...
...Torricelli accused Reno of exercising terrible judgment in her response—which, as he pointed out, was late, halting, and ultimately impotent—to espionage at the Los Alamos labs...
...Twice, they've vacationed for free in Jackson Hole, Wyoming —at Sen...
...It was gratis, as were the vacations in the Virgin Islands in 1998 at the home of local residents Jay and Dolly Greblick and last year and this year in Park City, Utah, at Hollywood bigwig Jeffrey Katzenberg's ski chalet...
...More outbursts, please...
...So what's wrong with being the First Freeloaders...
...Evidence indicates that the two students who killed their peers, and ultimately themselves at Columbine High felt alienated and ostracized," he explained in a May 19 press release...
...HELP WANTED Charles Krauthammer seeks a research assistant...
...For years, you'll remember, Torricelli has been one of Bill Clinton's worst hack defenders, a red-faced conspiracy buff who once sent a letter to the very same Janet Reno complaining about—and implying the federal government should take action against—the American Spectator magazine for running an uncomplimentary article about the Clintons...
...This spared them accusations of sponging or creating potential conflicts of interest...
Vol. 4 • June 1999 • No. 36
