Political Scandals | The Lewinsky Scandal Is Comparable to Watergate
Weirdly enough, the very grossness of President Clinton’s misconduct has proven to be his best defense. The details of Kenneth Starr’s report to Congress are so lurid that it’s hard at first to see past them (this is almost certainly the first government document in history whose readers have flipped past the executive summary to get to the footnotes). And by apologizing again and again for an “inappropriate” relationship with Monica Lewinsky, the president helps to keep attention focused on the mesmerizing smuttiness of his affair. That way, attention is diverted from the...
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