Geraldo Sings His Zinger
"Twinkle, twinkle
Kenneth Starr, now we see how crude you are / Up above your jury
high, like the judge up in the sky /Twinkle, twinkle little
Starr, now we see how wrong you are /When you drag the agents
in, when you bully moms and kin / then you kiss the treacherous
Tripp, twinkle, twinkle DC drip/Twinkle, twinkle little Starr,
now we see how small you are."
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NBC News reporter Geraldo Rivera singing his version of Twinkle,
Twinkle Little Star after playing video of U.S. Rep. Mike
Pappas (R-NJ) on the House floor singing his version in a
birthday tribute to Starr, July 21 Rivera Live on
CNBC.
On Your Knees for Clinton
"When he [The
Washington Post's Howard Kurtz] called back, I decided my
only defense would be to give him a quote that would knock his
socks off. I also wanted to test the Post's new
'sizzle' - the paper's post - We Broke the Lewinsky Story
advertising hook. So when Howard asked whether I could still
objectively cover the President, having found him so attractive,
I replied, 'I would be happy to give him a blow job just to
thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women
should be lining up with their presidential kneepads on to show
their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs.' I
recognized Howard's visceral response to my words by his
sudden intake of breath and the spurt of pounding fingers of
keyboard. I'd never been on that side of a good quote before.
It was better than sex!"
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Time contributor and former reporter Nina Burleigh
recounting her rise to fame after she wrote in Mirabella
that she'd like to be "ravished" by Bill Clinton,
July 20 New York Observer.
Hillary Clinton: God, I Admire You
"You and I spoke right at the beginning of this second term. Now, with two years left, is it something you look forward to? Do you get out there and say 'I want to keep going out, I want to meet people, I have more stuff I want to do,' or do you look and go 'Oh, my God, two more years!'?"
"There's so much speculation now about what you're going to do. What Hillary Clinton's life is going to be after the presidency. Do you find that takes away from what you're going to do, or do you just like slough it off and pay no attention?"
"I've talked to
several people and they came up and said 'She's so different
than I thought she would be. She's so much more of a people
person. She's funny, she's nice.' Do you think that, like,
people don't get you? I mean you get out there and people see
a different side of you."
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Maria Shriver to Hillary Clinton, July 16 Today.
NBC Says All Judges are Wrong
"Let me begin with you [former Secret Service agent Chuck Vance]. You are a former Secret Service agent. Has Ken Starr overstepped his bounds? Is this a fishing expedition?"
"Let me ask you [law professor Jonathan Turley]. Many people are outraged. Some do call it a fishing expedition. Yet, you have a filed a brief on behalf of four former U.S. attorney generals supporting Mr. Starrs position. Why is that?"
"If they have to
go in and testify now, will that trust be forever broken? Will
the relationship be forever changed?"
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Maria Shriver's questions, July 16 Today.
"Often times we
resolve these kinds of disputes by doing some type of societal
balancing here. How about this argument that says, 'You know
what, in the great cosmic scheme of things we're giving up
this very important tradition of confidentiality in order to
allow Kenneth Starr to investigate whether somebody might not
have told the truth about a sexual liaison?'"
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Jack Ford to Major Garrett of U.S. News, July 18 Today.
Starr: He's Still Out of Control!
"Give Ken Starr an
inch and, well, you know the rest by now...Starr has subpoenaed
the chief of the President's elite plainclothes security
detail - the one in which men are expected to take a bullet for
their boss - and seems intent on giving the Secret Service all
the moral high ground it should need to drive the independent
counsels approval ratings right through the floor....In a
nation still mourning JFK, Starr would seem to need an unlimited
supply of gall to subpoena a standing President's last line of
defense, especially before he's heard the testimony of those
on the uniformed detail. But that's what we've come to
expect from the private-eye-in-chief."
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Time Daily online reporter Frank Pellegrini, July 15.
Peter "Action Reporter" Arnett
"I was being
trashed on a daily basis in the right-wing media. I felt my
reputation going down the tubes....I'm primarily an action
reporter. I was never informed that my face on the air gave me
responsibility for a major story. In the field, I have to answer
for everything I say and do. To many, its shocking that I
could be so detached. But this was a team effort. I'm a
company guy. You want me to read a script, I'll read it."
- CNN's Peter
Arnett to the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz after CNN
News Group Chairman/CEO Tom Johnson decided to take no further
action against him beyond the already announced reprimand, July
9.
