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It's a wonder that the soundstage didn't collapse from the weight.
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Originally posted by Not Bob
Clinton was a victim of the liberal media's bias, too -- but it was a class-based one. Because Bill went back to Dogpatch after Georgetown, Yale, and Oxford, he was treated as a rube, and all of the northeastern bias against the south was let loose upon him whe he had the nerve to get elected without kissing the rings of the Sultzbergers and the Grahams. Granted, he brought a lot of it on himself. But the Times writers and editors, having read all about the corrupt south in books like "All the Kings Men" and "The Earl of Lousiana," were just certain that he was on the take.
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A lot of Clinton's problems with the media stemmed from the same impulse that just got CBS in trouble -- they were gunning to take down the President. Jeff Gerth's reporting on Whitewater has more holes than Mary Mapes' work on Bush's Guard service. Though strangely enough, he still has a job.
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