It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the stories of "scandal" were all politically motivated, trotted out like clockwork, and timed for the election cycles.
The GOP feared Clinton and Gore because they made inroads into the GOP's once solid South.
Of course, Obama also has made inroads into that region, and he is getting some of the same crap thrown at him.
A low point was the magazine's December 1996 cover story, which dramatically featured the prosecutor's promise to "deliver" justice in five scandals supposedly percolating in the Clinton White House. With the "extraordinary access" provided by Starr, Newsweek declared breathlessly that within the coming months he would "decide whether to bring indictments that could very possibly alter the course of Bill Clinton's second term." A helpful sidebar on potential criminal acts attributed to the Clintons and their aides accompanied the exclusive Starr interview.
What Starr actually delivered, only eight weeks later, was his own resignation as special prosecutor -- to take a deanship at Pepperdine University (financed by Clinton nemesis Richard Mellon Scaife) in a deal that he had been negotiating for months. He had nothing, but he punked the Newsweek boys.
There's lots more. Don't miss this article.
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