List of Newspapers That Urged President (Clinton) to Quit

[G_j]

where are they now????

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001773188

Newspapers Urge President to Quit

Outrageous, out of the question? Of course. Then again, here's what happened in the summer of 1998 when the president was named Clinton. Dozens of editorial pages clamored for him to quit (see this list). "He should resign," the Philadelphia Inquirer declared, "because his repeated, reckless deceits have dishonored his presidency beyond repair."

By Greg Mitchell

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What follows, from an Associated Press rundown on September 15, 1998, is a long list of newspapers that "called for President Clinton's resignation." AP added that some of those listed "did so before the release of Kenneth Starr's report on Sept. 11."

Indeed, the Philadelphia Inquirer responded to the coming of the Starr report this way: "Bill Clinton should resign. He should resign because his repeated, reckless deceits have dishonored his presidency beyond repair."

The Los Angeles Times pointed out: "The picture of Clinton that now emerges is that of a middle-aged man with a pathetic inability to control his sexual fancies."

The New York Times, on its Howell Raines-led editorial page, thundered that until the Starr turn, "no citizen ... could have grasped the completeness of President Clinton's mendacity or the magnitude of his recklessness." Yet a Washington Post poll that month showed that while a majority of Americans wanted Congress to censure Clinton, they did not want it to boot him out of office.

Here is that AP partial list of newspapers calling for Clinton to quit (other papers no doubt joined in later):

NATIONAL:
USA Today

ALABAMA:
The Mobile Register
Montgomery Advertiser

ARIZONA:
Tucson Citizen

CALIFORNIA:
San Jose Mercury News
The Orange County Register
The North (San Diego) County Times
The Record, Stockton

COLORADO:
The Denver Post

CONNECTICUT:
The Day of New London
Norwich Bulletin

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The Washington Times

FLORIDA:
The Orlando Sentinel
The Tampa Tribune

GEORGIA:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Augusta Chronicle

ILLINOIS:
Chicago Tribune

INDIANA:
The Indianapolis Star
Chronicle-Tribune of Marion
South Bend Tribune
The Times of Northwest Indiana

IOWA:
The Des Moines Register

KANSAS:
The Topeka Capital-Journal

LOUISIANA:
The Times-Picayune of New Orleans
The News-Star, Monroe

MICHIGAN:
The Grand Rapids Press
Detroit Free Press

MINNESOTA:
Post-Bulletin of Rochester

MISSISSIPPI:
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo

MISSOURI:
Jefferson City News-Tribune

NEBRASKA:
Lincoln Journal Star

NEVADA:
Reno Gazette-Journal

NEW JERSEY
The Trentonian, Trenton

NEW MEXICO:
Albuquerque Journal
The Santa Fe New Mexican

NEW YORK:
Sunday Freeman of Kingston
Utica Observer-Dispatch

NORTH CAROLINA:
The Herald-Sun of Durham
Winston-Salem Journal

OHIO:
The Repository, Canton
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Cincinnati Post

OKLAHOMA:
The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City
Tulsa World

OREGON:
Statesman Journal, Salem

PENNSYLVANIA:
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

SOUTH CAROLINA:
The State, Columbia

SOUTH DAKOTA:
Argus Leader, Sioux Falls

TEXAS:
San Antonio Express-News
El Paso Times

UTAH:
Standard-Examiner, Ogden
The Spectrum, St. George
The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

VIRGINIA:
Daily Press of Newport News

WASHINGTON:
The Seattle Times

WISCONSIN:
The Post-Crescent, Appleton
The Journal Times, Racine

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Greg Mitchell (gmitchell@editorandpublisher. ) is editor of E&P and author of numerous books on politics and history, including "Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady."

[Patchuli]

1. And do we hear those self-righteous papers

now clamoring for the real criminal to resign? Is lying only a sin if you are a Democrat? What a pile of shameless horse's asses!

[politicaholic]

2. This should be on the front page...

bummed to see the Seattle Times in there, but that's not the first time I've disagreed with them. Good paper most of the time though.

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. How many of these are Gannett?

I know the Indy Star is a Gannett paper.

I will bet that if one were to list the editorial pages beating the drum for war in Iraq using the false WMD issue as the primary justification, the list would be almost identical. I would further bet that after no WMD's were found these same editorial boards pushed the "Saddam was a brutal dictator/bringing democracy" nonsense to justify the war.

[IADEMO2004]

4. Des Moines Regsiter Is

[alittlelark]

10. The SJMN is Knight-Ridder...

I was horrified to see it listed a few days ago in a similar post. But then, it was dealing w/ the fallout of the CIA/ crack cocaine article at the time.....

[MasonJar]

5. No Kentucky papers on there. Action is needed. Forward this

to your state papers and ask them when their editorial policy on the Bushistas will address the cabal's monstrous lies and deceits.

[G_j]

6. kick

[Swede]

7. These people have no shame.

When someone pointed that out about McCarthy,it was his demise.

[lala_rawraw]

8. Write them all a letter

Asking them what changed in their ethics since then??

[eallen]

9. If Clinton had resigned in '99, Gore would be president today.

And the world would be a far better place.

Yeah, most of the stuff that was thrown at Clinton was crap. No, lying about an affair with an intern does not rise to the kind of corruption we have seen in the Bush White House. But. After that lie, Clinton's presidency was burdened by the baggage of scandal, however light the actual contents. That baggaged carried into the close election of 2000, and Bush's presidential ascension.

So... I agree. Clinton should have resigned. Make of it what you will.

Bush, however, should be impeached. And after removal from office, prosecuted via normal channels. And then given a cell between Abramoff and DeLay.

[EstimatedProphet]

15. Clinton's presidency was burdened with scandal before Starr

It was from the moment he took office.
Not that the scandals were TRUE or anything-they were lies made up of whole cloth, and ridiculous to anyone with an intellect greater than a chicken, but the scandals were there. Remember all the people he killed, and how he was a Communist mole, and how he was personally responsible for the entire cocaine trade? You know, 30 years ago or more we didn't make up such ludicrous stories about people even if we hated them.

[Kurovski]

11. Terrific compilation.

Where are the voices now?

Anyone who thinks the media is run by liberals is a fool or a liar.

Just today on C-Span, some obfuscating little shitbag with a hairdo was revealing the results of a study that showed the media had more of a liberal bent.

Yeah, and Lilacs fall outta my ass...

[EFerrari]

12. Greg Mitchell is really something special.

:thumbsup:

[G_j]

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[G_j]

14. kick

[progressoid]

16. Yep, I'm sending this to some friends

[G_j]

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[mainer]

18. Has ANY newspaper suggested Bush resign?

I haven't heard of one. Anyone?

[G_j]

19. for weekenders