Rather's Personal Crusade
"In Washington
there are new indications tonight at just how wide, deep, and
aggressively special prosecutor Ken Starr is pushing to make the
Secret Service tell what it knows about the President's
personal life."
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Dan Rather on the July 13 CBS Evening News.
"A late-breaking
and major escalation tonight of special prosecutor Ken Starr's
aggressive push to make the Secret Service tell him what it
knows about the President's personal life."
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Rather, July 14.
"More fast
breaking developments on special prosecutor Ken Starr's new
push to get the top Secret Service man closest to the President
to tell him what he knows about the President's personal
life."
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Rather, July 15.
"Must the Secret
Service tell Ken Starr now what it knows about the President's
personal life?....Also heating up today the battle over special
prosecutor Ken Starr's demand for Secret Service agents to
tell him what they know about President Clinton's personal
life."
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Rather's Evening News tease and story intro, July 16.
"At least three
active-duty Secret Service employees were forced today to appear
before special prosecutor Ken Starr's grand jury to give
testimony. This happened after Chief Justice William Rehnquist
cleared the way for Starr's unprecedented push to make the
Secret Service tell him at least some of what it knows about the
President's personal life."
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Rather, July 17.
April Oliver's Conspiracy Theory
"The Abrams/Kohler
report was delivered to support a corporate whitewash, driven by
executive fear, to avoid further controversy in the press, with
the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill. One of the primary reasons CNN
sacrificed this story was to protect its relationship with the
Pentagon. Tragically, the CNN retraction, driven by enormous
pressure and a hasty star chamber investigation, will paralyze
further reporting of these serious matters and of other past
and, more important, future black operations by America's
secret army."
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Last paragraphs of July 12 Washington Post op-ed by April
Oliver, fired producer of CNNs sarin gas story.
MSNBC's Gift to the World
"I'll put people
on who you don't see on TV. People in prison who shouldn't
be there. People in soup kitchens. People on welfare with
degrees from Harvard."
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Charles Grodin on what his new weekend program on MSNBC will
showcase, July 15 USA Today.
Camille Cosby: America Stinks
"I believe America
taught our son's killer to hate African- Americans. After
Mikail Markhasev killed Ennis William Cosby on Jan. 16, 1997, he
said to his friends, 'I shot a nigger. Its all over the
news'.....Presumably, Markhasev did not learn to hate black
people in his native country, the Ukraine, where the black
population was near zero. Nor was he likely to see America's
intolerable, stereotypical movies and television programs about
blacks, which were not shown in the Soviet Union before the
killer and his family moved to America in the late 1980's."
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Camille Cosby in a USA Today op-ed, July 8.
Reality Check:
"The Department of
State advises American citizens in Ukraine, particularly those
of African and Asian heritage, that they may be subject to
racially motivated attacks and harassment. The U.S. Embassy in
Kiev has received reports of at least two assaults on
African-Americans.... Persons of African or Asian heritage,
including American citizens, are also subject to frequent stops
and searches by local law enforcement (the "Militia").
There are several credible reports that such incidents have led
to harassment and physical abuse."
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May 27 Department of State announcement about Ukraine.
Tripp Fatigue at CBS News
"Linda Tripp is
the woman who says another woman told her secrets about the
President, and Linda has the tapes to prove it. But after so
many days of rumors, so many leaks, so much spinning and
counter-spinning, I'm tired and beat. Call it Tripp fatigue.
Maybe I need to pull over. I seem not to care too much if she
testifies, gets deposed, cuts a deal, writes a book, or promises
to tell everything or nothing. I've checked out, changed
channels, surfed elsewhere, pulled the plug. Perhaps there ought
to be a place to send media types like me, a kind of Howard
Beale Center, where you can go before you fall off your rocker,
a safe haven where you can get serious again about the important
stuff, get serious again before its too late. Just between
you and me, I may be a lost cause."
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CBS Sunday Morning substitute host Harry Smith, July 12.
Ted's S&M Adventure
"'If committing
mass suicide would help, I've even given that some
consideration. Nothing has upset me more probably in my whole
life...I'll take my shirt off and beat myself bloody on the
back' with a whip if it would do any good, he said, adding,
' I couldn't hurt any more if I was bleeding.'"
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AP reporter Lynn Elber relaying Ted Turner's comments on
CNN's retraction of the Tailwind story, July 11.
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