Boston NPR station WBUR produces a show called On Point. Fridays it usually has a weekly news roundup and commentary. Yesterday, one of the guests was GOP-aligned syndicated columnist Mona Charen. Listen to what she thinks is the top news story.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Sounds/Wordpress/OCT06/onpoint.mp3]She spins her reference to Iraq by calling it “The War on Terror,” but what really gets me is her comment about the upcoming election getting “bogged down in a lot of trivialities like people’s sex lives and perceptions of corruption.”
Stop right there. Perception of corruption was what led to the Whitewater investigation against the Clintons — a perception that was not substantiated. Further, Whitewater was a business dealing prior to Bill Clinton’s election in 1992. Contrast Whitewater with Tom Delay and with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, whose corrupting influence in the GOP is no mere perception.
And if you want to talk about getting bogged down in somebody’s sex life, that’s exactly what happened when Whitewater mutated into an investigation of Bill and Monica. There was a vote to impeach, based on this triviality!
Read this 1999 column by Mona Charen, for proof that she’s yet another hypocritical Republican apologist. Honestly, I believe these people have no agenda other than their own wealth and power.