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Originally Posted by Scootermuze
Clinton was impeached because he lied to the court and violated his oath of office... and Kenneth Starr already had him and Hillary in his sites for several years for other things..
To say it was the investigative powers of the media that caused his impeachment is a bit speculative..
Some gal illegally recorded her conversation with Lewinksy and turned the tape over to the powers that be for whatever reason.. and it was allowed as evidence.. Imagine that.. Then Starr and Bill's Congressional enemies had a hayday.. All the media did was keep us informed..
If the media was that powerful, O.J. would be behind bars..
I'm sure you remember the anthrax scare.. Some of the news media were raising questions about how things happened, then bam! we have anthrax. Now all of the news media turned their focus to that and away from the attacks, then it just went away, but the focus never fully returned to the attacks, and the questions. Some say it was an intentional diversion, which would make sense under theoretical circumstances.
As far as Bush.. Not necessarily with 9/11, but I've seen a few videos online that show that he lied about Katrina, His Buddy, Brownie lied about Katrina, but I've not seen the media show these clips.. A strong media could use them and make for trouble, but it hasn't happened..
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Again,you actually made my point...Linda Tripp did record the calls and passed that info to the media.Starr was appointed later.Clinton's impeachment started with the action of one person.
OJ..was insignificant.His trial had no political impact on the world as we know it.
Anthrax,I don't see anything relevant to this conversation.
Katrina,Brownie lost his job in disgrace.President Bush has spent nearly a year apologizing to the people about how poorly his administration reacted to that natural disastor.And they appear to be working to make things a bit better within FEMA than they were.We won't know how successful this is until we face the next disastor.