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Newspapers That Once Called Upon Clinton To Resign Are Silent On Bush
By MARC McDONALD

"Has the President so failed in his duties to the nation that he should leave office? The answer to that question is yes, and the time for the President to leave is not after months of continued national embarrassment but now. Clinton should resign."
---USA Today editorial, Sept. 15, 1998

George W. Bush is a crook.

He has violated the Constitution. He's violated his oath of office. He lied America into a disastrous war of aggression that killed 650,000 Iraqi men, women and children. He made the United States the most feared and hated nation on the planet.

By contrast, all Bill Clinton did was lie about a blow job.

Guess which president our nation's media called upon to resign?

In 1998, Kenneth Starr released his special counsel's report, the product of a $50 million, blatantly partisan GOP witchhunt aimed at bringing down the Clinton presidency. Despite this incredibly intense probe into every detail of his life, the only real "dirt" the report had on Clinton was that he lied about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Americans never really gave a damn about the Lewinsky affair. Even at the height of the impeachment "crisis," Clinton enjoyed strong approval ratings in the high 60s. I always got the feeling that the American public just wanted Congress to move on from this silly affair and get back to the real business of the nation.

What's remarkable is the American people believed this way despite the fact that, day after day, the "liberal media" was desperately hyping the Lewinsky story and trying to convince the public that it was a serious "crisis" for the White House.

In fact, after Starr released his report, dozens of major U.S. newspapers called upon Clinton to resign. The biggest circulation newspaper in America, USA Today, led the way.

In a Sept. 15, 1998 editorial, USA Today said:

"Has the President so failed in his duties to the nation that he should leave office? The answer to that question is yes, and the time for the President to leave is not after months of continued national embarrassment but now. Clinton should resign."

Many other major newspapers joined in the call for Clinton to resign, among them The Seattle Times, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Des Moines Sunday Register, The San Jose Mercury-News, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Looking back on all this eight years later, it's difficult to fathom what the fuss was all about.

Today, America is saddled with an unbelievably corrupt occupant in the White House. Bush is guilty of a long list of serious crimes, from embracing torture as official state policy to illegal wiretaps to lying America into a war that has turned out to be the biggest strategic blunder in U.S. history.

And what's the U.S. media's reaction to all this? (You know, the same "liberal media" that was screaming and hollering for Clinton to resign for lying about a blow job?)

Silence.

Not one major newspaper has called for Bush to resign.

In fact, since Bush first took office six years ago, the nation's media has fallen into an eerie slumber. From GannonGate to PlameGate to the Downing Street memos, the media has snoozed through one major Bush scandal after another.

Not to worry, though. With the Dems now back in power in Congress, we can expect the media to shake off the cobwebs and go back to its watchdog role of holding Democratic politicians' feet to the fire (even if this "watchdog" role will consist of non-stories with no basis in fact: see HairCutGate, Whitewater, etc.)

It's great to live in a democracy with a free press. Someday I hope I have such an experience.



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You read the paper every day and think it isn't liberal? Not all are, but the local one in my city sure is!

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Why yes, I do think the majority of the news media leans toward the liberal view of things. But tell me, what has this to do with ATVs?

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Not only does this have nothing to do with ATVs, but obviously when you think the President endorses torture and illegally wiretaps citizens and that the USA has killed 650,000 Iraqis, then you are probably part of the liberal nut left that doesn't care about the security of the USA, just as all socialists don't. As to the "Plamegate", etc., they have all been debunked, so you are just being ridiculous and shutting out the facts.

Not to say President Bush has done a "good" job in office, but you should at least list those areas where he has fallen down, not false ones. You can make a case for those honestly. I'm surprised you didn't mention how he "stole" the elections in '00 and'04.

As to embarassing Presidents, Clinton was the worst, followed recently by Carter.

GJRonK

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I liked the post and from what I see of hondabuster's posts, they are more useful than any that "GJRonK" has posted...... my 2 cents

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the democrat? noooooo LOL


jk lol its rochester... i only read the classifides anyway lol

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this

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That is a lot of long borning reading that I can't understand...

What is your point??????????

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Sorry....I started on page 2 of the Article ....all fixed now

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Under Bill Clinton the CIA kept an extensive file on and tapped the phones of that grave threat to national security Princess Di.