-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: DRUDGE REPORT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 7:25 PM Subject: DRUDGE-REPORT-FINAL 02/10/99 XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX 02/10/99 23:09 UTC XXXXX PAPER: CLINTON SET TO DECLARE WAR ON GOP! The redhotfirehot NEW YORK TIMES is back in the lead again on Thursday with a high impact story about to be slugged exclusive and sent off to the printing press: CLINTON SAID TO DECLARE WAR ON HOUSE REPUBLICANS OVER IMPEACHMENT! According to publishing sources who have seen the Page One, reporters James Bennet and Richard Berke take dictation from their White House sources and learn that President Clinton is "so furious" at House Republicans over his impeachment, he has personally vowed to mount an "all-out offensive to knock off many of his foes and win back the House" for Democrats in 2000! Clinton now viewed winning back the House as almost as important an affirmation of his legacy as electing Vice President Al Gore, says the report. One Clinton aide tells the TIMES: "It will be a personal crusade. The man knows he's done wrong. But he also knows they should not have taken it to the extreme they have. He says: 'It's the unfairness of this whole process. These right-wingers who tried to undo the election.'" The TIMES, which is creating maxi-NEXIS action during the impeachment finale, has left the WASHINGTON POST in the dust with a string of stories that have captured media attention. A WASHINGTON POST/NEW YORK TIMES feud has been developing behind-the-scenes in recent months over which paper can grab the best impeachment story. One NEW YORK TIMES staffer tells the DRUDGE REPORT that the POST has suffered because it has been too anti-Clinton in its coverage! "Almost from the very begging of this thing, the POST has been perceived as too anti-Clinton," whispers a NEW YORK TIMES insider. "They burned a lot of their sources, who now have been coming to us." The POST will just have to sit back and watch once again on Thursday when the TIMES jumps ahead of the pack with its CLINTON WAR story. GEFFEN GOES AFTER ROGAN Hollywood mogul David Geffen has his eyes on Rep. James Rogan [R-CA] -- and it's not to star in a DREAMWORKS movie. "After these years of Ken Starr, people are more energized than I've seen them since the '60s and '70s," Geffen tells the TIMES. "Many of us are looking forward to spending time and money and effort to defeating James Rogan." X X X X X NO HEROS, SAY GERMOND AND WITCOVER "Watergate was serious business. But the Monica Lewinsky episode has been both too shabby and too trivial to produce any political winners, let alone heroes." Jack Germond and Jules Witcover, circa 1999. The seasoned ones at the BALTIMORE SUN issue a column on Thursday that describes the Monica Lewinsky impeachment as a "penny-ante crisis" that was a "stinking mess." Jules, more sour than usual, writes long about his Watergate days, when there "were winners all over the spectrum." Now 25 years later, during Lewinsky, everyone is a loser. "Great crises in American history usually produce memorable figures. But this has been a penny-ante crisis, caused by the self-indulgence of the president and seized upon by moralists with their own political agendas. Rather than memorable figures, it has produced laughingstocks for late-night television shows." But not all old timers have a completely cynical view of the new impeachment generation. David S. Broder and Dan Balz writing in Thursday's WASHINGTON POST quote one societal expert: "I think this is another Vietnam and Watergate that will degrade and divide our politics for years to come." Broder/Balz pick the brian of Don Eberly, director of the Civil Society Project in Harrisburg: "The scandal will further hollow out our institutions. Trust is eroding. Goodwill is gone. I think there is a thick cloud of moral corruption overhanging all our political institutions." X X X X X SAFIRE ON CLINTON ACQUITTAL: 'THE SYSTEM WORKS' "The System worked. What a great country." That is what NEW YORK TIMES columnist Bill safire is set to write in a column being prepared for Thursday newspapers. According to publishing sources, the NYT star is set to declare that the constitutional form of government worked like a charm in the Lewinsky/Clinton drama. Just hours before a verdict is rendered, Safire writes that "we trusted the Senate and it went by the constitutional book." "Removal of a president in the absence of public outrage would be a Draconian mistake," writes Safire. "Impeachment was an ineradicable mark on his record; the Senate trial was public purgatory. That's a powerful warning to future presidents contemplating obstruction." Safire concludes: "Starr's non-Monica reports may be mired in molasses, but likely to come are memoirs of disillusioned aides, toots from whistle-blowers and straight reporting about an unraveling administration. These sources may open some of the hatches that Ruff Lindsey & Co. has so fiercely battened down." "Thus can the nation say, with Vernon Jordan, 'Mission accomplished.'" FOOTNOTE: Days after the scandal broke on the Internet in January 1998, Safire appeared on NBC's MEET THE PRESS and analyzed the developing situation. Safire warned Russert, Isikoff, myself and MTP viewers to allow for the possibility that the president was telling "his version of the truth." Safire suggested: "When he says there was no improper sexual relationship, perhaps in his mind he's thinking of there he is in the White House, and it can be a lonely job, and he's going through a mid-life crisis, around 50, and here's this adoring, fun, young thing and, over the course of 18 months, he becomes friendly with her and a kind of mentor to her and gets some genuine pleasure out of being with her and talking to her late at night on the telephone or in person. Now, it may be that he slipped a few times and some sex was involved, but that's why he can say that truthfully, in his own mind, that it was not primarily a sexual relationship. And that, I think, may be at the heart of his defense." 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