Friday, April 8, 2011

Still skittish about 'that woman'

OUT OF curiosity, I visited the William J. Clinton Presidential Center website (the digital version of the Ark. museum) and did a search on “Monica Lewinsky.” It returned ZERO results. Nada. How could that be? How could "that woman, Monica Lewinsky," the one Clinton "did not have sexual relations with" and who nearly destroyed his presidency not be referenced. Impossible. So, I searched on "impeachment," and - ding-ding! - I got a hit. Sort of. The 1999 time-line entry read: "It was also a year when the President acknowledged making a serious mistake in his personal life, misleading both his family and the country. Adversaries, who opposed his policy agenda, used his personal failing to try to destroy his presidency, culminating in the second impeachment in American history ... it led nowhere. The Senate eventually voted to acquit the President." And he lived happily ever after. Wow. So, they literally scrubbed Lewinsky's name as a distancing ploy and re-dubbed her a "personal failing." That ain't history, that's spin -- big-time. Talk about cajones.

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