-Caveat Lector- ----Original Message----- From: Progressive Review <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, January 11, 1999 4:38 PM Subject: UNDERNEWS Jan 11 Jan 11, 1998 The Progressive Review 1739 Conn. Ave. NW Washington DC 20009 202-232-5544 Editor: Sam Smith Fax: 202-234-6222 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Progressive Review On-Line can be found at: http://prorev.com. For a free trial subscription to our hard copy edition and e-mail updates send your postal address with zip code(Sorry, foreign addresses will receive e-mail edition only). To unsubscribe, send message with the word 'unsubscribe.' Copyright 1998, The Progressive Review. Matter not independently copyrighted may be reprinted provided you pay TPR your normal reprint fees, if any, and give proper credit. ====================================================== NOTE On Friday January 8, our main computer stopped typing certain letters. Since the complexity of our content requires us to use the entire alphabet, we immediately shipped the miscreant device to its manufacturer by medivac. In the meanwhile, we are using an ancient machine, Win 3.1, limited RAM and a slow modem. For the next few days, service may be even more erratic than normal. Your patience is appreciated. DNA TEST SAYS IT ISN'T CLINTON According to Time, the Drudge Report and the New York Post, the DNA test on Danny Williams came back negative. While this may well end the matter, don't count on it. Here's why: * The story was never only about whether Clinton was the father of prostitute Bobbie Ann Williams' child. It was also a tale of the 1980s Little Rock culture of drugs and sex of which Clinton was a part. In some ways, Clinton's behavior seems to have paralleled that of Marion Barry during the same period, albeit with decidedly different results. This larger story has not been seriously challenged * One British paper, the Daily Mail, claims that Clinton's involvement with prostitutes laid him open to political pressure from a least one high-power Arkansas figure. * Steve Denari -- a Democrat who led the 1992 Perot campaign in Illinois -- came into possession of documents relating to Bobbie Ann Wiliams at the end of the campaign, which he did not release. Denari told the Mail that there were "canceled cheques that showed Bobbie Ann had been given money by Clinton for Danny's education and to keep her quiet. There was a statement in her hand confessing she had supplied Clinton with cocaine. ~ I don't see how Clinton can deny the drug use. He may not have inhaled marijuana, but he will not be able to deny snorting cocaine.' Denari is writing a book that is due out in April. WHY WE TOLD YOU ABOUT DANNY WILLIAMS Howard Kurtz's high-minded journalistic distaste for those (e.g. the Washington Times, London Times, BBC, and TPR) who told their readers about developments in the Danny Williams DNA case would have been a bit more convincing if it weren't for the company he keeps. His paper, which is spinning the Clinton story fast enough to form its own dervish sect, managed in one day to imply on its front page that if Clinton were acquitted, history might regard him as the victim of a puritanical witch hunt, to attack on its editorial page Kenneth Starr for his indictment of Ms. Steele, and to run the Kurtz story right under a long piece on one of the Clinton sources the paper apparently prefers: Larry Flynt. In fact, whatever the results, the Danny Williams DNA story was fair journalism because almost everyone making a key decision in Washington over the past few days knew about it. The Post, if nothing else, proved how impossible it is to write an accurate story about what is going on while denying the existence of a major factor. It's like trying to explain why the street it wet without noting the rain. The result, in this case, was to create the impression, variously, of petty politics, high-minded statesmanship or deep conflict over grave constitutional matters when, in fact, what everyone was really wondering about was how much more shit was going to hit the fan. The Post similarly misled its readers on the impeachment vote by not reporting what was going on amongst some of the crucial moderate Republicans. In fact, they had read some of the censored material offered by Kenneth Starr and some, at least, were shocked enough to vote against the President. THE POST VS. LINDA TRIPP One of the secrets of Clinton's success has been the willingness of the media to trash his antagonists such as Kenneth Starr and Linda Tripp. A recent media study found that television coverage of Starr was heavily negative. No such study was, of course, necessary in the case of Ms. Tripp, who has been thoroughly discredited by the press for having refused to put herself in considerable legal jeopardy in aid of her friend, Monica Lewinsky. As part of the media's scorched earth coverage of Tripp, the Washington Post even sent a reporter out to raise money for her defense fund. Total garnered: $1.01 and an extremely snide article. A few days later, however, a story appeared in the US News & World Report that may shed some light on the Post's antipathy towards Tripp. In her deposition in a Judicial Watch lawsuit, Tripp said that while she was at the White House, the Post would give the administration a "heads up" when a damaging story was about to come out. "It happened frequently," said Tripp and "it was someone high up It wasn't some gumshoe reporter." WHITEWATER RIPPLES If Nathan Landow, a key witness in the Kathleen Willey aspect of the Clinton story, gets called before the Senate, it will be interesting to see what those Democratic senators who have been recipients of his campaign gifts do. One count has 32 Dems getting money from Landow and his son-in-law Michael Cardozo. Speaking of conflicts, we also wonder if Senator Boxer will remove herself from the trial, seeing as how her daughter is married to Hillary Clinton's younger brother. WORD THE United States, not Saddam Hussein, killed the credibility of UNSCOM. Washington destroyed an organization whose reputation for technical excellence and an independent and objective character was crucial for its success. ~ We trusted the US to safeguard the very sensitive information that we had shared. Our trust was betrayed when the US used it instead to further its unilateral objectives. -- Scott Ritter, formerly of UNSCOM, in an article in the London telegraph One might argue, as Judge Nixon does, that his false statements were not material. ... But Judge Nixon took an oath to tell the truth and the whole truth. As a grand jury witness, it was not for him to decide what would be material. That was for the grand jury to decide. So I am going to vote "guilty' on articles I and II. Judge Nixon lied to the grand jury. He misled the grand jury. These acts are criminal and warrant impeachment." -- Senator Henry Kohl in 1989 before voting to convict US Judge Walter Nixon following his impeachment for perjury. 26 Democrats now in the Senate also voted to convict. Perhaps only a society that has ruinously delivered itself into the arms of lawyers would make so large a fuss when a few members of the species behave with the dedication that would be taken as unremarkable in a schoolteacher, a fireman, or a nurse. ~ I think one can safely state that a movie that reaches a climax with the hero writing a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency has landed in a certain amount of trouble." -- David Denby writing on "A Civil Action" in the New Yorker. WHAT'S FOR DINNER? Hog, corn, and soybean prices have all dropped precipitously but major food retailers are enjoying double-digit earning increases in recent months, reports the Agribusiness Examiner. Since the institution of the so-called "Freedom to Farm" legislation in 1996 per-bushel prices on soybeans have dropped 39%; corn, 69%; and wheat, 57%. Meanwhile, Brownsville, Nebraska farmer Corky figures that in a loaf of whole wheat bread sold for $1.79 there is three cents worth of farm product. In a 12-oz. box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes that sold for $2.15 there is two cents of farm commodities. AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER [EMAIL PROTECTED] WHERE THE BABIES ARE A dozen of the world's poorest countries are expected to triple their populations by 2050, according to a report by the Population Institute. The report also estimates that the total population of the earth will hit 6 billion in October. 97% of the increasing population occurs in poor countries where women give birth to an average of five children over their lifetime. ANSWER OF THE DAY TO OUR QUESTION OF THE DAY A few days ago, we asked: Why is the bribery of Olympic Committee members by those seeking to bring its business from abroad of so much greater interest to the media than the bribery of the Clinton administration by those seeking to take their business abroad? Caleb J. Pollock at the University of North Carolina offers this explanation: "The dress worn by the Clinton administration is already too tattered to show the stain of dishonesty, while the "angelic" garb of the IOC shows the slightest blemish readily." THE MEDIACRATS Wonder why the Washington Post buried as a tiny item on business page F10 news from the Sierra Club that smog-causing nitrogen oxide emissions from Baltimore Gas & Electric increased 25% between 1995 and 1997. The increase, says Sierra, is the equivalent of driving 11 million new cars 12,000 miles a year each. JUST POLITICS According to the Rasmussen survey, 67% believe the government is a special interest group that looks out for its own interests. Most Americans (56%) believe big business and big government work together against consumers and taxpayers. PORTRAIT OF AMERICA http://www.portraitofamerica.com ROAD SIGNS Amount the magazine Campaigns & Elections charges for a hyperlink from its web site: $375. 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