One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now for t...he first time, I can tell you that you're a disaster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as a large segment of liberal political opinion never could accept Nixon as a "legitimate" president, neither can a large seg...ment of conservative political opinion today accept Clinton's legitimacy in the Oval Office.... Nixon's slash-and-burn politics, Red-baiting and smarmy sanctimony earned him the undying enmity of otherwise tolerant liberals long before he turned the crime of Watergate into a fatal political blunder. For Clinton, draft ducking, toking on a marijuana cigarette and a family life that he acknowledges has not been perfect create the same effect: He is unable to establish moral authority with opponents who might otherwise be open to his centrist style and policies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I figure that if I'm confused, you are, too, After all, we are the Whiplash Generation (patent pending): raised to be Doris Day, t...raversing our twenties yearning to be Gloria Steinem, then doomed to raise our midlife daughters in the age of Nancy Reagan and Princess Di. Now it's Hillary Rodham Clinton, thank goodness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today's journalism is obsessed with the kinds of things that tend to preoccupy thirteen-year-old boys: sports, sex, crime, and nar...cissism.... Moreover, if today's journalism has a driving principle, that principle centers on an obsession with hypocrisy. Journalism is about many things, but these days it is often about revealing that public figures are phonies. Covering Bill Clinton or Prince Charles, or Michael Jackson, reporters frame their stories by saying implicitly, "These people aren't what they say they are. Look, they lied to you." Although there is a cultural role for balloon deflators, journalism has brought this characteristic attitude of the early adolescent to the adult world and elevated it to the status of cultural religion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What you don't understand about this town is that they can fight about issues all they want, but they don't really care about them.... What they really care about is who they sit next to at dinner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »