2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBill Safire has shuffled off this mortal coil and HRC is taking the world by storm...
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I hear so many posters marveling at the NYT's critisism of Clinton. Not sure where ya'll have been for the last 20 years but this is nothing new. In fact, it is same ol' same ol'...
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/08/opinion/essay-blizzard-of-lies.html
Blizzard of Lies
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Published: January 8, 1996
Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady -- a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation -- is a congenital liar.
Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit...
In the aftermath of the apparent suicide of her former partner and closest confidant, White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster, she ordered the overturn of an agreement to allow the Justice Department to examine the files in the dead man's office. Her closest friends and aides, under oath, have been blatantly disremembering this likely obstruction of justice, and may have to pay for supporting Hillary's lie with jail terms......
Therefore, ask not "Why didn't she just come clean at the beginning?" She had good reasons to lie; she is in the longtime habit of lying; and she has never been called to account for lying herself or in suborning lying in her aides and friends.
Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)Goes the normally Hillary supporting NYT, and using a two decades old editorial from token rightie Bill Safire too boot.
The fear at Hillary headquarters is palpable.
Henhouse
(646 posts)I know many Bernie supporter and other Republicans believe the NYTs is solidly in HRC court. That is just not the reality.
Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)Twenty years ago one of the NYT's token Republican editorial staff wrote an EDITORIAL critical of the Clintons, so we need to ignore the what its current news staff is reporting . . .
Perspective?
MattP
(3,304 posts)WhiteTara
(29,732 posts)TOS. This opens DU to lawsuits when you post an article in entirety. Thanks