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...Last Word: Late Night TV On CNN, journalists from around the TV dial engaged in hand-wringing over their massive coverage of the scandal. But back on their own stations, the coverage ? and the jokes ? continued unabated...
...good feeding frenzies turn, sooner or later, on the feeders themselves. Last night, CNN staged a "national town hall" with a panel of journalism's top sharks. Unfortunately, little came out of the rambling, self-serving exercise. Dan Rather said that news today is driven by circulation, not standards, and correctly noted that if he had stayed behind in Cuba to cover the pope rather than jetting back to Washington, he would have had to seek asylum from the wrath of his employers. The best line of the night came from an amazingly calm Mike McCurry, on remote from...
...CNN, CNBC's "News with Brian Williams" and "Nightline," nearly everyone -- all of whom seemed to be National Review lawman Stuart Taylor, who managed to use the word "phalanx" in three separate clips without giggling once -- compared Clinton's seemingly airtight denial to earlier Gennifer Flowers statements, which are widely rumored to have been retracted under oath by Bill at the Paula Jones deposition. "There's a reason we're parsing," Mary Matalin, GOP apologist and Carville wife told Williams: "We're talking about a kid and a President who should know better...
WASHINGTON: While the White House stays muted, Monica Lewinsky's attorney is displaying the one thing we haven't yet seen from the main players in "Interngate:" Emotion. "I may be the only person in the country, apart from her parents, who actually cares about Monica," William Ginsburg told CNN. It may be nothing more than a legal tactic ? make the public sympathetic to his client. But amid the determined silence from other leading players in the scandal ? Clinton, Tripp and Lewinsky herself ? Ginsburg's indignant quotes seem likely to be devoured by a hungry public...
...process notwithstanding, it seems Clinton has already been found guilty in the court of public opinion. An overnight CNN-USA Today poll shows half the respondents firmly believe the President has lied under oath about his relationship with Lewinsky. At least Clinton is given the benefit of the doubt over suborning perjury: only 39 percent believe he told his former intern to lie about their affair...