Clinton Rules

by tristero

I realize that to many readers this makes me sound like the immortal Roger De Bris,* but despite having lived through it, and having also read The Hunting of the President pretty closely, I never knew about this truly incredible behavior by WaPo and the other media outlets:

What were the rules in the Clinton era? Consider the Post’s clownish conduct in covering that Lincoln Bedroom matter. First, to swell the number of “overnight guests” at whom the eds could scream in dismay, the Post decided to include—no, we’re not kidding—guests at Chelsea Clinton’s middle-school slumber parties. On Day One, the Post had reported a smaller number of “overnight guests” than the bulk of their clowning competitors. So presto, change-o! On Day Two, they added in Chelsea’s 72 guests, without explanation—thereby producing a larger, more troubling number of White House “overnight guests.”

Yes. They actually did that.

That’s right. Post readers were handed a larger number—because a bunch of 13-year-old girls had been added to the miscreant list. In this manner, the Post made a rolling joke of your discourse—your democracy—all through those vile Clinton years. (Forgive our “poor form” in remembering.)

The things you learn from the blogosphere! I am not suggesting that things are any better today (see, for example, Donohue, William; Beck, Glenn; and of course the moral idiot D’Souza, Dinesh upon whom WaPo recently re-bestowed their imprimatur, going so far as to provide this bilious scoundrel with highly valuable op-ed space to use as a barf bag for his pseudo-intellectual vomit .). Btw, not to be a niggling nitpicker, and a lazy one at that, but Bob didn’t provide links. Anyone got ’em? UPDATE: Total list of Lincoln bedroom guests courtesy reader Poolside. Now, can we get links to the WaPo adding in Chelsea’s classmates?

*from The Producers:

Did you know, I never knew that the Third Reich meant Germany. I mean it’s just drenched with historical goodies like that…