True, it didn’t get the Clintons – but it got a whole lotta FOBs involved in the S&L scandal, land deals, all kinds of crap at the SBA down there and everything else.

For those people interested in what really happened down there, read Martin Gross’ “The Great Whitewater Fiasco,” Roger Morris’ “Partners in Power,” and “Arkansas Mischief,” by James MacDougal and former Globie Curtis Wilkie. All of these books document all kinds of evidence and information that Ken Starr, for whatever reason, never got a hold of, that shows the Clintons were involved in all kinds of prosecutable things down there. But like almost everything these people have done, they simply skated from it.

I appreciated the link to the Google book that discusses the skepticism of journalistic objectivity. To paraphrase, if I follow it correctly, “objectivity” doesn’t imply a naive notion that journalists are free of bias. Quite the contrary, it assumes it, and says the way to overcome this bias is to employ a “transparent approach to evidence”. Objectivity achieved by use of scientific method, as much as possible, as opposed to an “aim”. Good stuff.

The trouble these days is that one of our two major parties has run entirely off the rails. And our media system, dependent as it is on false notions of objectivity, rarely acknowledges it.

The media’s first obligation should be to the truth – not to some phony notion of journalistic balance. Evidently they have learned nothing after all these years.

“The right impeached Bill Clinton and hounded him from Day 1 with the bogus Whitewater “scandal.” ”

Gee, it wasn’t “the right”, Tom. It was your very own New York Times.

Alas, most of the country is brainwashed beyond reasoned debate that the “media is librul!”

(gee I wish there was a “preview”)